hackerNews

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A Note from one of Cloudflare's upstream providers (cluepon.net)

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Web Framework Benchmarks (www.techempower.com)

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Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented (techcrunch.com)

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Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of Python (github.com)

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Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads (techcrunch.com)

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The language of Vim (stackoverflow.com)

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Why Asm.js Bothers Me (mrale.ph)

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Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speaks up (arstechnica.com)

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PostgreSQL git repository going private ahead of security releases next week (www.postgresql.org)

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What Being a Handyman Has Taught Me About Male Insecurity (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share (www.wired.com)

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Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse (blog.katylevinson.com)

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Google Maps a Japanese Nuclear Ghost Town (www.theatlantic.com)

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“My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost.” (bitcointalk.org)

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Taking a stand on open source and patents (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

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How to do anything (justinkan.com)

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Show HN: Redstone, a distributed Minecraft server that runs on Node.js (www.redstone.io)

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SEC Greenlights FundersClub (YC S12) (techcrunch.com)

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.NET and Node.JS – Performance Comparison (www.salmanq.com)

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Mathematics Cannot be Patented. Case Dismissed (www.rackspace.com)

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New map of the US based on how dollar bills move (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money (blogs.hbr.org)

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OAuth for Python made easy (github.com)

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Django 1.5.1 released (www.djangoproject.com)

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India as a great power (www.economist.com)

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When Things Don't Work Out (www.avc.com)

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Let's Go Back to Grouping Students by Ability (www.theatlantic.com)

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Formspring - A Postmortem (blog.capwatkins.com)

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V8 developers start working on ES6 generators for JavaScript (code.google.com)

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Building a browser extension? Be careful not to XSS the whole internet (blog.tinfoilsecurity.com)

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The Setup: Joe Armstrong (joe.armstrong.usesthis.com)

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Musk: SpaceX to Attempt Falcon 9 First Stage Water Landing (www.parabolicarc.com)

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IT Pro confession: I contributed to the DDOS attack against Spamhaus (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Fuduntu: Back to Fundamentals, Gets it Right (www.linuxadvocates.com)

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Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says (www.space.com)

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Median Rent SF: One Bedroom Apartment Map (tiles.mapbox.com)

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What's The Point Of Promises? (www.kendoui.com)

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Email First Startups (isachin.com)

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3D-ifying Documents Using CSS Transforms (blog.crocodoc.com)

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Cyprus Bailout: Stupidity, Short-Sightedness, Something Else? (www.cyprus.com)

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So, you want to try PyPy (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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Show HN: Demo of peer-to-peer image hosting with WebRTC (Chrome only) (demo.peerkit.com)

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One Drug to Shrink All Tumors (news.sciencemag.org)

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Dear Congress: It's time for a real fix on unlocking and the DMCA (sina.is)

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Introducing Adobe Blank (blogs.adobe.com)

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By endurance we conquer (blog.samaltman.com)

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Climate science: A sensitive matter (www.economist.com)

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Unified API for WebSocket and HTTP long polling/streaming (http-kit.org)

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The Nokia Patents and VP8 – Prior Art Hunting Time (www.groklaw.net)

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Show HN: Help job seekers by letting them ask employees anonymous questions (deskanything.com)

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Life After PHP (s3.amazonaws.com)

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Facebook Launching Smartphone (9to5google.com)

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US citizens to report BitCoin accounts over $10,000 to the IRS - a law proposal (www.irsmedic.com)

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Exceptional to join the Rackspace Family (blog.exceptional.io)

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Google Introduces Same-Day Shipping to Compete With eBay and Amazon (www.wired.com)

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Open access: The true cost of science publishing (www.nature.com)

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Google Shopping Express looking for Bay Area testers (googlecommerce.blogspot.com)

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Uniloc v. Rackspace: court bounces patent on method for rounding numbers (www.groklaw.net)

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Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers (thetechblock.com)

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Twilio Teams Up With Nonprofits To Help Fight Human Trafficking (www.twilio.com)

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C# Extension Methods Demystified (geekswithblogs.net)

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Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online buyers (www.reuters.com)

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Bitcoin Now Worth $1B (codinginmysleep.com)

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The Case for Getting Married Young (www.theatlantic.com)

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How we wrote our app for MS Office 2013 (www.lucidchart.com)

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Will Emscripten/Asm.js kill Web-Development as we know it? (plus.google.com)

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Yelp Dataset Challenge (www.yelp.com)

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Shoplocket partners with WordPress to enable blog-based ecommerce (techcrunch.com)

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Really, Google? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Contemporary dance performance about gender at European Rails Conference (blog.railsberry.com)

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AprilFools.css (github.com)

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Run Zotonic sites on Heroku (github.com)

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The Trader Joe's Lesson: How to Pay a Living Wage and Still Make Money in Retail (www.theatlantic.com)

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Numbers in Action (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure (2009) [video] (channel9.msdn.com)

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Show HN: Workout planner (intro.thryv.com)

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JavaScript cloth physics simulation using verlet integration (lonely-pixel.com)

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Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces (abovethecrowd.com)

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Ask HN: Does this exist or would it appeal? (news.ycombinator.com)

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You don’t ‘own’ your own genes (www.kurzweilai.net)

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Series A Crunch Worsens (www.pehub.com)

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At Age 25 Mark Cuban Learned Lessons About Leadership That Changed His Life (www.forbes.com)

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WTF is happening in Cyprus? (mathbabe.org)

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Angry Birds of JavaScript: Blue Bird - Events and Messages (www.elijahmanor.com)

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Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think? (mercurypuzzle.com)

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Trampolines in JavaScript (raganwald.com)

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Upcoming Science Based Meditation Workshop in the Bay Area (mindfulnessengineering.com)

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Hansoo's Legacy: Passion, People and Entrepreneurship (founderdating.com)

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Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy's Last Safe Haven (www.businessweek.com)

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Help me help humanity (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Depressed and I want to start therapy, but struggling (news.ycombinator.com)

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Closing the loop between your customer data and your email data (blog.mailgun.net)

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AndroidFFmpeg - FFmpeg build for android architectures (github.com)

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The Point Of A Startup Is To Make Money, Not To Raise Money (www.fogbeam.blogspot.com)

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Proposition Bet: I'll work on your startup for free (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success (dashes.com)

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Ask HN: How much more expensive is it to live in Silicon Valley? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Future of Search is Visual (joannalord.com)

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When Things Don't Work Out (www.avc.com)

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Google announces open source patent pledge, won't sue 'unless first attacked' (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: Should an entrepreneur build multiple startups simultaneously? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Scorched - a lightweight framework for Ruby 2.0 (scorchedrb.com)

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Remind HN: YC S13 applications are due tomorrow at 8pm PT (news.ycombinator.com)

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OpenSignal - Crowd-sourced Cellular Coverage Maps for the world. (opensignal.com)

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Ask HN: Working at Google - is better to live nearby or in SF? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Activision shows off next-gen facial rendering (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: What do you use to manage your support? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Amazon Is Buying Goodreads (betabeat.com)

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A NAT64 implementation for Linux (github.com)

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So, you want to try PyPy (morepypy.blogspot.co.uk)

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How we handle our remote teams (lesseverything.com)

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Show HN: Drive Google's Streetview Car (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mobile Dev market demand slowing down? (news.ycombinator.com)

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COM 101 - a DOS executable walkthrough (imgur.com)

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Show HN: Test your Android application in minutes (http://skyforge.io)

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg faces $1 billion tax bill (money.cnn.com)

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Interface Builder's alternative Lisp timeline (paulhammant.com)

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A New Way for Artists to Get Paid for Image Use (hyperallergic.com)

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BlowFile is private FTP with unlimited bandwidth (www.blowfile.com)

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Facebook to Reveal a Modified Android OS (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: What do you use for your tech blog and are you happy with it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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For those who like real torture: developing .Net apps on Raspberry Pi (www.jeremymorgan.com)

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Mysql vs PostgreSQL? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Alan Kay says programing is pop culture. Where can I find the classics? (news.ycombinator.com)

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

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The pleasures and perils of the open-plan office (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Discover Twitter conversations based on topics or hashtags (blog.conweets.com)

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Google Starts Testing Google Shopping Express In SF (techcrunch.com)

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Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (zedshaw.com)

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Thoughts On A Text Engine (alexangelini.com)

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Google Erects Patent Shield for the Open Source Internet (www.wired.com)

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RIM surprises with unexpected profit, sells 1 million Blackbery Z10s (online.wsj.com)

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Nuclear Plant Shutdown Results in 4,319 Fewer Cancer Cases (www.healthline.com)

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Messaging at Scale at Instagram (video + slides from PyCon) (lanyrd.com)

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JSON-LD: a lightweight Linked Data format (json-ld.org)

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OpenShot Video Editor needs help on Kickstarter, offers immortality in return (www.engadget.com)

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Bitcoin miners hit back at cyber-thieves (www.bbc.co.uk)

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V8 dev: asm.js populism is the worst thing that happened to JavaScript in years (twitter.com)

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Bot that retweets pictures of people's credit cards (twitter.com)

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Show HN: tweetsFC - Follow your entire football club on Twitter (http://www.tweetsfc.com)

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More Consumer Financial Protection Board data released (www.consumerfinance.gov)

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13 Years and 11 Startups (denniskubes.com)

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Prostitution among animals (en.wikipedia.org)

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Nobody Cares About Your Stories (blog.bucketlistly.com)

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Cyprus crisis boosts Bitcoin (www.cnbc.com)

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What are the most important skills of an infrastructure Engineer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Bluenote, a notes, task and password manager for Mac (http://bluenote.io)

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The Feds are here (or, aliasing for those tight spots) (thechangelog.com)

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New in Node.js this week: Performance regressions, security and timer fixes (blog.strongloop.com)

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Mobile Harvest is Changing the Lives of Rural Indians (blog.stackmob.com)

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Google Introduces Same-Day Shopping to Compete With eBay and Amazon (daringfireball.net)