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Explosions reported near Boston Marathon finish line (www.wcvb.com)

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Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked (slashdot.org)

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The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On (www.theatlantic.com)

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If you're in Boston without phone service, use this website to call your family (callyourfamily.twilio.ly)

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Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men (www.penny-arcade.com)

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Linode security incident update (blog.linode.com)

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Show HN: I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system (scarcecapital.com)

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Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It (www.sugarrae.com)

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Webcam Pulse Detector (github.com)

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Scaling Pinterest - From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years (highscalability.com)

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Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions (google.org)

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How much usage can a Lego piece take before it loses its 'clutch power'? (phillipecantin.blogspot.com)

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The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment (www.theatlantic.com)

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How to work with Software Engineers (www.kennethnorton.com)

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Google Glass API Documentation (developers.google.com)

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New HTTP Status Code (451) to Report Legal Obstacles (datatracker.ietf.org)

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HTML5 Video at Netflix (techblog.netflix.com)

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OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

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John Cleese on The Five Factors to Make Your Life More Creative (www.brainpickings.org)

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How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future (www.microsoft.com)

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Buyer sued for posting factual negative review on eBay (www.popehat.com)

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Facebook Home ads show Facebook at its worst (medium.com)

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Tests Are Overhyped (sturgill.github.io)

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Twitter is forcing Flattr to drop user's ability to flattr creators (blog.flattr.net)

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This Page Is Why The Internet Sucks (mikecanex.wordpress.com)

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The Node.js Community is Quietly Changing the Face of Open Source (caines.ca)

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MRI's Method Caches (jamesgolick.com)

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Why Does Music Feel So Good? (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)

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Esquivalience (en.wikipedia.org)

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FlightCar (YC W13) Raises $5.5M Round to Expand and Hire (techcrunch.com)

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Lisp Is Too Powerful (c2.com)

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Tugboat: A command line client for DigitalOcean (github.com)

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Moore's Law and the Origin of Life (www.technologyreview.com)

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Bob's wife Carla lends a speedy mind (blog.jgc.org)

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Some Indian start-ups shun funding in bid to retain independence (livemint.com)

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Hiring front-end developers (julio-ody.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: for those who successfuly launched on HN, how many attempts did it take? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I was a college newspaper advisor (www.jeffpearlman.com)

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Ignore the news (www.antipope.org)

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Show HN: We manage your code duplication. We want your bugs to stay fixed (http://www.qamine.com)

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Get Ready for Disposable Hardware (www.hackthings.com)

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Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months [video] (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo (www.annotatepg.com)

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Trader admits fraud in $1 billion Apple stock scheme (finance.yahoo.com)

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SendHub (YC W12) launches Android app, reaches 100k users (techcrunch.com)

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Iab - An Open Letter To Mozilla Corporation (www.iab.net)

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Use Firebase from Your Native OS X Application (www.firebase.com)

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Brainfuck Visualizer on Browser (github.com)

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How A Young Community Of Entrepreneurs Is Rebuilding Detroit (www.fastcompany.com)

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No Founders Required: How Flagship Starts Companies (bostinno.streetwise.co)

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Perks – Effectively compute quantiles for unbounded data streams (groups.google.com)

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Open-source cannot live on donations alone (www.binpress.com)

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60% of antiviruses miss viruses in rar archives (lenboyette.com)

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How To Recover From Mistakeningly Emailing A Million People (www.problogger.net)

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Boston Marathon Blasts Kill 2, Police Say (www.nytimes.com)

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Rendering Backbone Collections with DocumentFragment (elving.me)

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I was a teenage programmer before teenage programmers were cool (www.zdnet.com)

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Show HN: Security Book Reviews - My side project for hackers and makers (securitybookreviews.eu)

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Streak (YC S11) launches Google Drive Integration (blog.streak.com)

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Cooling panel sends excess heat back into outer space (venturebeat.com)

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The DOM is still a mess (medium.com)

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Stop Hustling, Start Listening (blog.alexgodin.com)

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Women in Technology, Rise of the Anti-Movement (medium.com)

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American airports do not rank in Top of the world (www.economist.com)

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Bitcoin is Crashing – Live Order Book (bitcoin.clarkmoody.com)

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Interview With Kickstarter Success, UDOO (www.hackthings.com)

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Poll: What would it take for another company to poach you? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Multithreaded recalculation in Excel (msdn.microsoft.com)

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The IRS Should File Your Taxes for You (www.slate.com)

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US police bait and arrest without crime committed (www.google.com)

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Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW] (donottouch.org)

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When terrible things happen to people I can't help... (twitter.com)

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Google Glass to start shipping in waves (news.ycombinator.com)

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EuroPython 2013, early registration closes today (April 16th) (ep2013.europython.eu)

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Paul Krugman (1998): By 2005 Internet will have no more economic impact than fax (web.archive.org)

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$10,000 in sales of my C++ book: easier than I thought (korban.net)

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Bitcoin Bounties (bitcoinbounties.com)

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Show HN: Everblog, Blog directly from Evernote (http://everblog.me)

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Taking the pain out of debugging with live programming (www.techworld.com.au)

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Generate 3D maps of rooms with your Kinect (http://eyeballOS.com)

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Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project (www.zdnet.com)

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Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People (bhorowitz.com)

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Ask HN: Do you use a debugger? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Duetto: A faster and smarter alternative to Emscripten. (allievi.sssup.it)

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Supernova left its mark in ancient bacteria (www.nature.com)

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Massive BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown Underway (torrentfreak.com)

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Ask HN: What would you do with http://startup.io? (news.ycombinator.com)

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More Python 3.3 downloads than Python 2.7 for past 3 months (ianozsvald.com)

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An Open Letter To Women In Technology (medium.com)

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Adobe Will Contribute To Google’s Blink Browser Engine (techcrunch.com)

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Ask PG: No more new accounts at HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: a semantic wiki built with Django/Python (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tiles Harvest Marathon Runners' Energy (news.discovery.com)

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Interview with Chris Wiggins: don’t send me another $^%& shortcut alias (mathbabe.org)

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Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python (inventwithpython.com)

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Internet Archive is now the largest collection of historical software online (ascii.textfiles.com)

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Why does America regulate the trade in raisins? (www.economist.com)

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The EFF's New HQ (www.eff.org)

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We Need a Culture of Feature Killing (joshpigford.com)

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Flaws in Mainstream Science (and Psychology) (www.gwern.net)

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How an accountant created an entire RPG inside an Excel spreadsheet (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: virtual credit card number service? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google Releases Glass Mirror API Developer Guides (techcrunch.com)

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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel predicts bleak future for innovation (yaledailynews.com)

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Dear Google, Am I a person or an email address to you? (numgal.blogspot.com)

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How to Mine Bitcoins for Fun and (Probably Very Little) Profit (www.joeydevilla.com)

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You play like you practice (37signals.com)

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How to Talk Like a San Franciscan (1984) (www.sfgate.com)

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Git Titanium Armor: Recovering From Various Disasters (blogs.atlassian.com)

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Why accelerate? Top tips from mentors and graduates (venturevillage.eu)

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Hit The Switches - distributed feature flags (tx.pignata.com)

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YouTube Introduces Tape Mode (plus.google.com)

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Pedagogic video-series about digital logic by Jack Buffington (www.youtube.com)

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Scientists make 'laboratory-grown' kidney (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Best of Hacker News in March - Highest voted articles (www.dotdotdot.me)

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Ask HN: What ecommerce platform do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Justices Appear Skeptical Of Patenting Human Genes (www.npr.org)

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More Cracks Undermine the Citadel of TV Profits (www.nytimes.com)

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Google reserves right to cancel sold glasses accounts (plus.google.com)

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Google Glass has 16GB memory, 802.11/b/g only, Rated for 1 day of battery life. (support.google.com)

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A complex data structure for predictive text input in Firefox OS (www.strchr.com)

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UDOO: $109 single-board computer is like an Arduino crossed with a Raspberry Pi (liliputing.com)

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Super salt-tolerant rice, after 34k crosses (and 1 survived) (irri.org)

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Show HN: Get a list of the multiplayer games you and your friends have in common (http://mysteamfriends.com)

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Why the Fed is more likely to adopt bitcoin technology than kill it off (jpkoning.blogspot.tw)

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Stop Building Things Your Customers Don’t Really Want or Need (technori.com)

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The Big Hack Results: Berkeley vs. Stanford (www.hacksy.com)

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Dear Amazon, Add Stylus Support (philipbjorge.com)

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Live Streaming: Rails 4 versus Node.js (rubysnippets.com)

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Packery released (metafizzy.co)

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Steve Jobs Giving The Best Advice On Success And Failure [video] (www.businessinsider.com)