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Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona (identity.mozilla.com)
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StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames (www.codeofhonor.com)
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NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation (creativecommons.org)
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Notch: "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along." (kotaku.com)
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Want To Disrupt An Industry? Try Actually Working In It First (RentHop YC '09) (www.fastcompany.com)
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Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game (www.fullstackoptimization.com)
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What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier (blog.bufferapp.com)
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Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California (techcrunch.com)
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Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? [2007] (www.schneier.com)
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Google Search Referrers Disappear In iOS 6 (searchengineland.com)
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Linux TCP/IP Tuning (www.lognormal.com)
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Facebook Gifts (www.facebook.com)
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US Military Classifies Wikileaks As 'Enemy Of The United States' (www.techdirt.com)
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Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind (alexkrupp.typepad.com)
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How can I submit prior art to the Patent Office? (meta.patents.stackexchange.com)
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Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month) (www.packtpub.com)
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Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” (domainnamewire.com)
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MMO xkcd WebSockets fixed by PubNub (www.pubnub.com)
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Marissa Mayer : Yahoo Products Must Ship In 6 Months, Or Don't Bother (www.sfgate.com)
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NFC enabled business cards (www.moo.com)
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Parallella: Raspberry Pi-like open parallel computing hardware for $99 (www.kickstarter.com)
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App.net developer incentive programme (blog.app.net)
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Bitcoin Foundation Launches to ‘Standardize, Protect and Promote’ Bitcoin (betabeat.com)
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Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate (blogs.adobe.com)
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Adaptive Resampling in D3.js (bl.ocks.org)
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We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Face detection for cats in JavaScript (harthur.github.com)
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How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome (tessrinearson.com)
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New Zealand admits illegally spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom (worldnews.nbcnews.com)
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Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet (www.bgr.com)
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It Takes 275 Water Molecules To Make Ice (www.scientificamerican.com)
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DDR4 memory: Twice the speed, less power (www.theregister.co.uk)
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Why I want to see Gittip succeed (peak5390.wordpress.com)
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The Programmers Before Us Were Better (www.jeremymorgan.com)
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$99 Raspberry Pi-sized “supercomputer” touted in Kickstarter project (arstechnica.com)
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Does Adobe finally understand developers? (designshack.net)
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Show HN: Docverter: Convert your text content to PDF/HTML/EPUB with one REST API (http://www.docverter.com)
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Some Lesser Known Truths About Programming (dotmac.rationalmind.net)
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Sons' DNA remains in mothers' brains (www.latimes.com)
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Crowd Sourcing Sucked, So I Put Instagram API to Work Instead (shaharsol.com)
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I accidentally bought a meth lab (www.change.org)
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Generating 16384 Bit SSH Keys (www.aeg0.com)
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I only got that job because I’m a girl (www.technologywoman.com)
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HTML still thinks "chucknorris" is a color (stackoverflow.com)
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Show HN: Interactive Visualization of Influence in Programming Languages (exploringdata.github.com)
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ABC News uses iCloud to track a stolen iPad to TSA officer's home (appleinsider.com)
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Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web (http://scratchpad.co)
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YC alum myvr raises $1.4MM to attack vacation rental marketing (techcrunch.com)
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Clean and powerful Cobra Language gets major update (cobra-language.com)
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How the Internet ruined San Francisco (1999) (www.salon.com)
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Fuck 'em (www.deliberatism.com)
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Zenbox brings your Shopify customers with you across the web (blog.zenboxapp.com)
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The Launch Pad: Inside YC, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups (www.amazon.com)
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Google releases 'Field Trip' app, a location-aware guidebook (www.fieldtripper.com)
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Click around, hover over a link (desandro.com)
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Hacking Kids - Part 1 (www.eytanlevit.com)
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Trigger.io supports custom url schemes - open your app from the web (trigger.io)
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Is Three Founders One Too Many? (founderdating.com)
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IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, and Firefox combined (thenextweb.com)
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The economics behind today’s new micro-restaurants (qz.com)
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Show HN: Spar - Single Page Application Rocketship (goboundless.github.com)
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7 Problems Raytracing Doesn't Solve (blackhole12.blogspot.com)
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Understanding the Value Cycle: Create, Communicate, Deliver, Capture (wensing.tumblr.com)
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IOS6 and iPhone 5 App Store Discoverability: What changed? (500.co)
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The Britishisation of American English (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Photos from inside North Korean Ryugyong Hotel (www.facebook.com)
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What Kindle Means for Android (blog.geekli.st)
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Search the Enron archive using Searchify's Gotank, a new IndexTank client in Go (gosearchify.herokuapp.com)
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Founder Failure Insurance: Pooling equity (blog.ezliu.com)
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SOPA is not dead — now it is an Executive Order (jdnash.com)
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How to build a windmill part 2, parts, nuts, bolts and blades - Jacques Mattheij (jacquesmattheij.com)
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Globe with CSS shaders and Google Maps (cssdeck.com)
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Did That Rent-To-Own Computer Spy on You? (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Google's "iLost" Motorola ad faked an address to "lose" iOS 6 Maps (appleinsider.com)
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Twitch Broadcasting SDK (twitchtv.github.com)
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The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them) (www.theatlantic.com)
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Cubic mile of oil (en.wikipedia.org)
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Rich Americans Aren't the Real Job Creators (www.theatlantic.com)
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How to be Creative in 7 Steps (my first eBook) (howtobecreative.co)
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How startup sausage gets made: The Launch Pad reviewed (arstechnica.com)
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Ask HN: Paid code review services for solo developers? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Keypress: A JavaScript input capture library (dmauro.github.com)
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Back the Stack: Django (blog.gittip.com)
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Slavery Still Exists (www.theatlantic.com)
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Quantcast File System (quantcast.github.com)
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Destroying Your Enemies Through the Magic of Design (www.jacksonfish.com)
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Ask HN - Should we flag blogspam? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Have Just A Phone Number? iOS 6 Facebook Integration Can Fill In The Blanks (m.techcrunch.com)
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Font of Last Resort - Unicode placeholder to identify unsupported characters (www.unicode.org)
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Richard Buckland's UNSW Computing 1 - learn with games, puzzles and friends (www.openlearning.com)
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Live Chat on the web is broken (well, mostly) (hipmob.tumblr.com)
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Website Design: “You Can’t Go Home Again” (ninjasandrobots.com)
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Facebook Users See Private Messages Show Up on Their Timelines (thenextweb.com)
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Useful JavaScript Libraries and jQuery Plugins (coding.smashingmagazine.com)
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Show HN: Turn any Android phone into a public server (3G, NAT, no problem) (pagekite.net)
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Mac OS X: launchd is cool (paul.annesley.cc)
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Dear Chrome, Slow Your Roll (massivegreatness.com)
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I Am Not A Programmer (floopsy.tumblr.com)
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Vi(m) keybindings and features for Xcode (http://viciousapp.com)
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Coffee, Process, and the Making of the Web (mrqe.co)
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Import your Grove.io account into Flowdock (blog.flowdock.com)
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NASA Rover finds evidence of streambed on Mars. (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Internet Funding Boom Ends as Fast as It Began (online.wsj.com)
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Google Memegen - their internal meme generator exposed (searchengineland.com)
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Ask HN: I tested an idea with AdWords, are the result good enough to work on it? (news.ycombinator.com)
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The Mac Game Store App (www.macgamestore.com)
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Curiosity Finds Ancient Streambed on Martian Surface (www.nasa.gov)
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Pathoc: break all the Python webservers (corte.si)
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Ruby ASCII Table Generator (github.com)
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$69 G-Box Dyno Android 4.0 mini PC with ARM Cortex-A9 (liliputing.com)
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Droids Will Replace Work? (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.sg)
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PouchDB is CouchDB for the Browser (pouchdb.com)
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Astonishing picture of scientist just metres from boiling hot lava cauldron (www.dailymail.co.uk)
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John Locke on community (learntoduck.net)
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Google Now Letting Creators Download Their Original (Source) YouTube Videos (www.google.com)
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What every developer needs to know about Ubuntu Upstart (stackful.io)
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AMD may be facing irrelevance (arstechnica.com)
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Advice on being smart (www.reddit.com)
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Emacs Projmake-mode a Flymake replacement with Erlang example (blog.erlware.org)
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The Apple Maps Non-Controversy (one37.net)
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Quantcast Open Sources Hadoop Distributed File System Alternative (techcrunch.com)
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Objects and Procedures: A Python and Java Comparison (varnull.adityamukerjee.net)
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Is iOS 6 destroying app store discovery? That depends who you are. (blog.tapstream.com)
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Introduction to Rails' latest feature: Turbolinks (geekmonkey.org)
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Ask HN: A survey for mobile designers and developers. (docs.google.com)
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FileBeam for Android - Transfer Files From Dropbox With NFC (www.droid-life.com)
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Ocean power making waves in Australia’s clean energy future (theconversation.edu.au)
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Ask HN: What do you want to see from a Search Engine? (news.ycombinator.com)
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How are you feeling? (www.google.com)
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How to Be a Millionaire, How to Be Ugly, Reading List, and More (www.jamesaltucher.com)
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RIMs Fate Hangs On BB 10 (money.cnn.com)
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Toronto Hacker News Night #3 (news.ycombinator.com)
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Meet Dezso Molnar and his flying gyrocycle (video) (www.tested.com)
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Ask HN: What to do about Pokemonium? (news.ycombinator.com)
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A new way to sync Google Contacts (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
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Android smartphones: USSD calls can kill SIM cards (www.h-online.com)
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Ancient Buddhist statue discovered by Nazis is made from meteorite (www.bbc.co.uk)
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New Sublime Text 2 ebook beta launched (sublimetexttips.com)
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Lesser-known HTML5 APIs (davidwalsh.name)
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Google adds a "Watch Trailer" button to its movie search results page (plus.google.com)
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Hey Entrepreneurs, Bootstrapping Is An Option, Too (millipede.us)
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Cyberwarfare Emerges From Shadows for Public Discussion by U.S. Officials (www.nytimes.com)
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Print edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book (news.railstutorial.org)
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0
For crisp edges, use anything but crispEdges (coderwall.com)
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Curiosity Mars rover beams images of ancient streambed (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Introducing Facebook Gifts (newsroom.fb.com)
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Zxcvbn: realistic password strength predicition (tech.dropbox.com)
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Male DNA in the Human Female Brain (www.plosone.org)
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Sublime Productivity: Code Like a Pro with Today's Premier Text Editor (leanpub.com)
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How Sans-Serif Typeface Styles Affect Readability (uxmovement.com)
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NZ: 51st state of the US (www.stuff.co.nz)
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Happy Second Birthday CloudFlare (blog.cloudflare.com)
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Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field Lives On (www.gizmodo.com.au)
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Fear and the Developer (www.southerncoding.com)
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CIA and the perils of overengineering (esr.ibiblio.org)
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The Future Of Working From Home (www.fastcoexist.com)
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Should you develop for App.net? (doubledbl.tumblr.com)
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84
HumanCoders, a french YC News with a better UI (http://news.humancoders.com)
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Recent YC Grad looking for a data dev to help build a new analytics engine (news.ycombinator.com)
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