hackerNews

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Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous? (www.npr.org)

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Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50? (prog21.dadgum.com)

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Elon Musk Update About Tesla (www.teslamotors.com)

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Mona Lisa in pure CSS. (codepen.io)

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15 Years after the First Slashdot Post (cmdrtaco.net)

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America to immigrants: keep your entrepreneurs (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius (techcrunch.com)

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What strips vocals from audio when a 1/8' audio jack is partially unplugged? (electronics.stackexchange.com)

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The Windows ecosystem reboot is bad news if you plan to move country (owened.co.nz)

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Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman (news.cnet.com)

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How we increased landing page conversion from 5% to 55% (quicksprints.com)

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First SpaceX launch to supply Space Station is next Sunday (www.nasa.gov)

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Google Maps API - More Than A Map (www.morethanamap.com)

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Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day (blog.lockitron.com)

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Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Why Startups Die (www.pixelmonkey.org)

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Mitt Romney Calls Tesla a 'Loser' (www.wired.com)

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Paypal policy update: No class-action suits (cms.paypal.com)

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RSpec Best Practices | Best practices developers has been learning the hard way (betterspecs.org)

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The dot enter mixtape: d3.js tutorial videos (enjalot.github.com)

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In India, engineering students outsource their academic projects (www.expressindia.com)

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Netbot: An App.net Client from Tweetbot Creators (thenextweb.com)

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Sphinxtr: Creating a Portable PhD Thesis (jterrace.github.com)

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Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google - Atlantic Mobile (m.theatlantic.com)

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Rust 0.4 call for testing (mail.mozilla.org)

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Doppio: A Java Virtual Machine, Compiler and Disassembler in JavaScript (badassjs.com)

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Huxley vs Orwell: What will destroy us, infinite distraction or oppression (www.prosebeforehos.com)

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Too lazy to write Regular Expressions? (laktek.com)

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DoubleDollarJS.com (doubledollarjs.com)

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A Modern Space Cadet (stevelosh.com)

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A New Tech Generation Defies the Odds in Japan (www.nytimes.com)

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Ancestry.com Acquires 1000memories (YC S10) (blog.1000memories.com)

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Crowd Patronage: How A 400 Year Old Model Can Save The Music Industry (bryank.im)

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YouTube Alters Copyright Algorithms, Will ‘Manually’ Review Some Claims (www.wired.com)

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The oDesk story told by an insider (www.storylane.com)

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NReduce Demo Day on Now (www.nreduce.com)

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THE 2012 World University Rankings (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk)

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The Pull Request for Designers (layervault.tumblr.com)

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German police monitors Skype, GoogleMail and Facebook chat (annalist.noblogs.org)

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Backbone and Cloudant (cloudant.com)

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Study Shows Baldness Can Be a Business Advantage (online.wsj.com)

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375 Million pageviews for $15 a month (hubcitylabs.org)

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Doctest.js: a humane Javascript test framework (doctestjs.org)

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I hired my friends and family, and I’d do it again. (www.meetingburner.com)

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4 inches (dcurt.is)

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Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential debates (live.votizen.com)

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How Amazon did everything wrong (but I still got to #1) (artymiak.com)

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Hackers Breach 53 Universities and Dump Thousands of Personal Records Online (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Ruby -vs- Python (bitboxer.de)

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Hackert0wn (http://hackert0wn.com)

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Dissecting the Massively Over-Subscribed Lockitron Launch (danielodio.com)

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Dilithium crystal fusion impulse engine in development (news.cnet.com)

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Rumor: Microsoft In Acquisition Talks With Rdio (thenextweb.com)

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Putting the Brakes on High Frequency Trading (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Selling my profitable side business. Interest/Advice? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Andreessen Horowitz invests $15 million in Rap Genius (rapgenius.com)

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Why you’d be stupid to bet against HTML5 (www.techrepublic.com)

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Show HN: Storylane - People sharing things that matter (www.storylane.com)

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Android NFC Hackathons - sponsored by Verizon, Facebook, Github, etc (http://www.tappednfc.com)

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Dear Netflix: You're doing it wrong (www.lylemckeany.com)

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Using Source Maps with TypeScript (www.aaron-powell.com)

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A New Tech Generation Defies the Odds in Japan (www.nytimes.com)

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42% of US Internet Users Have a Facebook Account. For Twitter, It’s 16% (diegobasch.com)

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Show HN: Add 3D gestures to your applications (threegearsystems.blogspot.com)

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Modeling a pendulum clock in Javascript (burakkanber.com)

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Replacing iOS 6 Maps: Hands-on with MapQuest, Bing, Waze, Google, Nokia (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Shoeboxify is your shoebox for Facebook (www.shoeboxify.com)

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What if Web Users Could Sell Their Own Data? (boss.blogs.nytimes.com)

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The world's biggest hedge fund is managed by Apple Inc. (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Fat founder, does it hurt getting funding? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Intelligent leads for hackers and startups (www.leadmachine.io)

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Automatically archive all the links you share with Buffer and Kippt (blog.bufferapp.com)

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Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Network for Music (www.techvibes.com)

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Dangerous People (rdegges.com)

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Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com (http://www.barackobama.com)

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Goggle Wallet Micropayments (www.google.com)

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How Copyrights Ruined the Olympics and What You Can Learn From It (blog.kunvay.com)

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Lessons Learned from a Redis Outage at Yipit (tech.yipit.com)

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App Store Honour System (www.mahdiyusuf.com)

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Text is Forever - A multi-platform approach to living a life in plain text (marquee.by)

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Craigslist Does Maps (sfbay.craigslist.org)

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Mocking jQuery AJAX with AmplifyJS Request (www.elijahmanor.com)

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Neo4j 1.8 Release - Fluent Graph Literacy (blog.neo4j.org)

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Why is it so hard finding a technical co-founder? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Craigslist Rolls Out New Map View Feature for Apartment Searches (thenextweb.com)

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The Dart Team Welcomes TypeScript (news.dartlang.org)

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Craigslist launches Map View for apartment hunting (sfbay.craigslist.org)

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Xcode 4.5.1, is out. (itunes.apple.com)

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Craigslist rolls out Padmapper clone "Map View" (sfbay.craigslist.org)

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Dear Apple: Deleting your users’ apps without notification is rude and arrogant (venturebeat.com)

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Austrian Provider hosts Raspberry Pi for free (colocation) (www.edis.at)

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Tim Cook faced an ‘insurrection’ over Bob Mansfield’s retirement (www.edibleapple.com)

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Show HN: My first for-profit app - Beautiful, custom Instagram portfolios (https://monogr.am)

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Tutorial: The best tips & tricks for bash, explained (tuts.pinehead.tv)

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What do you want to know about Linear Algebra? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: 3D iOS Map alternative for SF (blog.recce.at)

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Storied: Capture and Share Family Stories (www.kickstarter.com)

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MSVC support in FFmpeg. C99 to C89 translator (blogs.gnome.org)

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Mitt Romney's Technology Stack (builtwith.com)

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Casablanca - Async/REST services toolkit for C++ (msdn.microsoft.com)

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IOS 6 injecting should_group_accessibility_children to POST requests (logicalfriday.com)

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Vivek Wadhwa Says U.S. Chases Away Immigrant Entrepreneurs (www.siliconbeat.com)

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Quick fix "Unknown or expired link." (news.ycombinator.com)

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StartupDigest acquired by Startup Weekend (techcrunch.com)

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Lytro Director of Photography Eric Cheng Behind a Lens Below the Sea (refer.ly)

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Two Relatively Capable Technologists Fail to Play PlayStation Game (www.benmoskowitz.com)

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A Brief Pause (ethankaplan.com)

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Ask HN: I want to put my desktop computers in the cloud. (news.ycombinator.com)

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There's Never Only One Community (alexhillman.com)

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A one web comic artist harnessed teenaged fandom to raise $2.1 million (betabeat.com)

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Are patent pools the solution to smartphone lawsuits? (arstechnica.com)

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U.S. Patent Office Opens First Branch on University Campus (mashable.com)

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Opening up our research (www.avc.com)

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LayerVault aspires to be a designer's best friend (gigaom.com)