hackerNews

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The DDoS that almost broke the Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web (blog.mozilla.org)

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Ƀ — Universal Bitcoin Logo Alternative (www.ecogex.com)

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Global Internet slows after 'biggest attack in history' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Take pride or fuck it (robertheaton.com)

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Three.js editor (mrdoob.github.com)

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Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem (joearms.github.com)

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Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack (www.forbes.com)

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Rails' Insecure Defaults (blog.codeclimate.com)

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DARPA gives $3M to Continuum Analytics to improve Python for big data (www.drdobbs.com)

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The Positive Programmer (www.rdegges.com)

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R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012) (www.talyarkoni.org)

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Common Pitfalls in Writing Lock-Free Algorithms (developers.memsql.com)

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Chrome team member begins discussion for adding optimisations for asm.js to V8 (code.google.com)

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Everything about Java 8 (www.techempower.com)

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Avoiding Common Backbone.js Pitfalls (ozkatz.github.com)

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U.S. plans to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances (www.reuters.com)

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Email: the easiest way to improve retention (segment.io)

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The largest computer ever built (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux (www.ubuntuvibes.com)

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Concurrency Models: Go vs Erlang (joneisen.me)

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YC Demo Day, the Morning After (distributionhacks.com)

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Egypt catches divers cutting Internet cable amid disruptions (www.reuters.com)

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GNOME 3.8 Released (www.gnome.org)

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Killing hackers is justified in cyber warfare, says NATO-commissioned report (vrge.co)

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19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia (www.forbes.com)

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Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics [pdf] (www.stat.columbia.edu)

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Go Concurrency (www.slideshare.net)

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Ask PG: why am I dead? (news.ycombinator.com)

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

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The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy and Wikipedia (mako.cc)

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Finnish startup eliminates data roaming costs forever (www.arcticstartup.com)

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There's a Hole in 1,951 Amazon S3 Buckets (community.rapid7.com)

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Crowd-funding Preventive Treatment for Breast Cancer (www.microryza.com)

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Overloading Django Form Fields (pydanny.com)

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MongoDB remote command execution vulnerability: nightmare or eye opener? (blog.sdelements.com)

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Godit - A very religious text editor (Written in Go) (github.com)

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FireMe - Who wants to get fired? (fireme.l3s.uni-hannover.de)

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Bacteria in the Intestines May Help Tip the Bathroom Scale, Studies Show (www.nytimes.com)

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Meet Gabe Newell, Microsoft’s next CEO (whilstinarrakis.wordpress.com)

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PeerCDN: WebRTC-based peer-to-peer CDN [video] (http://peercdn.com)

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Stuxnet Likely Constituted Illegal Act of Force, Study Says (www.securityweek.com)

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Vim speed is not really the point (wrongsideofmemphis.com)

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Bringing First Timers to PyCon Through Financial Aid (pycon.blogspot.com)

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Maps Hidden in Monopoly Helped World War II POWs Escape (2009) (abcnews.go.com)

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Mercedes Bringing Tesla-Powered EV to U.S. Next Year (www.wired.com)

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The 17-Year-Old That Yahoo Paid $30M Was Licensing His Startup's Core Technology (www.sfgate.com)

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Hands-on with Mozilla’s Web-based “Firefox OS” (arstechnica.com)

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JSON is not as safe as people think it is (incompleteness.me)

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Let's Make DNS Outage Suck Less (kvz.io)

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Announcing Cloud Transcoding for Live Video (blog.zencoder.com)

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The Trials, Tribulations and Triumph of PyCon 2013 (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Thank You, Hacker News. You're one of those communities. (alxmrph.com)

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Show HN: Trailer Swift (http://www.trailer-swift.com)

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Show HN: Corral Rides - All your SF transportation options in one place (http://www.getcorral.com)

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San Diego Hacker News Meetup 39 (Fri 3/29) (anyvite.com)

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Embert: Turnkey EmberJS + Sinatra app (stevengharms.com)

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Show HN: doodlec.am (doodlec.am)

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Scaling Teams and Fighting Human Nature in Startups - Rand's Blog (moz.com)

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That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie (gizmodo.com)

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Placebos becoming too effective, pharma industry worries (asserttrue.blogspot.co.nz)

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Smartwatches: The competition has started! (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: How do I get started with regular expressions? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Engineering Teams on Twitter (talkfast.org)

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SUSE JS Framework Roundup - or - Why SUSE Studio chose batman.js over AngularJS (blog.susestudio.com)

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Ask HN: Why the recent flurry of .io domains? (news.ycombinator.com)

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That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie (gizmodo.com)

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3D Rendered Bumblebee in 1K of JS (js1k.com)

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Wally - holds your plastic cards (wally-app.com)

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Your employer may cost you $100k in retirement savings – FutureAdvisor (YC S10) (money.cnn.com)

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After XML, JSON. Then What? (www.drdobbs.com)

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It's okay to not like things (www.youtube.com)

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Peer-to-peer CDN (peercdn.com)

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Amazon Kindle smartphone details leak: 4.7in screen and Q2 launch (www.pcadvisor.co.uk)

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EFF blasts plans to build DRM into HTML5 (boingboing.net)

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Show HN: Capture leads like never before (viralsweep.com)

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How not to use lambdas in Python (gist.github.com)

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'This Is Working': Portugal, 12 Years after Decriminalizing Drugs (www.spiegel.de)

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Free Navigation Bar Designs To Use In Your iPhone App (www.appdesignvault.com)

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Venture Capital’s Sluggish Performance (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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What's your favorite computer science topic? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Itch (www.newyorker.com)

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Bitcoin hits $1 billion in market cap (blockchain.info)

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Fake holidays are the new infographics (blog.backupify.com)

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The 12 Most Controversial Facts In Mathematics (www.businessinsider.com)

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Nanex: May 6, 2010 Flash Crash Mystery Solved (www.nanex.net)

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Oklahoma earthquake linked to oil extraction wastewater (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Adria Richards makes an email statement, says she's moving on (blogs.denverpost.com)

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Who, What, Why: What is "unGoogleable"? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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New Yelp academic dataset and challenge for students (www.yelp.com)

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How We Pivoted Right After 500 Startups’ Demo Day – and Survived (500.co)

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Netflix teams up with 'Matrix' creators for new TV series 'Sense8' (www.theverge.com)

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Are Customers Addicted to Handset Subsidies? (thelab.o2.com)

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Draft Everywhere (ninjasandrobots.com)

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Being Google (www.tbray.org)

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U.S. law to restrict government purchases of Chinese IT equipment (www.reuters.com)

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Picture of the Day: Getting to school at all costs (www.euronews.com)

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Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead? (www.nytimes.com)

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Chinese Gamer Has Spent The Past 6 Years In An Internet Cafe (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: What code-editor do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Man’s Map App Blows Up After He Accidentally Names It “Butt Crack” in Portuguese (www.macgasm.net)

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Glass Will Be Made In The U.S., Report Claims, At Facility In Santa Clara (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Take over abandoned GitHub repo (news.ycombinator.com)

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Is Quora Deceitful or Clumsy? Either Way Their Social Practice is Contemptible (www.startupplays.com)

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Ask HN:Why are Apple, Yahoo, MediaTemple, StumbleUpon IPs doing Xmas port scans? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why fewer women go into science and engineering (www.psychologicalscience.org)

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MAJOR Bug in ASSEMBLA (news.ycombinator.com)

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A 17 Year Old Entrepreneur's iPhone App Grosses $15k in 9 Days AMA via Reddit (www.reddit.com)

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Rackspace Service Registry - Performance and New Features (devops.rackspace.com)

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Slack in the System (bryanhelmig.com)

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Play Framework: async I/O without the thread pool and callback hell (engineering.linkedin.com)

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Robot Reality: Service Jobs Are Next to Go (www.cnbc.com)

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GNOME 3.8 Released (help.gnome.org)

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What Is Bitcoin and What Can I Do With It? (lifehacker.com)

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Ask HN: How to deal w/ client where the 2 owners have each fired the other? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why Developers Shouldn’t Use iCloud Syncing, Even If It Worked (inessential.com)

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Help, I want to quit the startup I founded (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What Are The Best Open Source Codebases to Study to Improve? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Data Diet: How I Lost 60 Pounds Using A Google Docs (medium.com)

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Understanding lightweight threads (with code) (c9x.me)

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Smudges of horse-drawn carts and petticoats (greig.cc)

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19-Year-Old Develops Ocean Cleanup Array to Clean the World's Oceans (inhabitat.com)

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Making the TV Application Layer Open Source (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Why Computer Talents become Computer Hackers (cacm.acm.org)

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Want to start a startup? Get an internship. (www.apeekatchu.com)

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Zoom - news entity search (www.smh.com.au)

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Y-combinator not-unlisted Youtube video pitches (www.youtube.com)

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Pre-orders are open for the XCANEX Clip-On Scanner. (swish.com)

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SpaceX Resume (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: How To Become Obsessed and Achieve Greatness at Anything (http://indoctrinator.com)

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Lessons on Java programing... (lurnq.com)

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First french telecom provider CEO creates a free and open comp science school (translate.google.com)

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Hulu board contacts possible buyers of video streaming site (www.reuters.com)