hackerNews

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Gitmo Is Killing Me (www.nytimes.com)

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News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (m.guardiannews.com)

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Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell [39 slides,Stephen Diehl] (dev.stephendiehl.com)

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Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (pipeline.corante.com)

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You should blog even if you have no readers (nathanmarz.com)

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The Rent Seeking Economy (intellectual-detox.com)

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New Debian Project Leader (DPL) elected: Lucas Nussbaum (bits.debian.org)

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Hackers can be business guys, and other lessons from Paul Graham (sub.garrytan.com)

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Go at Google [video] (www.infoq.com)

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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" [2003] (hbswk.hbs.edu)

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Seeking Inspiration? (sivers.org)

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The Lambda Papers (library.readscheme.org)

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Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down (www.forbes.com)

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Rework git core for native submodules (thread.gmane.org)

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A File System All Its Own – specialized for SSDs (queue.acm.org)

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Alice strikes back against Bob's 'reverse dictionary' (blog.jgc.org)

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Designing Open Source (medium.com)

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Starting to Hack on Steel Bank Common Lisp (www.pvk.ca)

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Google Glass was prototyped in one day - with chopsticks (glass-apps.org)

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Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON operators (michael.otacoo.com)

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Get up to 50% OFF JetBrains Tools and Support a Good Cause (blog.jetbrains.com)

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How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (arstechnica.com)

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We will not encounter a population bomb. (theratchet.ca)

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Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Power Consumption (techcrunch.com)

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The Rise of the New Groupthink (2012) (www.nytimes.com)

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Great advice for beginners (zenpencils.com)

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Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design (www.vitsoe.com)

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Founders: You don't own your employees (jasonevanish.com)

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No Housing Bubble Trouble (2005) (www.cato.org)

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Investment Firm Expects AWS Will Hit $20 Billion In Revenues By 2020 (techcrunch.com)

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Why It's Time to Sunset jQuery (professionalaspnet.com)

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Inside the Bitcoin economy (www.economist.com)

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Kendall Square: Still the place to be for start-ups (www.bostonglobe.com)

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Pin - A Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Tool (pintool.org)

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What would a poverty map of India look like? (datastories.in)

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On being a single founder for 7 years (www.markentingh.com)

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Ask HN: Those with intense focus, how do you do it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Five Economists Think About Bitcoin (techcrunch.com)

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The Antisocial Network (www.nytimes.com)

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Distributed Computing at Airbnb (nerds.airbnb.com)

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Oh, I’m not a… — Medium (medium.com)

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(&) = flip ($) in Haskell (vemod.net)

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Duck Wrapping (brehaut.net)

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Prince Rupert's Drop - mechanically exploding glass (en.wikipedia.org)

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Why Chinese people will drive the next bull market in bitcoin (qz.com)

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Archive of Historical Computer Software is here (blog.archive.org)

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The End of Power (reason.com)

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Show HN: Napster.fm, Napster reimagined for the modern Web (napster.fm)

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Spacewar – Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972) (www.wheels.org)

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Browser cookies influence ticket prices (www.reddit.com)

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Synnefo + Ganeti = cloud software that works (http://www.synnefo.org)

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15 Must-Have High Quality Free Flat Icon Sets (desizntech.info)

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Supreme Court to decide if human genes can be patented (rt.com)

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The Mechanical Keyboard Guide (www.overclock.net)

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A lesson of Public e-Policy (www.mondaynote.com)

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Ask HN: How do hackers make friends? (news.ycombinator.com)

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MIT guide to lockpicking (www.lockpickguide.com)

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Snap – Build Your Own Blocks. Beta (snap.berkeley.edu)

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Joining the Ranks: Demystifying Harvard's Tenure System (www.thecrimson.com)

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Facebook Home And The Promise Of Android (techcrunch.com)

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Crytek: Graphics Are “60% Of The Game” (www.x360magazine.com)

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Wallets that vibrate when your bank account makes a transaction from MIT (eco.media.mit.edu)

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Single server systems can tackle big data (strata.oreilly.com)

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How the CIA Helped Disney Conquer Florida (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Easy Video Embeds (http://easyvideoembeds.com)

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RESTless: a robust, simplified alternative to ember-data (github.com)

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Using Ember.js with jQuery UI (www.lukemelia.com)

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Immigration reform in America (www.economist.com)

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OS X 10.9: A downward spiral or a new hope? (www.macobserver.com)

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New stable version TeXworks 0.4.5 released (latex-community.org)

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The Worst Password Tips (xato.net)

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Broken crawler behavior with my binary protofeed file (rachelbythebay.com)

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Bitcoin is a 21st century Hawala (notes.egd.im)

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UX Archive adds versioning for iPhone apps user flows (uxarchive.com)

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High-tech sex workers in Silicon Valley (www.youtube.com)

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Using Git Intelligently (travisstaton.com)

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Completed Bitcoin transactions on eBay (www.ebay.com)

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What is Python (www.mahdiyusuf.com)

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What Makes Code Readable: Not What You Think (simpleprogrammer.com)

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Why More Features Doesn’t Mean More Success (blog.kissmetrics.com)

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Apple is about to pull my app from the App Store, so it's free until its gone (www.reddit.com)

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Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games (techcrunch.com)

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Git PubSub for instant fetches (dev.eclipse.org)

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No more robocalls: New tech automatically hangs up on robots (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: where can I find a list of upcoming coding contests? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Immigration and America’s high-tech industry (www.economist.com)

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Great Developers Are Librarians (simpleprogrammer.com)

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There are no shortcuts (benyu.org)

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NASA plans to capture asteroid and bring it to Earth orbit (www.nasa.gov)

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Write The Docs videos (conf.writethedocs.org)

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Pandas & Google analytics API (blog.yhathq.com)

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Microsoft tax break subsidized by 'opportunity to dance' tax in WA (jeffreifman.com)

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An Analysis of My Dreams Over the Past Year (www.ianww.com)

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Ask HN: Emailing a potential company contact (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tell HN: Tonight's Good Wife is about Aaron Swartz, Bitcoin and Twitter (news.ycombinator.com)

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High Performance Browser Networking – Early Release (chimera.labs.oreilly.com)

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Google honors Leonard Euler on his 306th birthday (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Parenthesis Permutation - A non recursive solution (shadabahmed.com)

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Ask HN: What should I do if one of my startup founders does not work enough? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The PC Industry is Digging Its Own Grave (www.forbes.com)

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In some online markets, monopolies are created through UX (www.newinfluencer.com)