hackerNews

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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)

65 points first seen 2012092709 last seen 2012092806 34 comments

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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)

38 points first seen 2012092709 last seen 2012092800 9 comments

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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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