hackerNews

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Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups (blog.ryankearney.com)

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90 Things Learned From Starting 4 Tech Companies (betashop.com)

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The $5000 Compression Challenge (www.patrickcraig.co.uk)

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Brackets – open-source code editor built with the web for the web (http://brackets.io)

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This picture is worth a thousand pictures (www.slate.com)

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Living in a Van (blog.priceonomics.com)

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How To Set Up Your Linode For Maximum Awesomeness (feross.org)

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More evidence that Voyager has exited the solar system (blog.chron.com)

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When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1? (www.schneier.com)

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Ice Box Pro: The best of Dropbox and Amazon Glacier combined (www.iceboxpro.com)

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How to Write a Spelling Corrector (norvig.com)

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Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56 (thecodist.com)

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (thoughtmaybe.com)

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Facebook the Devourer (awardwinningfjords.com)

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Anvil - a Mac app for Pow (http://anvilformac.com)

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Zurb Foundation vs. Twitter Bootstrap (designshack.net)

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New comet might blaze brighter than the full Moon (www.astronomynow.com)

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Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad (www.reghardware.com)

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What is static program analysis? (matt.might.net)

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Factorization diagrams in Haskell (mathlesstraveled.com)

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Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny (blog.wolfram.com)

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Cloud Haskell: work-stealing, master-slave and work-pushing (www.well-typed.com)

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How airbnb lost me as a customer (news.ycombinator.com)

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All ideas are old ideas (www.chris-granger.com)

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Pulsejet in a tea kettle (hackaday.com)

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Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight (checkintomyflight.com)

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How SQLite is tested (www.sqlite.org)

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Employees of kixeye accused of racist remarks fired (www.develop-online.net)

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Steve Jobs came within a song of going to the Moon (www.cringely.com)

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This Bikesharing Program Lets You Lock Your Bike Anywhere (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Two front page Hacker News posts and why one converted 20x higher (www.meetingburner.com)

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Airline baggage tags: Brilliant design gets bags from Point A to Point B (www.slate.com)

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Startup founders reveal their #1 user acquisition tactic (blog.teamtreehouse.com)

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Browser-based circuit simulator (www.neuroproductions.be)

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World of Warcraft hobby sparks US political row (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Fend Off Trolls, Bots and Jerks With ‘Empathy’ Test (www.wired.com)

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DIY 10$ cardboard robot (hackaday.com)

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Lockitron Sells Over 9000 Units in First Week, Opens Up Orders for Batch 2 (blog.lockitron.com)

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The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship (blogs.hbr.org)

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Low Power Server Monitoring with a Raspberry Pi (www.triggeredmessaging.com)

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AndroVM Jelly Bean release (androvm.org)

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Github Training Page (training.github.com)

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What can I do with dynamic typing that I can not do with static typing? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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Xkcd style graphs in Matlab (stackoverflow.com)

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Curiosity Takes Its First Drive, Leaving Morse Code on Mars (www.theatlantic.com)

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Entertainment Weekly Mag Has A Smartphone Bound In — If You Can Find It (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Open source hobbyists now in high demand (www.itworld.com)

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Explore New York City's 311 data (blog.enthought.com)

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NHS staff should code - Kelsey (www.ehi.co.uk)

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F6s Startup Community launches Mentor Shares Agreement Template (thenextweb.com)

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Will Rails be the new PHP (roytomeij.com)

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BMW to crowdsource the design of their megacity-centric future car (www.extremetech.com)

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Taskbox - Mail Could Become A Worthy Sparrow Alternative (appadvice.com)

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Change Columbus Day to Exploration Day (kottke.org)

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Productivity tips for internet startups (www.launchbit.com)

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Statwing Simplifies Data Analysis (strata.oreilly.com)

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Fully Responsive Web IDE (Java, C++, Python, Pascal) (compilr.com)

10 points first seen 2012100603 last seen 2012100603 10 comments

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JetBrains: Please add Typescript support (youtrack.jetbrains.com)

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Mashery Is the Latest to Be Snared by Craigslist’s Copyright Crusade (allthingsd.com)

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More Certainty On Uncertainty's Quantum Mechanical Role (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Would Paying for OS Updates Solve the Android Spreading Latency? (techpp.com)

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Why Did the U.S. Abandon the Gold Standard? (www.mentalfloss.com)

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Building For The Enterprise — The Zero Overhead Principle (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: I received an offer. Should I sell? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Abundances of Ages (www.ribbonfarm.com)

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Negative Developers and Team Stability (www.altdevblogaday.com)

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Has anyone noticed the new "I'm feeling lucky" button? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Worries Over Defense Department Money for Hackerspaces (www.nytimes.com)

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Official UK government attempt at censorship (blog.nearlyfreespeech.net)

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Passbook and NFC (www.fastchicken.co.nz)

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Please come break my web app. (www.tagxt.com)

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Going crazy with CSS3 - Creating inputs with perfect borders and shadows (ivomynttinen.com)

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We hire Data Scientists so you don’t have to (www.sumologic.com)

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Who Made That Escape Key? (www.nytimes.com)

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Large-scale Strike of iPhone 5 Production Lines at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou Factory (www.chinalaborwatch.org)

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Show HN: Real time color previsualisation (blog.framebench.com)

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Amazon S3 Now does http redirects (aws.amazon.com)

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Is the JOBS Act a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? (www.slicingpie.com)

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Apple’s iOS 6 Maps app already showing signs of improvements (www.bgr.com)

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Louis C.K. is selling another comedian's standup on his site for $5 (buy.louisck.net)

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Leading websites that enable IPv6 now at 2.68% (hackertarget.com)

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Ask HN: Can Facebook lead to a Minority Report like computer system? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Spotify booked a $59m net loss on $244m in revenue in 2011 (thenextweb.com)

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McAfee, Trust Guard certifications can make websites less safe (arstechnica.com)

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The Noisy Neighbor Problem: Why AWS is bad for small organizations and users (www.liquidweb.com)

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What happened at Go Daddy on Sept. 10, 2012 (inside.godaddy.com)

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Making Sense Of Apple's App Store Review Guidelines Clause 2.25 (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Samsung Introduces New Linux File-System F2FS: flash-friendly file system (lkml.indiana.edu)

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Fitbit Asks: Who “Won” Last Night’s Debate? (blog.fitbit.com)

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Spotify’s Business Model Called ‘Unsustainable’ (betabeat.com)

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1000 APIs, 1000 Thank you (blog.mashape.com)

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David Deutsch on Artificial Intelligence (www.aeonmagazine.com)

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Energy Information Administration Releases API for App Developers (www.treehugger.com)

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Community challenge: redesign eBay's lame new logo (99designs.com)

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Evaluating Significance – Designing a Marketing Experiment (blog.custora.com)

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A Phone-Controlled Lock That’s Good Enough, Instead Of Perfect (www.fastcodesign.com)

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Probabilistic programming in 30 lines of Prolog (peteriserins.tumblr.com)

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Star seen whizzing around supermassive black hole (physicsworld.com)

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Larry Ellison Will Turn His Hawaiian Island Into A Big Experiment (www.businessinsider.com)

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Competing to excel vs. competing to suffer (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

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“Plurality”: A Short Film About Surveillance In 2023 (falkvinge.net)

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (news.ycombinator.com)

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RubyMotion Review (aelogica.com)

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New Google+ Hangout App lets CG artists design review 3D content (blog.verold.com)

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Show HN: Weighted # of Lies from Each Candidate (Graph) (liegraph.com)

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Adafruit Open-source Raspberry Pi WebIDE alpha released (learn.adafruit.com)

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Why inflation is not theft (cmontanaro.com)

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Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Little Bird wants to be your new “robot librarian” (gigaom.com)

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Legacy IPV4 address holders own their number blocks (www.internetgovernance.org)

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Aubrey de Grey on Longevity Science (video) (www.fightaging.org)

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Thanks Apple. Extended complimentary iCloud storage for former MobileMe members (support.apple.com)

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Edge Code Preview (html.adobe.com)

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The Blue Collar Coder (dashes.com)

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How your webapp can unintentionally crash Chrome (blog.noahgilmore.com)

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What C/C++ repo do you work on (github/bitbucket/etc)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What do you think of http://decks.io? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: unpaid UX internships (news.ycombinator.com)

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Origami (YC S11) is hiring a Product Designer (news.ycombinator.com)