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1
Beta Late Than Never (Steam Linux Beta)
(blogs.valvesoftware.com)
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How to build a windmill
(jacquesmattheij.com)
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A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" for systems programming
(winningraceconditions.blogspot.com)
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“iCloud Backup”
(www.marco.org)
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MMO in loving tribute to xckd-1110
(1110.n01se.net)
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Formlabs: High Resolution 3D Printer
(www.formlabs.com)
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Mathematics at Google
(research.google.com)
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How a random bug in Deep Blue may ultimately have led to Kasparov's defeat
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Light Table - Embracing Abstraction
(www.chris-granger.com)
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German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show up with typewriters
(www.crackajack.de)
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Developer interest in Windows 8 is stagnant, new line of worry for Microsoft
(thenextweb.com)
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Is Alzheimer's Type 3 Diabetes?
(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx
(highscalability.com)
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Twilio’s Biggest Partnership: AT&T Will Resell Its Cloud Telecom Apps And API
(techcrunch.com)
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Hackerface: rapportive for HN
(hackerface.com)
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PostgreSQL Database Modeler
(pgmodeler.com.br)
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Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
(worrydream.com)
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Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters Use Bing for iPhone instead
(venturebeat.com)
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IOS 6 App Store is a disaster for developers
(www.develop-online.net)
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The science behind what motivates us to get up for work every day
(blog.bufferapp.com)
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Google Drive SDK
(developers.google.com)
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Appeals Court Caves to TSA Over Nude Body Scanners
(www.wired.com)
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Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1
(thenextweb.com)
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Python is doing just fine
(data.geek.nz)
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Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax)
(github.com)
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Lumia 920 low-light shootout with iPhone 5, HTC One X and Galaxy S III
(www.engadget.com)
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Longtime tech recruiter shatters the engineering shortage myth
(venturebeat.com)
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Embark Plans 1.3M Transit Trips Since Apple’s Release Of iOS 6
(techcrunch.com)
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Coinbase (YC S12), First Crowd Funded Bitcoin Company, Raises Over $600K
(www.privateinternetaccess.com)
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Why Codecademy is overrated and missing its target audience
(www.attendly.com)
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Kim Dotcom teases details of music service Megabox with preview video
(thenextweb.com)
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Actual OIS performance: Lumia 920 against iPhone 5, Galaxy S III, HTC One X
(www.engadget.com)
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Share stuff from Dropbox in your Facebook Groups
(blog.dropbox.com)
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The Windows Store... why did I sign up with this mess again?
(weblogs.asp.net)
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Freelance Programmer Survival Manual
(luaz.blogspot.com)
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What do you do with the Brilliant Jerk?
(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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20 Hours of Tent.is
(tent.is)
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SupportBee launches web tool for headache-free email support
(venturebeat.com)
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Apple's iOS 6 Wi-Fi problems linger on
(www.zdnet.com)
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Tin Foil Security launches to automate security testing
(blog.tinfoilsecurity.com)
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Survey: iOS 6 Leads To Decrease In Device Satisfaction Among iPhone Users
(techcrunch.com)
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The Hustler's MBA
(tynan.com)
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Google's self-driving cars will be available to 'ordinary people' within 5 years
(www.computerworld.com)
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The iPhone 5 Display: Thoroughly Analyzed
(www.anandtech.com)
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Megabox will replace 15% of ads on websites with Mega's own ads
(bbgamer.co.uk)
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Unholy Rails: External Scripts, jQuery Plugins, & Page-Specific JavaScript
(railsapps.github.com)
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Realizations that helped me write regularly
(joel.is)
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Five-Cent Diabetes Pill From 1958 May Be New Cancer Drug
(www.bloomberg.com)
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GitHub's Culture - Bigger Than Any One Person
(alexhillman.com)
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Deploy mobile apps from Dropbox
(harp.io)
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Why Bloom filters work the way they do
(www.michaelnielsen.org)
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GoogleWithoutGoogle.com - weekend project for a simple startpage and some tricks
(http://googlewithoutgoogle.com)
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Apple responds to iPhone 5 scuffs, says scratches and chips are ‘normal’
(www.extremetech.com)
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Saving Android From a Second-Rate Future
(www.wired.com)
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This is why your electronics fail: Tin Whiskers (NASA Study)
(nepp.nasa.gov)
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TV Will Be Apple's Undoing
(online.wsj.com)
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On the Timing of Apple’s Map Switch
(daringfireball.net)
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Myspace’s iLike Rises From The Dead To Block An Apple Trademark Request
(techcrunch.com)
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Jeannie, an API for building Siri-like apps
(www.mashape.com)
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Fundraising Will Take You 3 Months
(blog.eladgil.com)
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Airbnb Is Raising A Big Third Round, Aiming For A Valuation North Of $2B
(techcrunch.com)
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Snapjoy Adds Brilliant "Copy" Feature
(techcrunch.com)
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Re XKCD 936: test the safety of your passphrase in your browser
(www.leebutterman.com)
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Show HN: Viewer for Khan Academy (Win8 App + Source Code)
(codecube.net)
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LOOM 4k short film by Ridley Scott & son goes online
(www.alexandrosmaragos.com)
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The long-forgotten inventor of hypertext
(en.wikipedia.org)
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IOS piracy soars, app security failing
(www.scmagazine.com.au)
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Map My Day - Track and Visualize your stays with a Heatmap
(developer.mozilla.org)
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Long-sought particle that could revolutionize quantum computing
(www.purdue.edu)
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Version your RESTful API responses
(hribar.info)
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Dietary supplements: Scary substances manufactured under scary conditions
(scienceblogs.com)
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Dear hn, today i resign & risk it all to follow my heart. wish me luck.
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Most of What You Know About Interviews is Wrong
(blog.geekli.st)
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How to design a mobile app. A Designer's guide to the process.
(blog.scoutzie.com)
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Budget Cuts to Archives Put History Out of Reach
(www.nytimes.com)
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Show HN: the6pct : a tool to help you track weekly growth based on PG's essay
(http://the6pct.com)
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More renewable energy for our data centers
(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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How Social Security numbers became our insecure national ID
(www.theverge.com)
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Opus, the open codec for podcasts and Internet audio
(auphonic.com)
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Square, next great tech company?
(www.slate.com)
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5 Reasons Why Responsive Design is Worth it
(dallasbass.com)
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The Peak Time for Everything
(online.wsj.com)
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Amazon adding lockers for customers at 7-Elevens and drug stores (video)
(www.wcsh6.com)
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Introducing Referly Reviews: Hands-On Videos With Products We Love
(refer.ly)
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Translatr: Document Translation as a Service
(translatr.sovee.com)
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The Smart Phone Patent Wars
(blogs.burnsidedigital.com)
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San Diego: join us for SD Hacker News meetup #33 (Fri 9/28)
(anyvite.com)
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Linus Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git
(typicalprogrammer.com)
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Somebody is to Blame for This
(www.codinghorror.com)
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Building software for Raspberry Pi in Windows: Cross-Compiler Howto
(gurucoding.com)
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Google Play (Android Market) hits 25 billion downloads
(officialandroid.blogspot.com)
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The Parable of the Lonely user
(hipmob.tumblr.com)
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A delicious way to network in Silicon Valley
(refer.ly)
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How To Build A Black Hole Laser
(www.technologyreview.com)
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Form1 - 25 micron precision desktop 3D printer in ~$2200 range
(formlabs.com)
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Design Principles Behind Firefox OS UX
(blog.mozilla.org)
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Ask HN: Forget job board, what about an idea board?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Dropmyemail's security
(blog.geeksphere.net)
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"We aren’t being hit by Future Shock. We are going to be hit by Future Nausea.
(www.ribbonfarm.com)
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Kim Dotcom Teases Megabox, Reveals Exclusive Artists?
(torrentfreak.com)
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Ask HN: Education is broken, how do you fix it?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: Is anyone doing a job board "right"?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Use Object.freeze to control mutability in JavaScript
(coderwall.com)
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Russ Cox on Go's Error Handling
(plus.google.com)
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GNOME 3.6 released
(library.gnome.org)
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Ask HN: Any startups in need of awesome support?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Tron-like map of bike journeys reveals London's hubs
(www.newscientist.com)
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Dear Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews
(sajithdilshan.github.com)
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Prison Architect - Alpha Launch
(www.introversion.co.uk)
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Procter & Gamble Heir Peddles Pseudoscience
(betabeat.com)
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The Revolution Will Be Home-made
(www.bbc.com)
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Deploying Octopress blogs to Cloud Foundry
(github.com)
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California Governor Signs Self-Driving Car Bill Into Law
(www.pcmag.com)
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Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions
(allthingsd.com)
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How Windows 8 scaling fails on high-PPI displays
(techreport.com)
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IOS 6 crashes consistently with Facebook integration
(www.youtube.com)
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As We May Think (1945)
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Gnome 3.6 Released
(library.gnome.org)
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The conduct of patent-holding jury foreman is being questioned.
(arstechnica.com)
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What We’ve Learned By Evolving Our Documentation
(blog.cloudmine.me)
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Newfound Comet Could Look Spectacular in 2013
(www.space.com)
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A List Apart: Articles: The Web Aesthetic
(www.alistapart.com)
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Disrupt Tech Recruiting II - So You Want Ari Gold?
(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
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Ask HN: What apps are always running on your phone?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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CloudFactory Raises Growth Capital To Create Jobs for 1 Million People
(blog.cloudfactory.com)
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Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ was carved from meteorite
(blogs.nature.com)
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Django swappable auth.User models landed in trunk
(github.com)
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The Veritable Guide To E-Commerce Newsletters
(blog.getvero.com)
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University of California settles pepper spray suit for $1 million
(www.reuters.com)
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The magic of "overflow: hidden;"
(colinaarts.com)
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TweetMeme shutting down October 1
(venturebeat.com)
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Google Brings Interactive Google+ Events Notifications To Gmail: RSVP From Inbox
(techcrunch.com)
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The 6 Percent: a weekly growth tool based on Paul Graham's essay
(fr.anc.is)
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Scientific Reproducibility: Begley’s Six Rules
(lifescivc.com)
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Google’s President of Brazil Operations arrested over YouTube video
(thenextweb.com)
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"Burn Your iPhone?"
(www.nwzpaper.com)
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Quit My Job 5 Months Ago to Build Websites, Apps, Etc. Here is My Portfolio..
(ryhanson.com)
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Tips and Tricks for iOS 6
(www.pcmag.com)
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The Butterfly Bug
(blogea.bureau14.fr)
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Rescale (YC W12) is hiring a Lead UI / UX Designer.
(www.rescale.com)
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GoCardless (YC S11) is hiring a Lead JavaScript Engineer in London
(news.ycombinator.com)
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