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Why a scam company was able to raises $76 Million Series B? (news.ycombinator.com)
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To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets (www.nytimes.com)
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Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It? (singularityhub.com)
192 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100206    131 comments 
2
Bootstrap Toggle Buttons (github.com)
169 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100300    48 comments 
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How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system (arstechnica.com)
161 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100300    40 comments 
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Real time map of trains in Japan (www.demap.info)
139 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100300    61 comments 
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Mobile Playbook by Google (www.themobileplaybook.com)
123 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100300    69 comments 
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Space colonies of the 1970s (publicdomainreview.org)
121 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100203    49 comments 
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Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (prog21.dadgum.com)
117 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100206    56 comments 
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Telling people to leave finance (mathbabe.org)
111 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100203    92 comments 
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Donut math: How donut.c works (www.a1k0n.net)
111 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2014012503    22 comments 
5
Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels (conversionxl.com)
106 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100300    34 comments 
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Letters: A tiny debugging library for Ruby (http://lettersrb.com)
103 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100206    20 comments 
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RailwayJS (railwayjs.com)
97 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100300    48 comments 
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Multicore Programming in PyPy and CPython (morepypy.blogspot.dk)
96 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100206    39 comments 
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Flying at No Mechanical Energy Cost: The Secret of Wandering Albatrosses (www.plosone.org)
91 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100221    31 comments 
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C as an intermediate language for Forth (www.yosefk.com)
91 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2013071900    29 comments 
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Maily a my first email app for kids (www.maily.com)
79 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100300    50 comments 
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Ask HN: what is a good spot to work in New York? (news.ycombinator.com)
75 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100121    57 comments 
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Server Porn (http://porn.serverbear.com)
74 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100203    14 comments 
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Tell HN: Startup school 2012 invites are out (news.ycombinator.com)
71 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100203    60 comments 
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Fast Algorithms for the Maximum Clique Problem on Massive Sparse Graphs (arxiv.org)
70 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100203    5 comments 
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The Pigeon Movement – A rallying cry for French startups (www.rudebaguette.com)
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Reforming the Patent System Toward a Minimalist System (www.becker-posner-blog.com)
68 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100300    40 comments 
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Graham's Number (myscienceacademy.org)
67 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100206    22 comments 
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HTML5 Google Authenticator (github.com)
67 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100206    19 comments 
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I got sued for $3 Million by a religious cult (www.skeptical-science.com)
64 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100203    14 comments 
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The iPad 1 (www.marco.org)
61 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100121    96 comments 
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Pirate Bay Founder Remains Locked Up Without Charges (torrentfreak.com)
60 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100112    7 comments 
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Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) Tutorial (www.puffinwarellc.com)
59 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100203    8 comments 
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Ask HN: An online 'doers' community for bootstrapping developers? (news.ycombinator.com)
58 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012101803    38 comments 
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The PC is Over (www.codinghorror.com)
57 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100206    117 comments 
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3D printing: The PC all over again? (www.economist.com)
56 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100200    85 comments 
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Copyright Act explicitly states disruptive innovation should be blocked (www.techdirt.com)
55 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100121    17 comments 
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Show HN: What's Your Browser's Age? (http://browserage.com)
54 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100200    67 comments 
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OMG, Test Driven Development Actually Works (blog.jphpsf.com)
54 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100203    32 comments 
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New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss (yro.slashdot.org)
53 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100200    38 comments 
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MariaDB Cassandra Storage Engine (kb.askmonty.org)
49 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100203    0 comments 
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Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods (www.computerworld.com)
47 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100200    31 comments 
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Don't Fall Asleep at the Wheel: Successful Entrepreneurs Have Lives (www.good.is)
47 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100200    45 comments 
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Hitachi presents a storage medium that should last forever (www.neowin.net)
47 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100206    45 comments 
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Getting started with CSS custom filters (CSS shaders) (alteredqualia.com)
45 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100121    14 comments 
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A Crash Course in Information and Visual Design (throwww.com)
45 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100112    14 comments 
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Scala NLP (www.scalanlp.org)
45 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2018021921    14 comments 
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Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan (www.bbc.com)
43 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100206    50 comments 
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Showmystreet: Fast and Easy Street Viewing (showmystreet.com)
39 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100215    12 comments 
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Richard Branson’s Six Secrets to Productivity (biz30.timedoctor.com)
39 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100203    13 comments 
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Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addresses? (news.ycombinator.com)
37 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100200    35 comments 
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Key set available for $150 on eBay provides an all-access pass to NYC (www.nypost.com)
37 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100121    15 comments 
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IOS6 html hardware acceleration changes and how to fix them (indiegamr.com)
36 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100200    24 comments 
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Most Reported Genetic Associations With Intelligence Are Likely False Positives (coglab.wjh.harvard.edu)
35 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100203    7 comments 
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BrowserID: A new web authentication scheme (lwn.net)
35 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100203    6 comments 
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Ask HN: What are the use cases for NFC outside of payments (news.ycombinator.com)
33 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109    44 comments 
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How browsers work (taligarsiel.com)
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A new search engine (theopenstartup.blogspot.com)
31 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100200    48 comments 
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Tin Foil Hats Actually Make it Easier for the Government to Track Your Thoughts (www.theatlantic.com)
29 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100215    19 comments 
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Facebook users don't give a heck about apps notifications anymore. (piotrzaniewicz.posterous.com)
28 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100200    26 comments 
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Why the iPhone 5 is too radical (www.cultofmac.com)
28 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100118    39 comments 
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Comparing two Apple apologies: Tim Cook vs Steve Jobs (mobile.businessweek.com)
27 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100121    13 comments 
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You Don’t Need A Prototype To Raise A Seed Round (techcrunch.com)
25 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100200    13 comments 
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Rod Johnson joins Typesafe (gigaom.com)
25 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100206    11 comments 
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Show HN: PRLibs, madlibs to create press releases for startups (prlibs.com)
24 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100203    9 comments 
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A better Java: Scala or Xtend? (duncan.mac-vicar.com)
23 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100109    31 comments 
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Search.xxx Porn Search Engine Launches (www.cnbc.com)
23 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100121    5 comments 
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Please stop duplicating Rails (srirangan.net)
22 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100118    16 comments 
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Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit (alexshipillo.com)
20 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100121    11 comments 
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PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones (arxiv.org)
18 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100200    0 comments 
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Introduction to libuv [video] (blog.nodejs.org)
16 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109    0 comments 
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Remind HN: iOS 6 Beta 4 has expired ("Could not activate iPhone") (news.ycombinator.com)
14 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100118    6 comments 
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WorkFlowy for iPhone (itunes.apple.com)
11 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100106    3 comments 
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Presidential Election Monte Carlo Simulator in Go (github.com)
10 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100121    2 comments 
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Startups Can Avoid a Privacy Class Action with a Single Clause (blog.foundersnetwork.com)
10 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100112    7 comments 
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Thinkin' Tags - Rapid HTML/CSS Prototyping (www.thinkintags.com)
9 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100115    7 comments 
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HIV 'made' new deadly Salmonella - study (www.bbc.co.uk)
9 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100118    0 comments 
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Make Your Customers Pay (adii.me)
9 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100200    0 comments 
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Simon Cowell & Will.i.am to debut X Factor for Entrepreneurs... (venturebeat.com)
8 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100112    8 comments 
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Architecture firm proposes NYC underground park (www.besttechie.com)
8 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100106    4 comments 
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Obama blocks Chinese wind farms in Oregon over national security (www.reuters.com)
8 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100112    0 comments 
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Ask HN: There is room for innovation in a blogging platform? (news.ycombinator.com)
8 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100112    16 comments 
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Why Apple took the risk with Maps (gigaom.com)
8 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100121    7 comments 
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Ask HN: Where can I find salespeople to market to? (news.ycombinator.com)
7 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109    14 comments 
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Ask HN: What are some ways of proving yourself to a startup? (news.ycombinator.com)
7 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100115    6 comments 
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Beautiful Hand Drawn Fonts you must use (www.dzyngiri.com)
6 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100106    0 comments 
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Design Thinking: Keep your users at the center (mbadoodle.com)
6 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109    6 comments 
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Oracle Takes On Amazon With New Cloud Service (www.businessinsider.com)
6 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100115    2 comments 
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Hitting Your Stride (www.avc.com)
5 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109    0 comments 
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What's the relevance of resumes in the age of GitHub, Stack Exchange, & Coursera (programmers.stackexchange.com)
5 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100112    0 comments 
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Kill The Landline Pitch Deck from Startup Weekend Columbia (blog.killthelandline.com)
5 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100112    4 comments 
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Ask HN: Can incubators like Y Combinator identify the next Steve Jobs? (news.ycombinator.com)
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French startups getting ready to demonstrate against plans to tax exits at 60% (flirtatiouslabs.com)
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Laser-wielding snake robots for airplane repair (www.theatlantic.com)
4 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100112    0 comments 
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Show HN: Captchaless spam protection (blog.samuellevy.com)
4 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100121    2 comments 
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Carmakers Try to Figure Out the New Generation (www.nytimes.com)
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Two months later, developers (mostly) positive about OS X's GateKeeper (arstechnica.com)
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Yes, A video game contributed to Unix Development (people.fas.harvard.edu)
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Fostering Tech Talent in Schools (www.nytimes.com)
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Why Liberal Ex-Insiders Love Big-Bank Jobs (2011) (nymag.com)
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Surging solar in 2011 proof of Ray Kurzweil’s bold prediction? (singularityhub.com)
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0 Show HN: GitHub + Tetris = Gitris (http://gitris.com)
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Parse Procfiles in Go (github.com)
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The New Normal (www.nytimes.com)
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How do you keep up with all the HN? (news.ycombinator.com)
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