hackerNews

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Why I created Comic Sans (www.connare.com)

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Require companies to use the term "licensing" instead of "buying" with DRM goods (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

287 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031200 54 comments

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Thank you HN, sorry HN (news.ycombinator.com)

245 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031112 52 comments

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30 Weeks of Game Development (www.uberent.com)

210 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031200 40 comments

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On being a girl in computer science - a confession (zanytomato.tumblr.com)

201 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2013031106 264 comments

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Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts (notebook.kulchenko.com)

193 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2021122815 92 comments

3

Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore (thetwitcleaner.com)

165 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2013031200 90 comments

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Here come the encryption apps (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

157 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031200 56 comments

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Addition of 1 and 1 in PHP (github.com)

148 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031100 78 comments

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Django Best Practices - Guide (lincolnloop.com)

138 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031203 43 comments

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Rigging the IPO game (www.nytimes.com)

116 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031212 63 comments

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A new type of piano keyboard: The Seaboard (www.weareroli.com)

114 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031200 78 comments

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Creating QR codes in Excel (blog.ambor.com)

103 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2018092412 6 comments

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Stop Corporate Takeover of New Internet Names (www.change.org)

100 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031200 79 comments

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Inter-window messaging using localStorage (bens.me.uk)

97 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031121 25 comments

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Contest: Hack my bitcoins and keep them (linja-aho.blogspot.com)

83 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031109 29 comments

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CentOS Linux 6.4 Released (lists.centos.org)

83 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031115 47 comments

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Red Hat Reinforces Java Commitment and Assumes Leadership of OpenJDK 6 Community (www.redhat.com)

74 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031115 3 comments

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LearnJavaOnline.org - Free Interactive Java Tutorial (http://www.learnjavaonline.org)

73 points first seen 2013031000 last seen 2013031106 16 comments

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Massively multiplayer city-building game in HTML5 (tholman.com)

71 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031006 17 comments

9

Why Study History? (www.historians.org)

69 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031109 49 comments

8

A New Ideas Machine (medium.com)

67 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031109 44 comments

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BitInstant hacked: What and how it happened (blog.bitinstant.com)

66 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2013031115 48 comments

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The Fallacy of Success (www.gutenberg.org)

62 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031106 31 comments

9

Saying goodbye to SimplyTweet (4 year old Twitter app shuts down) (motionobj.com)

58 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031200 14 comments

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Russian Satellite Hit by Debris from Chinese Anti-Satellite Test (mashable.com)

58 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031200 31 comments

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CMU 10-701 – Introduction to Machine Learning (alex.smola.org)

52 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031115 3 comments

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Half of Destructoid's readers block our ads. Now what? (www.destructoid.com)

51 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031009 85 comments

10

An open letter to the IIT Graduates (www.sachingupta.co)

51 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031112 41 comments

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Researchers win $100,000 for Chrome hack that leaves Windows vulnerable (news.cnet.com)

49 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031100 8 comments

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Sharecropping: A Sucker’s Game Then — and Now (www.mediaorchard.com)

48 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031200 19 comments

13

Referly Discontinuing Rewards, Paying Existing Links Through March 31st, 2013 (refer.ly)

45 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2013031109 37 comments

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Mary, queen of maths (m.bbc.co.uk)

45 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031121 7 comments

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Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django Co-Creator, Talks Ecosystems at Heroku's Waza (blog.heroku.com)

42 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031109 2 comments

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Benjamin Franklin's Essay on Daylight Saving (www.webexhibits.org)

39 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031112 32 comments

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Seattle drinking den bans Google Glass geeks (www.theregister.co.uk)

39 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031100 62 comments

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Self-Organizing Organizations (For Real) (www.infoq.com)

38 points first seen 2013031000 last seen 2013031100 17 comments

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Learning from Big Data: 40 million entities in context (googleresearch.blogspot.ie)

38 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031100 8 comments

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Show HN: an app I built to help you find great beer (beerque.st)

38 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031100 29 comments

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Testing Technology To Make Rockets Reusable (techcrunch.com)

37 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2013031106 16 comments

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Wordpress to fight “legally deficient and objectionable” Prenda subpoena (arstechnica.com)

37 points first seen 2013031015 last seen 2013031109 3 comments

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Consistently Formatting C (blog.9lines.org)

35 points first seen 2013031000 last seen 2013031100 26 comments

14

The Secret Plot to Rescue Napoleon by Submarine (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

34 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031106 6 comments

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Your Credentials Are Holding You Back (blogs.hbr.org)

32 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031100 36 comments

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What Does Pi Have To Do With Gravity? (www.wired.com)

31 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031100 27 comments

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A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook (www.pitt.edu)

28 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2015031000 3 comments

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Arthur's LISP in BASIC (www.cs.rit.edu)

26 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2013031106 5 comments

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Back Lord British’s Kickstarter, Get This $5,000 Game (www.wired.com)

25 points first seen 2013031000 last seen 2013031018 0 comments

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Google Cutting 10 Percent of Jobs at Its Motorola Unit (allthingsd.com)

24 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031018 6 comments

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RuntimeExceptions – To try-catch or not to catch? (10kloc.wordpress.com)

24 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031100 18 comments

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Prenda Asks Judge Wright To Lift Order Requiring Them To Appear Monday (www.popehat.com)

23 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2013031100 3 comments

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What Is Java, Is It Insecure, and Should I Use It? (lifehacker.com)

22 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031015 34 comments

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Musk extends Times feud, calls Model S review "ethics violation" (www.reuters.com)

21 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031018 32 comments

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SQLAlchemy 0.8.0 Released (www.sqlalchemy.org)

21 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031106 0 comments

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Networking Syndrome (m.techcrunch.com)

20 points first seen 2013031015 last seen 2013031100 7 comments

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Facebook User #41 (graph.facebook.com)

19 points first seen 2013031015 last seen 2013031015 10 comments

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Drv.io - the lost feature (http://drv.io)

18 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031106 4 comments

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Apache OpenOffice Brand Refresh Project (cwiki.apache.org)

17 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031021 26 comments

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Ask HN: Scala web devs, describe your stack (news.ycombinator.com)

17 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2013031018 0 comments

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Ask HN: Is anyone using Amazon DynamoDB? (news.ycombinator.com)

16 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031015 2 comments

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Retinal vascular biomarkers for Alzheimer’s detection (www.nature.com)

16 points first seen 2013031015 last seen 2013031106 2 comments

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Ask HN: How does a beginner navigate the JavaScript MVC jungle? (news.ycombinator.com)

15 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031009 3 comments

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Referly Discontinuing Rewards, Paying Existing Links Through March 31st, 2013 (pastebin.com)

15 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031009 10 comments

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Decide For Yourself: Full Translations of Assange's Swedish Police Interviews (www.nnn.se)

15 points first seen 2013031015 last seen 2013031100 0 comments

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A free text-based MMO alternative to SimCity (www.reign.ws)

14 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031006 12 comments

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Experiment No 8 — Responding to Voice Commands (www.jordanm.co.uk)

10 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031100 3 comments

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Ask HN: What made SQL databases so popular? (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031021 13 comments

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We're a Romanian team and we've built a new way to make games (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031006 3 comments

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Ask HN: What is your personal website setup? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013031015 last seen 2013031018 7 comments

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IT Departments Have Become Completely Useless (www.businessinsider.com)

7 points first seen 2013031015 last seen 2013031015 0 comments

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SimCity player: "Fantastic game worth every penny" (i.imgur.com)

6 points first seen 2013031000 last seen 2013031000 0 comments

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Science Explains Why You Have to Die (mashable.com)

6 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031006 0 comments

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Elon Musk wants to die on Mars (www.latimes.com)

6 points first seen 2013031015 last seen 2013031021 0 comments

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Analytics - Keeping track of the pulse of your startup (blog.shoutt.me)

5 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031012 2 comments

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Bitmessage – An Encrypted Communications Platform Based On Bitcoin (cryptojunky.com)

5 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031012 4 comments

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Remote Development: To be (there) or not to be (lanceennen.com)

5 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031012 0 comments

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Mary, queen of maths (www.bbc.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2013031015 last seen 2013031021 0 comments

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Ask HN: Is Github down? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031100 5 comments

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Ask HN: Good Examples of Credit Card Forms (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013031000 last seen 2013031000 2 comments

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Winning Submissions For Fiber Mobile App Idea Contest (disruptioninstitute.com)

4 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031006 2 comments

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Printed machine does nothing until the heat death of the Universe (hackaday.com)

4 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031009 0 comments

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Seattle bar first to ban Google Glass (news.cnet.com)

4 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031009 0 comments

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Heads up 1Password 3 for iPhone, iPad users: Dropbox changes are coming (blog.agilebits.com)

4 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031015 0 comments

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The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage) (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2013031012 last seen 2013031012 0 comments

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The true cost of free-to-play games (www.imore.com)

4 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031018 4 comments

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Ask HN:Any biohacker here? I want to get help. (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031021 2 comments

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MongoDB, how to sort results (blogs.lessthandot.com)

3 points first seen 2013031000 last seen 2013031000 2 comments

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Parenj: The Paren Programming Language written in Java (bitbucket.org)

3 points first seen 2013031000 last seen 2013031000 0 comments

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Bomb dropping algorithm (stackoverflow.com)

3 points first seen 2013031003 last seen 2013031003 0 comments

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Fred Wilson interviews Jack Dorsey (www.avc.com)

3 points first seen 2013031006 last seen 2013031006 0 comments

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Vest Test: 1923 (www.shorpy.com)

3 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031012 0 comments

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Elon Musk Keynote Presented by Oracle (sxsw.com)

3 points first seen 2013031009 last seen 2013031012 0 comments

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Learning Ruby (codebeatsandpixels.com)

3 points first seen 2013031018 last seen 2013031021 0 comments

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The Day That Only Had 23 Hours (blog.baugues.com)

3 points first seen 2013031021 last seen 2013031021 0 comments

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Frontend engineer at early-stage VC funded startup with revenue (news.ycombinator.com)

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