hackerNews

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Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed (yro.slashdot.org)

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Torvalds' quote about good programmer (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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Rethinking Sleep (www.nytimes.com)

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DC Taxi Commission Proposes New Rules to Shut Down Uber (blog.uber.com)

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How to stop hospitals from killing us. (online.wsj.com)

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Show HN: Online C/C++ to assembly visualizer [Weekend Project] (assembly.ynh.io)

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Rescuing Resque: Let's do this (blog.steveklabnik.com)

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Coding Horror: The Last PC Laptop (www.codinghorror.com)

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Vim Koans (blog.sanctum.geek.nz)

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Thank you Apple (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

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Ruby’s magic underscore (po-ru.com)

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Cray T94 Supercomputer on Ebay (www.ebay.com)

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Writing Rules Advice From The NYTimes on Writing Well (learning.blogs.nytimes.com)

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The City from the Valley - private bus routes SF to South Bay (stamen.com)

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Why Kids Should Grade Teachers (www.theatlantic.com)

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Stop Using noreply (ryanhoover.me)

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From 0 to cryptography (techblog.rosedu.org)

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Flight Hacking: 5 Music Festivals, 6 Weeks, 3 Continents (flightfox.com)

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Barrons: Facebook is worth $15 per share (online.barrons.com)

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Has Apple Peaked? (www.nytimes.com)

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Stross on the diminishing marginal utility of Stuff (www.antipope.org)

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To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop (www.nytimes.com)

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Intro to Bitcoin [video] (nhcaptv.com)

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Facial recognition will be turned off for Facebook users from Europe (europe-v-facebook.org)

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Apple demands $707 million in additional damages from Samsung (arstechnica.com)

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Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles (www.historycooperative.org)

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Automated home brewing system (decibel.ni.com)

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Show HN: HTML5 Bird Flocks Simulation in coffeescript (chrisp.gr)

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'AOL squatter' takes wraps off new startup, Claco (www.mercurynews.com)

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Show HN: Web client for WhatsApp (http://whatsapp.filshmedia.net)

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When Will This Low-Innovation Era End? (blog-admin.wired.com)

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1 million simultaneous toilet flushes -- will this work? (hosted.ap.org)

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Gittip: New, Interesting, Important (justinlilly.com)

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Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed (yro.slashdot.org)

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Finnish Startups Are Raising Large Rounds by Targeting the Largest Opportunity (www.arcticstartup.com)

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How an investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch (joel.is)

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Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How Cubie got 3.5M users in 6mo by thinking 'market first, product second' (quibb.com)

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How the world’s oceans could be running out of fish (www.bbc.com)

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Ask HN: I just inherited 700K+ lines of bad PHP. Advice? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Twilio Pricing API hack (twiliopricing.herokuapp.com)

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Silicon Valley is Stupid (which is why it works) (gigaom.com)

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IOS 6 Maps might be hazardous to your health (the.taoofmac.com)

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This is what happens when ad agencies design your website (www.bountytowels.com)

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Show HN: Pipe, library to run ifttt-like alerts locally (github.com)

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I don't know what the fuck I'm doing (theopenstartup.blogspot.com)

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One Humble Idea to Get our Economy Moving Again (brandonbechtel.wordpress.com)

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

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Robots at War: Scholars Debate the Ethical Issues (chronicle.com)

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Don’t use JavaScript for Retinafying (mir.aculo.us)

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Show HN: A simple static jinja2 site generator (github.com)

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10 times the explosive power of all explosives used in WWII (en.wikipedia.org)

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How Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Will Change Las Vegas Forever (www.businessinsider.com)

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Awesome Khan-Academy-style intro videos on Machine Learning (www.youtube.com)

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Verizon shipping iPhone 5 unlocked (arstechnica.com)

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Growth (www.avc.com)

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The front of the iPhone 5 is not flush with the frame (fayezmoh.tumblr.com)

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The man who single-handedly carved a road through a mountain (en.wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Starting a hacker school for underprivileged kids? (news.ycombinator.com)

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My Product Feedback (massivegreatness.com)

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Marijuana Can Prevent the Spread of Cancer, Researchers Discover (www.alternet.org)

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Get $50 for Publishing an Android App (aws.amazon.com)

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10 Reasons Things Will Get Even Worse for RIM (www.forbes.com)

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Web application (WAR) setup on shared hosting server (www.jvmhost.com)

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PCMag: The iPhone 5 is the World’s Fastest Smartphone (www.iphonbuzz.com)

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Ask HN: Fastest concurrent HTTP server library for Python? (news.ycombinator.com)

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POST AJAX requests are now broken in iOS 6 (stackoverflow.com)

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When You’re Unsatisfied, Remember Your Life Is A Pyramid (www.stepanp.com)

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The MIT licensed Torque 3D GitHub repo is ready (www.garagegames.com)

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Finally, a reason for bloggers to use Google+ (stritar.net)

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Linus Cracks a Smile as Nvidia Open Source Releases Tegra 2D/3D Documentation (hothardware.com)

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Speech Recognition on Arduino (arjo129.github.com)

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Shippo: The brain-controlled tail that wags with your mood (www.pcgerms.com)

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Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 (www.effectgames.com)

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The father of India’s “white revolution” has died, aged 90 (www.economist.com)

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Monitoring - Introduction to MongoDB - Part 18 (mrbool.com)

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Lessons for My Children (michaelvuke.wordpress.com)

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IOS 6 Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1allows tweets, Facebook posts from locked device. (news.cnet.com)

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TapIn (S12) is hiring a lead designer to help rethink mobile video (fsstack.theresumator.com)

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