hackerNews

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What do grad students in math do all day? (gist.github.com)

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More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours (blog.feedly.com)

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The Matrix in Javascript in less than 600 bytes (timelessname.com)

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The Internet is a surveillance state (edition.cnn.com)

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Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users (news.ycombinator.com)

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Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector (sokolovstas.github.com)

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It’s Not Just Reader – Google Kills Its RSS Subscription Browser Extension, Too (techcrunch.com)

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My Amazon bestseller made me nothing (www.salon.com)

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The 3-year old "Implement RSS natively in Chrome" bug just changed to "WontFix" (code.google.com)

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Computer Science in Vietnam (neil.fraser.name)

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The madness of the bailout in Cyprus (www.maximise.dk)

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Searching For Beasts In Silicon Valley’s ‘War For Talent’ (techcrunch.com)

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Startups Anonymous (www.startupsanonymo.us)

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Leaving Twitter (nathanmarz.com)

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Show HN: My 5-year basement Plan 9 project (http://9gridchan.org)

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The Google Graveyard - Leave a flower for a deceased Google product (www.slate.com)

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Schumpeter on the Cypress Bailout (www.economist.com)

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GCC 4.8 release (gcc.gnu.org)

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Linux computer shop closing because of thwarting by large companies (plus.google.com)

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The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Man steals $33 million from Australian casino in 'Ocean's Eleven'-esque heist (news.msn.com)

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Ian Ross, Who Led Bell Labs, Dies at 85 (www.nytimes.com)

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Super Mario Bros Coin Sound (1985) (365blanc.blogspot.com)

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How to Watch Netflix in Ubuntu Linux (www.jeremymorgan.com)

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Ask HN: How much of your time is spent on classical algorithmic problems? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Has HTTPS finally been cracked? Five researchers deal SSL/TLS a biggish blow… (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

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Weak security in our daily lives (everything2.com)

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Why Google killed off Google Reader: It was self-defense (gigaom.com)

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Fonts on the posters of 2013 Oscar-winning films (www.linotype.com)

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Instahood — geo Instagram (instahood.meteor.com)

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The Google Question: Is The Hacker Ethic Compatible With A For Profit Company? (fogbeam.blogspot.com)

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A Python library to import contacts from Gmail, Yahoo and Live accounts (github.com)

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Test-Driven Development Bypasses Your Brain (stoneship.org)

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Tributary | What we learned from a year of live coding (ejfox.github.com)

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Test Your Intuition: What does it Take to Win Tic-Tac-Toe (gilkalai.wordpress.com)

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Open source — Government Service Design Manual (www.gov.uk)

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Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office? (www.esquire.com)

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CLI RSS: RSS with Newsbeuter (blog.sanctum.geek.nz)

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Europe Announces Bailout For Cyprus — Bank Depositors Get Instant 10% Tax (www.businessinsider.com)

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Gwene is an RSS (and Atom, etc) to Usenet News (i. e., NNTP) gateway (gwene.org)

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RSS readers on Linux (www.johndcook.com)

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How an unknown Taiwanese server maker is eating the big guys’ lunch (gigaom.com)

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Cyprus savers lose 10% of money after shock bailout (www.irishexaminer.com)

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Harper's Index, April 2013 (harpers.org)

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Stop the Monsanto Protection Act (action.fooddemocracynow.org)

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Google Glass: The Opposition Grows (news.cnet.com)

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The Wrong Time And Place: Why Wii Was Nintendo’s Biggest Failure (liisten.com)

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These engineers quit their jobs to start LeChat (www.hunterwalk.com)

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Pebble Watch SDK Coming in April (mashable.com)

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Ask HN: Can anyone help a starving programmer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Don’t Let Your Hype Write A Check That Your Product Can’t Cash (techcrunch.com)

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How to scrape an ImageBam gallery for images with 30 lines of Python (blog.tankorsmash.com)

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Free and Slow Google translate API (github.com)

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An Australian's view of how to break in to Silicon Valley (www.brw.com.au)

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Al Jazeera report on Irish plan to sell off its forests (www.youtube.com)

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Show HN: Gem to search for random domain names (github.com)

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Introductory Screencast for Huginn (vimeo.com)

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This Guy Took Out a Gigantic Loan to Destroy the Financial System (m.vice.com)

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Ask HN: Two cool startupers looking for a roommates/housing (news.ycombinator.com)

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KissMetrics for Lifecycle Emails: My very own set-up (www.j-ro.me)

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Currying Favor with Partial Application to get JavaScript SQL (objrefnotset.blogspot.com)

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Work-Life Balance for Startup Founders (foundercode.com)

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Ubuntu in smartphones: opportunities and challenges (linuxgizmos.com)

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Show HN: Use image hosts for general file hosting (github.com)

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Koka - a function oriented language with effect inference (www.rise4fun.com)

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Ask HN: Where can I find statistics about remote work? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Ubuntu Touch experience (lwn.net)

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Release-ophobia (caines.ca)

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Where 4,000,000 Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected (www.theatlantic.com)

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Google talk is going away this summer, unconfirmed (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Paperless Future (www.youtube.com)

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Show HN: ICEcoder v2.0 – online and offline browser code editor (http://icecoder.net)

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The Ability to Orient Yourself (thecomputersarewinning.com)

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Human Remains and Body Parts Policy (pages.ebay.com)

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API to ship products to anyone, anywhere (whiplashmerch.com)

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BromBone - A Headless Browser -as-a-service (www.brombone.com)

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Bitcoin arbitrage - opportunity detector (github.com)

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MIT is hiring devs to build a game to map the brain (blog.eyewire.org)

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Bringing the Hacking culture to India (indiahacks.yourstory.in)

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Only in Silicon Valley (katsuyan.me)

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From a monolithic Ruby on Rails app to the JVM (www.slideshare.net)

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Ask HN: Trello-esque cards/panels in Javascript? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Luvit – Asynchronous I/O for Lua (luvit.io)

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Fixlicense - Fix mistakes in software licenses (AKA: convert to GPL) (github.com)

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Goodbye Google Reader (threads2.scripting.com)

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Days of Promise Fade for Ethanol (www.nytimes.com)

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Ubuntu unveils its next-generation shell and display server (lwn.net)

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Algorithmic trading for dummies (www.wildbunny.co.uk)

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Tell HN: Front-end Wingman (or woman) Hacker Wanted for side projects (news.ycombinator.com)

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Reading, Writing and Video Games (www.nytimes.com)

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Athens (Georgia) tech incubator promotes culture shift (2012) (onlineathens.com)

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Tips For Entrepreneurs Before Making The Move To Silicon Valley (startupgrind.com)

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Are there more US black men in prison or college? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Haskell mailing list archives: 1990-2000 (code.haskell.org)

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GitHub playable version of The Conception (browser-based 7-day roguelike game) (ondras.github.com)

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VIM Table Mode (dhruvasagar.com)

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Trolling SXSW: Behind the Scenes of Drunkspotting (techrotica.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: Privacy Concerns re: ga.js (Google Analytics) (news.ycombinator.com)

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