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VSRE: very short reply expected (netiquette) (blog.vrypan.net)

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Expunging Google (github.com)

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Ruby is too slow for programming competitions (blog.clifreeder.com)

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B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (2010) (queue.acm.org)

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Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think (techcrunch.com)

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What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds? (www.theatlantic.com)

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What Broke My Father's Heart (www.nytimes.com)

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The Clown Car Technique for Responsive Images (github.com)

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Bill Watterson's Speech – Kenyon College, 1990 (www.serverunderground.com)

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In India, 'no frills' hospitals offer $800 heart surgery (www.globalpost.com)

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Show HN: jsdares - learning programming visually (www.jsdares.com)

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Diving into AngularJS (floatleft.com)

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The rise and fall of AMD: How an underdog stuck it to Intel (arstechnica.com)

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Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (alan.blog-city.com)

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There is something badly broken in today's Internet (www.potaroo.net)

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Open Sans, how do we love thee? (en.blog.wordpress.com)

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The other side of "academic freedom" (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)

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The Tech Industry’s Darkest Secret: It’s All About Age (www.linkedin.com)

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Beautiful Pacific Crest Trail Journals (www.thehikeguy.com)

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‘Human computer’ Shakuntala Devi has died (www.thehindu.com)

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Amazon was Down (www.amazon.com)

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Facial Recognition Failed in Boston Bombing (ipvm.com)

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A Social Coding Experiment (github.com)

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Ask HN: Suggestions for spacewalk procedure writing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Update on Go 1.1 crypto performance (blog.jgc.org)

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Reverse Kickstarter – shows real sales stats (twolivesleft.com)

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Did an Apple 2.0 story touch a nerve at Samsung HQ? (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections (www.youtube.com)

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The Matasano Crypto Challenges (48 exercises) (www.matasano.com)

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Ember 1.0 RC3 released (emberjs.com)

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Show HN: Hosted IRC for Teams (my first startup) (teamrelaychat.nl)

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Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors introduced inadvertently using Excel (www.biomedcentral.com)

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RIP Mike Culbert, iOS and Newton pioneer (www.tuaw.com)

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Training Like Tesla: Week One Review (thecontinentalsuper.wordpress.com)

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Show HN: Four months of indie game dev (www.cannonade.net)

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Fathers Recognize Their Babies’ Cries Just as Well as Mothers (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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Ask HN: What IRC channels does everyone find interesting? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Silicon Valley companies quietly try to kill Internet privacy bill (www.insidebayarea.com)

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How is CipherCloud doing homomorphic encryption? (crypto.stackexchange.com)

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Apple II software still legally being sold (store.syndicomm.com)

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Antares rocket test flight (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Why startups should care about App.net (medium.com)

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Animating with physics instead of a timing function (taybenlor.com)

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Bitcoin Tipping Bot for HN (news.ycombinator.com)

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Farewell Kera (blog.kera.io)

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Computational reproducibility: IPython in the age of data-driven journalism (blog.fperez.org)

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Startup Index: First Round Capital (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Make Your UI More Responsive with HTML5 Web Workers (www.storminthecastle.com)

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San Francisco Hangout Becomes Casualty of Tech Boom (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores (2010) [pdf] (www.stanford.edu)

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When Does Your Baby Become Conscious? (news.sciencemag.org)

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Reverse Kickstarter: Shows real sales stats. (twolivesleft.com)

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Open Street Map – The Free Wiki World Map (www.openstreetmap.org)

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UberDNS Service where you manage your zone/records with Git (uberdns.eu)

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The Last Answer (www.thrivenotes.com)

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Compromise Bitcoin for just $1.2M (matthall2000.tumblr.com)

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Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another strong DDoS attack’ (thenextweb.com)

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I Choose Superman (www.randsinrepose.com)

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UX Analysis: Tumblr (ohiocsguy.blogspot.com)

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Ask HN: What are the HN karmic privileges/penalties? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Dell's XPS 13 Developer's Edition: My Missed Opportunity (linuxterm.com)

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Why it is important not to have children (stallman.org)

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List of Mobile and App Ad Networks (gulyani.com)

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At cops’ request, Dunkin’ Donuts stayed open (www.boston.com)

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Flight Search Engines And The Multi-City Ripoff (www.techdirt.com)

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EBay recruits users in push against sales tax legislation (www.reuters.com)

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PeerVNC - Web VNC client allowing access to VNC server from everywhere (github.com)

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Stephen Wolfram talks about computacional future (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

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Intention.js: Rewrites your HTML based on the user's context. (http://intentionjs.com)

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Clang support for C++11 and beyond (blog.llvm.org)

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F'ing Gogobot spammed all my Facebook Friends (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Differential equations & slope field grapher (htmlpreview.github.io)

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ApiDoc - Inline Documentation for RESTful web APIs (http://apidocjs.com)

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Ask HN: Free Marketing Advice in Exchange for Help Finding Housing Palo Alto (news.ycombinator.com)

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VC Firms Don't Back You, VC Partners Do (www.hunterwalk.com)

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JavaScript Best Practices (www.codeproject.com)

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San Francisco Hangout Becomes Casualty of Tech Boom (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: What are you favorite quick Rails tricks/tips? (news.ycombinator.com)

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SSL Certificate Authorities – How They Are Used (and Abused) (www.scantosecure.com)

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WebJars: client-side web libraries packaged into JAR files (www.webjars.org)

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Ask HN: Do you think HN should add notifications system? (news.ycombinator.com)

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HTML5 vs Native: The Mobile App Debate (www.html5rocks.com)

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What desktop environments use fewer resources in Linux? (linuxaria.com)

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New Private Rocket Launches Into Orbit On Maiden Voyage (www.space.com)

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The User is Drunk (www.youtube.com)

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Real advance in quantum dot photovoltaics from MIT (www.materialsviews.com)

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Show HN (again): Thanks for the feedback heres Perks 2.0 (www.perksapp.com)

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Would you like to sponsor me in return for advertising? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Transparency in electronic voting machines (news.ycombinator.com)

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Zombies reflect a loss of meaning in out society (cog sci talk) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Gadget graveyards: Behind the scenes at electronic-recycling plants (www.digitaltrends.com)

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My Favorite Entrepreneur Story in a Long Time (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: What's my next move? (news.ycombinator.com)

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From Singapore To Valley, Cross-Pacific Journey Of Developer-Focused Nitrous.io (techcrunch.com)

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Data shift to lift US economy 3% (www.ft.com)

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Marijuana smuggled across US-Mexico border under car using hard disk magnets (www.nbcnewyork.com)

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The Sex Manual for Ultra Orthodox Jews (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Why do you do open source? (news.ycombinator.com)

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AICTE Mandates Microsoft Office 365 In Indian Educational Institutions (www.medianama.com)

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The App Store: Good Deeds, Poor Communication (www.mondaynote.com)

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Three minute guide to Python packaging (guide.python-distribute.org)

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The Manicouagan impact crater - as seen from space (www.slate.com)

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Tips on selling your first startup (sokrat.is)

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Reforth fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. (aerosuidae.net)

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Japanese police ask ISPs to start blocking Tor (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: What's the deal with CISPA? (news.ycombinator.com)

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As air traffic controller furloughs begin, LAX worries about delays (www.scpr.org)

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Ignore Everybody - by Hugh MacLeod (sivers.org)

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2 Air Traffic Controllers on Duty at LAX (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why big IT projects always go wrong (m.guardian.co.uk)

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Thermal imaging video of Boston bombing suspect's capture (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Foldable Dry-Erase Board (www.thenoteboard.com)

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Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge – Google (www.google.com)

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You don’t have to know anything about commercial real estate (news.ycombinator.com)

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