hackerNews

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My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me (trondblog.tumblr.com)

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How I coded in 1985 (blog.jgc.org)

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Avoiding Burnout (andrewdumont.me)

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Google Now on your iPhone and iPad (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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Black Start (en.wikipedia.org)

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Google releases Glass source code, declares platform open to hackers (arstechnica.com)

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"Older Is Wiser: Study Shows Software Developers’ Skills Improve Over Time" (news.ncsu.edu)

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Hurricane on Saturn (www.nasa.gov)

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Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5 (cross-browser.org)

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The //* /*/ //*/ comment toggle trick (coderwall.com)

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Ask HN: Who built xmlHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Please use git pull --rebase (coderwall.com)

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How I attacked a fellow student (shaanan.cohney.info)

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Fix random few-second freezes in Mountain Lion (www.princeton.edu)

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Faster, Better DOM manipulation with Dommy and ClojureScript (blog.getprismatic.com)

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Git pull --rebase until it hurts (jrb.tumblr.com)

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iio Engine – A new HTML5 App Framework (www.gamedev.net)

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The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage (www.theatlantic.com)

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French President announces 10 pro-business measures (www.rudebaguette.com)

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Restoring the first website (first-website.web.cern.ch)

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An open-source fully-homomorphic encryption library (github.com)

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Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository (gigaom.com)

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Mozilla Accepting Applications for its Open Source Accelerator (webfwd.org)

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Virgin Galactic goes faster than speed of sound in flight test (www.virgin.com)

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Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform (Kickstarter project) (tryghost.org)

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Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4m (thenextweb.com)

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Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon (www.bloomberg.com)

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TCP/IP in Legos (righteousit.wordpress.com)

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Calling All Hackers (braythwayt.com)

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Turn a light bulb on with every new user or download (rigoneri.com)

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Making a game on the C64 (www.ludumdare.com)

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Please help get rid of normalize.css (github.com)

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Money Buys Happiness and You Can Never Have Too Much, New Research Says (www.theatlantic.com)

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Panel seeks to fine tech companies for noncompliance with wiretap orders (www.washingtonpost.com)

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AMD’s “heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access” coming this year in Kaveri (arstechnica.com)

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Call Girl: What I Learned During My Year as a Customer Service Representative (bygonebureau.com)

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[Posix] Why is printf better than echo? (unix.stackexchange.com)

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Stray Dogs Master Complex Moscow Subway System (2010) (abcnews.go.com)

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Human rights record of the United States in 2012 (Chinese viewpoint) (www.chinadaily.com.cn)

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How to install Ubuntu 13.04 on your Android phone (the.taoofmac.com)

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A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

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African Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data (www.technologyreview.com)

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Turn Gtalk Into A Command Line for the Web With Zapier (zapier.com)

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How to Accept & Decline Job Offers (livingformonday.com)

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Apple’s Jony Ive said to be bringing flat design to iOS 7 (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: SCRAMBLED - An IOS Game in HTML5 which runs as smoothly as native (www.scrambledapp.com)

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You Won't Regret Positive Feedback (zachholman.com)

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The Trouble with CodeSchool (medium.com)

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Show HN: My one month project, Statsgram.com: Website Optimization Tool (http://www.statsgram.com)

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Why your password can’t have symbols—or be longer than 16 characters (arstechnica.com)

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One Year Later, the Results of Tor Books UK Going DRM-Free (www.tor.com)

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Pentagon Paying China — Yes, China — To Carry Data (www.wired.com)

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Alibaba Buys 18 Percent Stake in Weibo for $586 Million (www.cnbc.com)

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Show HN: Type in a search to find the avg of the first 50 img results. (http://imgessence.com)

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German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection (it.slashdot.org)

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Poll: Undergraduate Alma Mater (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ghost: The Future of Blogging (in Node.js) (tryghost.org)

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The Most Important Part of Your Hackathon? Your Sponsors. (tessrinearson.com)

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Photographers' anger at law change over 'orphan works' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Sorry, Siri: How Google Is Planning to Be Your New Personal Assistant (www.theatlantic.com)

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Brain teaser: what does this switch statement print? (gist.github.com)

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Internap Compromised (pastebin.com)

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Phdtree, create & discover your academic family history (phdtree.org)

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Robot Operating System Ros (www.ros.org)

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Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee In Israel (www.businessinsider.com)

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Solar planes are not the future of flight (www.empiricalzeal.com)

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Show HN : Bipio - For People and Robots (https://bip.io)

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How to get less traffic and drive users away. (idiallo.com)

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Rails 4.0 rc1 released (rubygems.org)

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Get your JS error notifications wherever you like (blog.errorception.com)

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Facebook Is Losing Millions Of Users In The US And Other Mature Markets (finance.yahoo.com)

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Show HN: Automated post to HN at the perfect time (hnbuffer.com)

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Continuous Deployment at Quora (engineering.quora.com)

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Dear Gmail, please stop taking your UX cues from the spamsite school of design? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Blazing The Trail For Female Programmers (www.npr.org)

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Scratch Your Itch Education (ajjuliani.com)

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Subreddit advertising: a $30 postmortem (www.knurling.org)

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Bizarre binary star system pushes study of relativity to new limit (www.spacedaily.com)

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Google Removes Search Box From Results Page? When Using Chrome's Omnibox (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why use SmartOS (joyent.com)

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Heroku Scheduler now classified as "Best Effort" (devcenter.heroku.com)

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The Alibaba phenomenon: e-commerce firm on track to reach 1 trillion USD/year (www.economist.com)

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US schools weigh bulletproof uniforms: 'no different than a seatbelt in a car' (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Trying to find article on extreme learning (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Has your startup failed? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Too Many People Buying iPhones Other Than the 5 (daringfireball.net)

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Show HN: QuestionClub.co, an experiment in collaborative blogging (questionclub.co)

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Ask HN: What do developers do with web mockups? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How One College Is Closing The Computer Science Gender Gap (www.npr.org)

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Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4m (thenextweb.com)

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Be Alone (ninjasandrobots.com)

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New, $20 Nokia 105 doesn’t have Wi-Fi, does have 35 days standby time (arstechnica.com)

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Purdue professor identifies proton pathway in photosynthesis (www.purdue.edu)

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The document that put the World Wide Web into the public domain on 30 April 1993 (cds.cern.ch)

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How to Use the vi Editor (www.washington.edu)

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iPhone Camera Preview Dimensions (cocoadventures.org)

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The advanced guide to content marketing (www.quicksprout.com)

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Rails 4 RC1 about to be released (github.com)

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How to radically simplify your user interface (nathanbarry.com)

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Sharp’s 32-inch 4K monitors (eyes-on) (www.engadget.com)

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Xkcd: Is It Worth the Time? (xkcd.com)

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History of San Francisco Place Names (sfstreets.noahveltman.com)

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Show HN: A "Flat UI"-style color scheme for your text editor (http://toychesttheme.com)

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Why Parse is Facebook's Most Significant Acquisition Ever. (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Best job forums? (news.ycombinator.com)

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An Introduction to Python Concurrency (www.slideshare.net)

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Internet Drug Dealers Are Really Nice Guys (www.vice.com)

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Ask HN: Would you be interested in reading a book on developer's career (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What documentary films inspired you the most? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Kentucky Derby Bans All Interchangeable Lens Cameras for ‘Security Purposes’ (petapixel.com)

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Dataset: U.S. Senate Votes on Gun Control (vs. NRA Donations, Party, etc.) (www.statwing.com)

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Notes on "Designing perfect bootstrapped business" - MicroConf 2013 Talk (www.it-engelhardt.de)

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Warning Shot: a "Bullet Hole" on the ISS (www.universetoday.com)

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How the FBI cracked a “sextortion” plot against pro poker players (arstechnica.com)

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StartupConference June 13. - 16. 2013, HVAR Croatia (startupislandconference.com)

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FS Buckets on Clever Cloud (blog.clever-cloud.com)

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NSF bill to replace scientific peer review with funding criteria (news.sciencemag.org)

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Insatiable Curiosity (medium.com)

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Rockerbox - Your machine-learning personal shopping assistant (getrockerbox.com)

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Ask HN: What are your best Android app marketing hacks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stress Testing HTTP with Twisted Python and Treq (blog.mailgun.net)

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Graphene: the nano-sized material with a massive future (www.cnn.com)

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Our Drone Delusion (www.newyorker.com)

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Bee-harming pesticides banned in Europe (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Vermont's gigabit Internet service is live, half price of G-Fiber (www.engadget.com)

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Canada to tax Bitcoin transactions (rt.com)

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Google Plus Sign-in for AngularJS (jeradbitner.com)

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A closer look at the landmark FRAND rate-setting decision Microsoft vs Motorola (www.fosspatents.com)

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Starting up: An intro (benjilanyado.wordpress.com)

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I Wish I Knew (medium.com)

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Growing Sales with Smarter Systems (blog.voltagecrm.com)

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We're At An ‘Absolute' Low Point In Startup Quality (m.techcrunch.com)

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Spying on the Seven Seas (community.rapid7.com)

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Announcing Skylight (www.skylight.io)

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If Not for Android, Where Would the iPhone Be? (daringfireball.net)

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How to Measure Your Start-up’s Success (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Motorola Buy Delivers Google More Heartbreak Than Help (www.bloomberg.com)

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Gallery CSS (benschwarz.github.io)

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MagSafe Adapter Key Ring (www.shapeways.com)

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DragonFly BSD 3.4 released (www.dragonflybsd.org)

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The Silk Road hit by DDoS attack (dkn255hz262ypmii.onion.to)

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Analyzing and circumventing Internet censorship in the United Arab Emirates (blog.plenz.com)

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Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, more from iOS (9to5mac.com)

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Missile Command arcade game using a real Laser (www.youtube.com)

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Opera sues ex-employee for $3.4m for suggesting Firefox redesign (translate.google.com)

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Building a Culture That Works (peter.a16z.com)

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What's new in Linux 3.9 (www.h-online.com)

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Editr - HTML, CSS, JavaScript playground (idered.pl)

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Show HN: HNMention: Email notification when someone mentions you on Hacker News (www.hnmention.com)

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Apache Web Server Attacks Continue to Evolve (blog.sucuri.net)