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Xkcd style graphs (mathematica.stackexchange.com)
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TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development (www.typescriptlang.org)
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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012) (news.ycombinator.com)
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Show HN: Ever wished you were cuter, lighter and more portable? (http://foldable.me)
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Why Mozilla Persona is the right answer to the question of Identity (labs.newsint.co.uk)
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You are getting sleeeeeeepy ... (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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The Homely Mutt (stevelosh.com)
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15 years News for Nerds. Slashdot turns 15 (meta.slashdot.org)
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Judge Posner decries "excessive" copyright and software patent protections (arstechnica.com)
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Why does iTunes 10.7 try to contact the domain bogusapple.com? (discussions.apple.com)
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Kivy - Open source Cross-Platform library for rapid development (kivy.org)
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All Rational Approximations of Pi Are Useless (blog.wolfram.com)
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Linux 3.6 released (lkml.org)
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To understand the command line... (geekblog.oneandoneis2.org)
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Rethinking caching in web apps (martin.kleppmann.com)
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Twilio's first support hire joins engineering (www.twilio.com)
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban lifted in the US (www.bbc.co.uk)
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ShowHN: GetURL - A CLI tool to get a public link for any file (github.com)
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New Apple Developer Guideline Bans Apps That Promote Other Apps (techcrunch.com)
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Ask Steve Wozniak Anything (apple.slashdot.org)
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012) (news.ycombinator.com)
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App.net pricing changes (blog.app.net)
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Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iTunes supported Android (thenextweb.com)
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Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web (www.businessweek.com)
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Starting Today: Illegal Downloads Criminally Punishable in Japan (www.bbc.com)
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Oil Espionage: Traders Spy on Hub With Satellites, Sensors and Infrared Cameras (stateimpact.npr.org)
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How Sacha Greif and Nathan Barry sold $39k worth of eBooks (sachagreif.com)
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Planetary Resources wants you to be an asteroid mining intern (venturebeat.com)
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Myths about Hash Tables (hughewilliams.com)
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Yandex Browser (browser.yandex.com)
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BAQL: Reading Hacker News as a non-CS liberal arts graduate (bayareaquarterlife.tumblr.com)
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Google Tag Manager (www.google.com)
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UI/UX and Subjectivity (gazit.me)
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Microsoft Previews New JavaScript-Like Programming Language TypeScript (techcrunch.com)
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Braintree launches instant underwriting (pandodaily.com)
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This is Not ok (blog.jessitron.com)
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How to use interfaces in Go (orel.li)
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French central bank password was 123456 (yes, really) (www.ubergizmo.com)
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Python's Future: A Global Perspective (www.boredomandlaziness.org)
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libimobiledevice - Teaching Penguins to Talk to Fruits (http://www.libimobiledevice.org)
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IE8 falls below 25% market share, Firefox 15 passes 10% mark, Chrome loses users (thenextweb.com)
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Your Body's Best Time for Everything (online.wsj.com)
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Live Weather Display Using CSS, jQuery and PHP (css-tricks.com)
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Show HN: WebcamSwiper - a JS library that watches for hand swipes in the air (github.com)
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Square Buys Design Firm 80/20 (techcrunch.com)
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Lean Domain Search Launches New Business Name Generator (www.leandomainsearch.com)
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3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith (www.wired.com)
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Ego-Driven Development (deliberate-software.com)
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Service Oriented Problems (rdegges.com)
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The CD is 30 years old today (thenextweb.com)
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Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service (legitteams.com)
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Slides and video from Spike Brehm's tech talk: Building Single-Page Apps (nerds.airbnb.com)
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Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet Explorer stay flat (arstechnica.com)
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John Callaham: Don’t be a goat rapist (notch.tumblr.com)
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Larry 'Shared databases are crap' Ellison reveals shared Oracle database (www.theregister.co.uk)
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Sidekiq Pro: advanced functionalities for Sidekiq (mperham.github.com)
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HTML5 Video Player | Video.js (videojs.com)
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CSScomb (csscomb.com)
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Beg HN: Rethink your job posting strategy (wedtm.com)
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Shorter .uk Internet domain proposed by Nominet (www.bbc.com)
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Introducing Post Forking for WordPress (postforking.wordpress.com)
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Style like a BOSS. New css preprocessor. (github.com)
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Why I use Windows 8 (owened.co.nz)
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Let me guess: You sleep with your iPad, don't you? (www.niemanlab.org)
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How to Schedule SMS's and Calls on Twilio (blog.iron.io)
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Google launch 'Tag Manager' to centrally manage all your Javascript snippets (analytics.blogspot.co.uk)
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ReelSurfer Releases Voting, Profiles, and Beta API for Video Clip Creation (blog.reelsurfer.com)
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Facebook Acqhires Founders Of Carsabi (YC12) (techcrunch.com)
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Instagram Growth Hacks (nitrogram.posterous.com)
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Finishing Is All That Matters (excid3.com)
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Samsung Galaxy S3 outsells iPhone 5 in UK, say new figures (crave.cnet.co.uk)
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Show HN: Webapp to determine who owes you for pizza (settleup5.appspot.com)
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CS prof: Don't follow your passion -- let it follow you (www.nytimes.com)
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Show HN: inuit.css—lightweight, Sass-based, OOCSS framework (http://inuitcss.com)
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Show HN: Server side javascript meta templates (github.com)
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Can programmers without CS degrees find jobs? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: What books are you reading right now? (news.ycombinator.com)
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PRQ Police Raid Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites (torrentfreak.com)
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How MeetMe Went International on Android (engineering.meetme.com)
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Liquid air 'offers energy storage hope' (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Scott Adams wants to sell an idea (www.digitopoly.org)
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Generative Machines (workshop.chromeexperiments.com)
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Doesn't a developer spend most time coding? (blog.sacaluta.com)
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IOS 6 Maps Breaks Facebook Check-in (blog.piasetzki.name)
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Data Structures, Wikileaks, and What Comes Next (www.dzone.com)
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Show HN: Postmaster - an easy API for shipping on the web (http://www.postmaster.io)
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Coolest mom in the world: Hacker Birthday Cake (20K hits on Reddit) (imgur.com)
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Ask HN: Is there a 12-step program to cut down on reading HackerNews? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Anti-Downloading Law Hits Japan, Up To 2 Years in Prison (torrentfreak.com)
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Common Lisp: The Untold Story (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
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The Pirate Bay is down (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: How do you ask a similarly-named company to change theirs? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: echo "127.0.0.1 facebook.com" ›› /etc/hosts? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: Need help monetizing our site - suggestions (pivot or otherwise) welcome (news.ycombinator.com)
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Britain's WWI Royal Navy movement mapped (www.guardian.co.uk)
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TypeScript: JavaScript Development at Application Scale (blogs.msdn.com)
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Empty Leadership (joshlinkner.com)
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Snap Out Of It (blog.eladgil.com)
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Research fraud exploded over the last decade (arstechnica.com)
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What Happened To Uploading A File To The FTP Site And Hitting Refresh? (www.floopsy.com)
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Google reportedly acquires facial recognition startup Viewdle for $30-45 million (thenextweb.com)
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People forget that it took Google several years to get where they are now (spatiallyadjusted.com)
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Better looking radios and checkboxes (a jQuery Plugin) (arthurgouveia.com)
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Ask HN: I'm about to hire the 1st employee for my startup. What should I know? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Browser Based Quilt Design Tool (kck.st)
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Phobia of holes befuddles scientists (www.washingtonpost.com)
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How families spend in different countries. (www.theatlantic.com)
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The 15-hour working week predicted by Keynes may soon be within our grasp (www.aeonmagazine.com)
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Geeklist releases API that allows developers to monetize achievements. (thenextweb.com)
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Serious Security Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Your Twitter Account (gizmodo.com)
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Judge upholds San Francisco's plastic bag law (pdf) (www.sfcityattorney.org)
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Learning new things: Don't beat your head against a wall. (coderwall.com)
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Our Path to 500 Startups (andysparks.co)
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Challenge Yourself to Learn (javaprogr.am)
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Show HN: Starlet. Fluid, square, marginless grids (would love some help) (github.com)
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What the Fed's Historic Bet Means for You (www.theatlantic.com)
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Ikea SMS Product lookup (kivikfinder.com)
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Ask HN: Advice for sole dev on massive project (news.ycombinator.com)
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Torrent Sites Down after Hosting Site Raid (firstsearchblue.com)
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I pine for the days before "app" was used for everything (www.google.com)
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Craigslist sends Mashery C&D (allthingsd.com)
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Somebody make this: A place for producers and consumers to connect to pay bills (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: What features would you add or subtract from Facebook? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: Rails or Sinatra? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Torque: Big data meets time-based maps, bundled with CartoDB 2.0 (blog.cartodb.com)
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Run Google Maps on iOS without the Safari chrome (github.com)
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Ask HN: is anyone solving pg's #4 (Outsource IT) for laptops? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Warning over shortage of engineering graduates - UK (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Postmortem of a drupalist leaving Drupal after 12yrs (berk.es)
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Cloud Bill of Rights (www.extremetech.com)
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Android phone 'wipeout' security flaw exposed (www.bbc.co.uk)
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HoneyMap Offers Real-Time Glimpse of Cyber Attacks as They Happen (betabeat.com)
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Hosted Jenkins-CI for Google App Engine (appengine.cloudbees.com)
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Browse your favorite catalogs on the web (googlecommerce.blogspot.com)
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The QA Conundrum - How Can We Move Faster? (blog.assembla.com)
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Apple’s maps (radar.oreilly.com)
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Denver Startup Week goes live October 22nd (denverstartupweek.org)
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Ask HN: Abandoning iOS applications (news.ycombinator.com)
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How To DJ A Wedding With Linux (www.thepowerbase.com)
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Square acquires 80/20 (8020.com)
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Show HN: My new App for iPhone that shows you what Apps people are using nearby (http://appmap.mobi)
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Easter egg on German Apple website: Search your ToS, get insulting AIFF file (news.ycombinator.com)
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Rape Results In More Pregnancies Than Consensual Sex (www.popsci.com)
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Internet Explorer 8 falls below 25% market share (thenextweb.com)
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VLC now most downloaded software on SourceForge (sourceforge.net)
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How to predict the future (www.feld.com)
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Snappli and Claims of iOS Maps App Usage Plummeting (daringfireball.net)
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No Free Ride for Free Riders (plantostart.com)
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All We Are Saying, Is Give Dart A Chance (www.floopsy.com)
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‘Green Brain’ project to create a flying robot with a honey bee brain (www.sheffield.ac.uk)
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Make The Language Simple To Deploy Like PHP For Fame And Fortune (www.floopsy.com)
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ShowHN: Scraped 800 .vimrc files from github, and analyzed for fun (www.mcphersonindustries.com)
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Save the Web from software patents (www.fsf.org)
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Meet the hexaflexagon. It’s about to blow your mind. (io9.com)
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What Makes A Great Programmer? (blog.teamtreehouse.com)
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Ask HN: What happened to the Nexus 7? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: Those of you who signed up for App.net. Are you actually using it? (news.ycombinator.com)
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AeroFS (YC S10) is Hiring iOS Engineers (news.ycombinator.com)
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Plivo(YCS2012) is hiring for Marketing Role in San Francisco, CA (news.ycombinator.com)
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Help take down Salesforce - join the team at Streak.com (YC S11) (news.ycombinator.com)
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