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RIP Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer
(www.retrothing.com)
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World of Warcraft hacked - massive destruction
(wow.joystiq.com)
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Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.
(github.com)
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The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures
(www.daemonology.net)
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Ask HN: What did the *really* successful programmers do differently?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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SpaceX's First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to the ISS - Launch Webcast
(new.livestream.com)
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The Patent, Used as a Sword
(www.nytimes.com)
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Adobe's Source Code Pro Font
(opensourcehacker.com)
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The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Turn Dropbox folders into websites
(www.site44.com)
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JPG 2x size but 40% quality can be smaller size yet better than original JPG
(blog.netvlies.nl)
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What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated
(motherboard.vice.com)
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Chibi-Scheme
(code.google.com)
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Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include directories from /usr/local
(github.com)
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Calling Someone's Baby Ugly
(simpleprogrammer.com)
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Twitter's mandatory link shortener, t.co, was down
(thenextweb.com)
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An Introduction to Computer Networks, free on-line course from Stanford
(class.stanford.edu)
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Common Lisp on Raspberry Pi
(lispm.dyndns.org)
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ThinkPad Design: Spirit and Essence
(viewer.zmags.com)
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The Story Of Lockitron: Crowdfunding Without Kickstarter
(techcrunch.com)
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1x Forth by Charles Moore (1999)
(www.ultratechnology.com)
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Why Nate Silver Is So Good at Predicting Things
(www.slate.com)
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Daniel Kahneman calls for ‘daisy chain’ of psychology replications
(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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If you can’t explain what you do in one paragraph, you’ve got a problem
(venturebeat.com)
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Robert Bork on antitrust: Google is no Microsoft
(news.cnet.com)
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Airbnb Tech Talk: Evan Priestley of Facebook - Move Fast and Break Things
(www.airbnb.com)
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Ways Startups Can Deal With Patent Troll Demands
(techcrunch.com)
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Twice as Many Mobile News Readers Prefer Browsers to Apps
(news.yahoo.com)
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A 1982 Commodore 64 web server, 64k RAM, 1 MHz CPU, running Contiki
(c64web.com)
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The world wide web in black and white
(www.unclrd.com)
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Scalable CSS-based Playing Cards
(donpark.github.com)
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HN2JSON: A ruby gem for HackerNews
(rubygems.org)
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Dissolve the SEC
(mathbabe.org)
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2.7 million total image views after Reddit content experiment.
(www.fireoneout.com)
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How (And Why) I'm Circumventing Twitter's API Instead of Using It
(pandawhale.com)
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Trying the Stand-Up Desk
(blogs.lessthandot.com)
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Interface Sketch: free templates for web, mobile and tablet
(interfacesketch.tumblr.com)
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Huawei, ZTE Under Fire - National Security Threat
(online.wsj.com)
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Postgres array field with Django
(www.niwi.be)
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Providing APIs for content-driven websites
(aaronparecki.com)
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Don’t worry, Europe: you’re about to get a new beginning
(gigaom.com)
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AeroFS is x87 faster than Dropbox in LAN syncing [video]
(blog.ram.rachum.com)
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WebGL Meeting - chat with friends in 3D
(jeromeetienne.github.com)
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Debunk The Myth That Copyright Is Needed To Make Money
(torrentfreak.com)
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How To Use IndexedDB - Simple Example
(greenido.wordpress.com)
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Hotclicks
(jackg.org)
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Presidential Candidate Sentiment Analysis using R
(stathack.wordpress.com)
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Remembering Your First Computer Is For Old People
(techcrunch.com)
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One of these things is not like the other: Apple store, Microsoft store
(gravitationalpull.net)
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Will Android Tablets Overtake the iPad?
(www.thefastertimes.com)
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The Demon Core
(en.wikipedia.org)
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Association between violent video games and aggression among adolescents
(psycnet.apa.org)
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How Steve Jobs' Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Windows GameDev: The king is dead (XNA) long live the king (DirectXTK)
(blogs.msdn.com)
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Getting useful C++ exception information from Visual Studio
(cwspencer.co.uk)
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How To Manage App Development On The Android Platform Without Going Nuts
(techcrunch.com)
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Could Google Glass be banned in the casinos?
(milanvrekic.com)
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Parallella reveals 'cluster in a box' reward tiers
(www.kickstarter.com)
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Newcomer experience & contributor behavior in Perl/FOSS communities (Survey)
(blogs.perl.org)
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Is Apple Abandoning the Pro Video Market?
(www.screenlight.tv)
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Increasing Productivity is a Load of Bullshit
(www.techdisruptive.com)
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Developers: When using Frecency, please consider the context
(blog.ram.rachum.com)
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods
(insideinsides.blogspot.com)
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Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software
(gephi.org)
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EasyHttp and ServiceStack - making the MSpec tests better
(blogs.lessthandot.com)
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Microsoft DMCA Notice ‘Mistakenly’ Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia...
(torrentfreak.com)
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Every Lost episode visualized and recreated
(intuitionanalytics.com)
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Digital 100, most valuable boot strapped company
(plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
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Ask HN: Any hackers in Brisbane looking for a place to live?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: Are Domain Names Worth Anything Anymore?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Onboard A Fully Lit Space Shuttle Flight Deck
(www.launchphotography.com)
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Add Stylesheets To WordPress Correctly
(www.paulund.co.uk)
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Mastering the Art of Bosslessness
(www.fastcompany.com)
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Software Engineering for Internet Applications
(philip.greenspun.com)
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A Photoshop workflow for the web
(bleikamp.com)
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JSMin with sourcemaps (grunt flavor)
(github.com)
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On List Comprehension in C++
(dev-perspective.blogspot.com)
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Watch worldwide cyber-attacks live with HoneyMap
(map.honeynet.org)
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The Ugly Values of Beautiful People
(www.psmag.com)
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Silicon Valley's Stock Funk
(online.wsj.com)
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A beginner's guide to Redirect and Render in Rails
(zackshapiro.com)
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Ask HN: My fb fan page has over 700k likes, what should I do with it?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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A working and durable bike made out of cardboard
(vimeo.com)
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Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking - Justin Fox
(blogs.hbr.org)
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Sex Trafficking On Backpage.com: Much Ado About (Statistically) Nothing
(techcrunch.com)
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Neolithic discovery: why Orkney is the centre of ancient Britain
(www.guardian.co.uk)
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All Djangocon US Videos 2012
(www.youtube.com)
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Nuclear thermal rocket
(en.wikipedia.org)
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Git alias to easily restore files removed from repo
(hipster.pandeveloper.com)
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Why Companies Use Software To Scan Resumes
(www.npr.org)
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Metaskills - Talents for the coming Robotic Age
(imprint.printmag.com)
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Ask HN: What's an effective programming test?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Smart applications without machine learning algorithms (theorical)
(protractileaigu.blogspot.fr)
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Some of the best pictures that showcase India
(www.quora.com)
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JSMin with sourcemaps
(github.com)
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In a keyboard-less future, what happens to all the writers?
(techcrunch.com)
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Deploy entire web/db server with one lContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ine of code
(github.com)
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Diaspora 0.0.1.0 Released
(devblog.joindiaspora.com)
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Lead Engineer: We’re transforming the world of 3D printing. Join us.
(news.ycombinator.com)
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GoCardless (YC S11) is hiring front-end engineers in London
(news.ycombinator.com)
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