hackerNews

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How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server (plusbryan.com)

923 points first seen 2013030415 last seen 2013030803 341 comments

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The Apprentice Programmer (tobi.lutke.com)

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Eight weeks to a better brain (news.harvard.edu)

361 points first seen 2013030412 last seen 2014113015 155 comments

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HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of AIDS Drugs (www.bloomberg.com)

262 points first seen 2013030412 last seen 2013030700 46 comments

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Programming Is Not for Everybody (symbo1ics.com)

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Commit that changed my life (egorhomakov.com)

219 points first seen 2013030415 last seen 2013030621 57 comments

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SpaceX Dragon successfully docks with International Space Station (arstechnica.com)

215 points first seen 2013030409 last seen 2013030600 36 comments

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Cloudflare outage post-mortem (blog.cloudflare.com)

209 points first seen 2013030403 last seen 2013030506 142 comments

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The Jobs Are Never Coming Back (thoughtinfection.wordpress.com)

175 points first seen 2013030415 last seen 2013030506 198 comments

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The City of Chicago is on Github (thechangelog.com)

152 points first seen 2013030412 last seen 2013030600 45 comments

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Quinn Norton: Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation (www.theatlantic.com)

151 points first seen 2013030415 last seen 2013030609 41 comments

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40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived (www.nytimes.com)

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Uncovering a 30 year-old hardware bug (www.pouet.scene.org)

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Microsoft owes Denmark ~$1bn in taxes (www.dr.dk)

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Donuts.css (www.larentis.eu)

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Silicon Valley is high on innovation. And pot. (www.businessweek.com)

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Growing By Shrinking: I downsized my career (hackertourism.com)

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Project Amy - App.net messaging integrated natively into Messages for the Mac (informalprotocol.com)

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Nintendo games on a Mac (mattgemmell.com)

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Higher-order list operations (matt.might.net)

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Robin Hood And Friar Tuck (www.csd.uwo.ca)

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Don't Be Distracted by Superior Technology (prog21.dadgum.com)

81 points first seen 2013030409 last seen 2013030503 39 comments

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Show HN: now.sh (github.com)

76 points first seen 2013030403 last seen 2013030503 39 comments

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The 8085's register file reverse engineered (www.righto.com)

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KISSmetrics' Guide to SaaS Pricing (www.slideshare.net)

71 points first seen 2013030409 last seen 2013030503 12 comments

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Ask HN: My game was just featured in the Windows 8 app store, what do I do next? (news.ycombinator.com)

69 points first seen 2013030406 last seen 2013030418 43 comments

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Peek and poke in the age of Linux (blog.viraptor.info)

68 points first seen 2013030406 last seen 2013030503 15 comments

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Clozure Common Lisp in the Mac App Store (itunes.apple.com)

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Reviewing the $250 Samsung Chromebook as a Developer (blog.travisthieman.com)

65 points first seen 2013030415 last seen 2013030506 44 comments

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Writing Web Applications in Go (golang.org)

58 points first seen 2013030403 last seen 2013030409 85 comments

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Google compression algorithm Zopfli may lead to faster Internet (news.cnet.com)

57 points first seen 2013030415 last seen 2013030503 52 comments

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Insects and Entropy (2005) (tomayko.com)

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Alaska Airlines, Flying Above an Industry’s Troubles (www.nytimes.com)

50 points first seen 2013030409 last seen 2013030503 14 comments

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Intro to python threading (www.nryoung.org)

49 points first seen 2013030418 last seen 2013030506 28 comments

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While you're hacking... remember why you started [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Flash memory issue forces Curiosity rover into safe mode (arstechnica.com)

46 points first seen 2013030409 last seen 2013030503 22 comments

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Learn Python (www.learnstreet.com)

44 points first seen 2013030403 last seen 2013030418 23 comments

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Kids should learn to think (blog.codeso.me)

39 points first seen 2013030403 last seen 2013030418 9 comments

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My Dads Underwear (throwww.com)

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Mars trip to use astronaut poo as radiation shield (www.newscientist.com)

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CloudFlare Was Down Due To DNS Outage, Taking Down 785,000 Websites (techcrunch.com)

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Reverse Engineering OKCupid (davidshimel.com)

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Show HN: Hackernews for Mac (whimsyapps.com)

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Why do companies hire non technical people to be their Directors of IT? (community.spiceworks.com)

29 points first seen 2013030418 last seen 2013030503 17 comments

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Uber Partners and Drivers (partners.uber.com)

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A Practical Guide to Using Signed Ruby Gems - Part 1: Bundler (blog.meldium.com)

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Ask HN: Your favorite to-do list or task manager? (news.ycombinator.com)

24 points first seen 2013030400 last seen 2013030609 63 comments

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Shutting down a side project, my experience (http://bachle.me)

22 points first seen 2013030406 last seen 2013030418 21 comments

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Alan Turing's reading list (www.brainpickings.org)

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Map Shows Where 220mph Trains Would Go in the U.S. (mashable.com)

21 points first seen 2013030412 last seen 2013030412 27 comments

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Lua vs Node vs LuaNginx (pointlessramblings.com)

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Facebook News Feed, A Skittish Gift Horse (techcrunch.com)

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Actually I use Rdio, Not Spotify, Your Link Is No Good To Me (liisten.com)

17 points first seen 2013030415 last seen 2013030418 13 comments

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Why Every Office Should Switch To Walking Desks (techcrunch.com)

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Science and gun violence: why is the research so weak? (boingboing.net)

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Producing an indie film is like running a bootstrapped startup (blog.shoutt.me)

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Ask HN: Is 25 too late to become a proficient developer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Responsive design with Clay, the Haskell CSS preprocesor (fvisser.nl)

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When Sharing on Facebook Comes at a Cost (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Xkcd: PGP (xkcd.com)

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State lawmaker says bicycling is not good for the environment (seattlebikeblog.com)

7 points first seen 2013030412 last seen 2013030412 4 comments

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The Tyranny of the Queen Bee (online.wsj.com)

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LocalStorage Exploit on Chrome, Safari (iOS and desktop), and IE (github.com)

7 points first seen 2013030418 last seen 2013030418 4 comments

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Ask HN: How to deal with being overwhelmed when starting out (news.ycombinator.com)

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Cryptography Is Dead? (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

6 points first seen 2013030406 last seen 2013030406 2 comments

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Ask HN: Why not build CRUD app generators and be done with it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I turned my personal site into a point-and-click adventure. What do you think? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: MSCollectionViewCalendarLayout, an open-source drop-in calendar for iOS (github.com)

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The Controller Pattern Is Awful, Or, Stop Writing Stupid Classes (me.veekun.com)

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School project showing the amount of sugar in beverages (i.imgur.com)

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Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website (news.ycombinator.com)

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"Space Jam" Website Still Online (www2.warnerbros.com)

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Douglas Crockford Explains Monads (www.youtube.com)

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NCD, a backtracking asynchronous programming language for network configuration (code.google.com)

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Baby Cured of HIV for the First Time, Researchers Say (online.wsj.com)

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Ask HN: How do you stay focused on your side projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What does callback hell means in JavaScript? (i.imgur.com)

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Failing Drug War: When Cops Become Criminals (www.spiegel.de)

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Doctors cure child born with HIV (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Announcing ReDonate: Recurring contributions done right. (joepie91.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: Do you read programming books? What are some good ones? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Git is a purely functional data structure (www.jayway.com)

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FizzBuzz revisted in Rust (composition.al)

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An overview of serialization formats. Numbers and anecdotes. (blog.daniellobato.me)

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Amiga Workbench in Javascript (http://www.chiptune.com)

3 points first seen 2013030412 last seen 2013030415 0 comments

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The Synthetic Diet Revolution (tomcritchlow.com)

3 points first seen 2013030412 last seen 2013030412 0 comments

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Sugar : Diabetes = Cigarettes : Cancer (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Who needs WebSockets for a liveblog when you can just use 3 static files on S3? (arstechnica.com)

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If Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks are guilty, then so is New York Times (paidcontent.org)