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Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org (thenextweb.com)

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The State of JavaScript - Brendan Eich (brendaneich.github.com)

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Programmer Competency Matrix (www.starling-software.com)

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SpaceX update: The engine did not explode (www.spacex.com)

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US Air Force’s 1950s supersonic flying saucer declassified (www.extremetech.com)

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Using the HTML5 Fullscreen API for Phishing Attacks (feross.org)

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LLJS : Low-Level JavaScript (lljs.org)

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What number is halfway between 1 and 9? Is it 5 — or 3? (web.mit.edu)

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How Studying Body Language Changed the Way I Socialize (dearcharlottebook.com)

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How not to launch your company (blog.mutlicorp.com)

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Show HN: A place to buy & sell services directly from each other (https://www.work.io)

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Advanced Linux Programming Guide (www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com)

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That smooth SpaceX launch? Turns out one of the engines exploded (arstechnica.com)

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Statement on First Stage Engine Anomaly (www.spaceref.com)

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Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week (www.cnbc.com)

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Supersonic free fall from 120,000 feet live at 8:30AM EST (www.redbullstratos.com)

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Organism without a brain creates external memories for navigation (arstechnica.com)

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Oatmeal fundraiser for Tesla museum is a triumph (boingboing.net)

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Why We No Longer Accept PayPal (www.binkd.com)

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A logarithmic image transformation (www.josleys.com)

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Art.sy, a Genome Project for the World of Art (www.nytimes.com)

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The Pinterest Layout Will Not Save You (jfornear.co)

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Emacs for Xcode+ios Development (roupam.github.com)

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How Flightfox doubled their remarketing email conversions (blog.getvero.com)

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Show HN: Crowdsourced Object Recognition (www.crowdsend.com)

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Hidden Gem of iOS6: File Uploads in Mobile Safari (agileleague.com)

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JLG: French Entrepreneurs Revolt (www.mondaynote.com)

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US congress rules Huawei a 'security threat' (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)

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Today's XKCD: Microsoft (xkcd.com)

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Language learning makes the brain grow, Swedish study suggests (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Tesla Model S Service Contract: $600/Year, Or Warranty Voided (www.greencarreports.com)

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Facebook's Release Engineer (www.businessweek.com)

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Microsoft, Facebook, Google and others launch web technology reference website (http://webplatform.org)

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Secondhand Clothing Marketplace Twice Is Putting Up $1M To Acquire YC Companies (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: From an idea to the Valley in less than a month (www.shareme-app.com)

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Faster-than-Light Travel? (phys.org)

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Why does it take so long to learn mathematics? (or computing?) (tonysmaths.blogspot.co.uk)

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Crocodoc's HTML5 page flip (web.crocodoc.com)

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Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6 Enables Seeing in the Dark (www.microsoft.com)

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The software development final exam: Computer Architecture and Operating Systems (www.daemonology.net)

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So it looks like Samsung might not have tried to copy the iPhone (news.cnet.com)

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Core Values (www.stefankendall.com)

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Github ClassicMap, Google Map tile rendering for iOS6 (github.com)

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One Linux for all ARM systems (www.zdnet.com)

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Intelligence and the Stereotype Threat (www.nytimes.com)

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Gap Year: The Growing Appeal of Not Going Right to College (moneyland.time.com)

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Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes (emptysquare.net)

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Sprint Launches StarStar Me To Replace Your Phone Number With Your Name (techcrunch.com)

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How UltraDNS Handles 100,000s Of Zones And Tens Of Millions Of Records (highscalability.com)

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RESTful API Playground as a Django Application (hipo.biz)

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Ridesharing startups hit with cease-and-desist by California regulator (arstechnica.com)

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Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School (www.nytimes.com)

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Thoughts on Paul Graham's "Growth" (justinmares.com)

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Google Launches Credit Cards for Small Businesses (mashable.com)

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Show HN: Responsa - Dynamic FAQs for your website (goresponsa.com)

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Show HN: Husky Chat, a Chrome extension that overlays a chatroom on any website (www.huskylab.co)

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Ask HN: Got unexpected feedback - where do I go from here? (news.ycombinator.com)

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ITA by Google and MileWise let you search flights in cash, miles and points (itasoftware.blogspot.com)

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Topology: The Secret Ingredient In The Latest Theory of Everything (www.technologyreview.com)

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Apple v. Samsung: More Unredacted Documents Surface (www.groklaw.net)

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Fusion power could arrive sooner than expected (www.extremetech.com)

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Trailer for Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley (www.bravotv.com)

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$39k in eBook Sales Part 2: Design, Testimonials, and Traffic (nathanbarry.com)

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What Software Development Can Learn From Motown (madhatted.com)

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Lodsys Offers Update on In App Purchase Patent Dispute (www.macrumors.com)

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The road ahead: How we’ll get to 54.5 mpg by 2025 (arstechnica.com)

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Lessons learned from the restaurant across the street (blog.reamaze.com)

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4G Performance on Verizon LTE Varies Dramatically by Device (www.jasbone.com)

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The complexity of user experience (martin.kleppmann.com)

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Deployd (http://www.deployd.com)

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Offer HN: free dedicated server for October on Uptano. LIMIT REACHED (uptano.com)

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Skydiver set to break sound barrier (www.bbc.co.uk)

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China Warns of 'Prejudice' After Being Bashed in US Telecom Report (www.securityweek.com)

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Microsoft Accidentally Asks Google to Censor News Sites, US Government (thenextweb.com)

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Flight rewards tracker MileWise cuts a deal with Google-ITA (thenextweb.com)

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Julian Assange's backers ordered to pay up sureties (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Quickly look up info about startups, people, financial orgs (http://ioinsider.com)

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Fog Creek Compensation (joelonsoftware.com)

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A free Bootstrap admin theme (that doesn't suck) (portnine.com)

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Why cheaper computers lead to higher tuition (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Commodore Amiga: A Beginner’s Guide (www.racketboy.com)

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Trying to See Through: A Unified Theory of Nerddom (theviewfromhell.blogspot.co.uk)

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Show HN: Archive and backup your files directly from your Dropbox (www.tidy.io)

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Ansible: A pure ssh decentralized server management and deployment tool (ansible.cc)

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Very Basic Startup Marketing (robgo.org)

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Hard-Learned Startup Lessons (blog.earbits.com)

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Lunch Lady slammed for serving food that is too good (m.thelocal.se)

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An Open Letter to Tim Cook and Apple (matthewmcmillion.com)

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Ask PG & HN: So, when should someone go to Silicon Valley? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Flexible and Economical UTF-8 Decoder (bjoern.hoehrmann.de)

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iPhone 5 review: Marveling at the existence of the greatest phone ever made (www.slate.com)

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Leaked Apple iPad mini photos (launchticker.com)

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So What If Tech Start-Ups Are Small? Their Job-Creation Impact Is Big (www.theatlantic.com)

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Niklaus Wirth: CS ideas that seemed good at the time (www.inf.ethz.ch)

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Some Thoughts on Firing Employees (moz.com)

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Normal, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic – which one do you click? (quicklytest.it)

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Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions (linux.slashdot.org)

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The Premium Branch Manifesto (premium-branch.org)

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Keyword arguments in Ruby 2.0 (brainspec.com)

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Show HN: weekend project to capture user tests from friends (http://moustach.io)

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Avoiding Premature Integration or: How we learned to stop worrying and ship (blog.assembla.com)

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Last Year, Google & Apple Spent More On Patents Than On R&D (www.techdirt.com)

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Supporters of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange ordered to pay his bail (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

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Free fall Stanford classes (venturebeat.com)

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Flaws allow 3G devices to be tracked (www.scmagazine.com.au)

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9 Dart myths debunked (blog.sethladd.com)

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Make Awesome: a magazine that focuses on people who are doing great things (www.kickstarter.com)

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Ask HN: Why are there so few intermediate learning resources? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Get 35% discount on C# Smorgasbord [Book] (blog.filipekberg.se)

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Basic MySQL Tutorial (arachnoid.com)

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Twitter: It’s time for patent trolls to bear the costs of frivolous lawsuits (gigaom.com)

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Lockitron: How a Startup Overcame Kickstarter's Rejection (www.cnbc.com)

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Startup Communities – Building Regional Clusters (steveblank.com)

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Putting brakes on ride-sharing apps (www.sfgate.com)

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It’s time for patent trolls to bear the costs of frivolous lawsuits (gigaom.com)

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Brian Eno's new iPad app lets you build intelligent, reactive ambient music (www.theverge.com)

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SMS Spam from a Y Combinator Company? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google Wallet: Person To Person Money Transfers, Paypal-Style Money Storage (www.androidpolice.com)

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The software development final exam (introduction) (www.daemonology.net)

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Jane Brody on Vitamin D (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Facebook challenges Pinterest with new feature "Collections" (techcrunch.com)

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4Sync - 15GB Free, Syncing Cloud Storage - now out of bega (www.4sync.com)

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Increase Rate Queries on Google custom search API? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Redis usage and access patterns (antirez.com)

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Cubes 0.10 released - Lightweight Python OLAP Framework and Server (blog.databrewery.org)

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How Reliable will the Falcon 9 be? (bentilly.blogspot.com)

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Personal knowledge maps with PiggyDB (piggydb.net)

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Apple&Google spend more money on patents than they do on research&development (aotmr.com)

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Checking a Bright Object on the Ground (Curiosity Rover) (mars.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Browser base64 support (www.perturb.org)

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Facebook Risks Both GiftContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1s & New Ad Businesses by Not Being Straight with Users (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Show HN: App_Offline Page Generator (http://appoffline.appspot.com)

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The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Whales (wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Sky Diver to Try to Become First to Break Sound Barrier (www.nytimes.com)

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1000memories (YC S10) is hiring engineers and designers (news.ycombinator.com)

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Rap Genius is Hiring - Rails, iOS (Brooklyn) (rapgenius.com)

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