hackerNews

9

Xkcd: Click and Drag (xkcd.com)

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Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean UX (www.androidpolice.com)

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The Apple Reaper - Stripe Payments Denied by Apple (coovtech.com)

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Kickstarter vaporware of the day, Lifx edition (blogs.reuters.com)

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Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay (www.rackspace.com)

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XKCD's world - pieced together with AngularJS (warning: lots of big images) (embed.plnkr.co)

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German government urges public to stop using Internet Explorer (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

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Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github (www.scribd.com)

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Divshot (divshot.com)

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4

Slashdot & SourceForge sold to Diceholdings (finance.yahoo.com)

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My usual pick-me-up on a Monday morning is a cup of coffee. Today it's MDMA (www.newscientist.com)

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Teller on theft in magic (www.esquire.com)

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Show HN: EasyPost - the stripe for postage (http://easypost.co)

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Startup idea list (news.ycombinator.com)

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5

Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia (news.cnet.com)

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Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github (files.priorsmart.com.s3.amazonaws.com)

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8

GitHub Launch Page (github.com)

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10

How To Die With No Regrets (blog.amirkhella.com)

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The iPhone 5 (daringfireball.net)

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App Store Bit Rot (www.undsoversum.de)

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10

Functional Programming Principles in Scala starts today (class.coursera.org)

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17

Hey Yahoo, You’re Optimizing the Wrong Thing (www.hilarymason.com)

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DeveloperAuction now PAYS developers to find a new job (mashable.com)

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PJSON: pretty, colorful json output formatting for terminal (igorgue.com)

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F-35's biggest problems: software and bad relationships (killerapps.foreignpolicy.com)

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Coursera: 33 Universities, 200 Courses, 1.3 Million Students (thenextweb.com)

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6

Browsing C++ Source Code on the Web (woboq.com)

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Red Herring awards: A scam? (www.techinasia.com)

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6

Moving to Go (blog.toggl.com)

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How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool (pandodaily.com)

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Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept (share.sandia.gov)

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Comparing Go and Java, Part 2 – Performance (boundary.com)

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Meet YC partners and alums at MIT Wednesday 5:30PM (ycombinator.posterous.com)

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Using Behavioral Economics, Psychology, and Neuroeconomics to Maximize Sales (www.shopify.com)

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Exotic Transaction Types with Bitcoin (codinginmysleep.com)

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HTML5 webcam to canvas stream (Demo + annotated code) (cbrandolino.github.com)

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Startup Economics (www.smartasset.com)

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How Ruby Borrowed a Decades Old Idea From Lisp (patshaughnessy.net)

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Archiving in the trash: The Instapaper UI (www.virtualpants.com)

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Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It (tech.slashdot.org)

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Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad Course is Live (blog.udacity.com)

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JetBlue to offer free inflight wifi in 2013 (www.cbsnews.com)

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Stripe CTF Post Mortem: A Would-Be Hacker's Tale (www.stephenwhitmore.com)

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Warp drive may actually be possible, NASA scientist says (www.ksl.com)

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Show HN: A Monthly Tee from your favorite YC startup (http://hntees.com)

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The secret to hiring a designer (waxman.me)

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Prominent Mexican anti-corruption blogger goes missing (www.dailydot.com)

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TechStars Cloud - accepting applications now, run by Slicehost founder (me) (www.techstars.com)

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Twitter announces profile page changes (digitallife.today.com)

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Show HN: instafilter.io, a cloud API for applying filters to images (www.instafilter.io)

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Web Design is 95% Typography (informationarchitects.net)

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BugKick - Free, open, attractive and simple bug tracking on Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com)

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Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 1: Node.js and CouchDB (www.twilio.com)

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New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it (paidcontent.org)

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Learning C++ in 2010 (news.ycombinator.com)

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The hidden cost of C++ (www.rachelslabnotes.com)

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Yahoo closes $7.6 billion deal with Alibaba Group (phys.org)

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Do Too Many Lawyers Spoil The Economy? [1994] (www.csmonitor.com)

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IE7, IE8 and IE9 zero-day exploit. (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap (developers.facebook.com)

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Apple partner says new Maps app in iOS 6 is terrible (www.bgr.com)

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Judge preserves privacy of climate scientist’s emails (blogs.nature.com)

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Leaked Windows 8 tablet pricing suggests Microsoft may have already lost the war (www.extremetech.com)

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iPhone 5 review (www.engadget.com)

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Suggest HN: Second chance for submissions (delete) (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Eye of the Needle (www.crashdev.com)

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Common Crawl announces Open Source Big Data code contest winners (commoncrawl.org)

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SourceForge & Slashdot sold to Dice for $20M (www.heraldonline.com)

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SassMe: Visualize SASS color functions in real-time without compiling (sassme.arc90.com)

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Why Nikola Tesla Is Your New Hacker Hero (betabeat.com)

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What is spaghetti code? (blog.jelastic.com)

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Optimizing for the Right Thing (Yahoo and Ads) (diegobasch.com)

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Show HN: Easily add peer-to-peer chat to your iPhone/Android app (from Hipmob) (hipmob.tumblr.com)

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Dark energy camera snaps first images (www.bbc.co.uk)

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It’s all about the product, not the technology (davidzhang.me)

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I’m writing a novel, because the Internet told me to (oliveremberton.com)

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Messages start-ups should send to their users (blog.intercom.io)

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How to get the most out of AngelList as a VC and as an Entrepreneur (startupnorth.ca)

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From gymnast to runner: interview with Jason Shen (Ridejoy, YC S11) (refer.ly)

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We're looking for a Human iOS engineer (www.human.co)

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63

Now that is a splash page (http://combosaurus.com)

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Improving the quality of conversations in Google+ hangouts (plus.google.com)

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What Amazon's Decision Means for Digital Media (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Bad habit that loses entrepreneurs' money. (www.ruleyourrealm.com)

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How polished UI (icon) helped my iPad app's downloads (stats inside) (www.pinssible.com)

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The Highest-Calorie Menu Item at McDonald's is Not a Burger (online.wsj.com)

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Fatalities per capita vs miles driven (www.nytimes.com)

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Shodan … Nuff Said (www.novainfosecportal.com)

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The Second Test (www.randsinrepose.com)

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Throwww Introduces More Features (throwww.com)

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Stock Android Isn't Perfect: These Are The Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean (www.androidpolice.com)

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Ask HN: Has anybody develop their own business while on a job? got tips? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Javascript Map Code Behind today's XKCD (imgs.xkcd.com)

9 points first seen 2012091918 last seen 2012091918 0 comments

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Resizing images before upload using html5 canvas (www.rubydesigner.com)

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0

New Twitter for iPad (blog.twitter.com)

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0

Show HN: StickyTheme (stickytheme.tumblr.com)

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0

Ask HN: What OS do they use at NASA? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Golden Record: Data Visualization for Extraterrestrials (1977) (voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)

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0

Introducing Gith - GitHub WebHooks For Node (weblog.bocoup.com)

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0

Prismatic Tries To One Up Twitter's Interest Graph For Great Reading (www.readwriteweb.com)

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What would Jack do? (alyssaaldersley.com)

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Monitor mode for 802.11 on Android devices (bcmon.blogspot.co.il)

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Show HN: YourTrove - The First Truly Social Search Engine (www.yourtrove.com)

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Facebook Launches Mobile Ad Network (techcrunch.com)

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Stripe, Balanced, WePay for Payments: Not big enough to #fail (go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)

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Mini-server at home, any good hardware options other than Mac Mini? (news.ycombinator.com)

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With iPhone 5, Apple Has Chiseled The Smartphone To Near Perfection (techcrunch.com)

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I'm a pornstar looking to partner with hackers, hustlers (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What challenges are there in crowdsourcing realtime approval ratings? (news.ycombinator.com)

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US taxpayers paid more to Israeli defense budget than Israelis (www.veteransnewsnow.com)

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No Grinfucking (incube.us)

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Ask VC & HN: What was more important than Pandora for 300 VCs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Is Something Wrong With Facebook Notifications? Or It's Just Me? (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

Created my first serious iPhone app, featured by Apple a few days later (itunes.apple.com)

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Ask HN: Self-employed - How do you keep a normal schedule? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Postgres-XC: Open source read-write scaleable fork of PostgreSQL (postgres-xc.sourceforge.net)

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Show HN: Need help coding to save our water (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Front-end or Python back-end jobs in Berlin (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

Chinese General: Prepare for Combat with Japan (freebeacon.com)

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Women speak less when they're outnumbered (www.sciencedaily.com)

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UK Department of Work and Pensions is using 51.0.0.0/8 internally (www.whatdotheyknow.com)

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Accordion Style Checkouts – the Holy Grail of Checkout Usability? (baymard.com)

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BioWare co-founders retire (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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Turning 8-Bit Sprites into Printable 3D Models (0fps.wordpress.com)

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0

Node.js is taking over the Enterprise - Like it or Not (blog.appfog.com)

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69

Happy Hour Share: Crowdsourcing happy hour specials in NYC with SMS and Twitter (www.happyhourshare.com)

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78

Handling Database Failover at Craigslist (blog.zawodny.com)

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Roger McNamee On Apple: ‘Most Amazing Company’ // Becoming A ‘Dumb Monopolist’ (www.bloomberg.com)

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Using Facebook and LinkedIn Ads to Intelligently "Poach" Employees (sososazesh.com)

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Ask HN: Am I too late with my startup idea? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: AirBnB for spouses - viable? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with BlackBerry manufacturer RIM (twitter.com)

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Parse adds Advanced Push Targeting for Android (blog.parse.com)

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84

Chicago Teachers Union Strike: A Teacher’s Perspective (robbieabed.com)

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Kube Framework: It's Not Twitter Bootstrap (kubeframework.com)

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0

Programming Tools UX: When Statically Compiled Feels Dynamic (blog.opalang.org)

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0

The 25 magic words in American television (www.npr.org)

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ShowHN: C4: A creative-coding framework for interactive applications on iOS. (www.c4ios.com)

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Ask HN: Is it "bad" to use Themeforest? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Randall, a micro-shortner for personal use (github.com)

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Apple iPhone 5 Review: It’s All About Refinement (techland.time.com)

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Is Facebook burnout finally igniting? (plus.google.com)

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The Miracle Of The Levitating Slinky (www.npr.org)

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Graphite soaked in water may be a room temperature superconductor (www.nature.com)

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Show HN: "Ask and Yeah" a Twitter-alike service for Q&A with pinterest layout (news.ycombinator.com)

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Let's meet, stranger (news.ycombinator.com)

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Class2Go: Stanford’s New Open-Source Platform For Online Education (techcrunch.com)