hackerNews

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Why I'm switching (back) to Firefox (www.campaul.net)

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Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario (arstechnica.com)

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Bootstrap 3 preview (rc.getbootstrap.com)

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The Fireplace Delusion (www.samharris.org)

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WebGL Terrain Flyover Demo (www.zephyrosanemos.com)

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Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Schwartz (nostarch.com)

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Zombie Startups (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation (www.sfgate.com)

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Web Scraping 101 with Python (www.gregreda.com)

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Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams (arstechnica.com)

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The World Wide Web is Moving to AOL (1998) (brianbailey.me)

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Building something cool on your own? I want to interview you. (www.webuildatnight.com)

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Chess CAPTCHA (en.lichess.org)

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“Paleofantasy”: Stone Age delusions (www.salon.com)

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Google called the MPEG-LA's bluff, and won (www.osnews.com)

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Life is wasting my time (blog.daemonl.com)

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Revolution in Mathematics: What Happened 100 Years Ago and Why It Matters [pdf] (www.ams.org)

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Courtney Love does the math (2000) (www.salon.com)

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Intrade Shutting Down (www.intrade.com)

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EA Employee Chastises Company Over SimCity in Public Letter (www.forbes.com)

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Former TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe (www.nypost.com)

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FPV to space and back (rcexplorer.se)

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Texts you should read before you ever contact a journalist. (www.dotdotdot.me)

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Pirate Bay ‘Advert’ Appears on Hacked Billboard (torrentfreak.com)

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Apply to seventh batch of Hacker School (www.hackerschool.com)

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Why Lift is My Favorite Web Framework (blog.fliptop.com)

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Tracking down a memory leak in Node.js and Socket.IO (jpallen.net)

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What's new in Sinatra 1.4? (rkh.im)

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How No-Flush Toilets Can Help Make a Healthier World (e360.yale.edu)

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Show HN: Updated Hacker News Chrome Extension (blog.tommoor.com)

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Harvard Search of E-mail Stuns Its Faculty Members (www.nytimes.com)

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Microcode: the place where hardware and software meet (alanwinfield.blogspot.co.uk)

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Revenge porn site founder loses $250k defamation suit (arstechnica.com)

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Google: search for an application (www.google.com)

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Crafting code objects to escape a Python sandbox (blog.delroth.net)

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Ask HN: How do blind people code and work with terminals? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Grindr Is Changing the Way We Connect (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Mozilla says no plans to return to iOS until Apple removes restrictions (news.cnet.com)

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Career Advice From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder (www.businessinsider.com)

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Circus: A Process and Socket Manager (circus.readthedocs.org)

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Using type inference to make web templates robust against XSS (js-quasis-libraries-and-repl.googlecode.com)

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Writing about not having an opinion on technology (adactio.com)

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Ship It (www.codypowell.com)

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Tell HN: Don't stay up late commenting on HN (news.ycombinator.com)

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Django-fancy-cache - Django’s cache_page on steroids (github.com)

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Living With Less. A Lot Less (www.nytimes.com)

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Spidering the web with CasperJS (planzero.org)

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Tech Talk: Steve Souders - Dive Into Performance (www.airbnb.com)

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Five computer science ninja arts (blog.prof.so)

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Leading Neuroscientist Says Kurzweil Singularity Prediction A “Bunch Of Hot Air” (singularityhub.com)

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EmberJS and Confusion, Part 2 (1fifty9.com)

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EA Apologizes For SimCity Disaster, Says It Was “Dumb”.. (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN - usernique.com: Generate usernames and check availability (http://www.usernique.com)

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The Velocity of Censorship: High-Fidelity Detection of Microblog Post Deletions (arxiv.org)

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Do You Really Have to Go to College? (thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Forget Your GPA (refer.ly)

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Show HN – Presentation.io: Broadcast presentations live across devices (http://www.presentation.io)

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Twitter’s API keys and secrets for its official apps surface;.. (thenextweb.com)

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OpenRuko - Open Source Heroku Clone / Implementation (github.com)

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Communication for Startup Co-founders (www.pranavpiyush.com)

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Let's Scrape the Web with Python 3 (codecr.am)

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20 year old listens to vinyl for the first time (news.qthemusic.com)

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Why American Airlines Chose Samsung Over Apple When It Bought 17,000 Tablets (www.businessinsider.com)

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6 Months with C# (ruoyusun.com)

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The New Facebook Newsfeed Feels A Lot Like Google+ (secure.flickr.com)

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Data Privacy: Why can't Chrome and Chromium users run their own sync server? (code.google.com)

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How would you responsibly disclose proof that p=np? (news.ycombinator.com)

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ISO 8601 (xkcd.com)

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Passport ownership in America, by state. Let’s play "Correlations" (exp.lore.com)

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Why are engineers treated like peons in the startup world? (www.reddit.com)

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Gl-solar, webGL rendering of OSM data (mike.teczno.com)

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Apple left App Store open to attack: Google researcher (www.zdnet.com)

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What Is Innovation? (1997) (yost.com)

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NIST statement on Daylight Saving Time (DST) problem (www.nist.gov)

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Disruptions: It is rude to send a "Thank You" e-mail. (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Intrade shuts down due to irregularities (http://www.intrade.com)

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Calvin and Hobbes on Product-Market Fit (i.imgur.com)

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Sorting and Searching Algorithms: A Cookbook (www.cs.auckland.ac.nz)

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Bradley Manning is nominated for a 2013 Nobel Peace Prize (www.bradleymanning.org)

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The "Plankalkül" of Konrad Zuse: A Forerunner of Today's Programming Languages (www.cs.dartmouth.edu)

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What female-founders really encounter when they fundraise (quibb.com)

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SimCity Update 2 (www.simcity.com)

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World's most detailed scans will reveal how brain works (www.bbc.co.uk)

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World Of Classcraft (http://worldofclasscraft.com)

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GitHub is getting DDoSed again (status.github.com)

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Called my Congresswoman about CISPA live on stage at SXSW (venturebeat.com)

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I need feedback for my website. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Hack Price monitoring with IFTTT & ScraperWiki (www.wisepricer.com)

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A complete archive of all Intrade contracts (intrade-archive.appspot.com)

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Algorithms Get A Human Hand In Steering Web (www.nytimes.com)

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What gofmt -r can do for you (talks.godoc.org)

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WSJ: Publishers oppose Amazon's bid to gain Web names (www.reuters.com)

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Donald Glaser, Nobel Winner in Physics, Dies at 86 (www.nytimes.com)

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Life without stuff: choosing a minimalist lifestyle (www.wittytitlehere.com)

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Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture Capitalists Are Not Your Friends (www.forbes.com)

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Ask HN: Which domain registrars have superb security and service? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Attention CTOs: Culture Matters (pandodaily.com)

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NYSE disaster plan to trade without humans (www.reuters.com)

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RSA compromised via Flash embedded in Excel (discovertamevan.professionalliabilityinsurancepros.com)

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Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition (hack) (www.youtube.com)

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Colossal Black Hole Equal to 17 Billion Suns Discovered (www.dailygalaxy.com)

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Code School Has 172,000 Users (www.taylorbrooks.org)

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SpaceX Grasshopper Hoverslam w/ Johnny Cash (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: When should you add a contributors name to a copyright notice? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Killer apps for software platforms (dafoster.net)

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Australian Central Bank Hacked by China Malware (www.bloomberg.com)

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Interview with Albert Wenger, USV Partner (realleaders.tv)

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Understanding the Consequences of the Business Decisions You Fudge On (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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Oxford Electric Bell (en.wikipedia.org)

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Introduction to the MinHash algorithm (www.tonicebrian.com)

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Moneta - A user timeline visualization tool (moneta.restlessprogrammer.com)

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Emacs-24.3 released (www.gnu.org)

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Full stack engineer for YC company in Sydney Australia (news.ycombinator.com)

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Help funded YC startup reinvent software testing. (news.ycombinator.com)

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