hackerNews

1

Diamonds Are Bullshit (blog.priceonomics.com)

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Goodbye, Malcolm (www.djangoproject.com)

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Chart.js is back online (http://www.chartjs.org?back)

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Superhero.js: awesome articles and videos on building large JavaScript apps (superherojs.com)

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Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme (NSFW) (www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com)

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Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks (www.salon.com)

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Free works (www.marco.org)

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Today's Email Incident (github.com)

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Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 Internet map (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Bitcoin rises (www.aljazeera.com)

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Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git (blog.bitbucket.org)

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MongoDB 2.4 Released: Text Search, Security, Hash-based Sharding (blog.mongodb.org)

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The DOM isn't slow. You are. (blog.korynunn.com)

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Poll: What was your financial situation when you started your startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Wefunder (YC W13) launches by crowd-investing YC startups (wefunder.com)

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Google Drive Realtime API (developers.google.com)

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Discovered: Botnet Costing Display Advertisers over $6,000,000 per Month (www.spider.io)

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The brutal truth about marketing your software product (successfulsoftware.net)

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An Open Source Author's Lament (github.com)

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Announcing Sift Science: fight fraud with large-scale machine learning (blog.siftscience.com)

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How Fabrice Bellard's jslinux really works (github.com)

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The Toronto Raptors, SportVU cameras, and the NBA's analytical revolution (www.grantland.com)

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Why do we eat grains? Thermodynamics (supplementsos.com)

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Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal (fcw.com)

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How A Y Combinator Startup Is Born: The Story Of Strikingly (onforb.es)

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What should you open source in your company (alpblog.heroku.com)

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Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas (jlongster.com)

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Ex-Googlers Train Machine Army to Sift Out Crooks (www.wired.com)

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(YC backed) Ex-Googlers Launch a Fraud-Fighting System For Websites (techcrunch.com)

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SQLite 3.7.16 Released (www.sqlite.org)

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Flat-UI repository is available again (github.com)

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Freenode's Parent Organization Dissolved (blog.freenode.net)

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Poor Man’s Agile: Scrum in 5 Simple Steps (www.scottporad.com)

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The future beyond bookmarking - Welcome to new Kippt (blog.kippt.com)

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Closure (http://refer.ly)

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Show HN: Here's your Ari Gold. Announcing 10x Management. (www.10xmanagement.com)

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Show HN: StatusPage.io - Hosted, white label status pages (https://www.statuspage.io)

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Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012 (typographica.org)

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Cisco switches to weaker hashing scheme, passwords cracked wide open (arstechnica.com)

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Fivetran (YC W13) launches spreadsheet for data analysis (techcrunch.com)

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Letter from MIT President on Releasing Aaron Swartz Documents (pastebin.com)

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Posterous Migration Guide: All known importers compared (blog.posthaven.com)

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Show HN: Moto - Easy mocking of Boto for your Python AWS tests (github.com)

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FlyLatex: a free, open-source real-time collaborative latex editor (github.com)

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Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)

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Using a Raspberry Pi as an Information Radiator (pivotallabs.com)

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Java Puzzle: Square Root (corner.squareup.com)

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Hacker News-alike site for JS professionals (www.echojs.com)

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The Humble Weekly Sale (www.humblebundle.com)

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How to build a Smart Lightbulb in a Weekend (blog.kytelabs.com)

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RapidShare will delete free users' data over 5GB tonight (rapidshare.com)

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Happily upgrading Ruby on Rails at production scale (webuild.envato.com)

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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make (techcrunch.com)

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My Bug, My Bad: Sunk by Float (twistedoakstudios.com)

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Using Require.js in an ASP.NET MVC application - Tech.Pro (tech.pro)

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Major cyberattack in South Korea, tensions with North escalate (www.businessweek.com)

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Should I tell you that your startup idea sucks? (blog.123ship.it)

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How To Get Banned From PyCon (term.ie)

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SxSW – Lost That Loving Feeling for Early Stage Entrepreneurs (founderdating.com)

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3K+ Emails Of GitHub Enterprise Users Outed In Email And Then Posted On Pastebin (techcrunch.com)

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South Korea investigates computer 'attack' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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VCs are startups too. (ludlowventures.com)

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ARM's CEO steps down, to be replaced by president (www.reuters.com)

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Log2viz: Logs as Data for Performance Visibility (blog.heroku.com)

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AmazonBitcoins shut down by Amazon (amazonbitcoins.com)

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What does your web stack do when a user hits refresh? (www.shopify.com)

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Ask HN: Govt Request- Entrepreneur/Engineer Immigration Horror Stories? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Default Parameters in JavaScript (designpepper.com)

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Ask yourself: what would Bill Gates do? (blog.123ship.it)

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(el.js) - Element/Node creation tool (github.com)

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Show HN: A Twilio powered VBX with multi-tenant and payment support (github.com)

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Why it’s important to talk about Tropes vs. Women In Video Games (business.financialpost.com)

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Code Climate launches Security Monitor (blog.codeclimate.com)

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TechStars London brings access to UK visa (brendangill.tumblr.com)

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Rebuilding the pitch deck for the Pocket (reillybrennan.com)

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HubSpot's approach to front-end development at scale (dev.hubspot.com)

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Why I'm Not Applying to 37signals (But Why You Should) (joshsymonds.com)

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Chromebook's biggest fan: Linus Torvalds (www.zdnet.com)

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Writing a Confluence Plugin for a SaaS Product (www.lucidchart.com)

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Frederick W. Smith: No Overnight Success (www.businessweek.com)

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Balanced raises $800K on Facebook (pandodaily.com)

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Meritocracy - the big myth (www.stefankendall.com)

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Apparently We're Not Ready to Be Adults About Anything (chriszf.posterous.com)

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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch resigns, heads for Apple (news.cnet.com)

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On video games and storytelling (www.newyorker.com)

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Show HN: Founders - interviews with some of the world's finest entrepreneurs (www.founders.cc)

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Lessons Learned from Bill Gross' 35 IPOs/Exits and 40 Failures (firstround.com)

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Implementing Scalable Search on a NoSQL Backend (blog.parse.com)

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Show HN: My homemade budgeting site I use all the time (http://pocketloot.com)

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How to Read a Book (blog.anguscroll.com)

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Dreamhost Outage - 5+ hours and ongoing (www.dreamhoststatus.com)

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Researching how to improve STEM education through programming marathons (www.microryza.com)

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YC startup Teespring, growing 50% monthly, hits $750K monthly sales (venturebeat.com)

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Google’s RSS Extension Returns Sans Reader Support, Was “Deleted By Mistake” (techcrunch.com)

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The "No Fire" Policy (www.michelemmartin.com)

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Newly-Hired Apple VP of Technology Kevin Lynch Is a Bozo, a Bad Hire (daringfireball.net)

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Postmates Has Raised $5 Million to Expand Into Seattle And Beyond (techcrunch.com)

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82

Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean be so cheap? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google's RSS extension restored to Chrome Web Store, "was removed by mistake" (code.google.com)

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N. Korea hit by large-scale cyber attack (securityaffairs.co)

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81

About Bitcoin Mining (www.weusecoins.com)

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A new way to do code reviews (http://www.codebrag.com)

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Introducing SourceTree for Windows (blog.sourcetreeapp.com)

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How Swatting Works (thepbxblog.com)

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Poll: Do you still use Freshmeat (aka Freecode)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Samsung Galaxy S4 not getting CyanogenMod support (www.androidauthority.com)

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How to walk 10,000 steps a day if you’re a desk jockey (chriskresser.com)

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

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App Engine 1.7.6 released (googleappengine.blogspot.com)

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Titles are Toxic (www.randsinrepose.com)

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Comics, not blogs. DevOps Dave - Buried in Logs (www.scriptrock.com)

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You Really Do Have To 'Drink The Kool-Aid' To Succeed At Lululemon (www.businessinsider.com)

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Don't Guess it, Test it: improving site and app performance (aerotwist.com)

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Marissa Mayer Loves Paperwork, And It Is Driving Some People Nuts (www.businessinsider.com)

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Five "laws" of programming paradigms (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

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Github leaks 1500 enterprise emails (chadscira.com)

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NASA needs postgres (2010) (www.postgresql.org)

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My 2013 PyCon talk: Awesome Big Data Algorithms (ivory.idyll.org)

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Dan Ariely’s “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior” Open For Enrollment (blog.coursera.org)

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Can someone break my weak home-brew encryption? (blog.ram.rachum.com)

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Superfeedr : A Google Reader Compatible API (blog.superfeedr.com)

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MIT Professor talks about his battles with depression (tech.mit.edu)

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How to Read a Book (blog.anguscroll.com)

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On traversing an array in Javascript (blog.michaeltang.me)

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Kansas City-born Divshot closes $1.1m seed round, lays roots in LA (www.siliconprairienews.com)

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InTab - Open links inline (iansilber.com)

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Tutorialize: year one (blog.tutorialize.me)

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Malcolm Tredinnick (malcolmt) has passed of a burst aneurysm (twitter.com)

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Things publishers can't do (yet) (www.antipope.org)

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Hipsters on food stamps (www.salon.com)

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On requesting multiple resources RESTfully (blog.apiaxle.com)

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More teachers are grouping kids by ability (www.usatoday.com)

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Danny Hillis: We need a backup internet (blog.longnow.org)

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Team Building in the Real World: Rescuing the Problem Employee (www.mendix.com)

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Yaxi, the Uber for Mexico, shows best practices for mobile app support (blog.hipmob.com)

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The Unregulated Work of Mechanical Turk (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Iraq war 10th anniversary: A dark mark for news media (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

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Soylent: A Very Bad Idea (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)

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Sony offers slick new SmartWatch software (www.cnet.com)

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Ask HN: How to find jobs at a VC firm? (news.ycombinator.com)

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None of us are ninjas. Nor are we rock stars. (floate.com.au)

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Supreme Court overturns $600,000 in copyright damages (www.npr.org)

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Ask HN: Denied Individual Health Insurance, Now What? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Amazon's new 'Send to Kindle' button saves stories from the web (www.theverge.com)

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Show HN: Need your feedback. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bullshit Wait-listed Apps (brooksreview.net)