hackerNews

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Persona is distributed. Today. (identity.mozilla.com)

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How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (www.propublica.org)

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What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly (hackingdistributed.com)

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Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source (http://docker.io)

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21 Nested Callbacks (blog.michellebu.com)

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The power of the RSS reader (www.marco.org)

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Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night, with monsters. (code.google.com)

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A lot of free programming ebooks (hackershelf.com)

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22 and no life (news.ycombinator.com)

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21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous (www.washingtonpost.com)

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10 000 concurrent real-time connections to Django (github.com)

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Unshackle the Middle Class // pmarca A16Z Blog (blog.pmarca.com)

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FBI wants real-time Gmail, Dropbox spying power (www.slate.com)

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Show HN: I made a site for hosting/selling indie games (http://itch.io)

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Forecast – Worldwide Weather Forecasts From the Makers of Dark Sky (http://forecast.io)

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The Truth About Brining Turkey (www.seriouseats.com)

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BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Patents Live Streaming Protocol (torrentfreak.com)

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Mailchimp offers 10% discount for using 2-factor security (blog.mailchimp.com)

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Polycode - Open Source, cross-platform framework for games and interactive apps (http://polycode.org)

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Move your contacts and calendar away from Google (www.flailingmonkey.com)

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My Interview Questions for Potential Employers (www.runtime-era.com)

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Let’s Say FeedBurner Shuts Down… (css-tricks.com)

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Attack of the Cosmic Rays (blogs.oracle.com)

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iCheck - Super customized checkboxes and radio buttons with jQuery (damirfoy.com)

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Show HN: How I Used Machine Learning to Optimize My Trading Algorithm (www.quantopian.com)

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WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable (cdn.peerjs.com)

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Your Startup’s Most Important Metrics (tomtunguz.com)

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Don't Get Offended (lesswrong.com)

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Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day (ycombinator.com)

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Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1: Meet Wevorce, FlightCar, Thalmic (techcrunch.com)

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Don't solve the solved problems (blog.collections.me)

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Don’t Get Bored at Demo Day (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Largest DDoS in history reaches 300 Gbps (www.nytimes.com)

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Top 7 Startups From YC (W13) Demo Day (techcrunch.com)

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Getting Started with Django Lesson 3, Testing (gettingstartedwithdjango.com)

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T-Mobile iPhone goes from myth to reality: $580, but no contract (arstechnica.com)

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Sync to Paper (robertgreiner.com)

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Fiber cables made of air move data at 99.7 percent the speed of light (arstechnica.com)

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USPS Discrimination Against Atheism? (www.atheistberlin.com)

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Show HN: jQuery.pin – a plugin for making stuff stick (webpop.github.com)

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How I develop Django projects (blog.kristian.io)

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Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool (instantname.me)

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Why Github and Stack Overflow are the wrong tools for democracy (www.reasonwell.com)

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Show HN: Curated Newsletter of Show HNs (www.weekendupdate.me)

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Try Haskell: An interactive tutorial in your browser (tryhaskell.org)

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Snapshot: ViaWeb, June 1998 (www.paulgraham.com)

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Java does not need that much memory after all (plumbr.eu)

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Watsi (YC W13) and the Future of Patronage (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Show HN: Evernote powered website/blogging platform (now in open beta) (http://postach.io)

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Xavier Niel will open a "revolutionary" computer school (www.google.com)

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Paul Graham Says Y Combinator Is Pickier Than Ever, ‘Hardly Any’ Bad Startups (techcrunch.com)

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Achron, time shifting RTS (www.achrongame.com)

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Writing Open Source Software? Make Sure You Know Your Copyright Rights (blog.smartbear.com)

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Jeff Bezos’ new patent envisions tablets without processors, batteries (arstechnica.com)

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When "What Do You Do?" Is Taboo (www.nytimes.com)

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Elephant - Persistent Key-Value store with Full Text Search (github.com)

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Invest in startups that pitched at YC Demo Day (wefunder.com)

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Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border (www.forbes.com)

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Working on TypeScript 0.9: Generics, Overload on Constants and Performance (blogs.msdn.com)

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AWS CloudHSM: Secure Key Storage and Cryptographic Operations (aws.amazon.com)

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Red state, blue state 2012: iOS vs Android in the USA (www.mobify.com)

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Turing's Universal Machine voted most important past British innovation (www.topbritishinnovations.org)

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Meet the 9 Female Founders of Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 Class (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Fantasy VC Picks (sohailprasad.com)

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Tech Talk: Paco Nathan – Enterprise Data Workflows & Functional Programming (www.airbnb.com)

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Digital Currency: ten years before Bitcoin, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (www.laurelzuckerman.com)

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The 100-Year Software Application (blog.smartbear.com)

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Announcing Forecast (blog.forecast.io)

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Converting Python2 to Python3 [video] (www.neckbeardrepublic.com)

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USPS International API + EasyPost (blog.geteasypost.com)

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Your robot army, controlled by Arduino and Bluetooth (arstechnica.com)

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Friendly Drones with Carin Meier and Jim Weirich [audio] (www.neo.com)

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Bacteria evolve; Conservapedia demands recount [2008] (arstechnica.com)

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22-year old community college dropout starts $100M company, Nasty Gal (finance.yahoo.com)

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Show HN: Wunderlist celebrates 1M Android downloads, Open Sources key UI element (www.6wunderkinder.com)

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A Closure Is Not Always A Closure In Ruby (www.skorks.com)

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Understanding Postgres Data Caching (devcenter.heroku.com)

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At Y Combinator, Social is Out, Revenue is In (blogs.wsj.com)

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Numbers every algorithm designer should know (www.infoarena.ro)

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Can YC alumni screen applications to my disadvantage? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Forecast (forecast.io)

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Lies Your Employer Tells You (employeeatty.blogspot.com)

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HTML5's overseer says DRM's true purpose is to prevent legal forms of innovation (boingboing.net)

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Engineering the Bitcoin Gold Rush (motherboard.vice.com)

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Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 2: Meet Lollipuff, Goldbely, And More (techcrunch.com)

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ASK HN: Tell us a survey topic.We'll make you an Infographic about it (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Lean Domain Search's New Brandable Domain Names Section (www.leandomainsearch.com)

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Why do Git and Debian only use a mailing list and not an issue tracker? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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This Pizza is Worth $750,000 (motherboard.vice.com)

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Ask HN: Is it time for a new Facebook? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Brain scans predict which criminals are more likely to reoffend (www.nature.com)

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How to Make Money from Open Source (hintjens.com)

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Show HN: cdnjs - RSS & Atom feeds for new JavaScript libraries (news.ycombinator.com)

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Making WebRTC Simple with conversat.io (hacks.mozilla.org)

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The World's First Bitcoin ATM Is in Cash-Strapped Cyprus (motherboard.vice.com)

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Shrunk down an Arduino to the size of a finger-tip by Open Source RF (www.kickstarter.com)

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What Medieval Castles Can Teach You About Web Security (blog.smartbear.com)

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Ask PG: Which language/stack would you use to build ViaWeb today? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Scraping Just Got a lot More Dangerous (www.distilnetworks.com)

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AWS CloudHSM - Secure Key Storage and Cryptographic Operations (aws.typepad.com)

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ZeroMail – Personal Assistant for Email Sorting, 24/7 without the Hassle (blog.zeromail.com)

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Getting Derby ready for prime time (blog.derbyjs.com)

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How I Made a (Summly Founder) 15-Year-Old App Developer Cry (2011) (gizmodo.com)

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Larger smartphone screens lead to increased Web usage, but only over WiFi (thenextweb.com)

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Will free MOOCs destroy Higher Education? (www.digitopoly.org)

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Neal Stephenson Heiroglyph project launches (hieroglyph.asu.edu)

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Top-tier this (2011) (37signals.com)

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What it’s like to have two mothers (sashmackinnon.com)

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What does “expressiveness” via LOC per commit measure in practice? (redmonk.com)

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Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (www.reuters.com)

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ISPs Cannot Be Forced To Store Data on File-Sharers, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com)

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A Leaner, Stronger, More Modest Y Combinator (techcrunch.com)

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Insights into Church-Rosser (blog.precog.com)

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XKCD: Time - Time Lapse of the entire day's 95 panels (xkcd.aubronwood.com)

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Down, down, down: Books, e-books and apps all trending to zero (gyrovague.com)

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Voyager (what-if.xkcd.com)

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No Windows desktop mode (www.zdnet.com)

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Why Paid Email Will Never Beat Gmail (gizmodo.com)

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SCOTUS: Drug Dogs Require Warrant (www.scotusblog.com)

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Every Known YC-Funded Company Since 2005 (Includes YC W13) (ycuniverse.com)

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Life, death, and free culture in the Mission (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Sweden axes new word after Google intervenes (www.thelocal.se)

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Continuum Analytics Announces Partnership with Thomson Reuters (continuum.io)

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Tinkercad to close down (tinkercad.com)

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SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Safely Returns (arstechnica.com)

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How researchers are fighting lung cancer using PageRank (gigaom.com)

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The Smalltalk-80 Programming System (Xerox Presentation) (www.youtube.com)

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Google’s Go Appears on Brazilian Cloud (www.wired.com)

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Coffee - The Wine of Islam (www.superluminal.com)

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DigitalOcean's New Control Panel and Transparent Design Process (www.digitalocean.com)

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Show HN: Bloggers, Write with Your Readers (prop-ed.com)

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A History of Computing Research at Bell Laboratories (1937-1975) [pdf] (design.osu.edu)

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Americans Receive Half The Amount Of Vacation Time Of Russians (press.hotels.com)

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Why GitTip use Aspen instead of Django/Rails (whit537.org)

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Guido Van Rossum Should Retire (and focus on python) (archlinux.me)

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DevTools Extensions For Web App Developers (addyosmani.com)

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Rands on how to make meetings suck less (firstround.com)