hackerNews

1

I Knew a Programmer that Went Completely Insane (startingdotneprogramming.blogspot.com)

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Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project (speckyboy.com)

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JQuery 2.0 Released (blog.jquery.com)

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Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata) (emergency.mit.net)

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My adventures in CNC robotics (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)

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CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call (clerk.house.gov)

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Reddit co-founder calls out Google, Twitter, Facebook over CISPA (www.networkworld.com)

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Transcript of meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt (wikileaks.org)

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The Matasano Crypto Challenges (blog.pinboard.in)

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Obama threatens veto of CISPA bill (www.latimes.com)

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I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100 (boondainc.wordpress.com)

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_why's site updated again (whytheluckystiff.net)

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5

A non-magical introduction to pip and virtualenv for Python beginners (dabapps.com)

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What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space (io9.com)

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_why's complete printer spool as one book [pdf] (www.scribd.com)

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So, I tried Dwolla (blog.goodstuff.im)

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The secrets of body language: why you should never cross your arms again (blog.bufferapp.com)

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Teen: I Am Not the Boston Marathon Bomber (news.yahoo.com)

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Two years of life as an expat coder in middle-of-no-where Japan (www.bemmu.com)

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Co-founder breakups (harj.posthaven.com)

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No, Fuck Off (medium.com)

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Don't send me a message to tell me I have a message (darrennix.com)

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Please help censored users reach the Tor network (arstechnica.com)

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10

Show HN: God mode in production code - a new way to debug in Scala (www.takipi.com)

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Company with the “World’s Least Powerful CEO” Makes $2.5 Million Every Day (blog.idonethis.com)

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9

Org Mode Release 8.0 (article.gmane.org)

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Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures (adit.io)

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Google reinstates federated Jabber/XMPP instant messaging (www.fsf.org)

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Amazon S3 – 2 Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests/Second (aws.typepad.com)

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6

Pony ORM - Use Pure Python to Speak to Your Data (ponyorm.com)

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FBI Updates on Boston explosions (www.fbi.gov)

104 points first seen 2013041909 last seen 2013042000 107 comments

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Grad student who shook global austerity movement (nymag.com)

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“‘Principal Component Analysis’ is a dimensionally invalid method” (www.amazon.com)

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Japan's National Police Agency to urge Internet providers to block users of Tor (mainichi.jp)

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Google One Today (www.google.com)

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The Excel Depression (www.nytimes.com)

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Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack (twitter.com)

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CISPA passes in the House of Representatives (thehill.com)

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Google buying $39M fiber service in Utah for $1 (hosted.ap.org)

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10

Paul Graham on Spaghetti Code (www.kludgecode.com)

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A Scala Tutorial for Java Programmers (docs.scala-lang.org)

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Performance of sequential Rust programs (pcwalton.github.io)

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New, Higher-Resolution Image of Boston Marathon Suspect (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)

58 points first seen 2013041915 last seen 2013042003 48 comments

21

How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011) (blog.silktide.com)

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Google Trends: Javascript Frameworks (www.google.com)

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We just launched OpenSignal for iOS (opensignal.com)

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Multiplayer Game 'Eve Online' Cultivates a Most Devoted Following (www.businessweek.com)

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Despite privacy concerns, CISPA passes in the House (www.dailydot.com)

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GitHub Pulse (github.com)

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Stop the Cyborgs was founded in response to Google Glass et al (stopthecyborgs.org)

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Bringing Google+ Comments to Blogger (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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Danny Sullivan's Twitter list about Watertown (twitter.com)

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Why we love paying for Trello (codetunes.com)

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Show HN: Catan-Style Board Game with Indiana Jones Feel (www.kickstarter.com)

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Apple Shuts Down Push Notifications From AppGratis (www.macrumors.com)

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Twitter #Music App Goes Live Today (techcrunch.com)

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How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be? (www.rumproarious.com)

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Australian Government will offer 1Gbps this year to all NBN-connected homes (www.smh.com.au)

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Curse of the crystal skulls and other vanishing area puzzles (www.marianotomatis.it)

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DynamoDB Local Secondary Indexes (aws.typepad.com)

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PyPy's Speed Center (speed.pypy.org)

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Parse Named to the Facebook Technology Partners Program (blog.parse.com)

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Lucidchart debuts Chrome/Firefox extension for viewing Microsoft Visio files (thenextweb.com)

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Disrupting New Domains (sethbannon.com)

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What just happened to VC valuations? (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

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The life of a software engineer (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)

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SeattleHacks: An information resource for developers, by developers (www.geekwire.com)

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Rep. Mike Rogers’ Wife Stands To Benefit From CISPA Passing (www.techdirt.com)

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How a Fake Island Landed on Google Earth (news.yahoo.com)

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Debate HN: Is Bitcoin a currency or a commodity? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why I've Left the Media Business (blog.hubspot.com)

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Everything I knew about food was wrong (medium.com)

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Show HN: Phdtree, Search Your Academic Genealogy (phdtree.org)

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How-to: blog data-driven maximizing impact (josequesada.com)

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Scientists crowdsource atmospheric data from phones to improve weather forecasts (www.geekwire.com)

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The End of the Portfolio Megastars (unintuitive.com)

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Emergency Updates from MIT (emergency.mit.edu)

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Things I Wish I Had Known Before We Got Married (www.relevantmagazine.com)

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A request for the Google employees that hang out here (news.ycombinator.com)

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Next Evolution of Facebook Platform for Mobile (developers.facebook.com)

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Ask HN: I am in a David vs. Goliath fight and I need some advice (news.ycombinator.com)

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Twitter launch Twitter Music (blog.twitter.com)

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The Non-Technical Guide to Web Technologies [ebook] (www.discoverbits.com)

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Tracking whole colonies shows ants make career moves (www.nature.com)

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Baidu is making a Google Glass knockoff (www.gizmag.com)

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Forecast.io (forecast.io)

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Could I Trust an Accountant Who Once Stole $1.2M? (observer.com)

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Stored XSS In Facebook Chat, Check In, Facebook Messenger (www.breaksec.com)

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Show HN: Dissipate - Free ephemeral cloud storage (https://www.dissipateapp.com)

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ProgBuddy: Collaborative development environment in your browser. (https://progbuddy.com)

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ZenPayroll and Xero announce partnership to take on Intuit and QuickBooks (thenextweb.com)

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Creating a HipChat Fuck Counter with Zapier (blog.framebase.io)

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A New Way to Visualize Decision Trees (blog.bigml.com)

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Help get the real story of what happens in Syria through crowdfunding (blog.press42.com)

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Apple Kills AppGratis’ Push Notifications (techcrunch.com)

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The beautiful machines that mine Bitcoin (www.reddit.com)

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Largest U.S. Bitcoin Exchange Shuts Down (mashable.com)

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The joke may be on Zuckerberg (www.cnn.com)

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NumaTOP (01.org)

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Ask / Offer HN: Startup for hire? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The importance of open code (blog.jgc.org)

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Why I study computer science (lindseykuper.livejournal.com)

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Could Reddit sleuths cause harm the Boston bombing investigation? (www.marketplace.org)

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EA Shuts Down Social Media Games Without Refunding Money (www.techdirt.com)

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High Availability at Braintree [video] (www.braintreepayments.com)

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Acquiring customers for startup #2 when startup #1 sold for $150m (blog.perfectaudience.com)

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How a student took on eminent economists on debt issue and won (news.yahoo.com)

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Inside full-codegen, v8's baseline compiler (wingolog.org)

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GeoGuessr: Let's explore the world (www.geoguessr.com)

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Former Googlers Launch Synergyse, An Interactive In-App Training Service (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Shadowsocks - A high-performance cross-platform secured socks5 proxy (shadowsocks.org)

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Show HN: SlickShare - Share links browser to browser and email effortlessly. (github.com)

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Ultra Low-End Smartphones Give Worse Outlook for Intel (techdomino.com)

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Be careful where you brainstorm domain names (whoapi.com)

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5-3-1-0.5-year projects (blog.fogus.me)

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What's new in Node.js and libuv this week (blog.strongloop.com)

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Show HN: ATable - Interactive Javascript table component (jwoah12.github.com)

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CISPA permits police to do warrantless database searches (news.cnet.com)

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‘About Us’ Page with 3D Faces (floored.com)

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Linode now forcing users to regenerate their API Keys (news.ycombinator.com)

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Synergyse, An Interactive In-App Training Service For Google Apps (m.techcrunch.com)

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Taking Apple private: Makes sense but nobody has the money (www.slate.com)

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Ask HN: NoSQL or flat files? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Please don't deploy on a Friday (startupwife.co)

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First Day With Google Glass – I need new habits (glass-apps.org)

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Why are software downloads so large? (blog.aetherworks.com)

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CISPA: Myths vs Facts (intelligence.house.gov)

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What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds? - James Hamblin - The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

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“Design flaw” in 1Password is a problem, but not for end users (arstechnica.com)

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How Google Glass Works (lifewithglass.net)

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Crowdtilt Confirms $12M Raise From Andreessen, Sean Parker, Dave Morin & Others (techcrunch.com)

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Unix Philosophy and Node.js (blog.izs.me)

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How we built the new Pusher 2.0 JS library (blog.pusher.com)

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Ask HN: What are the best startups to join? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Graphic: NASA Kepler’s Tally of Planets (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN:Is anyone from the community able to live strictly from donations? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Buy, Sell, and Transfer Bitcoin from your Terminal (rdegges.github.io)

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Explore Function Space WITHOUT signing-up - Community for Math, Physics and CS (news.ycombinator.com)

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_why's site getting updated again (right on schedule) (github.com)

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_why's site has a lot of stuff (whytheluckystiff.net)

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Debian Wheezy release schedule (lists.debian.org)

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Internal Data Loss: Riskier Than You Think (blog.varonis.com)

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Twitter #music available for download (itunes.apple.com)

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Hello Europe (hello-europe.org)

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Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB (www.allthingsdistributed.com)

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Heroku Postgres – Version 9.2 now Default (blog.heroku.com)