hackerNews

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Startup = Growth (paulgraham.com)

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Tent v0.1 (tent.io)

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Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More (www.kalzumeus.com)

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Open Street Map gets 575k funding (mapbox.com)

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Streaming Video Patent Trolls: Beware. (jacquesmattheij.com)

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What Business is Wall Street In? (blogmaverick.com)

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What are imaginary numbers? (math.stackexchange.com)

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Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name (paulbernal.wordpress.com)

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Show HN: Learned Objective C as a high schooler and made this iPhone game (itunes.apple.com)

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Show HN: 5000 best movies (5000best.com)

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VirtualBox hotfix now available for OS X 10.8.2 problem (www.virtualbox.org)

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3D printer community revolting against Makerbot's new closed-source printer (marcuswolschon.blogspot.de)

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Licensing of Titanium chaotic and unclear (developer.appcelerator.com)

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New study affirms that fewer copyright restrictions benefit the economy (www.eff.org)

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How Google takes feedback : Very nice way to do it (www.google.com)

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Apple’s Free Ride: Why Journalists Treat Product Launches Like News (observer.com)

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The Writing Revolution (www.theatlantic.com)

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Hotmail: Your password was too long, so we fixed it for you (www.securelist.com)

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The Difficulties of Self Publicising - organised cheating on Hacker News (www.scirra.com)

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Twitter responds to IFFFT (techcrunch.com)

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LispyScript: A JavaScript With Lispy Syntax And Macros (http://lispyscript.com)

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Deployd: Create RESTful JSON APIs using a GUI interface (deployd.com)

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JQuery 1.8.2 released (blog.jquery.com)

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Pandorhack: Stealing Pandora Passwords (pandorhack.zorinaq.com)

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Why too many startups (er) suck (steveblank.com)

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The right way to deal with frozen processes on Unix (blog.phusion.nl)

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Create your own local Dropbox with AeroFS (arstechnica.com)

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CRIME (www.imperialviolet.org)

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Java 8: State of Lambda (cr.openjdk.java.net)

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Show HN: AzureFS – I mounted Azure Cloud Storage as filesystem on Linux (alpblog.heroku.com)

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Immigration Issues for a Canadian working for Microsoft (blog.garyroumanis.com)

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How To Disrupt Technical Recruiting - Hire an Agent (www.javacodegeeks.com)

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Users of The Well buy The Well from Salon (www.well.com)

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How to hire a sales person (blog.filepicker.io)

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Mail Pilot announces public beta (www.mailpilot.co)

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Show HN: WordCount.is (http://wordcount.is)

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The iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken (thenextweb.com)

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Lie on your résumé? One job-seeker's moment of truth (msn.careerbuilder.com)

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Easier builds and deployments using Git over HTTPS and OAuth (github.com)

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ReelSurfer Launches Contest to Meet Investors and a YC Partner (blog.reelsurfer.com)

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Start Hacking With Java 8 (functr.blogspot.co.uk)

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Apple scrambled to hire iOS 6 maps engineers days before launch (www.theregister.co.uk)

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The Amazing Colossal Science Fiction Ketchup (blog.fogus.me)

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The Drug That Never Lets Go (www.pbs.org)

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3taps vs. Craigslist -- Who owns public data? (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Newfound Alien Planet a Top Contender to Host Life (news.yahoo.com)

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Things I, As a Developer, Wish More Entrepreneurs Knew (startupweekend.org)

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Kurzweil's new book: How to Create a Mind (howtocreateamind.com)

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Open Source Politics: The Radical Promise of Germany's Pirate Party (www.theatlantic.com)

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Divine Inspiration Fallacy (justinkan.com)

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Epic commit message (github.com)

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Inside the lonely, cranky Microsoft Store on iPhone 5 launch day (venturebeat.com)

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Apple promises maps app will 'improve' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Chrome no longer supports Mac OS X 10.5 (support.google.com)

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PC Ads of the past (dizorb.com)

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Is Apple Losing Its Way? (www.technologyreview.com)

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After Nearly 100 Hours in Line, San Francisco’s First iPhone 5 (www.taskrabbit.com)

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The Declaration of Twitter Independence (twitterindependence.com)

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Clipper, the Caltrain nemesis (www.geekatsea.com)

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Build apps for elections with the Google Civic Information API (googlepolitics.blogspot.com)

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Confirmed: Apple's A6 uses triple-core GPU (arstechnica.com)

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Connecting the dots (kulveer.co.uk)

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Exceptional Software finds success in errors (gigaom.com)

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Custora (YC W11) Updates Ecommerce Analytics to Drill Down on Customer Retention (betakit.com)

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Groupon Slashing Online Ad Spending in Q3 (blog.mixrank.com)

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Officials see Iran, not outrage over film, behind cyber attacks on US banks (openchannel.nbcnews.com)

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How do they make money? (rcs.seerinteractive.com)

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Overcome These Challenges When Selling To Startups (techcrunch.com)

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The Heartbeat Philosophy (blog.heartbeat.com)

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No newspaper is having an easy time, but one faces unique challenges (www.economist.com)

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Faunus: Graph Computing with Hadoop (thinkaurelius.github.com)

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Google search for "tilt" (www.google.com)

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Authentication chips discovered in teardown of Apple's new Lightning connector (appleinsider.com)

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The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal (www.guardian.co.uk)

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An elegant proof from Erdős (www.johndcook.com)

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Lost In The Apple Mapgate Discussions (kirklove.net)

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Help, I’m the first data scientist at my company (www.hilarymason.com)

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We Should All Learn a Little Code: Answer and Infographic (theindustry.cc)

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AT&T Screwed Up the iPhone 5 Launch (www.nickwoodhams.com)

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Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you think? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Mature Role for Automation: Part I (www.kitchensoap.com)

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Grishin Makes First $250K Investment In Double Robotics (YC S12) (www.techcrunch.com)

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MegaPipe: A New Programming Interface for Scalable Network I/O (www.eecs.berkeley.edu)

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Is the U.S. Startup Economy Failing? (www.cringely.com)

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A Curated List of Resources for Ruby and Rails Learning (www.learnrubyandrails.com)

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Querying PostgreSQL datatypes in ActiveRecord with postgres_ext (reefpoints.dockyard.com)

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Ruby Security Reviewer's Guide (code.google.com)

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Transit app developers see iOS 6 Maps as a chance to shine (arstechnica.com)

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IPhone 5 vs. Canon 5D Mark III (dcurt.is)

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Ask HN: How are you getting in front of decision makers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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From Paper to Product: How We Built the New Zaarly (blog.zaarly.com)

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The Era of Beta Maps (daringfireball.net)

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On Working From Home (steveburge.com)

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Tutorial: LispyScript Introduction (dailyjs.com)

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Android NFC Hack Allows Free Ride on US Subways (hothardware.com)

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Public Schools and Money (educationnext.org)

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Nokia Maps Drives Circles Around Apple and Google (www.forbes.com)

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Visa Bill to Keep Graduates in U.S. Fails in the House (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: If you had 3 month to program for fun, what would you learn? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Just finished my Friday Hack Project: Receiveee, a disposable email service (receiveee.com)

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EU Officials Propose Internet Cops On Patrol, No Anonymity, No Obscure Languages (www.techdirt.com)

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Out-teach your competition. Innovating on arugula. (ninjasandrobots.com)

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The NFL yellow line explained (www.youtube.com)

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Proceedings of the 2012 X.Org Developer's Conference (wiki.x.org)

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On the 3Taps and PadMapper legal battle with Craigslist (atomicsupersky.com)

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Ask PG: Founder Control in 2012+ (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bluetooth-powered wooden keyboard by Orée (www.designboom.com)

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A comparison of purchasing power around the globe [pdf] (www.static-ubs.com)

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Apple deletes your OLD SMS messages with new bugfix (www.theverge.com)

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The secrets of my failure – why “winning” is not our natural state (venturevillage.eu)

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MakerBot vs. Open Source – A Founder Perspective (www.hoektronics.com)

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Choice blindness (lesswrong.com)

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Ember Handlebars Helpers, Bound and Unbound (techblog.fundinggates.com)

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You are not here: Apple Maps app loses users (www.theage.com.au)

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RFID Tracking Of Students? Electronic Roll Call in Texas Stirs Debate (singularityhub.com)

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7 Years of OSM Growth animated (gist.github.com)

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Google is dropping Chrome support for OS X 10.5 Leopard (thenextweb.com)

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Getting Something Off my (Tool)chest (tomcreighton.com)

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Steam Workshop is coming to Left 4 Dead 2 on Linux soon (www.l4d.com)

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Ask HN: Should we filter out "Um, What?" from comments? (news.ycombinator.com)

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California’s first 3D printer retail store to sell $600 model (arstechnica.com)

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Where do startups store millions of dollars of capital? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Intuit Partner Platform to Open Financial Data Service APIs to Developers (ippblog.intuit.com)

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NICTA micro-kernel trailblazers slurped by US defense giant (www.theregister.co.uk)

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