hackerNews

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BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public (torrentfreak.com)

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“Right click and save as” needs to go away (svarden.se)

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Postgres on the GPU (wiki.postgresql.org)

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SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High (www.universetoday.com)

308 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042600 202 comments

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The AI Systems of "Left 4 Dead" [pdf] (www.valvesoftware.com)

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Realistic water simulation (physxinfo.com)

262 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042621 77 comments

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My First Year in the App Store (www.trevormckendrick.com)

242 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042600 100 comments

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Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (blog.hut8labs.com)

228 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042618 72 comments

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The W3C's plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal for all web users (freeculture.org)

215 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042506 140 comments

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TraceGL: JavaScript code flow visualisation in WebGL (https://trace.gl)

194 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042506 64 comments

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The secret to a higher salary is to ask for nothing at all (qz.com)

191 points first seen 2013042421 last seen 2013050906 104 comments

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Don’t Launch Your Product (philosophically.com)

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Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Here's a Tool to Help (www.theatlantic.com)

172 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042506 63 comments

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Bitcoin URL scheme added to HTML5 (html5.org)

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Why women should embrace a ‘good enough’ life (www.washingtonpost.com)

146 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042421 158 comments

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Alcatraz: Xcode Package Manager (mneorr.github.io)

133 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042509 35 comments

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

128 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042500 96 comments

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3 things I set on new servers (simonholywell.com)

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MemSQL ships 2.0, scales across hundreds of nodes, thousands of cores (developers.memsql.com)

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Zen Photon Garden (scanlime.org)

117 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042506 10 comments

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Ask HN: Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care? (news.ycombinator.com)

116 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042418 110 comments

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The Beginner's Guide to Sales (strideapp.com)

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What Python developers need to know before migrating to Go (blog.repustate.com)

110 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013071000 100 comments

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

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Counsyl is Pioneering A New Bioinformatics Wave (techcrunch.com)

105 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042509 43 comments

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Stupid Legal Threats: You Can't Write About Me Because of Your Blog's Name (www.popehat.com)

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Facebook’s “I F*cking Love Science” does not f*cking love artists (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

97 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042500 75 comments

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We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters crashing the markets (www.rocketmill.co.uk)

97 points first seen 2013042421 last seen 2013042506 85 comments

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Writing A Persona Identity Provider (lukasa.co.uk)

93 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042506 16 comments

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Stop complaining about the lack of women in tech (www.attendly.com)

92 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042421 86 comments

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Mailbox iOS app is a security fail (subhb.org)

92 points first seen 2013042421 last seen 2013042521 54 comments

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Bringing people back from the dead (www.bbc.co.uk)

89 points first seen 2013042415 last seen 2013042521 35 comments

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Google Buys Wavii For North Of $30 Million (techcrunch.com)

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Cooper Union Ends a Longtime Custom: The Free Degree (www.nytimes.com)

83 points first seen 2013042415 last seen 2013042500 97 comments

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Code Organization in Large AngularJS and JavaScript Applications (cliffmeyers.com)

82 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042500 23 comments

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Show HN: Squaresend - Less annoying mailto links (squaresend.com)

82 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042415 64 comments

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Stocks Plunge, Quickly Recover, on Fake Tweet (blogs.wsj.com)

78 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042421 99 comments

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"Make something people want" poster (alvybrooks.com)

75 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042500 73 comments

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How Fred Smith Saved Fedex at the Blackjack Table (warstory.co)

75 points first seen 2013042415 last seen 2013042506 16 comments

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[Unity is] Sunsetting Flash (blogs.unity3d.com)

75 points first seen 2013042421 last seen 2013042518 77 comments

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What Does Modern Prejudice Look Like? (www.npr.org)

72 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042500 72 comments

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Herd (ninjasandrobots.com)

69 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042500 30 comments

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Unless you're a founder, start-ups do not pay out (blog.selfassembled.org)

68 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042500 77 comments

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Introduction to AVX2 optimizations in x264 (www.scribd.com)

65 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042503 22 comments

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Chromium proposal for browser-level infinite scrolling lists: Lazy Block Layout (docs.google.com)

65 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042503 27 comments

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Apple reports $9.5 billion second quarter profit (www.loopinsight.com)

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Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will ‘Have to Change’ After Boston (politicker.com)

59 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042406 80 comments

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Lawdingo: A Funny Ad For a Serious Business (abovethelaw.com)

58 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042503 28 comments

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Don't Spam Your Users: Batch Notifications for Rails (blog.meldium.com)

56 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042500 10 comments

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It ships when it ships (zinssmeister.co)

55 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042421 55 comments

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Y Combinator's Value to The US Economy (blog.siasto.com)

52 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042500 42 comments

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Swearing at work - a guide (nic.ferrier.me.uk)

51 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042403 66 comments

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Process Managers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (blog.crocodoc.com)

47 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042500 18 comments

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Intel’s Long Awaited Return to the Memory Business (www.realworldtech.com)

44 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042500 20 comments

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Bughub: A native Github Issues client for Mac and iPad (bughubapp.com)

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Nokia announces Asha 210 with World's First Dedicated WhatsApp Button (conversations.nokia.com)

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Inside the Race to Build the World’s Fastest Bitcoin Miner (www.wired.com)

39 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042406 53 comments

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Apple More than Doubles Capital Return Program (www.apple.com)

39 points first seen 2013042415 last seen 2013042421 53 comments

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Manual Scaling (42floors.com)

36 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042500 2 comments

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What are Business Co-Founders & Business People for? (www.64notes.com)

35 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042412 37 comments

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Self-proclaimed LulzSec leader arrested (www.abc.net.au)

35 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042500 37 comments

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Is your Twitter password secure? (www.ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com)

33 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042412 10 comments

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Imagine K12 Announces Start Fund and Rolling Admissions (www.imaginek12.com)

32 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042500 3 comments

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Visual Website Optimizer crosses 2500 paying Customers (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)

31 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042403 13 comments

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Why j for imaginary unit? (www.johndcook.com)

29 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042421 24 comments

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Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback on my new site? (http://www.appraptor.com)

29 points first seen 2013042415 last seen 2013042421 45 comments

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URI Template (tools.ietf.org)

26 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2015040103 6 comments

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Show HN: Dendrite, a golang log parser (github.com)

26 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042421 20 comments

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Knapsack problem (en.wikipedia.org)

25 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042406 18 comments

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The Go Circuit Project: An "AppEngine" for systems-level distributed engineering (http://gocircuit.org)

25 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042400 2 comments

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Python Static and Class Methods [video] (www.neckbeardrepublic.com)

25 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042406 0 comments

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Here Come the Taxi Apps for Yellow Cabs: New York Judge Dismisses E-Hail Lawsuit (betabeat.com)

25 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042503 2 comments

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Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots (www.wired.com)

25 points first seen 2013042421 last seen 2013042506 2 comments

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Redesigning the CV (blog.accredible.com)

22 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042406 12 comments

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Counsyl Is Pioneering A New Bioinformatics Wave (techcrunch.com)

22 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042418 2 comments

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Reddit apologises for Boston "Witch Hunt" (www.bbc.co.uk)

21 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042400 30 comments

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Unicorn (getunicorn.io)

21 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042406 28 comments

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Prenda Law's Trip To San Francisco Turns Out Badly (www.popehat.com)

21 points first seen 2013042418 last seen 2013042503 9 comments

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Side projects are the new resume (medium.com)

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How to Think About Variables in C (denniskubes.com)

20 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042409 14 comments

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Sophia Stewart: Matrix, Terminator Author Battles On (www.celestebateman.com)

19 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042418 8 comments

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BeagleBone Black released, 1GHz Cortex-A8, 512 ram, $45 (beagleboard.org)

18 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042406 2 comments

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Show HN: BugHub GitHub issues for your Mac (bughubapp.com)

18 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 4 comments

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IBM’s solar tech is 80% efficient thanks to supercomputer cooling tech (arstechnica.com)

17 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042421 8 comments

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Shapeways: Manufacturing in the Cloud (cdixon.org)

16 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042406 9 comments

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Ask HN: How do you name your servers? (news.ycombinator.com)

16 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042409 38 comments

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Google Glass - Innovating A Social Failure (www.siliconvalleywatcher.com)

16 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042412 23 comments

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Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm (blogs.kcrw.com)

14 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013080615 3 comments

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Interactive Youtube Maps, Daily Inspiration, And The Shortest Route To Fun (devbootcamp.com)

14 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042406 0 comments

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Ask HN: Why will my startup fail? (news.ycombinator.com)

14 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042418 21 comments

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The future of becoming a job-ready engineer (pandodaily.com)

13 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042406 0 comments

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What we discovered by scanning 235 OSS apps for security issues (www.mavitunasecurity.com)

12 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 11 comments

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Show HN: ProbablyTheMostRomanticThingEver (github.com)

12 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042409 9 comments

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MidnightBSD: The BSD For Everyone (http://www.midnightbsd.org)

11 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042406 0 comments

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Go'Circuit - Distributed Go Programming Framework (www.gocircuit.org)

10 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013092709 0 comments

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JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Patch (tools.ietf.org)

10 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2014022500 0 comments

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Does ’Sarah Hanson' exist? The story of this 19yo entrepreneur may be a hoax (www.geekwire.com)

10 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042421 0 comments

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DigitalOcean Opens San Francisco Datacenter (www.digitalocean.com)

9 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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BitTorrent Sync (labs.bittorrent.com)

8 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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Ask HN: Accepting Bitcoin for freelance work (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042406 6 comments

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Memory Safe C/C++: Time to Flip the Switch (blog.regehr.org)

8 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042418 4 comments

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Software Predicts Which Companies Are an Easy Sell (www.technologyreview.com)

8 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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Whalesong: a Racket to JavaScript compiler (hashcollision.org)

8 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013061818 0 comments

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Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity or CO2 (www.kickstarter.com)

7 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 7 comments

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Ruby Interview Questions (github.com)

7 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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Solar Energy Prices: This Is What A Disruptive Technology Looks Like (medium.com)

7 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042418 8 comments

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Imagine K12 launches $100k/company START Fund for EdTech Startups (www.imaginek12.com)

7 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042412 0 comments

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Alcatraz - Xcode package manager (mneorr.github.com)

7 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042409 5 comments

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Interactive Growth Hacking Console? (blog.raywu.co)

6 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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The Conference Circuit (zachholman.com)

6 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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Ask HN: I want to build software for robots. What companies do that? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013051700 4 comments

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Top 10 CSS Generators (www.webpop.com)

6 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042412 2 comments

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Which Drugs Actually Kill Americans (www.popsci.com)

6 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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How programming is taught in Indian engineering colleges (www.quora.com)

6 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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Ask HN: Why do people still use MySQL over MariaDB? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042415 9 comments

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30 days after launching my side project (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013042421 last seen 2013042421 2 comments

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Super Mario Bros in Shell Script (www.youtube.com)

5 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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Show HN: Use Steve to turn your HTML mockups into apps in minutes (www.steveapp.com)

5 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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If You Do Something, Stand For Something (farmdawgnation.com)

5 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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Samsung works on mind-control tablet (www.bbc.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042406 0 comments

87

A Call for More Professionalism in Tech (speakerdeck.com)

5 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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Ron Paul does not think Bitcoin "fits the definition of money" (www.rawstory.com)

5 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042412 3 comments

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Reddit's DDoS dossier (www.reddit.com)

5 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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Managing Big Data - Imgur (imgur.com)

5 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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Cause of LED efficiency droop finally revealed (www.eurekalert.org)

5 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042418 0 comments

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A list of javascript Lisp implementations (ceaude.twoticketsplease.de)

5 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042418 0 comments

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Coming soon to Linux: A lightweight KDE alternative (www.itworld.com)

5 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042415 0 comments

86

Ask HN: how to deal with "zombie" registar (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013042415 last seen 2013042418 4 comments

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Show HN: Poemr: The Imgur of Poetry (http://poemr.com)

4 points first seen 2013042400 last seen 2013042403 2 comments

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Building a Roguelike in Javascript - Part 5b: Attacking Spreading Fungi (www.codingcookies.com)

4 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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Would Anyone Care If Your Startup Disappeared? (alexstechthoughts.com)

4 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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The Strange Beauty of Salt Mines (www.theatlantic.com)

4 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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How "busy" are these successful VC's? We asked a few (blog.zenlike.me)

4 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042406 0 comments

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Google Now for Google's Homepage in Testing (googlesystem.blogspot.fi)

4 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042406 5 comments

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Custom Testing and Deployment Dashboards in JavaScript with StriderCD (blog.frozenridge.co)

4 points first seen 2013042406 last seen 2013042406 0 comments

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Minerva Aims to be an Online Ivy League University (nation.time.com)

4 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042412 0 comments

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Stanford Online Course: Graph Partitioning and Expanders (venture-lab.org)

4 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042412 0 comments

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Fake AP tweet sends stocks briefly plunging (www.cbsnews.com)

4 points first seen 2013042409 last seen 2013042409 0 comments

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How copyright makes us pretend to be stupid (www.techdirt.com)

4 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013050215 0 comments

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DDoS Dossier - Reddit hit with 400,000 requests/second (www.reddit.com)

4 points first seen 2013042412 last seen 2013042412 0 comments

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Ask HN: I find many "no men", what are "yes men" like? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013042415 last seen 2013042418 5 comments

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My Best Mistake: I Could Have Launched Google Drive in 2006 (www.linkedin.com)

4 points first seen 2013042415 last seen 2013042418 0 comments

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UK students switch to US universities (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2013042421 last seen 2013042500 7 comments

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What A Dead Squirrel Taught Me About Value Pricing (www.fastcompany.com)

4 points first seen 2013042421 last seen 2013042500 0 comments

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Python Compliments R’s Shortcomings (climateecology.wordpress.com)

4 points first seen 2013042421 last seen 2013042421 0 comments

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Ask HN: What is wrong with our UX? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Our startup Body Boss getting street cred with the NFL's Carolina Panthers (blog.bodybossfitness.com)

3 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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Optimizing for Productivity (www.fundable.com)

3 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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How to Survive Being Founder Broke (getfireplug.com)

3 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 2 comments

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Common Misconceptions About Touch (www.uxmatters.com)

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Businessman jailed after making £50m selling fake bomb detectors (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Apple's stock movement history (thetechblock.com)

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Ask HN: Parents of 2 month old baby. Going nuts with stress (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What are the most paranoid security measures for running a web app? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Animal-rights activists wreak havoc in Milan laboratory (www.nature.com)

3 points first seen 2013042403 last seen 2013042403 0 comments

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Ask HN: What would change in a neighborhood that installed Gigabit Internet? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Fake AP Tweet Sinks the Dow (www.businessweek.com)