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Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js (usablica.github.com)

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Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them (www.wired.com)

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Mailbox Is Joining Dropbox (www.mailboxapp.com)

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Google is about to learn a tough lesson (blog.calbucci.com)

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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (bookofhook.blogspot.com)

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What it’s like to die (sashmackinnon.com)

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Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose? (www.fsf.org)

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Dropbox Acquires Mailbox (blog.dropbox.com)

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The danger of the trailing dot in the domain name (saynt2day.blogspot.ru)

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Three Optimization Tips for C++ (www.facebook.com)

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The patented IBM multi-pipe: the evolution of unix pipes (9fans.net)

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Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron (nerds.airbnb.com)

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How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 (gigaom.com)

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Los Angeles in 2013 as Predicted in 1988 (documents.latimes.com)

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Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Google Reader (plus.google.com)

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The RSS Apocalypse (macsparky.com)

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JS Git: working git clones for offline development in the browser (www.kickstarter.com)

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Uber Drivers Protest Outside the Company’s San Francisco Headquarters (allthingsd.com)

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Formspring is shutting down (formspring.wordpress.com)

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Taking the Leap (swombat.com)

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Backward-cpp (github.com)

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I've become what I wasn't supposed to be (medium.com)

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Pixi.js is out (www.goodboydigital.com)

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Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million (techcrunch.com)

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Why We Don't Use Heroku (grouptalent.com)

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Your First iOS App (www.indiegogo.com)

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Moving and renaming files on GitHub (github.com)

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Getting into the tech scene when you have no skills (josephwalla.com)

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Lawdingo (YC W13), The Startup That Lets You Talk To Lawyers Instantly, Joins YC (techcrunch.com)

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Moving RSS forward (blog.superfeedr.com)

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I want build Email service Website Like Gmail / Hotmail / Yahoo (for $500-$1000) (www.elance.com)

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Why Do Chrome Extensions Need to Access All My Data? (lifehacker.com)

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Facebook Cuts Off MessageMe’s Access To Its Social Graph (techcrunch.com)

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SimCity Update: Straight Answers from Lucy (www.ea.com)

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Clue 0.6 - C to Lua/JavaScript compiler (thread.gmane.org)

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Programming Cheat Sheets (overapi.com)

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Why there’s no money: the imaginary part of financial systems (vinay.howtolivewiki.com)

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Why There’s No Mass Protest Over Government Surveillance (techcrunch.com)

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Adding Empty Set Literals to Python (philipbjorge.com)

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The Samsung Galaxy S4 has a barometer (www.cumulonimbus.ca)

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Mark Cuban: The Patents I Never Filed (blogmaverick.com)

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Send Bitcoin to anyone with a Twitter account (bitcointipper.com)

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Security reporter tells about hacked 911 call that sent SWAT team to his house (arstechnica.com)

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Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Formspring Shuts Down (techcrunch.com)

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Swapbox (YC W13) Launches And Aims To Pick Up Where Bufferbox Left Off (techcrunch.com)

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Facebook Fills CTO Role By Promoting Its VP Of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer (techcrunch.com)

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Appeals court rejects record label’s effort to neuter DMCA safe harbor (arstechnica.com)

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A story about Vienna. (an interactive narrative infographic) (www.patrick-wied.at)

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How Google Ventures instills design into the heart of its portfolio companies (thenextweb.com)

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InstantCab (YC W12): A Hybrid Alternative To Ride-Sharing & Taxi Apps (techcrunch.com)

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Whenjobs: a powerful but simple cron replacement (people.redhat.com)

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Noodle acquires Lore (www.insidehighered.com)

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F# in the open source world (skillsmatter.com)

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Kickstarter sucks at pre-orders (or: Why we pivoted) (swish.com)

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Javascript, Is A Universal Language Transformation Underway? (techcrunch.com)

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Amiato (YC W12) Launches To Bring Big Data A/B Testing With SQL To All (techcrunch.com)

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New engine prototype could potentially decrease auto emissions up to 90 percent (www.nbcnews.com)

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Codecademy Stories (www.codecademy.com)

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HackerRank Back to School Tour Blog (www.hackerrank.com)

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Reference Check Job Candidates (blog.eladgil.com)

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Get started with testing from top to bottom (blog.codeship.io)

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What Do Angel Investors Actually Do? (Part 1) (leoexplor.es)

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Work in progress open source Google Reader API clone (github.com)

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Open Letter To All DJs Playing In Germany (de-bug.de)

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Running CUDA on Raspberry Pi (www.zillians.com)

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How the America Invents Act Will Change Patenting Forever (www.wired.com)

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Vanguard conditioning users for phone phishing atttempts (benplesser.com)

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Ask HN: How (best) to cook a steak? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Can any startup accept me as a volunteer for three days? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Samsung GS4 launch: Tone-deaf and shockingly sexist (news.cnet.com)

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Perl: The Language Everybody Wants to Declare Dead (www.linuxadvocates.com)

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Samsung GS4 launch: Tone-deaf and shockingly sexist (news.cnet.com)

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Compo4All: Making Arcade Games Social Again (www.pandoralive.info)

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Scaling TextRazor in the Cloud with Nginx and Lua (www.textrazor.com)

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How to setup a secure private web server with node.js using SSL authorization (gist.github.com)

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Ask HN: What's the best cofounder finder sites? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Our local Pinboard startup project (http://koaloa.com)

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Wantrepreneurs, I'm calling you out (www.builtinchicago.org)

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Protect Bitcoin from Politics (jacobexmachina.blogspot.com)

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Google Reader Still Drives Far More Traffic Than Google+ (www.buzzfeed.com)

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Gun Policy, Gun Culture & Guns across the U.S.: What Makes Us Safer? (www.microryza.com)

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China is Engineering Genius Babies (www.vice.com)

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AngularJS for jQuery Developers (blog.artlogic.com)

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Wanna build a Marina? $14.99. Sim City In-App Purchase (imgur.com)

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A Startup’s Guide to Outsourcing (tomtunguz.com)

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Dropbox acquires email app Mailbox (www.theverge.com)

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The Google Graveyard (www.slate.com)

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Cleanweb keeps growing: new branch in Scotland (www.cleanweb.org.uk)

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Communal living in Silicon Valley [video] (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Future of the Feed, the Read, and the Reader (blog.betaworks.com)

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Show HN: Instant Alcohol Delivery, 100% Legal. (swigme.com)

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Chinese police detain British reporter, unaware he’s broadcasting live (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A JavaScript refresh (javascript.bytearray.org)

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Facebook allegedly skirts Google Play store with latest update (www.engadget.com)

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Treaded Robots for Everyone (www.gofundme.com)

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LBW - Linux Binaries on Windows (lbw.sourceforge.net)

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Communly: Connect with others across shared interests (http://communly.com)

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Calxeda’s first ARM server: serious potential challenge to x86’s server monopoly (www.itproportal.com)

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PyCon 2013: Everyone gets a Raspberry Pi (news.ycombinator.com)

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Hey Dropbox, build MailDrop. I will pay you to replace my Gmail (thenextweb.com)

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Wikipedia enables Lua scripting for page content (blog.wikimedia.org)

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Control Pandora.com with Alfred 2 and media keys (alexw.me)

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This link kills spam (officeofstrategicinfluence.com)

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Internet's 'bad neighbourhoods' spread scams and spam (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: bubbles - A SVG/Text based combo messaging system (https://bubbleideas.com)

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Dropbox Buys Mailbox, All 13 Employees Joining And App Will Remain Separate (techcrunch.com)

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Perceptual elements in Penn & Teller’s “Cups and Balls” magic trick (peerj.com)

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65000 is the cap for H-1B visa for 2014 (www.uscis.gov)

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Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: My What-You-See-is-What-You-Mean Markdown editor (lily.tnhh.net)

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Lisp and Forth on OpenWRT (aleph0.info)

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School of Haskell : tutorials with live code (www.fpcomplete.com)

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ZipCar CEO resigns, hours after Avis acquisition (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

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Pagination: You're (Probably) Doing It Wrong. (coderwall.com)

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Show HN: No TechCrunch. No Bullshit. Just Startup- & Founder-Stories (branditch.com)

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Most popular human cell in science (HeLa) gets sequenced (www.nature.com)

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Ask HN: Why do people create incomprehensible spam? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Third Of Android Apps In China Secretly Steal User Data. Google Lacks Control (techcrunch.com)

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Raspberry Pi-powered open-source bartending robot nearly funded on Kickstarter (venturebeat.com)

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What Does it Take to Be Remarkable? (technori.com)

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Ask HN: What's the replacement for RSS? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Google Glasses, Indoor Location, & Mobile Shopping Can Save Retail (www.xconomy.com)

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Stop Blaming Trolls for the Patent Problem (www.wired.com)

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Because I'm an Optimist (da.nielpie.rs)

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The Checkered Online Past of Reuters Social Media Editor Matthew Keys (betabeat.com)

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Programming Chicken Scheme for performance (wiki.call-cc.org)

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Ask HN: Which programming language are the easiest to debug? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Search Engines for Grownups (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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The Law Everyone Should Hate (www.informationdiet.com)

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Bring Colleagues Together With The Skill Swap Office Pool (www.dailysense.com)

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iOS App We've Built For 47 Hours - So That You'll Never Be Lost Again (www.placer.me)

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Shadow DOM 201: CSS and Styling (www.html5rocks.com)

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Why we’re excited about Mailbox getting acquired by Dropbox (squareonemail.tumblr.com)

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What makes healthcare so expensive (Infographic) (healthland.time.com)

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Mailbox Cost Dropbox $100 Million (www.businessinsider.com)

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Google acquires Talaria Technologies (http://talariatech.com)