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Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)
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Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate (www.latimes.com)
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Codeq (blog.datomic.com)
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What can I do for Mozilla? (whatcanidoformozilla.org)
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A better Android emulator (http://www.manymo.com)
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Help find a bright object on Mars (mathematica.stackexchange.com)
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Ask HN: Your best passive income sources? (news.ycombinator.com)
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ISS crew successfully capture SpaceX Dragon Capsule (06:56 EST) (www.nasa.gov)
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Google's Common Lisp style-guide (google-styleguide.googlecode.com)
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Raspberry Pi Colocation (www.edis.at)
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Show HN: UrbanDesk - Combination Full Size Bed and Desk (www.kickstarter.com)
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Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory (arstechnica.com)
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The Ultimate Vim Distribution (vim.spf13.com)
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The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation (www.technologyreview.com)
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Canonical asks desktop users to “pay what you think Ubuntu is worth” (arstechnica.com)
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Kindle Paperwhite (daringfireball.net)
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Browserver: A web server inside your web browser (browserver.org)
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I’m Jeff Atwood, Founder of Stack Exchange, and This Is How I Work (lifehacker.com)
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Lenticular.js - tilt-controlled images (lenticular.attasi.com)
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The Story of Nokia MeeGo (taskumuro.com)
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Antarctica like you've never seen it before (localwiki.org)
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IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Microsoft (blog.rabidgremlin.com)
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10 hours later, Google Patches Chrome to Plug Pwnium 2 Security Hole (thenextweb.com)
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A new way to sync Google Contacts (gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk)
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The world’s fastest Rubik cube solver is made from Lego (successfulsoftware.net)
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Welcome to the new eBay (www.ebay.com)
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The Lie Factory: How politics became a business (www.newyorker.com)
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Nginx port of mod_pagespeed (github.com)
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Kalzumeus Podcast 3: Growing Consulting Practices, with Brennan Dunn (www.kalzumeus.com)
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Regulatory Hacks (cdixon.org)
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Antirez: You Need to Think in Terms of Organizing Your Data for Fetching (highscalability.com)
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ABalytics.js: Super Simple A/B Testing With Google Analytics (open source) (danmaz74.me)
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Two weeks away, still no SDK: Windows Phone 8 teeters on the edge of failure (www.extremetech.com)
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The Rise of "Gangnam Style" - Embedly Stats (blog.embed.ly)
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Texas schools punish students who refuse to be tracked with microchips (rt.com)
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Font Rendering - Mac vs Ubuntu (arunoda.me)
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Mozilla pulls day-old Firefox 16 from download site over security risk (arstechnica.com)
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The bicymple. The bicycle, simplified. (www.bicymple.com)
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Configuring a usable Android emulator (codebutler.com)
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Wing Commander's Chris Roberts returns to gaming with ambitious MMO (arstechnica.com)
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Show HN: Easily publish an email conversation to the web (https://beta.thread.is)
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Do Female Executives Drive Start-up Success? (diegobasch.com)
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Dwolla Partners With mFoundry, Bringing Real-Time Payment To 800+ Banks (techcrunch.com)
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Stripe adds OAuth support: Stripe Connect (stripe.com)
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Did MS just kill Flash? IE10 wont run Flash unless your site is on a whitelist (blog.rabidgremlin.com)
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How Rogers is making their customers vulnerable to fraud (www.kennberg.com)
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A Foobub Post-mortem (www.vutran.me)
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Coding Passbook: Lessons Learned (www.billguard.com)
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Next big buzzword: Pre-commerce (yongfook.com)
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Free Hackation in New York to work on your side project (joingrouper.com)
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Crowdfunding pancreatic cancer research (www.indiegogo.com)
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dm-cache: new caching method that operates within the Linux kernel (github.com)
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HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 protects 1,500 more sites (www.eff.org)
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Tools to Bootstrap your Startup Weekend Idea (zapier.com)
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Watch the RICON 2012 Live Stream (basho.com)
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CascadiaJS - a JSConf for the Pacific Northwest (http://cascadiajs.com)
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Ginzametrics (YC S10) Helps Huge Sites Get More Search & Social Attention (www.xconomy.com)
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eBay announces site redesign and Pinterest-like discovery feed. (thenextweb.com)
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Twitter buys Vine (www.slashgear.com)
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Use What Works: Prefixing Database Tables With 'tbl' (thomaslarock.com)
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Growth Hacking Referly: New User Onboarding Workflow (refer.ly)
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Life Benefits of Employing the Self Discipline of a Buddhist Monk (sebastianmarshall.com)
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Don't Say Startup (clayallsopp.com)
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HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 protects users on-line (www.neowin.net)
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RockMelt For iPad (techcrunch.com)
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Valpak coupons: When Passbook finally clicked for me (www.tuaw.com)
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The famous Monty Hall problem and what it has to do with A/B testing (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)
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Dzone.com - Things Great Engineers (Almost) Never Say (www.dzone.com)
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Is lightspeed really a limit?: Solving super-luminal Special Relativity (www.theregister.co.uk)
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You'll Take a Silver Audi, or Walk (www.wired.com)
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Show HN: The Whicher: A/B test the Real World (https://www.thewhicher.com)
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Try F# in your browser (preview.tryfsharp.org)
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Ways to compete in Amazon’s shadow (versiononeventures.com)
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CareerHoot Interview: Jason Shen, Ridesharing Entrepreneur (careerhoot.com)
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EU parliament vote on EU patent court (blogs.computerworlduk.com)
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When Buying Two Computers Is Cheaper Than Buying One (lifehacker.com)
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Why “saving money” and “ROI” are probably the wrong way to sell your product (blog.asmartbear.com)
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Async Tasks in C++11: Not Quite There Yet (bartoszmilewski.com)
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LendUp (YC W12) Raises From KP, A16Z, Others To Disrupt Payday Loans (techcrunch.com)
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Ask HN: How do you decide when to move jobs? (news.ycombinator.com)
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ReelSurfer Launches Profiles to "Claim" Your Clips (thenextweb.com)
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Generate a panorama (www.udeuschle.selfhost.pro)
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No Filter: How Instagram Caused Hipstamatic To Lose Focus And Gamble On Social (www.fastcompany.com)
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Why telling kids they are smart makes them act dumb (www.parentingscience.com)
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We're giving you permission now (blog.mashape.com)
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What is it really like to visit Silicon valley? (blog.idrsolutions.com)
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The bicycle, simplified (without a chain). (http://www.bicymple.com)
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EBay's site redesign & Pinterest-like discovery feed (thenextweb.com)
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Stripe Connect (stripe.com)
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The APL Progamming Language Source Code (www.computerhistory.org)
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Ask HN: What karma level unlocks the topic downvote button? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Python Cost Model (scripts.mit.edu)
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OSS License Combiner Tool (www.tldrlegal.com)
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Ask HN: Review my start up www.Varely.com (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: Is my product priced too high? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Do it “on the Internet,” get a patent, sue an industry—it still works (arstechnica.com)
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How Zappos' User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked (www.forbes.com)
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How to Quickly Improve Your Ability to Make Small Talk (www.lifehack.org)
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Yokozuna: Distributed Search using Solr and Riak (github.com)
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Just Fucking Sell: Part 2 (learntoduck.net)
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Graphene foam batteries charge quickly (arstechnica.com)
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Project Sumatra aims to improve Java performance with OpenCL acceleration (www.extremetech.com)
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Opera Mobile 12.1: with SPDY, WebSockets, Flexbox and more (my.opera.com)
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‘Pinkie Pie’ notches second full Chrome exploit worth $60k at Pwnium 2 hackathon (thenextweb.com)
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In Defense of Popular Music: Why Reports of its Death are Greatly Exaggerated (www.hooktheory.com)
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Armstrong was center of the most sophisticated doping program in sports history (www.nytimes.com)
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How much money can be made from a somewhat successful mobile app? (news.ycombinator.com)
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More than 3,000 injured by acid leak in Korean electronics city (blogs.nature.com)
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Canada in secret negotiations to join global pact limiting Internet rights (www.vancouversun.com)
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For Some Drivers, Electric Motorcycle Could Be the Best of Both Worlds (www.nytimes.com)
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'It's not a post-PC world: Just a post Windows one, maybe' (www.channelregister.co.uk)
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Interview with a blind programmer (www.hanselman.com)
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Most-recently-opened, an undervalued interface pattern (posterous.nickbaum.com)
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Ask HN: how do you prepare for a traffic spike (i.e. from HN)? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Malwarebytes CEO doing IAMA on Reddit (www.reddit.com)
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Metadata Stuffing: Why I Hate tbl_ For Table Names (blog.infoadvisors.com)
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Rob Pike - Concurrency Is Not Parallelism [video] (vimeo.com)
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Developers: We warned Apple about iOS maps quality (news.cnet.com)
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Groupon launches new Square competitor (mashable.com)
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Object Oriented Programming: Too Much Abstraction (For Me) (www.floopsy.com)
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ASK PG: If we cant get the "expired link" thing fixed, countdown instead? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Quick and Dirty Node.js Process (Job) Queue (runtime-era.blogspot.com)
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What's the quickest way to count the number of each character in a file? (superuser.com)
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Ask HN: Can someone list the software writern in pure C? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Spilling your guts online? You may have an Internet problem (www.itworld.com)
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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka (www.nobelprize.org)
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How to Go from Middle-Class to Kickass | Mr. Money Mustache (www.mrmoneymustache.com)
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HNpod: Programming Practice, Mozilla Persona, Startup=Growth (www.hnpod.com)
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MediaGoblin crowdfunding campaign launches (mediagoblin.org)
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Mustard gas and other assorted weapons dumped at sea (www.foxnews.com)
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13 classic videogames made awesome with mods (www.forbes.com)
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A Martin Gardner Sampler (www.csicop.org)
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Why you should double your estimates - the planning fallacy (www.psychologytoday.com)
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SpaceX Dragon successfully attaches to the International Space Station (www.spacex.com)
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The Cost of Lost Knowledge (blog.crowdbase.com)
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Angry? Sad? Ashamed? Depressed people can't tell difference (medicalxpress.com)
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Hackation in NYC - Free Trip for Outstanding Hackers (www.joingrouper.com)
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Gangnam Style Video Generates $15 Million in Direct Revenue [Breakdown] (www.youtube.com)
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Samsung Says the iPhone is for Old Folks. Really? (www.macobserver.com)
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Improving Page Performance With HTML5 DNS Prefetch (mechanics.flite.com)
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Beautiful thumbnail hover effect using CSS3 (www.dzyngiri.com)
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An Exhaustive Study of Twitter Users Across the World (www.beevolve.com)
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Ask HN: Adobe AIR (news.ycombinator.com)
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Flask extension to gzip your app's responses (github.com)
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Cassandra Storage Engine for MariaDB (www.infoq.com)
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Stress: The roots of resilience (www.nature.com)
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Who wants a job, anyways? (francispedraza.com)
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Show HN: An exceptional Option type for Java (github.com)
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Pi-crust - a tiny breakout board for Raspberry Pi. (github.com)
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More Facebook users are on Android than iOS, but just barely (thenextweb.com)
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Heroku's Developer Event (http://waza.heroku.com)
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Intro to Lifecycle Emails - guest post by Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (customer.io)
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Linux Foundation UEFI Secure Boot System for Open Source (www.linuxfoundation.org)
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Rivertrail (smallcultfollowing.com)
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Run Sales and Bizdev at a fast growing startup? (news.ycombinator.com)
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