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The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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Sleep: Everything You Need to Know (medium.com)

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How to Choose Colours Procedurally (devmag.org.za)

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Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform (andrewchen.co)

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Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC (emerythacks.blogspot.com)

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Google reserves the right to take away or vaporize your data (www.lastwordonnothing.com)

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Netflix now bigger than HBO (qz.com)

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Geeksphone's Firefox OS smartphones go on sale tomorrow (thenextweb.com)

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You Are Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere (www.avc.com)

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Papers, Please: A Dystopian Document Thriller (steamcommunity.com)

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Grad Student Who Took Down Reinhart and Rogoff Explains Why They're Wrong (www.businessinsider.com)

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Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone (shop.geeksphone.com)

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Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention (data-informed.com)

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Comment spam random text template (gist.github.com)

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Futurama Canceled Again. Again. (www.slate.com)

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Show HN: Sync – Realtime partials with Rails (chrismccord.com)

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We’re Being Sued – For Linking To Shopzilla (www.datadial.net)

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Free O'Reilly Books (oreilly.com)

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How to identify algorithmic trading strategies (quantstart.com)

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The Beginner’s Guide to Quantified Self (Plus, a List of the Best Tools) (technori.com)

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Running PostgreSQL on Compression-enabled ZFS (citusdata.com)

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Salary at Venture-Backed Companies (perceptive.ly)

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Gearbox acquires Homeworld (www.gearboxsoftware.com)

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Bad code is the first step towards good code (medium.com)

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Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating (venturebeat.com)

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Show HN: My NBA + Twitter mashup (www.tweetsfc.com)

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Astonishing photos of the real Mordor on earth (englishrussia.com)

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Deutsche Telekom kills fixed line IP flatrates (translate.google.de)

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TokuDB open sourced (www.tokutek.com)

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Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk (news.cnet.com)

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Operation Shock and Awe - DDoS operation set up for major bitcoin sites (pastebin.com)

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Who Cares If It's Been Tried Before? (blog.eladgil.com)

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What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison (www.olwiki.com)

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Frameworks Round 3 (www.techempower.com)

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Why aren't younger Americans driving anymore? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Traceroute from a Norwegian Airlines airplane (gist.github.com)

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JS Objects: Inherited a Mess (davidwalsh.name)

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Duplicate your House Keys with your Phone (shloosl.com)

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CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy (blog.ciphercloud.com)

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Instacart Launches Costco (thenextweb.com)

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JSON in Postgres and Node (j0.hn)

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An Idiot's Guide to C++ Templates - Part 1 (www.codeproject.com)

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Comments invited on TSA use of "Advanced Imaging Technology" (www.regulations.gov)

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It Can’t All Be True (daringfireball.net)

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Stop Designing Fragile Web APIs (mathieu.fenniak.net)

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Young Adults With Autism Can Thrive In High-Tech Jobs (www.npr.org)

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Did Google just shut down Caldav support? (productforums.google.com)

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Show HN: From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mobile games (indiegamr.com)

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Expanded HTTP Method Support (blog.heroku.com)

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Making-of “Turtles all the way down” (geidav.wordpress.com)

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An Alternative to Stand-up Meetings (weblog.alexgodin.com)

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Inside a Completely Transparent Company (www.inc.com)

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The rise of Silicon Dad (www.ft.com)

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Want To Raise A Million Bucks? Here’s What You’ll Need (techcrunch.com)

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Love to Learn (jacquesmattheij.com)

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Ask HN: I am programmer, i wan't to die, what can i do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer (2006) (lukeplant.me.uk)

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Why aren’t younger Americans driving anymore? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Big Data, Trying to Build Better Workers (www.nytimes.com)

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Frightening Account of The Linode Hack (By The Hacker Himself?) (turtle.dereferenced.org)

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Turns out Hiring a Woman is Discriminatory (medium.com)

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Stem cell transplant restores memory, learning in mice (esciencenews.com)

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Cornell NYC Tech Campus gets $133 Million from co-founder of Qualcomm (cornellsun.com)

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Show HN: Groupdate (ankane.github.io)

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How Much Your Time in College is Worth (jayshah.me)

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The Pirate Bay Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations (torrentfreak.com)

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Google Now for the web: Google testing a much more data-heavy home page (venturebeat.com)

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Best Learning Resources for Meteor.js (yauh.de)

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Weekly Traction Tracker: Who Is Hottest Among 1,100 Startups? (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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How I learned to become a failure (medium.com)

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Show HN: How We Built an Extensible Tour System for Streak (blog.streak.com)

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Hacking Sublime Text 2 for faster Rails project navigation (fonicmonkey.net)

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The minimum coin problem (with prize) (blog.jgc.org)

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I had three days to find a cofounder. This is what I did (anthonycole.me)

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Building a Roguelike in Javascript - Part 5a: Populating the Cave (www.codingcookies.com)

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Weighted/Biased Random Number Generation with JavaScript based on Probability (codetheory.in)

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An Engineering Talk with Dan Shiffman on Genetic Algorithms (www.kickstarter.com)

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Would you buy this C++ book? Please help shape its structure and contents (cdmh.co)

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Metrics That Really Matter for Your Startup (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Reflections on the Recent Boston Crisis (blog.reddit.com)

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged with using ‘weapon of mass destruction’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Google Glass code hints at spatial gestures (thenextweb.com)

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IBM solar dish produces heat and power (www.technologyreview.com)

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The 11 Most Mystifying Things the Tsarnaev Brothers Did (www.motherjones.com)

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Impossible (ninjasandrobots.com)

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What's a "medium.com" and why is it all over HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Fox sends fraudulent takedown notices (boingboing.net)

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Habit Startups (medium.com)

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Add Some Grind to Your Lean Startup, Rocky Style (getfireplug.com)

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If you earn more than $31k a year, you're in the top 1% richest people globally (www.globalrichlist.com)

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California launches first “battery university” to push energy storage technology (qz.com)

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Geeksphone Keon (Firefox OS) is already out of stuck. (shop.geeksphone.com)

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Wave your phone around randomly and influence algorithmic music generation (play.google.com)

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Nest’s Plan to Stop Brownouts Before They Start (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: Company not paying salary on time, what to do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: An easy way to tweet your senators (news.ycombinator.com)

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Yahoo's new iOS app includes Summ.ly (ycorpblog.com)

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy (abovethecrowd.com)

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Live-Tweeting the Police Scanner: A Defense by Wayne Chang of Crashlytics (bostinno.streetwise.co)

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From Brazil to Wikipedia: The Surprising Journey of Lua from Rio (www.foreignaffairs.com)

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Money wins Elections (letsfreecongress.org)

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Analyzing the Market of HTML5 Games (venturebeat.com)

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Is Amazon Developing a PayPal Competitor? (www.fool.com)

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Eric Schmidt has defended paying just £6m in UK corporation tax. (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Huge six-legged robot built in UK by enthusiast (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Why Great Ideas Get Shot Down (trevorowens.tumblr.com)

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Expanded HTTP Method Support (blog.heroku.com)

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Falcon: the high-performance cloud API framework (falconframework.org)

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"I am fucking amazing and it has nothing to do with being a woman" (blog.zaori.org)

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SpaceX Grasshopper 250m Test | Ring of Fire (www.youtube.com)

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Demythologizing the high costs of pharmaceutical research (www.pharmamyths.net)

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Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB (blog.wikimedia.org)

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Ask HN: How to find a marketer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Notes about an odd, esoteric, yet incredibly useful library: libthread_db (timetobleed.com)

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Ask HN: "medium.com" Posts (news.ycombinator.com)

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Podcasts for Bootstrappers (hughbien.com)

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Poll: If it was 1995, what idea would you work on? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What mail host do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I have $5. What is the best way to invest and grow my money? (www.quora.com)

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The Internet Sales Tax Rush (online.wsj.com)

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Skip the MBA: Why You Should Get Real-World Experience Instead (www.linkedin.com)

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A pure C# implementation of Lua 5.2 focusing on compatibility with Unity3D (github.com)

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Seven lessons learned while producing our crowd sourcing campaign (www.issimomag.com)

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Ask HN: How big is Big Data? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Marissa Mayer Makes Good, Yahoo! Launches New iOS App with Summly Tech (m.yahoo.com)

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Olympic Skater Sasha Cohen on Snoxx, Her New Startup (tech.co)

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Ask HN: Estimating hosting costs (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Requirements-Based Project Management (news.ycombinator.com)

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Prenda Law: EFF has “the same goals” as “terrorist group Wikileaks” (arstechnica.com)

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RESTmagic: Make a nice API and we'll do the REST (iOS) (http://restmagic.github.io)