hackerNews

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Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the Stuff They've Blown Up (blogs.miaminewtimes.com)

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How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy (penny-arcade.com)

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I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something (www.taigeair.com)

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Animated Vector Icons (livicons.com)

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I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks. (joshledgard.com)

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How I Made Porn 20x More Efficient with Python (www.toptal.com)

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Tesla Model S Suspension Walkaround (www.edmunds.com)

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Predicting Google Product Shutdowns (www.gwern.net)

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Help Kiera with her legal bills (www.crowdtilt.com)

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Today I saw the future (brendaneich.com)

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YC without being in YC (42floors.com)

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Next Computer (www.johnmirandaphoto.com)

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OReilly offers 50% discount on ebooks in celebration of 'Day Against DRM' (shop.oreilly.com)

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Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Go and Rust – objects without class (lwn.net)

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Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to 'Palestine' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses (www.nytimes.com)

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The world’s first entirely 3D-printed gun has been made (www.extremetech.com)

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How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison (www.businessinsider.com)

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The Whole Problem Is That There Is No Housing Boom In Silicon Valley (www.slate.com)

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Simple Raspberry Pi Rack (www.raspberrypi.org)

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Ask gwern: Who are you? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Let's Make GitHub Better, Together (shurcool.github.io)

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"Hackathon" Has Been Trademarked in Germany (register.dpma.de)

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Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API (http://www.mocky.io)

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How NYC's first “director of analytics” revolutionized building inspections (www.slate.com)

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Harper Lee sues for copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A Proposal: Renaming Backend/Frontend to Application/UI Developers (theothersideofcode.com)

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UNICEF Tells Slacktivists: Give Money, Not Facebook Likes (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Cult Of Positive Attitude and Always Saying Yes (meetingboy.com)

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Poll: How much money have stock options brought you? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard (damienkatz.net)

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Elon Musk admits Tesla's math was wrong (www.bizjournals.com)

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Can you crack a code? (www.fbi.gov)

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Why Balanced is an open company (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Don’t build. Compose (medium.com)

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Weebly (YC W07) launches new service, Android app (techcrunch.com)

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Are you a psychopath? (blog.statwing.com)

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Why Are Young Americans Jobless? (www.nytimes.com)

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Tesla improves financial product and lowers monthly payment (www.teslamotors.com)

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I Wish Nest Did More Than Thermostats (www.jorgecastro.org)

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Google is sending out blankets [sic] to open-source developers (slashdot.org)

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Google API infrastructure outage incident report (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)

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The Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and Making it Was Very Illegal) (motherboard.vice.com)

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Nginx Requests/Second - Raspberry Pi vs. Amazon EC2 | chimerasaurus (www.chimerasaurus.com)

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The Verdict Is In: Nobody Likes Google Glass (www.businessinsider.com)

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Bitcoin Is Not as Secure, Unregulated, or Lucrative as You Might Think (www.wired.com)

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Varnish in Five Acts (dev.theladders.com)

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Millions Watch Netflix Without Paying [video] (www.businessweek.com)

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Paying for Great Software is like Paying for Fine Dining (supportbee.com)

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Show HN: Create a WebRTC service in less time than it takes to install Skype (https://vline.com)

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5 Myths of Password Security (www.stormpath.com)

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Google's Ray Kurzweil on the computers that will live in our brains (www.marketplace.org)

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Job posting for Amazon by Jeff Bezos from 1994 (groups.google.com)

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How to invite users to your app (medium.com)

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Why We'll Never Meet Aliens (qz.com)

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Samsung's Galaxy S4 16GB version only has 8GB of usable storage (crave.cnet.co.uk)

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Increase the performance of your responsive website (blog.netdna.com)

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JSON API (jsonapi.org)

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AVX2 optimizations in x264 followup: overall results (mailman.videolan.org)

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You Can't Afford To Stop Using Mail (medium.com)

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The View from the C++ Standard meeting, April 2013 – Part 2 (www.ibm.com)

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The wretched state of GPU transcoding (www.extremetech.com)

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Bochspwn: Exploiting Kernel Race Conditions Found via Memory Access Patterns (j00ru.vexillium.org)

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Dave Conservatoire - my attempt at a Khan Academy for music (http://www.daveconservatoire.org)

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Show HN: Stringer, a self-hosted anti-social RSS reader (github.com)

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Surrounding Yourself With Other Startups Won't Accelerate Your Company's Growth (technori.com)

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Boeing Waverider makes history (Mach 5.1) (www.gizmag.com)

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Andreas Ehn: Factoring Out Common Technology (blog.opbeat.com)

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Show HN: Social Sharing Analytics for URL/RSS Feeds (mentions.in)

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What Nothingness Feels Like: The Sensory Deprivation Tank (medium.com)

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The Big Data Made Me Do It (www.technologyreview.com)

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Dev Toolkit 1.0 -- Get a peek under the hood at Timehop (blog.thinkful.com)

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PhpMyAdmin 4.0.0 is released (sourceforge.net)

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Performance optimization and Dart (dartogreniyorum.blogspot.co.uk)

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OK, so here's something weird ... (news.ycombinator.com)

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An update to our progress on Ember-data (emberjs.com)

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Implementing the Sieve of Eratosthenes with Functional Programming (raganwald.com)

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Build language parsers for iOS with ParseKit (itod.github.io)

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Getting Your Analytics Practice Off the Ground (keen.io)

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Collective Intelligence Enabled By The Internet (fmathieu.co)

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O'Reilly: Save 50% in celebration of Day against DRM (shop.oreilly.com)

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Startup Time vs. Corporate Time And How To Manage Both (www.forbes.com)

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Ask HN: What was the first cell phone to be carrier locked? (news.ycombinator.com)

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TipTop Speakers Launches (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Have startups traditionally skimped on web security? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: untapped SaaS niches (news.ycombinator.com)

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J.C. Penney Apologizes in TV Spot (www.businessweek.com)

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Blimp goals redesigned (blog.getblimp.com)

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Ask HN: How do you manage your "TO READ" list? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Matt Cutts responds to John C. Dvorak's conspiracy theory (www.mattcutts.com)

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Here’s What The Large Hadron Collider Looks Like Through Google Glass (techcrunch.com)

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A Most Profound Math Problem (www.newyorker.com)

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Now You Can Take Google Glass Photos Just by Winking (www.tomshardware.com)

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Un-Happy 35th Birthday to Spam Emails (www.squareonemail.com)

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The Lies You've Been Told About the Origin of the QWERTY Keyboard (www.theatlantic.com)

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Not Just Child’s Play: Video Games Could Slow Mental Decline (healthland.time.com)

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RBC shuts down Ottawa Bitcoin account (www.obj.ca)

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Intel TSX Profiling (software.intel.com)

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Ask HN: Freelancers - What do you do when a client doesn't pay? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Portraits Derived From the DNA in Hair and Gum (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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Silicon Valley And The Reinvention Of Food (techcrunch.com)

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API Marketing: Making a Splash with the Smartsheet API (blog.smartbear.com)

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Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5 (www.htmlgoodies.com)

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An Interview with Tumblr's Lead Designer, Peter Vidani (theindustry.cc)

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Show hn: realtime redis dashboard (github.com)

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Staples-is-now-selling-3d-printers (techcrunch.com)

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No Money in Email Clients (blog.gerv.net)

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Staples becomes first major US retailer to sell 3D printer (www.techspot.com)

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Amazon, Bracing for Strikes in Germany, Plans to Hire Engineers (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: JugglingDB - cross-database ORM for Node.JS (jugglingdb.co)

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The OED and its chief word detective (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Pro - A Tool for Managing Your Git Repositories (thume.ca)

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Google Chrome Super Sync Sports (www.chrome.com)

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Sestina: Like (www.poetryfoundation.org)

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Are “Pay What You Want” Models The Road to Success? (spinnakr.com)

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Why It's So Hard to Make Friends After College (And What to Do About It) (lifehacker.com)

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YC without being in YC (42floors.com)

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Using the Bank (1947) (archive.org)

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Cheat sheets simple generator (cheat-sheets.herokuapp.com)

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Ask HN: Which startups will let me sell for them on a commission basis? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Perfect email threading in rails (blog.bloc.io)

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Beautiful vector Imperial propaganda (2012) (blog.oskoui-oskoui.com)

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Startup Offers to Lay Off Entire Staff in Name of Software Revolution (www.wired.com)

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Tiny, Winged Robots Show Agility in the Air (www.aaas.org)

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