hackerNews

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Path texts my entire phonebook at 6am (www.branded3.com)

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Light Table 0.4 released (www.chris-granger.com)

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What a stupid idea (dcurt.is)

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The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas (medium.com)

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Florida Teen Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad (blogs.miaminewtimes.com)

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Why SICP Matters (www.cs.berkeley.edu)

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Please, stay away from rebase (geekblog.oneandoneis2.org)

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Introducing Heka (blog.mozilla.org)

282 points first seen 2013050106 last seen 2013050300 56 comments

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How to Choose a Profitable Niche (www.trevormckendrick.com)

240 points first seen 2013050106 last seen 2013050300 36 comments

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We Need A Standard Layered Image Format - SQLite (shapeof.com)

233 points first seen 2013050109 last seen 2013050300 141 comments

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Introducing Trello Business Class (blog.trello.com)

178 points first seen 2013050103 last seen 2013050209 69 comments

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Exploiting a Bug in Google's Glass (www.saurik.com)

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Simplify (paulstamatiou.com)

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Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents (www.hackerschool.com)

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An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD (clay.io)

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Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta (blog.banyan.co)

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Google's self-driving car gathers almost 1 GB/sec (twitter.com)

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‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time (www.wired.com)

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Dwolla Raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz (blog.dwolla.com)

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Craigslist's Allegations Of "Copyright" Violations Thrown Out (www.forbes.com)

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Limiting Antibiotics in Animals (www.nytimes.com)

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Hardware startups (cdixon.org)

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How we failed our YC interview (mr-mariusz.blogspot.com)

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Who Has Your Back? 2013 (www.eff.org)

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Illinois moves to legalise employer access to workers' social media accounts (stream.aljazeera.com)

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The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js (blog.mongodb.org)

82 points first seen 2013050121 last seen 2013050212 80 comments

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Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Obama poised to name former cable, wireless lobbyist to chair FCC (online.wsj.com)

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Heroku Postgres - GIS Support Now Available (blog.heroku.com)

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In venture capital deals, not every founder will be a Zuckerberg (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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ESEA gets called out -- maliciously turning anti-cheat client into BTC miner (play.esea.net)

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The Flaw that May Bring Down Bitcoin or Change it Forever (globalguerrillas.typepad.com)

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How To Prototype In Xcode Using Storyboard (blog.mengto.com)

61 points first seen 2013050115 last seen 2013050209 14 comments

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Google APIs are Down (www.googleapis.com)

60 points first seen 2013050115 last seen 2013050203 28 comments

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Show HN: I made coffee for a hackathon, and these were the results (heypodo.com)

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Ask HN: How did you make your first $10,000? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Robot Finds Mysterious Spheres in Ancient Temple (news.discovery.com)

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How A 17-Year-Old Girl Won a Hackathon (evolver.fm)

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Wii U has been hacked (www.wiikey.com)

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Reputation.com Loses User Passwords, Emails, and Addresses (www.stormpath.com)

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OVH acknowledges back office security issue (pastebin.com)

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Why do programmers quit after 4 years? (Jay Fields experience) (blog.jayfields.com)

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Herschel space telescope goes blind, ends mission (earthsky.org)

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PHP Commandments (biasedphp.com)

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Reasoning About the Heap in Rust (johnbender.us)

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Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ (www.nytimes.com)

49 points first seen 2013050103 last seen 2013050200 31 comments

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This page is served by the small web server running on a Sinclair ZX81 (zx81-siggi.endoftheinternet.org)

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Science Exchange (YC S11) Raises $3M in Series A Financing (blog.scienceexchange.com)

47 points first seen 2013050106 last seen 2013050200 8 comments

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Introducing Airbnb Verified ID (blog.airbnb.com)

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Unraveling HTML5 vs. Native (designmind.frogdesign.com)

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Show HN: An HTML5 game we made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare (godswillbewatching.clay.io)

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Apple has a Software Problem — Why I’ll be Switching to Android (www.kevinsookocheff.com)

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Who Owns Your Pictures? (www.tbray.org)

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Yahoo Expands Maternity, Paternity Leave (www.nbcbayarea.com)

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How to retire in 10 years (medium.com)

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The first web site was responsive (info.cern.ch)

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Apple Raises $17 Billion in Record Debt Sale (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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How I learnt to cure stage fright (blog.bufferapp.com)

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Feed Wrangler - a modern, sustainable RSS reader (www.feedwrangler.net)

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Judge Throws Out Craigslist Copyright Lawsuit, But It Can Still Sue Over Data (techcrunch.com)

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How we built Pusher-JS 2.0 – part 2 – implementation (blog.pusher.com)

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Disqus Gravity — The web of discussions (disqus.com)

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Released my startup MVP Outpost, begging for feedback (outpostp2p.com)

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Inverse Symbolic Calculator Plus (isc.carma.newcastle.edu.au)

25 points first seen 2013050118 last seen 2013050206 14 comments

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$100 million in free international transfers for startups (transferwise.com)

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Scaling Viki (openmymind.net)

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Foursquare To Start Selling Your Data (www.hasoffers.com)

23 points first seen 2013050106 last seen 2013050115 14 comments

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Visual C++ team's attitude to standards compliance (connect.microsoft.com)

22 points first seen 2013050100 last seen 2013050103 27 comments

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This week in Meteor: learning resources and meetups (meteor.com)

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Show HN: Manage, annotate, and share research papers (http://www.papershipapp.com)

20 points first seen 2013050103 last seen 2013050121 6 comments

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Open source free, $12 to learn what I had to know (germanforblack.com)

20 points first seen 2013050112 last seen 2013050115 4 comments

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Stop Drawing Dead Fish by Bret Victor (vimeo.com)

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VC Chamath Palihapitiya Attempts to Shame Entrepreneurs Once Again (www.daniellemorrill.com)

18 points first seen 2013050109 last seen 2013050115 4 comments

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124 Millimeters of Depth (burningnorth.com)

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The biggest deterrent for women in tech (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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The problem with pull requests / code reviews (philfreo.com)

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The Noiseless Hacker Calendar (www.twilio.com)

13 points first seen 2013050106 last seen 2013050118 2 comments

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Read To Lead: How To Digest Books Above Your “Level” (thoughtcatalog.com)

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Dwolla raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz (thenextweb.com)

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New Bret Victor talk, Stop Drawing Dead Fish (vimeo.com)

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Announcing SunSpider 1.0 (www.webkit.org)

11 points first seen 2013050112 last seen 2013050121 0 comments

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Check Out Facebook's Offices (www.themuse.com)

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Facebook product engineer says don't learn web development (www.reddit.com)

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The Prophets of Oak Ridge (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Never get another marketing email again (blog.zackshapiro.com)

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New paper describing Google's Omega Cluster Scheduler [pdf] (eurosys2013.tudos.org)

9 points first seen 2013050106 last seen 2013110600 0 comments

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Keep Breathing (usepropeller.com)

9 points first seen 2013050112 last seen 2013050112 3 comments

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Google I/O 2013 Sessions announced (developers.google.com)

8 points first seen 2013050115 last seen 2013050121 4 comments

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Ask HN: What do you repeatedly do in your SaaS that you wish was automated? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to Add SASS Support in Sublime Text (aspirecode.com)

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How to Beat Procrastination (lesswrong.com)

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IBM makes a movie out of atoms (techland.time.com)

7 points first seen 2013050118 last seen 2013050200 0 comments

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Recognizing numbers (www.johndcook.com)

7 points first seen 2013050121 last seen 2013050203 0 comments

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Embedding Canvas and SVG charts in emails (mir.aculo.us)

6 points first seen 2013050103 last seen 2013050103 0 comments

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Awesome Rails Logs with Logstasher (shadabahmed.com)

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Ask HN: What would you consider to be the roles/duties of a CTO? (news.ycombinator.com)

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(repost) How to get your IP unbanned on HN (news.ycombinator.com)

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Introducing New, More Engaging Advertising Formats (yodel.yahoo.com)

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ISS Solar Panel Punctured by Small Stone (twitter.com)

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Symantec shares drop 10% in seconds today, prompting trade halt (www.nanex.net)

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Twitter Ads now generally available for U.S. users (advertising.twitter.com)

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Ask PG: Do you invest in any startups outside of YC? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Introducing Feed Wrangler – Google Reader replacement (http://feedwrangler.net)

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Jawbone Acquires BodyMedia For Over $100 Million To Get Edge In Health Tracking (techcrunch.com)

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How Timers at Traffic Lights Cause Accidents. (blog.priceonomics.com)

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Just Because You Can Raise VC Funds Doesn't Mean You Should (techcrunch.com)

5 points first seen 2013050106 last seen 2013050109 0 comments

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Virgin Galactic: When an Inspiring Endeavor Actually Sucks (www.dailykos.com)

5 points first seen 2013050106 last seen 2013050106 4 comments

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The Era of Web Comebacks (zinssmeister.co)

5 points first seen 2013050106 last seen 2013050106 0 comments

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Apple wows market with mega bond deal (www.reuters.com)

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7 College Majors That Will Land You a Six Figure Job (tryecruit.com)

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Fab.com Goes Retail (www.fastcompany.com)

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All about Perl 6 – interview of Flávio Glock (www.josetteorama.com)

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The Visual Components of a Psychedelic Experience (2011) (www.disregardeverythingisay.com)

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New phone service for startups and small businesses (blog.ivrbuddy.com)

4 points first seen 2013050100 last seen 2013050100 0 comments

0

Growth Hackers To Follow (blog.groovehq.com)

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Congress, now live on YouTube (googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)

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Why Unpaid Internships are Harming the Design Industry (www.psfk.com)

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The Promise to Develop Ethical Software (github.com)

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Homejoy (YC S10) caught buying Yelp reviews (www.reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Please stop hijacking onclick on HTML links (news.ycombinator.com)

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Python 101 – Intro to XML Parsing with ElementTree (www.blog.pythonlibrary.org)

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Despite complaints of spamming, Path stands by its app's invitation process (news.cnet.com)

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In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen (www.milkeninstitute.org)

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Is this whole 'tech talent shortage' just a problem with recruiters? (hr4startups.quora.com)

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What's the tallest point on Earth? (www.quora.com)

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Briefs (giveabrief.com)

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Hackers creating an untraceable and comprehensive financial system using Bitcoin (qz.com)

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On Being a Designer and a Developer: Not Quite Unicorn Rare (uxdiogenes.com)

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Developers dive in to create a wealth of autism apps (www.latimes.com)

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Responsive website design cheat sheet part 1: what widths should I design for? (www.zingdesign.com)

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Google declares Glass open to hackers, releases source code (www.wired.co.uk)

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First URL active once more (first-website.web.cern.ch)

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Github was down (status.github.com)

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Ask HN: Freelancers...what PM tool do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Moln.is - VPS hosting from the people behind the Pirate Bay (www.moln.is)

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Free as in Fortune Cookies (www.joelonsoftware.com)

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Outsourcing science. Will it work? (allthingsd.com)

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Dwolla raises $16.5m round led by Andreessen Horowitz, adds SF office (www.siliconprairienews.com)

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Announcing the CrunchBase Venture Network (techcrunch.com)

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U.S. Lawmaker Proposes New Criteria for Choosing NSF Grants (news.sciencemag.org)

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WhipUps: A Faster, Simpler Blogging Platform (Preview) (sausman.whipups.com)

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Digg Reader: We’re Still Learning (blog.digg.com)

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Josh Williams on why Gowalla lost to Foursquare (medium.com)