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Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort (gkoberger.github.com)

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Show HN: we (mozilla) asked for feedback about our devtools. Here is the result (paulrouget.com)

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Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10 (www.eevblog.com)

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Checkboxes that kill your product (limi.net)

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Chart.js: an apology to Open Source (www.chartjs.org)

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Fizz Buzz: Enterprise Edition (github.com)

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Two Months of Soylent (robrhinehart.com)

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EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down (techcrunch.com)

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US Treasury Guidance on Virtual Currencies (aka Bitcoins) (fincen.gov)

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Async I/O for Python 3 (www.dropbox.com)

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Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own (www.wired.com)

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The Minuum keyboard project: mobile keyboards reimagined (www.indiegogo.com)

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Linode NextGen: The Hardware (blog.linode.com)

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Rails 3.2.13, 3.1.12, and 2.3.18 have been released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

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5 minute fork (5minfork.com)

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Pedestal: An open source tool set for building web applications in Clojure (http://pedestal.io)

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Hacker News Refrigerator Magnets (magnet-game.com)

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Without even knowing: the HN post I missed (majurojs.org)

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Homeworld 2 Backgrounds (simonschreibt.blogspot.de)

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“The AT&T Hacker” Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison (techcrunch.com)

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What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source (blog.wikimedia.org)

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Memory Management in Rust: Smart pointers vs. References (pcwalton.github.com)

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Analyzing my DNA (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Python Software Foundation Reaches Settlement, Ends Trademark Dispute (pyfound.blogspot.com)

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Peter Thiel Talks About the Day Mark Zuckerberg Turned Down Yahoo's $1 Billion (www.inc.com)

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Internet troll “weev” sentenced to 41 months for AT&T/iPad hack (arstechnica.com)

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Earth Hour is a colossal waste of time — and energy (www.slate.com)

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Lenovo unveils new ThinkPad design (blog.lenovo.com)

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RethinkDB 1.4 is out: better protocol, drivers, data explorer history (www.rethinkdb.com)

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Errplane (YC W13) launches performance monitoring and alert service (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: My First iOS Game - Lumio (joannecdyer.com)

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Bitcoin Tops $50USD on MtGox (https://mtgox.com)

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The Process of Wireframing a Web App (nathanbarry.com)

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CircuitLab (YC W13) Has 70K Users/Month For Its Electronics Design Tool (techcrunch.com)

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Kandan, an Open Source Alternative to HipChat (github.com)

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Software to avoid the software people (samaltman.posthaven.com)

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Show HN: I just launched my first real website :) (www.pantastic.co)

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Show HN: Bootstro.js - intro.js for Bootstrap (github.com)

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Pharo 2.0 Released (www.pharo-project.org)

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Kevin Kelly - The Best Magazine Articles Ever (www.dotdotdot.me)

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Node-Chimera: headless webkit in NodeJS (github.com)

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Fixing the worst law in technology (www.newyorker.com)

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Pedestal: An open source tool set for building web applications in Clojure (pedestal.io)

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Google Drive was down (drive.google.com)

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Twilio SIP Support is Here (www.twilio.com)

55 points first seen 2013031903 last seen 2013032000 32 comments

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McMenu: Do-It-Yourself McDonald's Restaurant Recipes (www.epicconstructions.com)

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Show HN: Sales Tracker for Stripe (itunes.apple.com)

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It’s a part of my paleo fantasy, it’s a part of my paleo dream (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

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Use a VPN or Your Google Searches Are Public (www.privateinternetaccess.com)

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Google’s $10 million 10,000 start-ups plan for India (www.livemint.com)

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Show HN: Gauge of the World's Faith in Humanity (thefaithinhumanity.com)

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The real E-Mail validation (www.djangotips.com)

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Starting and Sustaining (startingandsustaining.com)

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London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March (www.meetup.com)

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Regarding fake projects and loyalty tests (donmelton.com)

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Rails Vulnerability Compilation (blog.tinfoilsecurity.com)

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Innocent Drinks: Don’t be Afraid to Start Small (warstory.co)

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7 websites that will help you learn online marketing from scratch (foundertips.com)

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Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer Faces Jail (www.businessinsider.com)

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Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble (www.geek.com)

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Startup engineers (www.dilbert.com)

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Five Best Google Reader Alternatives (lifehacker.com)

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StyleUp (YC W13): Daily Personalized Outfits Tailored To Your Style and Location (techcrunch.com)

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Meteor.sh - simply deploy meteor apps to your own server (github.com)

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DigitalOcean Root Vulnerability in the Wild (badassrockstartech.com)

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Australia Post's free Amazon locker-style service (auspost.com.au)

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Show HN: Forked and updated the Chrome RSS subscription extension Google removed (chrome.google.com)

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Short Term Thinking vs Long Term Thinking (www.avc.com)

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Stop Working at that Coffee Shop! Alternative Places to do Work (martinizer.com)

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Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices (internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org)

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Re: Why we stopped using Drupal for our platform (codedrop.com.au)

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Introducing Parse Push Analytics (blog.parse.com)

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Rails XML Parsing Vulnerability affecting JRuby users (groups.google.com)

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Techstars: One month left (www.postmaster.io)

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Nikon Repair Center saves a lens damaged by salt water by boiling it (nikonrumors.com)

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EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL (philipbjorge.github.com)

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Using Gambit-C Scheme to Create Small, Efficient Native Applications (www.devx.com)

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Alleged Google Nexus 5 Image Leaked Online (www.ign.com)

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Show HN: A new approach to remote working (www.youtube.com)

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Startup Therapy (blog.asmartbear.com)

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Google Keep, a New Service for Taking Notes (googlesystem.blogspot.in)

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The New Yorker: The Story of My App by Christoph Niemann (www.newyorker.com)

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Intab: Quicklook for your browser. (news.layervault.com)

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The Incredible Progress of the “Developing World” [video] (www.openculture.com)

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When Google kills Gmail (pixxel.co)

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Numpy status update and developer announcement (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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Forking and Dongle Jokes Don't Belong At Tech Conferences (butyoureagirl.com)

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A Surreal Encounter With a Winged Elephant (raganwald.com)

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GitLab now available in BitNami: installer, VM, cloud (bitnami.org)

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Jack Dorsey Tells 60 Minutes He’s Super Serious About Becoming Mayor of New York (betabeat.com)

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Meldium Appathon - 24 Hours to Add Apps for a Good Cause (appathon.meldium.com)

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Core i7-4770K: Haswell's Performance, Previewed (www.tomshardware.com)

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Ask HN: Freelancing, where, how and should I? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Introduction to Dart streams by the author of Dart in action (blog.dartwatch.com)

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Ask HN: like HN, for other disciplines/topics? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Women and the Treatment of Pain (www.nytimes.com)

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The inexorable rise of WhatsApp (www.mhpc.com)

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Visualizing the differences between UX and UI (agbeat.com)

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Humans are Underrated (nickchirls.com)

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Facebook finally admits to tracking non-users (www.firstpost.com)

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Genius or insanity? Exec did all his work on Galaxy Note for a year (arstechnica.com)

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5 Steps to Better Application Logging (www.miyagijournal.com)

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Epic Answer - Avoiding If statements (stackoverflow.com)

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Show HN: A very different alternative to Google Reader (www.feedsapi.org)

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Indian startup that’s building a personalised MOOC (productnation.in)

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Going faster with Python (www.asimihsan.com)

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Weev gets 41 months followed by 3 years supervised release (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why Roaming Costs Are Unjustified (opensignal.com)

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Promises are the monad of asynchronous programming (blog.jcoglan.com)

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What American Start Ups Can Learn From the Cut-Throat Chinese Software Industry (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer sentenced to 41 months (www.theverge.com)

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Shoot down the stars (blog.allotrop.com)

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Linux out-of-memory killer (linux-mm.org)

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Working on an Android tablet (bergie.iki.fi)

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Open Business 'Open House' with Balanced (balancedpayments.eventbrite.com)

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Karl Rove Will Find That Republicans Can’t Buy Talent In Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)

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Bret Victor's 2011-2012 Showreel [worrydream.com] (vimeo.com)

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PG's Underhanded Compliment: Elon Musk is Steve Jobs without Taste (www.businessinsider.com)

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It's official: CISPA is back (www.cispaisback.org)

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Creative People Say No (medium.com)

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Recruiters from Hell (fredericiana.com)

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Ring of Bitcoins: Why Your Digital Wallet Belongs On Your Finger (www.wired.com)

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Delve One of Three Startups Named to TimeSpace (blog.delvenews.com)

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Internet pioneers win engineering prize (www.bbc.co.uk)

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EFF’s Fight for Open 3D Printing Continues at Ask Patents (www.eff.org)

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UX Drinking Game (www.uxdrinkinggame.com)

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XSS Vulnerability in the `sanitize` helper of Ruby on Rails (groups.google.com)

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IFTTT launches ESPN channel to help you track sports, teams, scores and more (thenextweb.com)

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Is Google backing off from open standards? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Electronic Arts CEO quits (www.ea.com)

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Why Kickstarter Won't Sell (www.fastcompany.com)

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Ask HN: Coming to Bay Area to film about female entrepreneurs.Who wants to meet? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Logic Programming with Clojure's core.logic is Overrated (programming-puzzler.blogspot.co.uk)

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I wish I could start over (news.ycombinator.com)

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Minimum Wage Would Be $22 An Hour If It Had Kept Up With Productivity (www.huffingtonpost.com)

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The tiny, Florida-based phone maker that thinks it can beat Samsung (www.theverge.com)

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What is it like to be in a class taught by Donald Knuth? (www.quora.com)

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Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work (gigaom.com)

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LurnQ: All That is Fit To Learn Under One Roof (www.nextbigwhat.com)

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Sentry 2 - framework agnostic, composer based, & simple. PHP Auth package. (docs.cartalyst.com)

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RIP Jody (heykfa.com)

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Want an internship at a startup? Offer something (neiljoglekar.com)

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PyCon 2013: The Debrief (www.pixelmonkey.org)

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ASK HN: Does Minimal Viable Product Mean Minimal Viable Price? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How do you manage your plans and projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Warn HN: Security vulnerability in py-bcrypt 0.2 (fixed in 0.3) (code.google.com)

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Egg McMuffin sales predict economic growth (qz.com)

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This Is the Scariest Statistic About the Newspaper Business Today (www.theatlantic.com)

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Here's how an English soccer player gave broke fan free tickets via Twitter (www.conweets.com)

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EA CEO John Riccitiello steps down (www.polygon.com)

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What the Internet looked like in 1982 (blog.ted.com)

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OpenStack Certified Professionals: New Cloud Pros Coming (www.thevarguy.com)

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Ask HN: Is this worth building? (http://threadloop.com)

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Nvidia's CUDA Now Features Python Support (www.tomshardware.com)

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5 Products That Should Fear Google’s Next Killing Spree (www.wired.com)

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Bentley Pointools reveals prehistoric artwork on Stonehenge (gfxspeak.com)

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Justice Department bends on (some) e-mail privacy fixes (news.cnet.com)

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From student to spy, and back again (www.latimes.com)

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Why I'm Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin (2011) (falkvinge.net)

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Make a CD case from a single piece of paper (i.imgur.com)

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How to rebuild a tech team from scratch (gklst.tumblr.com)

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My ideal job posting (unhandledexpression.com)

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My Mother Tries an iPhone (rentzsch.tumblr.com)

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AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: What should I teach a class of low-income kids about programming? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: csswizardry-grids—Simple, ‘semantic’, nestable, responsive grid system (github.com)

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An Amazon Problem: The Book Is Dead, Long Live the Book (abcnews.go.com)

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Ask HN: Programmers, are you still excited about programming? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Instagram is down? (instagram.com)