hackerNews

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Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4 (www.techempower.com)

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Portal Released For Steam On Linux (www.phoronix.com)

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Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins (www.unheap.com)

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Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine (www.nytimes.com)

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Shenzhen is Like Living in a City-Sized TechShop (www.hackthings.com)

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Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 Citadel demo now live (www.unrealengine.com)

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Show HN: Weekend project - Magnific Popup (dimsemenov.com)

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An Introduction to the Mechanics of Bitcoin (www.khanacademy.org)

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Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You (online.wsj.com)

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BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 (www.eetimes.com)

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Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme (spin.atomicobject.com)

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Nerds, we need to have a talk (www.thingist.com)

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Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 (thenextweb.com)

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Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

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Probably the worst URL scheme ever (www.bvb.de)

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Petition to drop charges against Kiera Wilmot (www.change.org)

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Turbulenz HTML5 game engine is now open source (venturebeat.com)

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Entrepreneurs are the New Labor (www.forbes.com)

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Stop “Disrupting” Everything (slate.com)

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Linode Manager Two-Step Authentication (blog.linode.com)

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Building Stuff To Help You Sell The Stuff You Build (patio11s microconf) (www.slideshare.net)

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Sweating the UI and UX details: Emails and Email Addresses (blog.close.io)

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Rack Attack: Protection from abusive clients (www.kickstarter.com)

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MLWorks: SML compiler from Harlequin returning from the dead as open source (www.ravenbrook.com)

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How to use a Reddit-clone to boost company culture (ryancarson.com)

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Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects (github.com)

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New Dyno Networking Model (blog.heroku.com)

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The Antidote to Burnout is Progress (tomtunguz.com)

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Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine (www.nytimes.com)

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What professional philosophers believe – Survey results (philpapers.org)

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Hurricane Sandy Killed My Startup (blog.willwashburn.com)

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Oslo is turning garbage into energy and is running out of garbage (www.nytimes.com)

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Harder than it looks: rounding a float to the nearest integer (blog.frama-c.com)

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Role of women correlates with ancient farming practices (www.economist.com)

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New chip delivers DNA results within an hour (dangerousprototypes.com)

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Eliminating my trivial inconveniences building Discourse (samsaffron.com)

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Memcache top (engineering.tumblr.com)

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Chinese “spy” caught with NASA laptop full of porn, not secrets (arstechnica.com)

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Planning for Another 100 Million Web Sites (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Why Professors at San Jose State Won't Use a Harvard Professor's MOOC (chronicle.com)

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JDK 8 M7 update (mail.openjdk.java.net)

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Startups That Rejected $100M Offers (www.businessinsider.com)

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Deep learning made easy (fastml.com)

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Spark Core: Wi-Fi for Everything (Arduino Compatible) (www.kickstarter.com)

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How porn links and Ben Bernanke snuck into Bitcoin's code (money.cnn.com)

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Growing a Language with Clojure and Instaparse (gigasquidsoftware.com)

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Intel’s “Iris” wants to change how you feel about integrated graphics (arstechnica.com)

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Year 2038 problem (en.wikipedia.org)

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Introducing Photos of You (blog.instagram.com)

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Coinlab files suit against MtGox (www.scribd.com)

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How to use MongoDB as a pure in-memory DB (edgystuff.tumblr.com)

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New form of SARS that causes kidney failure and pneumonia (qz.com)

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The Chadwick Chair (daringfireball.net)

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Germany is downgrading (www.grobmeier.de)

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NoBackend: Front-End First Web Development (www.infoq.com)

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3 In 10 Americans Will Not Knowingly Buy Chinese-Owned Brands (www.hdtradeservices.com)

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Barnes & Noble tears down the Nook's walled garden. (techland.time.com)

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It’s a 401(k) World (www.nytimes.com)

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Tools for Switching from Windows to Mac Development (www.josebrowne.com)

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Poll: Do you own a Google glass? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist (www.pythonanywhere.com)

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Who Are the H-1Bs? (visual.ly)

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AWS Road Trip (http://awsroadtrip.com)

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The Case for Using Mad Lib Sign Up Forms (Hint: Mad Conversion Increases) (www.evergage.com)

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Is there room for the middle class in Silicon Valley? (www.nytimes.com)

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Everest Climber: Sherpas Tried to Kill Me (news.nationalgeographic.com)

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You Should Launch with Less (leanpub.com)

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How Much Does It Cost To Build An MVP? (www.forbes.com)

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Cassette Tape UI (www.schillmania.com)

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Show HN: Fishbone, HTML5-bootstrap boilerplate with django on Google App Engine (github.com)

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How a 17 year old girl won a hackathon (medium.com)

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Twitter chooses Drupal for their official blog (www.millwoodonline.co.uk)

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Turbulenz Engine Goes Open Source (news.turbulenz.com)

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Show HN: An API directory (www.apiforthat.com)

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Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for investors? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The W3C's Soul at Stake (www.fsf.org)

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Judge and prepare to be judged (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Rcmap: real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits around the world (rcmap.hatnote.com)

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The Computer Science Mismatch (blog.smartbear.com)

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Ask HN: Why did your startup fail? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Apple and other corporations move profit to avoid taxes (www.nytimes.com)

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Thoughts After a Week with Google Glass (www.lukew.com)

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April 2013 Startup Index: 1,183 Companies - 71% Are Growing (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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A 17th-Century Russian Community Living in 21st-Century Alaska (www.theatlantic.com)

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Reddit on Google Glass (glass-apps.org)

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The Power of Sites, an infographic (www.weebly.com)

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Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd (www.newscientist.com)

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Youtube hasn't had dislikes for 2 days (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What ergonomic keyboard/mouse do you recommend? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S. (www.nytimes.com)

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Replacing Lena GIF with Fabio GIF (www.claremontmckenna.edu)

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Does packed struct hurt performance on x86_64? (attractivechaos.wordpress.com)

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What are the new big ideas in tech? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Intel’s high-performance, low-power secret: the Haswell SoC (arstechnica.com)

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Google Glass developer writes an app to snap photos with just a wink (arstechnica.com)

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New York City Man Who Fishes Valuables out of Sidewalk Drains (laughingsquid.com)

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Why do we worry about scalability on Day 1? (adii.me)

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Warner Brothers sued for unauthorized use of Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat (arstechnica.com)

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Top Startups You Should Know About (www.startupplays.com)

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Ask HN: Are you planning on getting Google Glass? (news.ycombinator.com)

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China: A Billion Strong but Short on Workers (online.wsj.com)

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Ask HN: Is this sales person too good to be true? (news.ycombinator.com)

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H1-B Infographic -- Myths versus Facts? (thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com)

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Cellphone Thefts Grow, but the Industry Looks the Other Way (www.nytimes.com)

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The Culture Hacker (blog.idonethis.com)

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Remind HN: Design does not always mean Graphic Design (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Would you use AWS for a primary infrastructure if you're a bank? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Introducing Trusted Contacts (www.facebook.com)

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Using AUFS and LXC to Manage Dependencies at Cloud Scale (blog.picloud.com)

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Dive: The Open Source Occulus Rift killer (www.durovis.com)

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Erlang the Movie II - The Sequel (www.gar1t.com)

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Coinlab (Y Combinator funded) sues MtGox (www.reddit.com)

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Malaysia censors Internet before upcoming election (brianritchie.me)

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Guys Like This Could Kill Google Glass Before It Ever Gets Off the Ground (www.wired.com)

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First 24 Hours of Google Glass (medium.com)

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DARPA looking for non-IP networking solutions for adhoc networks (www.darpa.mil)

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Facebook is blowing it (www.salon.com)

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Khan Academy video series explaining Bitcoin (www.khanacademy.org)

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How I Hacked Instagram Accounts (www.breaksec.com)

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Sorry BBC you can't be healthy on £1 of food a day (www.brelson.com)

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15 Natural Language Processing APIs (blog.mashape.com)

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REST lesson learned: Avoid hackable URLs (blog.ploeh.dk)

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Why Your Startup Should Be Open Source by Peer.fm (formerly Napster.fm) (citizentekk.com)

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SLOPE: A proposal for better time representation (www.jonhmchan.com)

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Ask HN: How should I go about learning? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bitcoin is falling (bitcoincharts.com)

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[Intel] need[s] to accept and embrace their destiny. (stratechery.com)

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Ask HN: When you turn down employment, is that considered burning a bridge? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Sixty Innovations Over Sixty Years [pdf] (www.ll.mit.edu)

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Ask HN: Is there a back-end HTML form processing service? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A documentary of the first biking trip to the South Pole (www.kickstarter.com)

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Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months out? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A longer life for lithium-sulfur batteries (www.fraunhofer.de)

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The Ultimate Software Development Office Layout (www.possibility.com)

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How can a DoS attack be used as part of the 'Gaining Access' phase of a hack? (security.stackexchange.com)

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Shawnee, Kansas fourth city to get Google Fiber (googlefiberblog.blogspot.com)

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Turing Machine Simulator (db.ing.puc.cl)

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HTML5 presentations with narration using Markdown (http://pepslides.com)

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Looking to grow your Startup? Here are 6 Talks to learn from the best. (www.hackertalks.io)

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Hotmail Is Really, Officially Dead As Of Today (www.sfgate.com)

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Weebly is hiring a DBA and other talented hackers (www.weebly.com)

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Web Engineering Lead/Manager - PagerDuty, San Francisco (www.jobscore.com)

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