hackerNews

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Software will not be patentable in New Zealand (www.nzherald.co.nz)

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Dear Apple, let's talk about photos (peternixey.com)

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Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations (www.businessinsider.com)

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Food Practices Banned in Europe But Allowed in the US (www.motherjones.com)

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Want to Spam Your LinkedIn Contacts and Be Humiliated? Try FounderDating (ilikestuffblog.com)

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Your heart attack bill: $3,300 in Arkansas, $92,000 in California (money.cnn.com)

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Greenspan sues Facebook, Sequoia, Andreesen, YC, others (www.scribd.com)

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Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware (www.pewsocialtrends.org)

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The Colors of Dribbble (nathanspeller.com)

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Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup (www.uncover.com)

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DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats (news.cnet.com)

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LinkedIn (ben-evans.com)

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This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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1pxdeep, a Bootstrap theme fusing flat design and color scheming (rriepe.github.io)

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80 FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles and Switch On Lights (www.limpkin.fr)

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How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion (theonion.github.io)

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Microsoft Code Digger (channel9.msdn.com)

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The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup (onstartups.com)

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If you love automation why is your development environment manual? (sidekicksrc.com)

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Planar Choreographies: odd orbital mechanics (www.maths.manchester.ac.uk)

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Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug (minimaxir.com)

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Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (www.aarongreenspan.com)

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Show HN: the sleekest iOS HN Reader is now open sourced! Let's make it the best. (github.com)

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Paid for Stripe (paidhq.com)

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AOL Is Still the Weirdest Successful Tech Company in America (www.theatlantic.com)

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HTML5 App on a Floppy Disk (tech.pollev.com)

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Macros in Python: quasiquotes, case classes, LINQ and more (github.com)

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It's LEGAL to download The Great Gatsby... (go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)

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Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware (arstechnica.com)

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Ruchi Sanghvi, Dropbox VP, testifies on immigration reform [video] (www.facebook.com)

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Travelling Salesman – Official Movie Site (www.travellingsalesmanmovie.com)

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Coursera to offer students free online textbooks, with conditions (www.washingtonpost.com)

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37signals report card (37signals.com)

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Name.com Tells Customers To Change Password Due To Breach (www.thedomains.com)

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Amazon and Google are on a collision course (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Whats inside Google Glass? A Sensor teardown... (thecodeartist.blogspot.com)

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Nokia Asha 501: Impressive Low-end Touchscreen Phone for $99 (techpp.com)

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Microsoft to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC (techcrunch.com)

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Buzz Aldrin: Get to Mars within 20 years (lightyears.blogs.cnn.com)

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Facebook in talks to buy Waze for $1B (www.ynetnews.com)

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scala-zeromq - thread-safe ZeroMQ sockets for Scala (github.com)

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MPEG1 Video Decoder in JavaScript (phoboslab.org)

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Zach Braff Responds to Kickstarter Critics [video] (mashable.com)

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Russian researchers: Evidence suggests lightning is caused by cosmic rays (phys.org)

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Should Employers Pay to Interview You? (www.pbs.org)

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Why employees shouldn't have hours (www.linkedin.com)

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Older programmers are more knowledgeable, but harder to find (www.itworld.com)

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Data scientists are the new rockstars (startupjuncture.com)

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Show HN: Needed Ideas for things to build, so I built this (http://www.aswhoiwant.com)

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How to get Hilary Mason to build your recommender for free (blog.mortardata.com)

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How to make your Apps Retina ready (www.allanberger.com)

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Why Intel’s “How Strong is Your Password?” site can’t be trusted (arstechnica.com)

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India: AICTE rescinds Microsoft Office 365 mandate (www.thehindu.com)

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Stripping kernel/uboot source to 10% for code reading (baohaojun.github.io)

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iOS Sale Numbers By App Store Rank (www.mobilesort.com)

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Hacker News London meetup, Thursday 16th May (www.meetup.com)

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Pi(e) in the sky (coderwall.com)

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Nokia's new Asha phones look gorgeous (unleashthephones.com)

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A Philosophy of Programming Languages (blog.mjburgess.co.uk)

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Sign up for the SICP Blitz in London happening in June (docs.google.com)

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WordPress Core is Secure (wpengine.com)

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UserConf 2013 in Review (zapier.com)

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Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (pipeline.corante.com)

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Pirate Metrics Matrix for SaaS (www.happybootstrapper.com)

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‘New’ Demonoid D2.vu Quickly Shutdown For Hosting Malware (torrentfreak.com)

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CocoaConf Alt 2013 Canceled (cocoaconf.com)

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Facebook Engineering Director Josh Wiseman Departs for Engineer In Residence Gig (allthingsd.com)

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Now you can give out your phone number without giving up your privacy. (www.numberproxy.com)

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In a truly free society, I should have the right to read al-Qaeda's magazine (blogs.telegraph.co.uk)

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Show HN: Add in-person payments into your app with CardFlight and Stripe (cardflight.tumblr.com)

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U.S. citizens ditch passports in record numbers due to high taxes (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

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Design Process for Building Products Customers Will Love (firstround.com)

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The Super-Rich's Offshore Tax Avoidance Strategies (www.businessweek.com)

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CC'd On Email to Tim Cook: Is Apple too Big to Care? (www.publikdemand.com)

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10 design flaws of JavaScript (www.pixelstech.cn)

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FTC Can Use Facebook to Serve Papers, Judge Rules (blog.upcounsel.com)

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The Web We Lost (medium.com)

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Thinglist: a want to-do list for iPhone (getthinglist.com)

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The illusion of simplicity: photographer Peter Belanger on shooting for Apple (www.theverge.com)

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My Not-So-Hyper Loop (www.youell.com)

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First release of MPS GC with full documentation (1.111.0) (mailman.ravenbrook.com)

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Ask HN: Failed Startup, unreasonable clients, where do I go from here? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Our response to a competitor with 4M users that was acquired (www.sandglaz.com)

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Challenge to PG/YC (news.ycombinator.com)

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Goodbye, Google (2009) (stopdesign.com)

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The Actions ATM7029 CPU Has A Secret (mikecanex.wordpress.com)

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Pocket Meteorology: Using Android Phones to Crowdsource the Weather (weathersignal.com)

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Arduino projects that require major hacking skills—or a bit of insanity (arstechnica.com)

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This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (www.motherjones.com)

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Benefit Vs. Risk of Facial Recognition Technology (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Ask HN: I'm going for a week to Silicon Valley, how to get most of it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Strong is Your Password? (www.intel.com)

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Sony waives $99 mobile development fee (arstechnica.com)

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Facebook sued again (thenextweb.com)

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Adobe's Subscription Model and Why Platform Owners Should Care (stratechery.com)

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Ultraconserved words? Really? (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

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Jonathan Mayer And Cookies In Firefox (www.businessinsider.com)

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Calling up someone who has completely ripped off your website (adactio.com)

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Discrete Cosine Transforms - How JPGs work, and fun secret images (www.datagenetics.com)

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D-Wave’s Quantum Computer Goes to the Races, Wins (www.technologyreview.com)

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Uh-oh: was the company site hacked? (www.codeofhonor.com)

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Interview with Ben Lerner, Founder and CEO at DataNitro (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)

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HackerRank (YC S11) launches virtual currency (www.hackerrank.com)

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Show HN: Shirts.io, API for Printing T-Shirts (https://www.shirts.io)

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Name.com Responds to HTP Security Breach (pastebin.com)

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Ask HN: ZFS for databases (Postgres) - FreeBSD or *Solaris ? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Protecting Your Company From Phishing Attacks (blog.meldium.com)

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Web Development: How to? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What's the best Google Reader replacement? (news.ycombinator.com)

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China launches "Operation Green Fence" to stop recycling American junk (qz.com)

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Declassified NSA Guide to Web Research (651 page PDF) (lauren.vortex.com)

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David Foster Wallace: This is Water (vimeo.com)

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A Quantum Computer Aces Its Test (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Best of Hacker News in April (www.dotdotdot.me)

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What is Legal Architecture and Why I call myself a Legal Architect (legalhalfhour.blogspot.co.uk)

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Why this works? (six.pen.io)

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Facebook is looking to buy Waze (thenextweb.com)

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Comodo not really getting the concept of HTTPS (servertastic.tumblr.com)

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RequireJS Fundamentals (www.kendoui.com)

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Ouya Teardown (www.ifixit.com)

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Where Google Search Is Going (techland.time.com)

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Learn SQL, dammit (gun.io)

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Object Cache for Scaling Video Metadata Management (techblog.netflix.com)

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Ask HN: Have you ever cold called someone? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: AirDrum - Rock out over websockets (airdrum.co)

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Show HN: Cheqbook - Super simple fast accounting (https://cheqbook.com)

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We’ve got a Butterfly Labs Bitcoin miner, and it’s pretty darn fast (arstechnica.com)

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Thrift - a GitHub repo/idea thrift store (made with Meteor.js) (thrift.im)

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Ask HN: Would You Use This? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Automating a complex build - Jenkins, Gradle, Artifactory and Bitbucket (plumbr.eu)

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What I learned about computer ergonomics... (blog.iloire.com)

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What's the Difference Between Icenium and PhoneGap Build? (www.icenium.com)

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CocoaConf Alt canceled for WWDC (www.loopinsight.com)

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Do Tomorrow What You Decide Today (medium.com)

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I was not hired because I speak slowly. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Jon Monsarrat sues 101 lj commenters for calling him a "scummy dude" (davis-square.livejournal.com)

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Introducing Member Lifetime Value (blog.custora.com)