hackerNews

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Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit (designmodo.github.com)

857 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030803 186 comments

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White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

726 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030709 274 comments

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Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3 (xy-kao.com)

342 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030703 34 comments

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Namecheap now officially accepts Bitcoin (www.namecheap.com)

322 points first seen 2013030515 last seen 2013030706 171 comments

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Ubuntu will switch from X window server to Mir (wiki.ubuntu.com)

320 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030700 327 comments

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JS roguelike game: The Royal Wedding (ondras.zarovi.cz)

273 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030703 72 comments

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The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea (thepiratebay.se)

251 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030509 248 comments

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CoffeeScript 1.6.0 released with support for source maps (coffeescript.org)

234 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030706 76 comments

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Making the travel site people want, even if it’s impossible (adioso.com)

229 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030703 132 comments

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Adderall Addiction: The Last All-Nighter (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

216 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030700 209 comments

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Dalvik patch for Facebook for Android (www.facebook.com)

209 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030703 91 comments

5

The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake. (rdns.im)

187 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030606 60 comments

2

Coding with pixels (www.iquilezles.org)

180 points first seen 2013030521 last seen 2013030703 77 comments

8

Fab stops sending you emails you don’t read, even when you don’t ask them to (thenextweb.com)

166 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030606 100 comments

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Canon develops 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor for video capture (www.canon.com)

164 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030603 91 comments

14

Are You Living in a Fourth Amendment Exclusion Zone? (www.storyleak.com)

147 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030700 87 comments

8

Show HN: Breakpoint.io - Share and get feedback on your side projects (http://breakpoint.io)

141 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030603 63 comments

5

Gravitational Lensing to Observe Ancient Earth (rein.pk)

137 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2015031000 42 comments

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South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPress site (www.techcentral.co.za)

127 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030603 83 comments

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A brief XML rant (atl.me)

123 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030521 71 comments

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How an 83-year-old inventor beat the high cost of 3D printing (techland.time.com)

121 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030603 36 comments

13

Fear of a WebKit Planet (hypercritical.co)

113 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030603 59 comments

10

Moshpits Simulation (mattbierbaum.github.com)

107 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030603 41 comments

8

The early 2013 retina MBP 15” have faulty firmware/hardware (aniggler.tumblr.com)

103 points first seen 2013030515 last seen 2013030703 81 comments

13

Back Row (nshipster.com)

98 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030603 24 comments

9

How Facebook Gets Away With Being Broken On Purpose (betabeat.com)

97 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030621 73 comments

14

Python's pandas for R programmers (blog.yhathq.com)

97 points first seen 2013030521 last seen 2013030700 23 comments

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One day offices will be a thing of the past (www.virgin.com)

95 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030600 89 comments

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Ubuntu may switch to Android technologies to keep the Linux desktop competitive (soltesza.wordpress.com)

89 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030509 88 comments

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Lunr.js - Simple full-text search in your browser (github.com)

72 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030600 27 comments

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Secretive Global Copyright Negotiations Continue at the 16th Round of TPP Talks (www.eff.org)

69 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030603 6 comments

0

‘The Shawshank Redemption’: A Simple But Powerful Message (statspotting.com)

64 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 34 comments

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Canonical writing their own X/Wayland replacement (lists.ubuntu.com)

64 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030600 37 comments

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BlackBerry Sponsors Haxe NME (github.com)

61 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030521 14 comments

9

The money of big data is in analytics (dendory.net)

59 points first seen 2013030518 last seen 2013030700 31 comments

13

Mission to Mars, January 2018 (www.economist.com)

58 points first seen 2013030521 last seen 2013030606 56 comments

32

GoPro Evolution: From 35mm Film To America's Fastest-Growing Camera Company (www.forbes.com)

52 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030600 27 comments

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Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface (www.extremetech.com)

51 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030600 17 comments

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Mir – Ubuntu's new display server (fridge.ubuntu.com)

51 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030603 28 comments

26

A NoSQL Database with ACID Transactions (www.foundationdb.com)

50 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030518 50 comments

72

Why Are All My Friends Moving to Oakland? (www.thebolditalic.com)

48 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030509 72 comments

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Real Stories of Simulation Development (www.simhq.com)

47 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030600 2 comments

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Rawson.js - Camera RAW browser/editor lib (dev.tag.is)

46 points first seen 2013030521 last seen 2013030606 2 comments

73

Where are the “big problem” jobs? (lemire.me)

44 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030518 51 comments

11

Did Evernote remove all references to 2fa from forums after they got hacked? (www.google.com)

44 points first seen 2013030521 last seen 2013030606 15 comments

90

A Truly Depressing Visit to JCPenney (www.slate.com)

43 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030509 55 comments

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What Killed Michael Porter's Monitor Group? The One Force That Really Matters (www.forbes.com)

43 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030603 22 comments

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HabitRPG: Habit tracking which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game (habitrpg.com)

43 points first seen 2013030518 last seen 2014090100 20 comments

58

Will MOOCs Destroy Academia? (cacm.acm.org)

41 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030506 52 comments

83

Show HN: I am 20yo, and this is my first product animation video. (blog.bubbleideas.com)

40 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030506 28 comments

24

Visualizing memory leaks in Ruby (cirw.in)

40 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030600 9 comments

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Finish the Job (birchtree.me)

40 points first seen 2013030521 last seen 2013030606 21 comments

13

A comet headed for Mars (www.economist.com)

39 points first seen 2013030515 last seen 2013030603 18 comments

69

Show HN: Submit your ideas for improving HN (hnwishlist.com)

38 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030518 46 comments

80

On F# code readability (www.clear-lines.com)

37 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030509 53 comments

59

My First Programming Job in 1981, and How It Shaped My Career (thecodist.com)

36 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030909 7 comments

32

The “Thinking Functionally” Series (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)

34 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030600 13 comments

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Staying Great (bhorowitz.com)

34 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030600 8 comments

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Accidental layer creation (jsbin.com)

33 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030518 13 comments

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How Twitter Came to Boston (bostinno.com)

33 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030600 5 comments

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Baidu rolls out world's first commercial deployment of Marvell ARM server (www.marvell.com)

32 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030521 9 comments

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Spreedly. Funding, expanding our horizons, pivoting (blog.spreedly.com)

32 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 23 comments

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How the Telecom Lobby is Killing Municipal Broadband (2011) (www.theatlanticcities.com)

32 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030600 12 comments

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As Math Grows More Complex, Will Computers Reign? (www.wired.com)

29 points first seen 2013030515 last seen 2013030603 32 comments

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The many approaches to Entity Framework (blog.jonathanchannon.com)

28 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030509 15 comments

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Marissa Mayer and Yahoo's telecommuting: Right motivation, wrong execution (chrisyeh.blogspot.com)

28 points first seen 2013030518 last seen 2013030603 25 comments

21

HTML5 Game Dev Competition for Students - sponsored by Mozilla, GitHub (clay.io)

26 points first seen 2013030518 last seen 2013030606 11 comments

70

Want to take over my startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

25 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030518 5 comments

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104-Year-Old Woman Forced to Lie about Her Age on Facebook (newsfeed.time.com)

24 points first seen 2013030515 last seen 2013030600 27 comments

18

The Elements Of Style: Unix As Literature (1998) (theody.net)

22 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2022072800 3 comments

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Best word of advice: Simplify (versiononeventures.com)

20 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030521 16 comments

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Amazon Mobile Ads API (developer.amazon.com)

20 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030600 3 comments

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What Silicon Valley entrepreneurs can learn from Asia (e27.co)

17 points first seen 2013030518 last seen 2013030603 0 comments

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HelloFlo Launches a Tampon Subscription Service (techcrunch.com)

16 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 24 comments

75

Great Things Take Time (mdubakov.com)

16 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030506 6 comments

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"I’m starting another content company, and I plan to make a fortune" (pandodaily.com)

16 points first seen 2013030515 last seen 2013030600 0 comments

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Surprise Visitors Are Unwelcome At The NSA's Unfinished Utah Spy Center (www.forbes.com)

15 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030521 3 comments

0

Introducing BitNami Launchpad (blog.bitnami.org)

15 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

74

The Tragedy of Aaron Swartz (www.newyorker.com)

14 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

56

Jane’s F/A-18 Simulator Revisited (www.simhq.com)

14 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030521 0 comments

0

An Unsolicited Redesign of Time.com (codybrown.name)

14 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 2 comments

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API Documentation study (blog.ninlabs.com)

14 points first seen 2013030515 last seen 2013030600 0 comments

81

It's 'bacteria', not 'bacterium' (arstechnica.com)

13 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030506 6 comments

70

Darpa Wants You to Transcribe, and Instantly Recall, All of Your Conversations (www.wired.com)

13 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030506 9 comments

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Feature set of Linux 3.9 has been established (www.h-online.com)

13 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030600 0 comments

0

REBIN: Use any CLI app/script as a web service (www.intridea.com)

12 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 9 comments

0

To Be the Best, You Have to Go Through the Worst (shahruk.com)

12 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 3 comments

0

JavaScript useCapture demystified (benhowdle.im)

12 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 5 comments

85

RubyMotion: Dreams do come true (rubysource.com)

12 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030509 2 comments

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John Thomas Financial: The Other Side of Wall Street (www.businessweek.com)

12 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 2 comments

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Top universities by reputation 2013 (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk)

12 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030521 6 comments

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Hey guys I just launched my first bootstrapped startup. What do you think? (http://churchpr.es)

11 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030506 9 comments

85

Write the f*cking manual (geeks.everything.me)

11 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030515 0 comments

0

How we're using Twitter's Storm: Part One (dev.theladders.com)

11 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

0

Steel City Ruby 2013 (http://steelcityruby.org)

10 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

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Parsoid: how Wikipedia catches up with the Web (blog.wikimedia.org)

10 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030518 0 comments

0

Jack Welch on Human Resources (refer.ly)

10 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030512 0 comments

90

Ask HN: Whats the HN equivalent for Europe? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030506 9 comments

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Everyone should get the opportunity to program, but school is a waste of time (www.philliphaydon.com)

9 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 28 comments

0

Filepicker.io Launches new Mobile Web experience (www.filepicker.io)

9 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 3 comments

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Show HN: Lekh Diagram – sketch recognition app for iPhone (blog.avabodh.com)

9 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030521 2 comments

80

Why I Don't Like Pair Programming (and Why I Left Pivotal) (2009) (mwilden.blogspot.co.uk)

8 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030518 5 comments

0

Run bash scripts on Heroku (whatupdave.com)

8 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

56

TweetDeck Discontinues Support for AIR, iOS and Android Apps (tweetdeck.posterous.com)

8 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030521 2 comments

83

User Inter Faces (uifaces.com)

8 points first seen 2013030518 last seen 2013032718 3 comments

63

Long-polling doesn't totally suck (blog.fanout.io)

7 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

58

Auti-sim lets you experience the horror of sensory overload. cf: autism (arstechnica.com)

7 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030521 0 comments

89

How the Tesla Model S is made (www.youtube.com)

7 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030515 0 comments

77

Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of AI (www.tor.com)

6 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030506 2 comments

0

How to create, keep and grow more time (www.lifehack.org)

6 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 3 comments

84

UnityNextSpec (wiki.ubuntu.com)

6 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030512 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What exactly is a hackathon? How do I participate and why? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

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In-browser xlsx parsing (niggler.github.com)

6 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030518 0 comments

0

Show HN: A product search API (setonia.com)

6 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030512 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Why aren't there enough C & C++ Web frameworks? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013030515 last seen 2013030515 5 comments

0

Ask HN: cost of living comparison (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Any self hosting blook software? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 3 comments

0

How to Create a Business that Prints Money (foreverjobless.com)

5 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 2 comments

0

How Fedex Bet Its Future in Vegas (iamvictorio.us)

5 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

82

Why does C++ compilation take so long? (stackoverflow.com)

5 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

0

Five ways a startup conference will change you forever (www.siliconprairienews.com)

5 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

63

5 new Java sandbox exploits found after Oracle labels first "allowed behavior" (threatpost.com)

5 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030515 0 comments

81

Substandard crypto needlessly puts Evernote accounts at risk (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030512 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Just Quit my job, what now? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 3 comments

77

Redefining the problem: A trait of great engineers (blog.opensesame.st)

5 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030515 2 comments

60

Lego Teaches us About the Power of Near-Perfect User Experience (uxmag.com)

5 points first seen 2013030515 last seen 2013030521 0 comments

58

The Alias Method is an O(1) algorithm to select elements from a distribution (github.com)

5 points first seen 2013030518 last seen 2013030600 2 comments

0

F.C.C. Backs Consumers in Unlocking of Cellphones (www.nytimes.com)

5 points first seen 2013030518 last seen 2013030518 0 comments

60

Dynamic Method Definitions - Ruby (tenderlovemaking.com)

5 points first seen 2013030521 last seen 2013030600 0 comments

74

WebKit based Opera (beta) browser for Android (play.google.com)

5 points first seen 2013030521 last seen 2013030600 0 comments

0

We don't need your CSS grid (hugogiraudel.com)

4 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Best Team Chat? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 5 comments

0

Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics (blogs.hbr.org)

4 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

87

Sports Hack Day Europe (sportshackday.eu)

4 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

0

Crowd Funding Canada - Everlane (www.everlane.com)

4 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

0

Branded Interactions (matthewmooredesign.com)

4 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

74

Naming things (www.rossduggan.ie)

4 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030515 0 comments

88

StartupBus NYC On the Road with Readin.gs: Book curation from thought leaders. (americas.startupbus.com)

4 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030512 0 comments

0

The rise and fall of Andy Zaky (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

4 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

71

Synata - search all your clouds (www.synata.com)

4 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030515 0 comments

78

Show HN: Gluten-free Restaurant Locator for Android (play.google.com)

4 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030515 0 comments

0

How Facebook dug deep within Android to fix its mobile app (arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2013030518 last seen 2013030518 0 comments

79

How Marissa Mayer Figured Out Work-At-Home Yahoos Were Slacking Off (www.sfgate.com)

4 points first seen 2013030521 last seen 2013030600 0 comments

0

PHP Performance Tips (developers.google.com)

3 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 2 comments

0

Apple’s Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV (www.bloomberg.com)

3 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 0 comments

0

Mars Curiosity rover put into 'safe mode' after glitch (www.bbc.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 0 comments

0

How are the 30 inch monitors working out for you? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 4 comments

0

Visualizing Bayesian Updating (bayesianbiologist.com)

3 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 0 comments

0

Torque 2D MIT 2.0 Now Available (www.garagegames.com)

3 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 0 comments

0

The Economics of Freemium - The Accelerators - WSJ (blogs.wsj.com)

3 points first seen 2013030503 last seen 2013030503 0 comments

0

Agile Is Not A Panacea (www.eylean.com)

3 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

0

Why Windows lost to Mac (threads2.scripting.com)

3 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 2 comments

0

New Bitcoin ASIC Competitor... Or Scammer... Enters the Race (codinginmysleep.com)

3 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

0

Swimming with Spacemen: training for spacewalks at NASA’s giant pool (arstechnica.com)

3 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

0

Recreating MKUserLocationView (samvermette.com)

3 points first seen 2013030506 last seen 2013030506 0 comments

87

Bugcrowd bug bounties recognised in infosec qualifications (www.zdnet.com)

3 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030512 0 comments

0

Oracle ships emergency Java 7 Update 17 to patch two vulnerabilities (thenextweb.com)

3 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

0

New open source web performance tracking and analysis tool. (http://www.quinico.com)

3 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

0

Should websites be required to publicly disclose password storage strategies? (www.troyhunt.com)

3 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

0

Shop anywhere online and pay with bitcoin (Amazon, newegg, ebay, ...) (bitspend.net)

3 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

0

Tim Caswell creates new language called Jack (github.com)

3 points first seen 2013030509 last seen 2013030509 0 comments

76

MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare (lesswrong.com)

3 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030515 0 comments

83

Using typed arrays with web workers to parse a 27 MB text file (calvinmetcalf.github.com)

3 points first seen 2013030512 last seen 2013030515 0 comments

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Why you are your own best competition (blog.goalpanda.com)