hackerNews

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Apple issues A Letter to Our Customers Regarding Maps (www.apple.com)

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Bootstrap Maintainers Leave Twitter (blog.getbootstrap.com)

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Shortcat: Spotlight for OS X's UI (shortcatapp.com)

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If you thought software patents were stupid, have a look at patent 6368227 (www.google.co.uk)

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Patio11 launches his lifecycle emails course (training.kalzumeus.com)

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Stripe partners with Chilling Effects (stripe.com)

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Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent (www.geekosystem.com)

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W.T.F.M. - Write The Freakin' Manual (www.floopsy.com)

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Alligator Eggs (worrydream.com)

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Use Zsh (fendrich.se)

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WebGL Car Viewer (carvisualizer.plus360degrees.com)

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Chrome 22 breaks things (chrisvalleskey.com)

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Hacking WinRAR for fun and profit (github.com)

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Re: Hakin9's new Nmap Guide (seclists.org)

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Microsoft’s cloud service SkyDrive is great, and no one has noticed (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: How does an experienced freelancer get work? (news.ycombinator.com)

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We need more PyCon US 2013 submissions (pydanny.com)

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Color CEO Bill Nguyen Checks Out Of Day-To-Day Operations (techcrunch.com)

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A group of Finnish math teachers write an open textbook in a weekend hackathon (linja-aho.blogspot.fi)

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The Ludum Dare October Challenge: Finish a game, Take it to market, Earn $1 (www.ludumdare.com)

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Aircraft Carriers in Space (www.foreignpolicy.com)

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Open webOS 1.0 is here (www.webosnation.com)

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Grove is here to stay (grove.io)

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Hacker's Delight, 2nd Edition (www.informit.com)

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Stanford CS240h, Functional Systems in Haskell (github.com)

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Making Jet Fuel From Seawater While at Sea (www.nrl.navy.mil)

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How we handle deploys and failover without disrupting user experience (code.mixpanel.com)

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Custom bots for Unreal Tournament 2004 pass Turing test (www.eurekalert.org)

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Slackware 14.0 released (www.slackware.com)

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Go by Example: Timers and Tickers (mmcgrana.github.com)

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How Patio11 made me thousands of dollars (blog.reemer.com)

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It was easier to learn to program in several languages than in one (www.joaquinllaneza.com)

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Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down (innovationmedian.blogspot.com)

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Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit (www.elezea.com)

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How Accurate is Apple Maps in Canada's Largest Province? (www.mtonic.com)

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Parallella, A $99 Supercomputer Running Ubuntu (www.ubuntuvibes.com)

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Introducing TelAPI (www.telapi.com)

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Grove isn't dead, it's only resting (www.revsys.com)

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Will Baxter be the Model T of the robotics industry? (Rethink Robotics) (nextbigfuture.com)

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Remove your alarm safety net and fix your sleep (natewienert.com)

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Automating with convention: Introducing sub (37signals.com)

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Microsoft: Shortage of tech workers in the US becoming 'genuine crisis' (thehill.com)

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Service Oriented Side Effects (rdegges.com)

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Rest In Peace, Charles Alfred Eldon:A Role Model For This New Generation (techcrunch.com)

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AMD deal brings Android apps to Windows 8 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Perl Regex Removed From Grep in Mountain Lion (www.dirtdon.com)

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Make HTTP requests over ZeroMQ with Zurl (blog.fanout.io)

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Array Languages Rock (williamtpayne.blogspot.com)

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Taskbox - Turn your inbox into a task list (www.kickstarter.com)

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How much can I sell my startup for? (venturebeat.com)

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Amazon seeks to throw out Apple 'app store' claim (www.nbcnews.com)

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The Maps Letter Tim Should've Written (chadhuber.tumblr.com)

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Major banks hit with biggest cyberattacks in history (money.cnn.com)

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The Mail Pilot Public Beta (www.mailpilot.co)

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To Stripe or not to Stripe in Canada (www.taskforce-1.com)

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Apple Has a New Cook (blog.jarederondu.com)

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5 Minutes to Social Android Apps with Singly (denniskubes.com)

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Show HN: Luunr (luunr.com)

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Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications (manuel.kiessling.net)

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The First Lecture (blog.punchthrough.com)

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How Google was "skyhooked" by Apple's new iOS 6 Maps (appleinsider.com)

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Active Reading (worrydream.com)

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Introducing the Geckoboard Widget Editor (www.geckoboard.com)

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Mathematical habits which would be of use to non-mathematicians (mathoverflow.net)

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Interview with Ajay Mehta, co-founder of FamilyLeaf (YC W12) (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)

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The true state of the music industry, and why democratization didn't work (www.littlewhiteearbuds.com)

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Could A Lunar Supercomputer Work? (www.datacenterknowledge.com)

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What our civilization needs is a billion-year plan (www.kurzweilai.net)

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The Web as the Platform: HTML5 games on Safari iOS 6 (www.scirra.com)

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Rails: Capybara 2.0 Upgrade Guide (techblog.fundinggates.com)

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CEOs May Find It Lonely At The Top, But Not Stressful (www.npr.org)

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Open webOS 1.0 Edition (blog.openwebosproject.org)

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Promofly - a bookmarklet that finds promo codes right where you're shopping (https://www.getpromofly.com)

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The FeedBurner Deathwatch Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds (techcrunch.com)

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Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes Universes (www.theatlantic.com)

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Uniform - Sexy forms with jQuery (uniformjs.com)

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Shocker? Internal Microsoft Survey Says Half of Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 (hothardware.com)

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Why today's "fast food" startup economy isn't all it's cracked up to be (essence5.com)

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How to really master a programming language (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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Creators of Bootstrap Leaving Twitter (twitter.com)

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Ask HN:What will you make if you got two months off from work? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Inside NZ Police Megaupload files: US investigation began in 2010 (arstechnica.com)

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Your framework is a liability (chrismdp.com)

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Sugar Batteries Could Store 20% More Energy Than Li-Ions (www.tus.ac.jp)

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Adobe is giving away Edge Animate for free (blogs.adobe.com)

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Working Node.js on Raspberry Pi — Gist (gist.github.com)

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Mathematical habits which would be of use to non-mathematicians (mathoverflow.net)

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Beware the Premature Pivot, Getting Traction in Year 6 (thenextweb.com)

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Ask HN: How to create a Web crawler? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Patrick McKenzie launches lifecycle email training course (http://www.lifecycleemails.com)

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Is Instagram Bigger Than Facebook? (philpearlman.com)

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How much does it cost to start selling your indie games? (blog.tametick.com)

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Announcing Toronto HN Night (news.ycombinator.com)

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Simon Peyton Jones - Haskell is useless (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Alternatives to Adsense (news.ycombinator.com)

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Gif Control: Pretty sweet use of jquery (gifctrl.com)

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Ask HN: Good books on the history of computer science? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Developing: Open webOS Ported to Galaxy Nexus Phone (blog.openwebosproject.org)

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Show HN: Jekyllhub - Blogging. For Developers. (https://jekyllhub.com)

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Amazon breaks down its Kindle Paperwhite light technology (www.engadget.com)

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Don't say "Emacs" or "Vi" (bendyworks.com)

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Show HN: Alexical - Project management meets bookmarking (http://www.alexical.com)

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P2P file-sharing for private use is legal in Portugal, court rules (www.zdnet.com)

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Announcing Source Code Pro (blogs.adobe.com)

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The Cockroach Theory: Why Little Things Matter (even for Apple) (www.cloudave.com)

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Iranian News Agency Plagiarizes The Onion (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)

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New AWS service? Video Cloud Delivery. (www.amazon.com)

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Manipulated photography before Photoshop (www.metmuseum.org)

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World’s first Arduino flashlight ships soon (deviceguru.com)

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IPhone 5 In Depth Review: A little Bit Longer & a lot Stronger (www.macobserver.com)

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Continuous integration as a service. Sweet. (http://drone.io)

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Cloudr: Startup Comic (bayareaquarterlife.tumblr.com)

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Displaying the Dinosaurs of the Digital Age (www.nytimes.com)

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Valve engineer builds a sweet hybrid rocket engine (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: Review my startup, fliqq.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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Git presentation for the novice and the semi-experience git user (aht.github.com)

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Google obeys Brazilian court order, blocks YouTube political video (www.reuters.com)

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JDK 8 Features - Remove the Permanent Generation (mail.openjdk.java.net)

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A Mammal that Regenerates Body Parts Like Salamander (richarddawkins.net)

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How Do You Grade Yourself? (lifehacker.com)

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Styler - Rapid stylesheet development with live preview and debug information (github.com)

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Disrupt Tech Recruiting II – So You Want Ari Gold? (www.javacodegeeks.com)

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Electronic components that dissolve in the body (www.nature.com)

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Monetarists Anonymous - The Economist on BitCoin (www.economist.com)

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Bill Atkinson HyperCard Presentation [1986] (video.google.com)

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Sloppy security? Apple and Nokia conceal fewer sensitive sites than Google Maps (www.theverge.com)

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Developers, ignore creating Windows apps at your peril (hal2020.com)