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The Amazing iOS 6 Maps (theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com)

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Kickstarter is Not a Store (www.kickstarter.com)

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AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents (blog.stackoverflow.com)

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Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design (news.cnet.com)

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New Apple maps app under fire from users (www.bbc.com)

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IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies (thenextweb.com)

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Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac (zachholman.com)

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Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps (blog.telemapics.com)

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Google has an iOS 6 Maps app awaiting approval (9to5mac.com)

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Pandora doesn't hash their passwords (plus.google.com)

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Everything that's wrong with Java in a single class (plus.google.com)

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Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6 (www.techinasia.com)

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IOS6 breaks long polling (www.realsoftwareblog.com)

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Kickstarter suspends project 10 hours from successful funding (vintedgoods.com)

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Don't like iOS6's (lack of) Transit directions? You need this. (github.com)

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GoldieBlox: The Engineering Toy for Girls (www.kickstarter.com)

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A growing respect for the Samwer brothers (posts.richoakley.com)

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IPhone 5 Teardown (www.ifixit.com)

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IFTTT.com forced to pull Twitter triggers (news.ycombinator.com)

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NFL opens Pandora's Box by offering All-22 tape to public (www.nfl.com)

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Free Online MongoDB Training by 10gen (education.10gen.com)

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Forget self improvement (www.deliberatism.com)

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Show HN: Quantblocks - Backtest your trading strategies (http://www.quantblocks.com)

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How easy it is to set up untraceable companies (www.economist.com)

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A Return to Linux on the Workstation (cuddletech.com)

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Is Facebook dying? (www.itworld.com)

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Making Instant C# Viable - Vizualization (ermau.com)

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Shake: Every Program Can Be a Clojure Function (sunng.info)

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Group dating site Grouper (YC W12) launches to 10 cities (techcrunch.com)

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Apple posted 6 Maps developer jobs in the last 10 days (search maps) (jobs.apple.com)

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RubyMotion gets iOS 6, iPhone 5, debugger (blog.rubymotion.com)

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IOS6 Safari Caching $.ajax Results (stackoverflow.com)

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Show HN: Not sure if HN worthy but my first try at a WordPress plugin (codecanyon.net)

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Web Cryptography API posted as W3C working draft (www.w3.org)

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Android Hacked via NFC on the Samsung Galaxy S3 (thenextweb.com)

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Fifty Years of the Jetsons (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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How long will there be computer science departments? (www.johndcook.com)

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Irish Minister for Justice considers Apple’s iOS 6 Maps dangerous (sociable.co)

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America's Problem: The World is Beating Us in a Battle We Don't Want to Win (www.undeferredliving.com)

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Darpa combines human brains and 120MP cameras for threat detection (www.extremetech.com)

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Patent Office tries “Stack Overflow for patents” to find prior art (arstechnica.com)

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MinoMonsters (YC W11) Hits 1.5M Players, Gets A Little More Funding (techcrunch.com)

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Help fund Read the Docs (ericholscher.com)

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Microsoft Open Sourcing Azure Mobile Services SDK on GitHub (blogs.msdn.com)

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How hackers will jailbreak the iPhone 5 (www.extremetech.com)

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IPhone hacked by Exploiting Safari in iOS 5, iOS 6 (thenextweb.com)

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The entire Apple design team: 16 people (www.standard.co.uk)

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Announcing mails_viewer - easiest way to test mails in Rails app (pragmaticly.github.com)

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Comprehensive screenshots of every prompt theme in the oh-my-zsh framework (http://zshthem.es)

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New User Profile Pages (github.com)

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IFTTT Has Actually Been In Violation of Twitter’s API For Months (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: nunjucks, a better templating system for javascript (jinja2 inspired) (nunjucks.jlongster.com)

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Show HN: Lumatic - a new kind of city map (http://www.lumatic.com)

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Former MunchOnMe Team Launches Caviar, A Curated Seamless (techcrunch.com)

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Senate report: Microsoft used loopholes to avoid billions in taxes (www.komonews.com)

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Why IFTTT Removing Twitter Triggers is A Warning For Developers (thenextweb.com)

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Brightbox vs Amazon EC2: Phoronix Ubuntu 12.04 Benchmarks (brightbox.com)

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MOO acquire flavors.me (blog.flavors.me)

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Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (for Chrome) (lookmark.com)

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Clock on iOS6 iPads is an homage to a 1944 design by Hans Hilfiker (de.wikipedia.org)

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How Manufacturing Could Get Better With a Dose of Networked Data (www.theatlantic.com)

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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, & acceptance: The A/B testing lifecycle. (benplesser.com)

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Show HN: Reply to Hacker News comments inline, without leaving the page (chrome.google.com)

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iPhone as Remote control for my Linux TV (Weekend Hack) (alpblog.heroku.com)

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What’s Your API Strategy? (alexstechthoughts.com)

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Salon Sells The Well to Longtime Members (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Everyme (YC S11) Has A New Project: Origami, Private Sharing For Families (techcrunch.com)

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Why I Left Microsoft (paulmestemaker.com)

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Browserbite Tests Your Website Across Browsers Using Computer Vision (www.arcticstartup.com)

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Stephen Colbert destroys the US patent system. [video] (www.colbertnation.com)

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HN, We Need To Talk (news.ycombinator.com)

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Side project ideas I am giving away (alpblog.heroku.com)

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Scaling xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de to 13k req/s on one server (github.com)

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Experimental Clojure Support in Cloud Foundry (github.com)

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Everyme (YC S11) Founders Launching Origami to Help Families Stay in Touch (betakit.com)

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In the rich world, people seem to be driving less than they used to. (www.economist.com)

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Optional Parentheses: You're Doing it Wrong (blog.mojotech.com)

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Doing redundant work to speed up distributed queries (www.bailis.org)

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Getting Started with Google Closure... and Lisp (michaeljforster.tumblr.com)

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Sweden Failed To License Photographs On New Currency (www.techdirt.com)

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Why Freemium is Dominating Mobile (blog.betable.com)

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Can Film-Inspired Project Financing Work for Games? (www.gamasutra.com)

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How to be anonymous online - a helpful guide (bernsteinbear.com)

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The perfect play (joshgoldstein.me)

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Ask HN: Do karma points matter when posting on HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Nestle Embeds GPS Trackers in KitKat Bars for Promotional Campaign (betabeat.com)

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Ask HN: Shouldn't there be a better way to buy a car? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple Says Give Maps Time, The More You Use it The Better It Is (thenextweb.com)

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Apple Maps App Takes Reality Distortion to a Whole New Level (allthingsd.com)

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A Close Look At Your Bills' 'Fine Print' (www.npr.org)

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Ask HN: Moving to Linux full time (news.ycombinator.com)

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Banned iPhone 5 Promo (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: As a graduating senior, how did you get into startups? (news.ycombinator.com)

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LAPD Joins Feds In Skirting Fourth Amendment With Cell Phone Tracking Devices (www.techdirt.com)

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Apple talks Maps as Mapping team remains “under lockdown” to address problems (www.edibleapple.com)

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Changing How We Sell Things, To Make Companies More Successful (Elastic, YC W11) (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Bre Pettis CEO of Makerbot - Fixing Misinformation with Information (www.makerbot.com)

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Learning From Data - Online Course (Fall session) (work.caltech.edu)

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USA Inc.: A basic summary of America's financial statements (s3.amazonaws.com)

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Blackberry is more secure than iOS & Android for work. (www.securelist.com)

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Russia reveals shiny state secret: It's awash in diamonds (news.yahoo.com)

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Ask HN: Any YC alumni who can give feedback on our W12 application? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: My WordPress Plugin adding 2-factor auth via Twilio (news.ycombinator.com)

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IOS6 maps fail so hard, a Tumblr is born (boingboing.net)

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Startups Can Avoid a Class Action Lawsuit with a Single Clause (blog.upcounsel.com)

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Ask HN: What did you learn in building your scalable web application? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Watch this drop of water have an orgasm (io9.com)

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Ask HN: Hacker / Entrepreneur related things to do when in San Fran (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Our New Android App (news.ycombinator.com)

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If The X-Men Worked In IT (www.zetta.net)

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Twitter abuse: New rules for online (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How to convert e-book formats like a pro (www.itworld.com)

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Jobs in Chicagoland Region (metropulsechicago.org)

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Why We Should All Learn a Little Code (www.thesmokingjacket.com)

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Who were the prophets of the early hackers? (esr.ibiblio.org)

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Stack Exchange and Google partner with US government to battle bogus patents (www.theverge.com)

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Microsoft Announces YouthSpark (thenextweb.com)

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Why Apple can not afford to mess up maps (www.technologyreview.com)

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Bring back Google maps - IOS 6 (bring-back-google.com)

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Tech Conferences Done Right (blog.quarterspiral.com)

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Would you invest in a startup coming out of a hackathon? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Talent, Taste, and Transparency. People, Process and Product. (blog.darwinapps.com)

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Facebook to charge businesses for consumer offers (online.wsj.com)

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Using LESS as a Live CSS Engine (css-tricks.com)

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Swiss Federal Railways Accuses Apple Of Copying Its Railway Clock Design (techcrunch.com)

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Second Life creators release Patterns, a Minecraft-like game (lindenlab.com)

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New and Improved Referly Website (Signup, Onboarding, Friending) (refer.ly)

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Ask Patents Beta - Stack Exchange (patents.stackexchange.com)

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Tuning numerical computations for LuaJIT (www.freelists.org)

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Finding The Perfect Startup Co-Founder (www.readwriteweb.com)

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How to add a location or report a problem in iOS 6 Maps (www.imore.com)

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W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016 (arstechnica.com)

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New frontiers in text editing (blog.vivekhaldar.com)

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Smooth Android UI: How I optimized ListView to run super fast (blog.streamified.com)

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Super Mario Bros. Level 1 Recreated On A...Mobius Strip? (kotaku.com)

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Javascript engineer? Make communication faster. Join SendHub (YC W12) (news.ycombinator.com)

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