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Skydiver shatters world record with 24-mile leap (www.usatoday.com)

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Exotic data structures (concatenative.org)

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Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM (www.raspberrypi.org)

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Surviving in-flight breakup of an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18 (books.google.com)

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Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today in 2 hours.. (www.redbullstratos.com)

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SymbOS: preemptive multitasking OS that can play mp3s, video on 8-bit Z80 PCs (www.symbos.de)

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Need a personal site? Roll your own with Syte. (github.com)

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Your Startup Is Spam (blog.metamorphium.com)

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Web Mining Python lib called Pattern (github.com)

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Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery (imperavi.com)

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Rescue.js (rescuejs.com)

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(l)uriel has passed away (9fans.net)

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EA “Gives Away” 1000s Of Free Games Due To No Server-Side Validation (minimaxir.com)

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MIT Lectures on Advanced Data Structures (6.851) (courses.csail.mit.edu)

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Game Over (antirez.com)

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SciCombinator - scientific news aggregator and discussion (bitwise.r12.railsrumble.com)

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Suddenly everyone wants New Yorker style content. Who is going to write it? (pandodaily.com)

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Kathy Sierra On The Primer On Sexism Discussion (farukat.es)

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Homemade thermal camera (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Little Nemo in Google-land (http://www.google.co.jp)

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Can code that is valid in both C and C++ produce different behavior? (stackoverflow.com)

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Linux TCP/IP Tuning for Scalability (www.engineyard.com)

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DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code on your server (deploybutton.com)

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James Joyce's "Ulysses": Why you should read this book (www.economist.com)

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The tech behind Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric skydive (www.extremetech.com)

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Postgres 9.2 highlight: JSON data type (michael.otacoo.com)

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AWS: Network Connectivity issues affecting EC2 in US-EAST-1 (status.aws.amazon.com)

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Observations on what's getting downvoted, with some dissected specimens (arstechnica.com)

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Tech Journalism is Broken (stupidiswinning.tumblr.com)

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HTML5 apps: Silk, Audiograph, Circuitlab (blog.filepicker.io)

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Rails Rumble is Complete - Judge the Entries (railsrumble.com)

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How to Build a Responsive WordPress Theme with Bootstrap (blog.teamtreehouse.com)

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Multiplayer HTML5 Indie RPG Game (http://rpg.mo.ee)

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Linux 3.7-rc1 is out (lkml.org)

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Show HN: All films for rental on iTunes (in 61 stores) by price/popularity/genre (goodfil.ms)

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Learning Geometry in Georgian England (mathdl.maa.org)

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Markdown Resumé (mwhite.github.com)

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Kaufmann Study - Immigrant Entrepreneurship Has Stalled (www.kauffman.org)

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The Elegant Email (www.randsinrepose.com)

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Why Startups Are Helping The Economy More Than You Think (techcrunch.com)

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Europe Wants To Fine Microsoft Billions Over Failure To Offer IE Alternatives (techcrunch.com)

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Latent Semantic Analysis in Ruby (blog.josephwilk.net)

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How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi (www.fourhourworkweek.com)

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From Löb's theorem to spreadsheet evaluation (blog.sigfpe.com)

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Programming as a cure for A.D.D.? (zackshapiro.com)

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Doodle Jump in HTML5 (codetheory.in)

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Conway's Game of Life in HTML5 (simon.lc)

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404 page that lets visitors express themselves (leftlogic.com)

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Open Data Structures: an open content textbook (opendatastructures.org)

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Developers Deserve Residual Royalties (www.dustinclingman.com)

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Rackspace: concerns from a former Slicehost customer (kmkeen.com)

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Going Live On Google Play: A How-To Guide For Android Developers (techcrunch.com)

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Golden-ratio.el (github.com)

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When You Should Build, Not Buy (zapier.com)

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Google phone reboots while making a call (code.google.com)

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Clojure in Ruby (github.com)

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I published my first short novel, and it is on Github (albanlv.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: Judge my Upcoming App's Landing Page (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Before you launch a site, what are final actions you take? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Poll HN: Do you ever code while stoned? (www.surveymonkey.com)

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Deploy Rails apps direct from GitHub to Heroku in a single click (Rails Rumble) (koideploy.com)

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Gitiosk: selling code as easy as git push (Rails Rumble) (gitiosk.com)

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I am a 14 year old programmer. I'm stuck. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Futuristic Rocketship schools redefine teaching (www.usatoday.com)

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Firefox: WebRTC for desktop is now in Nightly… (mozillamediagoddess.org)

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Sticky Headers with Pure JavaScript and CSS (github.com)

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Campaigns Mining Voters Preferences - A Privacy Concern? (www.nytimes.com)

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Post PC Era Predictions From 1999 (anewdomain.net)

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Raspberry Pi Now Shipping With RAM Upgraded To 512MB For The Same Price (techcrunch.com)

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Has our war on microbes left our immune systems prone to dysfunction? (arstechnica.com)

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Social Media and a Case for Radical Authenticity (throwww.com)

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Show HN: Published my personal CV creator to GitHub (github.com)

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Self-publishing, cell phones and startups (paidcontent.org)

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Behavior-specific social networks, Facebook's challenge, and others' opportunity (quibb.com)

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The Last Article That Needs to be Written About Sexism in IT by a Male (leftnode.com)

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Things middle class people believe that wealthier people do not (www.quora.com)

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Felix Baumgartner free fall real-time map (blog.cartodb.com)

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Will OpenCL help displace GPGPU? (www.yosefk.com)

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Ask HN: Why is a website being "responsive" good? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Microsoft debuts Xbox music service to take on Apple (finance.yahoo.com)

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The Rise of Post-Familialism: Humanity's Future? (www.newgeography.com)

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Heroku CTO - 'Idea to Delivery: Application Development in the Modern Age' (vimeo.com)

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Appcelerator claims Titanium is "70% faster than developing in Objective-C" (www.appcelerator.com)

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Create iOS Passbook Coupons for your users in seconds. (http://coupono.us)

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Ask HN: Lost my passion for development, anyone else been through this? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple repairs ask for root password (news.ycombinator.com)

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NoSQL Databases: What, Why and When (video) (ontwik.com)

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Show HN: Minespace, a minecraft social network build during the rails rumble (forward.r12.railsrumble.com)

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Ad Industry's Assault on "Do Not Track" Continues at the W3C Amsterdam Meeting (www.eff.org)

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Dignifying Design (www.nytimes.com)

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Thoughts on Towards a Mathematical Science of Computation by John McCarthy (gigasquidsoftware.com)

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60 Speakers at the API Strategy and Practice Conference (www.apistrategyconference.com)

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Amazon Quietly Discontinuing the Kindle DX (gizmodo.com)

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For extremists only: containers, calculus, comonads and combinatorics ahoy (stackoverflow.com)

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Get ready for plug-in free browsing (msdn.microsoft.com)

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Wearable Device Translates Ambient Sound to Haptic Feedback by Bone Conduction (www.ameliamarzec.com)

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Why DVF Putting Google Glass on Runway Models is Significant (amandapeyton.com)

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Dr. Edward and Mr. Allen (robert.io)

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First Windows 8 ad airs (www.youtube.com)

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Atebits Looks Like It's Preparing to Launch A New iOS App (www.besttechie.com)

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Screaming Architecture (blog.8thlight.com)

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Why Gen Y won’t buy what you’re selling (xyzuniversity.com)

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Ask HN: Steps for first SEO (news.ycombinator.com)

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The magic of a great startup ecosystem (joel.is)

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A Fresh Approach to Drugs: the final report of the UK Drug Policy Commission (www.ukdpc.org.uk)

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drchrono (iPad Health Records) needs experienced SaaS sales leaders (news.ycombinator.com)

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Funding for hackers @ 500friends (news.ycombinator.com)

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