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3
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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13 comments
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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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8 comments
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I Am Not A Programmer
(floopsy.tumblr.com)
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4 comments
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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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0
Cyberwarfare Emerges From Shadows for Public Discussion by U.S. Officials
(www.nytimes.com)
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0
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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4 comments
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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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0
Zxcvbn: realistic password strength predicition
(tech.dropbox.com)
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0
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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0
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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0
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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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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