hackerNews

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Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown (bjk5.com)

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Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game (http://www.playadrift.com)

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LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat UI (github.com)

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A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining (guidetodatamining.com)

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EmberJS Confuses Me (wekeroad.com)

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Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written (zacharyvoase.com)

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Fix the DMCA (http://fixthedmca.org?)

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Rand Paul filibustering over drones (washingtonexaminer.com)

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Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library (labs.umbrella.com)

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Rejecting industry dogma, Costco backs calls to lift minimum wage (www.latimes.com)

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Tern. Intelligent JavaScript editing (ternjs.net)

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The Dropbox Sync API is here (www.dropbox.com)

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Screenhero Shares Your Screen with Others, Gives Each Person Their Own Mouse (lifehacker.com)

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Mechanical Turk Workers Are Not Anonymous (crowdresearch.org)

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Things Java Programmers can learn from Clojure (www.lispcast.com)

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Show HN: Make your iPhone app look beautiful (www.uipsd.co)

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How to build a 5$ Arduino clone (hwstartup.wordpress.com)

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Pwn2Own owned all major browsers (h30499.www3.hp.com)

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The Country That Stopped Reading (www.nytimes.com)

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CircuitLab + Electronics.StackExchange.com Integration (www.circuitlab.com)

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The Coinbase Android App Has Launched (blog.coinbase.com)

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The HTML A element is broken (www.onderhond.com)

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Load Balancing without Load Balancers (blog.cloudflare.com)

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B- environment merits B- effort (37signals.com)

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When Ian Fleming picked my grandfather to steal Nazi secrets (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Explosion of the Ariane 5 (www.ima.umn.edu)

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Google I/O 2013 (developers.google.com)

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How `curl -L cueup.com/jobs` works (tech.cueup.com)

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Matz on Ruby 2.0 at Heroku's Waza (blog.heroku.com)

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How do free services on the web make money? (www.forbes.com)

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BitPay Integrates Bitcoin with Fulfillment by Amazon (www.marketwatch.com)

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Authorea: Write research papers inside your browser (www.authorea.com)

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Attorney General: Aaron Swartz Case Was a ‘Good Use of Prosecutorial Discretion’ (www.wired.com)

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Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______ (http://cropup.com)

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Document the Why (ianlotinsky.com)

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You have secrets; we don’t. Why our data format is public (blog.agilebits.com)

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A Mac Pro Mini (www.marco.org)

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How I came to love Windows again (betanews.com)

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The Pragmatics of TDD (blog.8thlight.com)

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New Series Seed legal forms now in Markdown on Github (github.com)

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Microsoft fined $731m by European Commission over web browser choice (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Facebook Adds SPDY Support (zoompf.com)

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Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming (joinjspot.com)

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Intro to the Python Framework Pyramid (www.sixfeetup.com)

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AWS Case Study: Parse (YC S11) (aws.amazon.com)

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Doom on the Commodore VIC-20 (github.com)

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Taking some pain out of Python logging (hynek.me)

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I’m a Google Glass skeptic and think it’ll be the next Apple Newton (andrewchen.co)

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Firefox OS support lands in EnyoJS 2.2 (hacks.mozilla.org)

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MIT Remembrance of Aaron Swartz (March 12th 4pm) (www.media.mit.edu)

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HTML5 Snake Game with source code walkthrough (jdstraughan.com)

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Universal laws behind growth patterns, from Tetris to coffee stains (www.empiricalzeal.com)

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Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Found Using Internet Data, Study Finds (www.nytimes.com)

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Path 3 is out (blog.path.com)

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Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW (refer.ly)

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Dear Startups: stop begging investors and pitch your clients (blog.123ship.it)

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Why Moore's Law, not mobility, is killing the PC (www.networkworld.com)

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Stop thinking up startup ideas [presentation] (growthbay.com)

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TEDx talks discredited: Sheldrake speaks, argues that speed of light is dropping (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)

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What to do when you hire someone better than yourself (www.tomtancredi.com)

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Microsoft - An expensive error (www.economist.com)

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Ion Torrent’s chip-based genome sequencer is poised to revolutionize medicine (beta.spectrum.ieee.org)

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Yahoo Says New Policy Is Meant to Raise Morale (www.nytimes.com)

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Calling Vault - a private Google Voice (sort of) (callingvault.com)

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A Day in the Life of a Digital Editor, 2013 [a partial response to Nate Thayer] (www.theatlantic.com)

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Open letter to Yahoo's Marisa Mayer (mrsniffen.tumblr.com)

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How to update a (desktop) app (bvckup2.com)

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The Coca-Cola Company offers $10K Prize to Re-Imagine the Soda Fountain (www.hackerdojo.com)

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Visualizing Philadelphia tax changes parcel by parcel (axisphillyapps.tumblr.com)

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PeopleBrowsr wins federal case against Twitter Awarded damages, retains firehose (thenextweb.com)

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Announcing our pricing (including consulting rates) (keen.io)

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Why Steve Jobs Never Listened to His Customers (www.helpscout.net)

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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed - Book Review (www.nybooks.com)

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AnyPerk (YCw12) Gives Your Startup Employees The Same Perks As Pinterest (www.businessinsider.com)

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Superbugs Capable of Resisting the Strongest Drugs Found in Hospitals (refer.ly)

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Getting Ultra Violent about Ultraviolet (martinbelam.com)

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Knowing When to Fold ‘Em (as an entrepreneur) (founderdating.com)

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Show HN: Embed Full-Page Screenshots in any Blog / App / Whatever (http://www.url2picture.com)

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Microsoft restores transfer rights for retail Office 2013 copies (www.zdnet.com)

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Solving Problems Using Data Structures (variadic.me)

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Ask HN: Are you running a web crawler off the following IPs? It's broken (news.ycombinator.com)

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TechOps pre-launch checklist for web apps (leknarf.net)

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Jobs to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection (www.nytimes.com)

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Bitcoin drops 10USD in less than 4 hours (bitcoinity.org)

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Blog about Bruce Sterling talk in 2006 predicting rise of open APIs (archetyp.al)

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Heroku's Waza Conference: Art and Technique (quickleft.com)

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Mailappapp (visualidiot.com)

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Show HN: The simplest habit forming app that could possibly work (news.ycombinator.com)

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Angry judge calls porn troll’s bluff, orders entire firm to court (arstechnica.com)

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Data science and the need to know code: A roundup of NICAR 2013 (www.niemanlab.org)

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Show HN: An experiment - IRC channel from just a URL (lalo-g7stltno.dotcloud.com)

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How To get Media Attention For Your Startup - The Hunt for the Hybrid (startupjuncture.com)

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Computer Scientists Measure the Speed of Censorship On China’s Twitter (www.technologyreview.com)

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Show HN: We're building a cloudspotting app at StartupBus, tell us your thoughts (cloudspotting.co)

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EA closes SimCity servers for maintenance (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: Emergency, where can I find building footprints for Kent County, MI? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tim Likes to Teach (timlikestoteach.com)

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Show HN: Bringing back IRC, built in three days on a bus from SF to Austin (http://ghostpost.io)

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20 Rules of Software Consulting (www.databasesoup.com)

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Ask HN: ExtJS vs. Backbone/Ember/Angular for huge Enterprise app? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: JackDB Cloud - Database development in the cloud. (blog.jackdb.com)

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Introducing Elevision (elevision.tumblr.com)

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The Country That Stopped Reading (www.nytimes.com)

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Any hip hop fans on HN? Here's my first app (paintapp.co)

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How to do REST Authentication in Python (stackoverflow.com)

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Free Courses From Great Universities (www.openculture.com)

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Why You Shouldn't Announce your Big Startup News at SXSW (thenextweb.com)

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[Live]Rand Paul filibusters Brennan nomination over drone strikes on citizens (www.c-span.org)

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‘Torment: Tides of Numenera’ hits 900K funding goal in 6 hours (www.kickstarter.com)

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Why do kindle images look so bad? (andrewhy.de)

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Reviews on Quora (blog.quora.com)

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Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke (1988) [video] (www.openculture.com)

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Glassdoor Python API (pypi.python.org)

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How the US Postal Service is Being Gutted (www.fool.com)

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Ask HN: which are some inspirational Biographies/Memoirs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Should I take a downgrade to work in a better company? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What should I know before working remote for a company based in the US? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Vicious Blow to the War on Drugs (austincut.com)

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A kaleidoscope written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (coldhead.github.com)

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Salary/Income of Analytics/Data Mining/Data Science professionals (www.kdnuggets.com)

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EU regulators to fine Microsoft for breaking browser pledge (www.reuters.com)

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Anonymously matching startups with potential acquirers (exitround.com)

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Digging In The Vineyard (www.gironda.org)

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StartUp Bus (americas.startupbus.com)

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OpenDNS releases a cryptographic library that every developer should use (labs.umbrella.com)

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Ruby and Javascript hourly rate survey (docs.google.com)

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Fulfillment by Amazon (bitpay.com)

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Using Meteor to Build a Twitter Wall for LegalTech New York 2013 (www.matb33.me)

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Ask HN: Looking to outsource web development of my site/app (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tesla Motors loses Top Gear appeal in UK (www.treehugger.com)

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Quora keeps searching for growth, this time with user-generated product reviews (gigaom.com)

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Quora Launches Reviews (thenextweb.com)

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Why adding compositing and blending to CSS is harder than it looks (dbaron.org)

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Obama's Justification for Killing a 16-Year-Old American by Drone Strike (www.businessinsider.com)

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Martin Owens declares Ubuntu Community dead (doctormo.org)

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Homeless in San Francisco, AirBnB founder eats his dog food [vid interview] (gigaom.com)

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Last day - turning Parliamentary records into searchable db (boingboing.net) (boingboing.net)

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Ask HN: Decent HN iOS app that allows collapsing of comment threads? (news.ycombinator.com)

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JUnit's evolving structure (edmundkirwan.com)

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EU fines Microsoft over $730 million for failing to include browser ballot (www.theverge.com)

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How two volunteers build the Raspberry Pi OS (news.ycombinator.com)

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EU fines Microsoft for non-compliance with browser choice commitments (europa.eu)

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Email exchange between Steve Jobs and James Murdock (www.scribd.com)

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Code to Inspire: Coders Without Borders (americas.startupbus.com)

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What Will I Pay For (impressmyself.co)

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Ask HN: What would you want to see in a nutrition facts food label? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Foursquare Adds Quick Glide Feature On iOS (techcrunch.com)

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Crafting a Pricing Plan to Maximize Freemium Growth (tomtunguz.com)

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Can I kill a wolf empty-handed? (www.quora.com)

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Why RSA Works (github.com)

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NodeJS T-Shirt Campaign reached its goal under 4 hours (teespring.com)

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Android AOSP Browser stores passwords in plain text (code.google.com)

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Show HN: A new tool to visualize financial markets (zingfin.com)

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Pin Payments Signups are Open (pin.net.au)

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Google releases official node.js client library for Google APIs (github.com)

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Chris Brogan talks social selling [video] (blog.everyonesocial.com)

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Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Pin, Stripe for Australia is in now in open beta (pin.net.au)

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The Story of Send: What Happens when you Send an Email (www.google.com)

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Heads of Airbnb, AngelList, and Etsy share the secrets of the sharing economy (pandodaily.com)

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Iran Uses Snipers to Combat Rat Infestation (www.foxnews.com)

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Show HN: WalletKit - Deliver Passes to Apple Passbook (https://walletkit.com)

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Inside Skywalker Ranch (www.cbsnews.com)

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Auti-Sim, The Game That Startlingly Reconstructs Life As An Autistic Child (www.fastcompany.com)

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Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley (www.theverge.com)

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Install LibreOffice 4.0 In Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 Or 13.04 Via PPA (www.webupd8.org)

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