hackerNews

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Most data isn’t "big" and businesses are wasting money pretending it is (qz.com)

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The story around the Linode hack (straylig.ht)

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Judge Wright issues Prenda Law order (www.popehat.com)

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In defense of <canvas> (www.holovaty.com)

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I Am a Bad Developer (http://eewz0z.pen.io)

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Google now treats .io as a gccTLD (support.google.com)

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How to Spread The Word About Your Code (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer (stratechery.com)

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DBX (www.dropbox.com)

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American Dialect Map (aschmann.net)

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Hacking Google's HVAC Systems (cylance.com)

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Adobe abandons its Creative Suite to focus on Creative Cloud (thenextweb.com)

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Why I am the world’s greatest lover (and other worthless security claims) (www.troyhunt.com)

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"I can't do math..." (faculty.umf.maine.edu)

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Just another way PayPal screws vendors (www.yash.info)

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Show HN: Monitor the Downtime of 170+ Popular Web APIs (zapier.com)

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Interviewing in Silicon Valley (symbo1ics.com)

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Tesla Hires Aston Martin's Vehicle Engineering Leader (ir.teslamotors.com)

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Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework [video] (www.infoq.com)

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Docker 0.3 released: public index, data volumes and open-source registry (github.com)

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Firefox's Inspector Tool as 3D Modeler (tildehash.com)

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The Future of Adobe Fireworks (blogs.adobe.com)

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Turning Down TechCrunch (medium.com)

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Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years (www.technologyreview.com)

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Honeywords: Making password-cracking detectable (people.csail.mit.edu)

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Judge Asks IRS, Feds to Investigate Copyright-Trolling Attorneys (arstechnica.com)

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Teacher 'powerless' to stop ex-girlfriend's cyberstalking (www.cbc.ca)

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Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition (lispinsummerprojects.org)

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Coinbase grew 15x in the past 3 months (blog.coinbase.com)

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Hacking Redis: Adding Interval Sets (www.starkiller.net)

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Go 1.1 RC2 is out (groups.google.com)

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U.S. Directly Blames China’s Military for Cyberattacks (www.nytimes.com)

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Adobe is going to kill Fireworks (twitter.com)

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What We Learned About Tiered Pricing vs Pay-As-You-Go (blog.framebase.io)

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Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this (freelancersticker.com)

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Senate Backs Bill to Force Tax Collection on Internet Sales (www.nytimes.com)

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Are video codecs written in JavaScript really the future? (arstechnica.com)

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Daily happiness averages using Twitter (hedonometer.org)

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Protesters Smash Google Shuttle Bus Piñata In Fight Against Rent Increases (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t (arstechnica.com)

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IBM open sources new approach to crypto (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Show HN: Diffs of Word documents, designed for humans (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: HTerm, The Graphical Terminal for iOS, MacOS and Linux (41j.com)

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Remaining .io domain names of common words (iodomains.nickmcnutt.com)

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A Forgotten Pioneer of Vaccines (www.nytimes.com)

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Urbanization is supersizing spiders (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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Something Meaningful. (blog.coffeestrap.com)

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Idempotent Web APIs: What benefit do I get? (mathieu.fenniak.net)

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Commit Message Generator (whatthecommit.com)

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The Economist explains: Who really runs Wikipedia? (www.economist.com)

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Funding your startup with a "one week on, three weeks off" consulting setup (blog.statuspage.io)

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Phusion Passenger 4.0.1 final release (blog.phusion.nl)

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Basic Machine Learning with KNN and Racket (spin.atomicobject.com)

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Meteor Devshop: collaborative IDEs, hackathon wins and a preview of Meteor UI (meteor.com)

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On To Google Ventures (parislemon.com)

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Why Can't Developers Estimate Time? (blog.patchspace.co.uk)

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Repository Search on all Repositories (github.com)

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Why Twitch Needs A Competitor (www.businessinsider.com)

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Show HN: An Etherpad clone in Node.js and Socket.io (http://yugentext.com)

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Windshield Cracks Hold Secrets of Impact (physics.aps.org)

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Is Shelly Cloud faster than Heroku (blog.shellycloud.com)

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Google now worth more than Microsoft (blogs.marketwatch.com)

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Facebook rejects ad criticizing actions of Zuckerberg political group (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A whole new kind of startup (weblog.alexgodin.com)

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Was Joel wrong? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Auto-Canceling Subscriptions (blog.beeminder.com)

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Building a Spreadsheet in 20 Minutes with Angular.js (thomasstreet.net)

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Open Source Greed (xana.scru.org)

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Every Entrepreneur's Least Favorite Question (blogs.hbr.org)

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Academia.edu Lets Researchers Share Their Raw Data (techcrunch.com)

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Clustrix – #5 on YC Startup Index – Raises $16.5M Series C (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Best resources for iOS developers (www.pulkitgoyal.in)

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A brief history of Windows sales figures, 1985-present. (techland.time.com)

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Brck - Your backup generator to the Internet (brck.com)

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Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think? (playr.me)

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In the Future, When Robots do All Our Work, What of Capitalism? (www.imponderablethings.com)

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Startups: You Should Value Software More (wadefoster.net)

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Froont Wants To Keep Developers Out Of The Responsive Web Design Process (techcrunch.com)

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"Trust Your Instincts" - Threatening to reveal thedailywtf pseudonyms (thedailywtf.com)

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Programming with an Aggressive Posture (impressmyself.co)

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Airbnb launches Verified Identification to help bring more accountability (thenextweb.com)

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Babatuba 扒扒图吧！Or, iOS internationalization from day one (www.stephenbalaban.com)

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Why beautiful email templates hurt your business (nathanbarry.com)

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License agreement for using the term "Hackathon" (my.doctape.com)

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Startup Workaway III: 16 founders, 10 days, 1 Greek mansion (startupworkaway.com)

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Announcing a new GV general partner: MG Siegler (blog.googleventures.com)

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Why is Facebook blue? The science behind colors in marketing (www.ma-no.org)

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The End of a Dream: Couchsurfing's Fall (www.bootsnall.com)

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9-to-5 is obsolete (medium.com)

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Tips for Saving Money On AWS (highscalability.com)

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Show HN: My side project, timeline of old Jerusalem maps (nli-labs.net)

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Silvermont, Intel's Low Power Architecture (www.realworldtech.com)

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How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Drafting your first investment round. (klinger.io)

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Startup Idea Giveaway: Shop With Me (www.pravindaryani.com)

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A Year Later, What Google Drive Means for Startups (allthingsd.com)

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Show HN: Facebook home interaction prototype using JavaScript (matthaeuskrenn.com)

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Intel announces Atom processor redesign, code-named Silvermont (www.techspot.com)

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HTTP Signatures (Internet Draft) (payswarm.com)

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AWS Offers General Availability For Node.js (techcrunch.com)

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HackerNews for iPhone out now (itunes.apple.com)

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Quick demo of functional programming in JavaScript with Underscore-Contrib (darrenknewton.com)

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When Startups Need More Lawyers than Employees (www.techdirt.com)

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5 Website Optimization Tips to Increase Page Speed (statsgram.com)

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What Happens to Your Brain When You Have Stage Fright (lifehacker.com)

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Ask HN: Founders, what would you tell yourself at 15? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Explain to me the theory behind P=NP in simple words (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Motivation in open source (news.ycombinator.com)

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A draft of a short introduction to topology (blog.plover.com)

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What AirBnB can Learn from the Kibbutz & Chassidic Communities (yishai.quora.com)

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Why shopping on mobile is broken (blog.getrockerbox.com)

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Managing Technical Debt (www.infoq.com)

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Moving to India: 12 Ridiculous things that make no sense (neeharc.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: How do you comply with new US sales tax law? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Quick Ways To Make Money As a Web Dev (news.ycombinator.com)

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IBM Created Google Glass in 2000 (video) (www.youtube.com)

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How Fast is the National Broadband Network? Broadband in Australia. (howfastisthenbn.com.au)

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Ruby Testing and External Dependencies (blog.palominolabs.com)

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RobotsConf Announced - Call for Speakers/Workshops Now Open (robotsconf.com)

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Why The PS4 should already be out. (rumor2release.com)

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5 Signs You're A Bad Programmer (sites.google.com)

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Drop-in replacement for Django admin (plugin support, Twitter bootstrap) (github.com)

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Vifm: a ncurses-based file manager with vi-like keybindings (vifm.sourceforge.net)

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Senate passes nationwide online sales tax bill (www.theverge.com)

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Adobe.com: Release Adobe Fireworks to Open Source (www.change.org)

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Show HN: A REPL for Java (github.com)

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Why AdSense Went To Shit In 2012 (flippa.com)

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Why is spacebar broken on some of the websites? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Building an Is It Down for People (Yeoman/Angular) (davidandsuzi.com)

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5 Signs Your Startup Hit a Plateau (mashable.com)

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If You Can Solve These, You Are As Smart As The World's Smartest Teenagers (www.businessinsider.com)

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Show HN: An open source Etherpad clone (yugentext.com)

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Dropbox to Hold DBX, Its First Developer Conference (allthingsd.com)

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New Fund Formed to Hunt Zombie VCs & Private Equity Funds (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Twice on the front page of HN, but no journalist is interested. What to do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Asus CEO sees Chromebooks, $300 Windows tablets in the company’s future (arstechnica.com)

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Tor: Hidden Services Need Some Love (blog.torproject.org)

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We know who you are: the scary new technology of iris scanners (www.theverge.com)

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Already Bought The Domain - LOL (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: What's the state of machine learning, and should new entrants pursue it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Antibiotics could cure 40% of chronic back pain patients (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Worrying About Market Fit/Validation: Is It Really Worth It? (www.bootstrappist.com)

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Working gun made with 3D printer (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How to be effective at open source (lemire.me)

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A poster than can only be fully seen when looked at from a child's point of view (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Privacy-Invading Potential of Eye Tracking Technology (www.aclu.org)

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How to Focus (www.scotthyoung.com)

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Ask HN: Any great blog posts discussing results of A/B Testing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Y Combinator Firms Have More Than 2x the Momentum of 500 Startups, 3x Techstars (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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This Ad Has a Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can See (gizmodo.com)

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Ask HN: Is there a side project network? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Left 4 Dead 2 for Linux (www.pcgamer.com)

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A Year Without Internet (www.theawl.com)

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Using Google Glass: stuck in traffic (www.theverge.com)

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The Bitcoin Arms Race Is On (spectrum.ieee.org)

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A Cease and Desist Demand from Gaijin Entertainment (www.gaijin.com)

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Ask HN: Favorite product question during development (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why People Won’t Buy Your Product Even Though It’s Awesome (flevy.com)

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SB 327 would prohibit North Carolinians from purchasing vehicles from Tesla (teslamotorsnc.com)

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Live Tweets of Girl:Guy Ratios in San Francisco (www.twitter.com)

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What Does It Take for Traumatized Kids to Thrive? (www.psmag.com)

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How not to deal with competition as an entrepreneur (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Real World JavaScript Part 1 (suhairhassan.com)

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Return to Power: the 2013 Tesla Model S (www.roadandtrack.com)

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Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired (www.cio.com)

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Adobe Rethinks The Power Of The Pen With Project Mighty (www.forbes.com)

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Realtime Software Engineer- at PagerDuty in San Francisco (www.jobscore.com)

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10b requests/day? Perfect Audience is hiring a Java hacker (news.ycombinator.com)

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Poll Everywhere (YC08) Looking for a Growth Hacker (www.polleverywhere.com)

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