hackerNews

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What every web developer must know about URL encoding (blog.lunatech.com)

254 points first seen 2013040118 last seen 2013062621 34 comments

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The Ivy League Was Another Planet (www.nytimes.com)

252 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040300 218 comments

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Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure (nightweb.net)

247 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040300 133 comments

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India's Supreme Court reject Novartis right to patent new version of cancer drug (www.foxnews.com)

247 points first seen 2013040121 last seen 2013040303 124 comments

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Tell HN: Flag PR "April fools pranks" (news.ycombinator.com)

244 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040118 42 comments

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Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target (www.teslamotors.com)

238 points first seen 2013040118 last seen 2013040300 235 comments

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Kiln (github.com)

229 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040300 60 comments

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Listen to Bitcoin (www.listentobitcoin.com)

203 points first seen 2013040109 last seen 2013040303 74 comments

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Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention (rein.pk)

190 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040300 158 comments

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Google Maps One-Hand Zoom on iPhone (carlsednaoui.com)

182 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040300 86 comments

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JavaScript is Not Web Assembly (blog.izs.me)

171 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040300 98 comments

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Google Maps: “Treasure Map” mode (maps.google.com)

160 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040200 78 comments

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The RESTful CookBook (restcookbook.com)

139 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2015052603 43 comments

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Kerbal Space Program - space flight simulator game (kerbalspaceprogram.com)

138 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040221 57 comments

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Steve Jobs' first boss: 'Very few companies would hire Steve, even today' (www.siliconvalley.com)

132 points first seen 2013040115 last seen 2013040300 90 comments

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Want to learn to code? Start here. (blog.zackshapiro.com)

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Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-powered rifle (arstechnica.com)

121 points first seen 2013040115 last seen 2013040206 150 comments

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Rust 0.6 rc is out (mail.mozilla.org)

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Google Nose BETA (www.google.com.au)

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World’s top supercomputer from ‘09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled (arstechnica.com)

104 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040206 45 comments

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Analyzing mbostock's queue.js (bsumm.net)

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Show HN: April Fool's Pranks (news.ycombinator.com)

100 points first seen 2013040115 last seen 2013040206 63 comments

6

Why I (still) Love Perl (allisonrandal.com)

95 points first seen 2013040109 last seen 2013040821 80 comments

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Doctor Who-Style Wi-Fi With Sentient Captive Portal (blog.tonybox.net)

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Time management hacks (www.slideshare.net)

81 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040209 20 comments

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Liberation fonts causing Windows 7 SP1 to BSOD (bugs.freedesktop.org)

80 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040203 52 comments

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By building “fairy circles,” termites engineer their own ecosystem (arstechnica.com)

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PaperCoin - paper offline Bitcoin wallets (papercoin.org)

75 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013040203 49 comments

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Building a SaaS business - 2007 vs 2013. (sahilparikh.com)

73 points first seen 2013040118 last seen 2013040300 21 comments

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Stackoverflow rolls out "Chat with an expert" (meta.stackoverflow.com)

68 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040115 27 comments

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AngelList Receives SEC No-Action Letter Two Days After FundersClub (www.daniellemorrill.com)

67 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040203 24 comments

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A 10 Line Wi-Fi SSID Sniffer in Python (hackoftheday.securitytube.net)

67 points first seen 2013040121 last seen 2013040300 23 comments

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Blog Or Get Off The Pot (2006) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

63 points first seen 2013040115 last seen 2013040209 36 comments

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EMBER 1.0 RC2 (emberjs.com)

58 points first seen 2013040109 last seen 2013040206 14 comments

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Justin Timberlake Made a Fortune Giving His Album Away (www.businessweek.com)

55 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040121 51 comments

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Show HN: Generate test data for your database tables (www.databasetestdata.com)

51 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013040200 17 comments

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Repl.it: online environment for interactively exploring programming languages (repl.it)

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Google Glass #ifihadglass Winners (cs.stanford.edu)

47 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013040115 48 comments

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Created my own RSS Reader Nuesbyte (http://nuesbyte.com)

46 points first seen 2013040121 last seen 2013040212 45 comments

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Today is World Backup Day (http://www.worldbackupday.com?2013)

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Why It’s Important For Us To Keep Explaining The Net And Its Civil Liberties (torrentfreak.com)

45 points first seen 2013040109 last seen 2013040203 0 comments

12

Introduction to Bayesian Methods (www.slideshare.net)

43 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040203 8 comments

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Show HN: See the number of DOM elements on a web page (domtree.breckyunits.com)

43 points first seen 2013040115 last seen 2013040206 20 comments

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Why China Is Reading Your Email (online.wsj.com)

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The Best Conference Hack (medium.com)

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David Heinemeier Hansson: Every Employee Should Work From Home (www.forbes.com)

40 points first seen 2013040121 last seen 2013040203 47 comments

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Rebuild code automatically with "watch" and a makefile (scott.mn)

38 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040200 27 comments

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How much gold is there in the world? (www.bbc.co.uk)

38 points first seen 2013040118 last seen 2013040203 58 comments

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Review: Think Again: How to Reason and Argue (Coursera) (gregorulm.com)

38 points first seen 2013040121 last seen 2013040221 13 comments

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Google Reader alternative for Emacs Ninjas (idorobots.org)

37 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040118 5 comments

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Why I Blog (www.craigkerstiens.com)

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Skycons: ten animated weather icons, generated by JS using the HTML5 canvas (darkskyapp.github.com)

35 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013040200 7 comments

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A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio (www.radioink.com)

34 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013040106 46 comments

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Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US (arstechnica.com)

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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas - The Redux (medium.com)

28 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040121 17 comments

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Using Kippt as a RSS Reader (jpadilla.com)

28 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040203 0 comments

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First Public Use of What Became Proxima Nova (www.marksimonson.com)

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Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework (github.com)

25 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040103 25 comments

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Why you should never ever ever have Managers in your class name (blog.shoutt.me)

25 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040112 32 comments

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Graphing time series in one line (www.perceptualedge.com)

24 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040118 0 comments

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Show HN: I'm writing a leanpub book - Upgrade to Rails 4 (leanpub.com)

24 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013040200 0 comments

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Show HN: Have I Downloaded This Before? - Chrome ext. that prevents duplicates (chrome.google.com)

24 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013040200 16 comments

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Living Alone May Be Hazardous to Your Health (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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Why do people hate the new Gmail compose window? (news.ycombinator.com)

21 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013041106 0 comments

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INTERCAL On Interstates (www.intercaloninterstates.org)

20 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040115 0 comments

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws (www.rollingstone.com)

18 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040200 3 comments

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Google April Fools - Nose Beta (www.google.com)

18 points first seen 2013040115 last seen 2013040115 4 comments

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Fixing Python's String class (pydanny.com)

17 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040121 10 comments

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Python Library Released For The Coinbase API (blog.coinbase.com)

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Amazon.com is clever in its use of tracking and follow-up e-mails (jseliger.wordpress.com)

15 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013040118 7 comments

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HipChat's Early April Fools - Emoticorrect (emoticorrect.hipchat.com)

15 points first seen 2013040109 last seen 2013040112 2 comments

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April Fools Day explained for tech journalists (news.ycombinator.com)

15 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040115 3 comments

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JetBrains newsreader (www.jetbrains.com)

15 points first seen 2013040121 last seen 2013040200 9 comments

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Germany’s solar power suppliers are destabilizing big power companies. (www.slate.com)

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Show HN: A quick, unbloated way to listen to a song (www.tunecrawl.com)

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ICloud (nshipster.com)

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Xkcd launches wikipedia fundraiser, xkcd-style (xkcd.com)

10 points first seen 2013040121 last seen 2013040200 4 comments

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Indies Grab Controls at Game Conference (www.nytimes.com)

9 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040200 0 comments

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Meny.JS (github.com)

7 points first seen 2013040106 last seen 2013040115 2 comments

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The Humans With Super Human Vision (discovermagazine.com)

7 points first seen 2013040109 last seen 2013040115 3 comments

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Google Smell Everybody (www.google.com)

7 points first seen 2013040115 last seen 2013040206 3 comments

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Ask HN: Has anyone refused to work in a typical 9-5 job? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013040118 last seen 2013040121 12 comments

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Ask HN: April Fools Day (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013040121 last seen 2013040200 2 comments

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FBI - Elicitation Techniques (www.fbi.gov)

6 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040103 0 comments

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How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body (www.smashingmagazine.com)

6 points first seen 2013040100 last seen 2013040103 0 comments

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Ask PG: What prompted you to write "How to Do What You Love" (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Extraordinary SVD (arxiv.org)

6 points first seen 2013040109 last seen 2013040115 0 comments

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Ask HN: What is the best way to get good at linux shell commands? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Official XKCD font download (xkcd.com)

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XKCD Almamater Hash Puzzle (almamater.xkcd.com)

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

4 points first seen 2013040115 last seen 2013040118 0 comments

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Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career (www.ted.com)

4 points first seen 2013040115 last seen 2013040115 0 comments

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Ask HN: How many non-technical people want to learn how to code? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stanford researchers create genetic transistors (www.engadget.com)

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EA says DRM a 'failed, dead-end strategy' (www.gamespot.com)

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Responsive Design for Apps (blog.cloudfour.com)

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Computer Chronicles explaining the wonder of The Internet in 1995 (www.youtube.com)

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Problem: Energy consumption by Bitcoins (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013040103 last seen 2013040103 2 comments

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Ask HN: How important is design? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Guy accidentily deletes Bitcoin wallet with $8000 worth of Bitcoin in it (www.reddit.com)

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256 Shades of Grey (techcrunch.com)

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PonyOS - A hobby operating system for everypony (www.ponyos.org)

3 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040112 0 comments

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10 reasons you will fail (postmasculine.com)

3 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040112 0 comments

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Ask HN: Who's going to Coachella? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013040112 last seen 2013040112 0 comments

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As OSHA Emphasizes Safety, Long-Term Health Risks Fester (www.nytimes.com)

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MinoMonsters (YC W11) is looking for engineers (news.ycombinator.com)

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Who are the best eng. leaders on HN? (sfbay.craigslist.org)

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