hackerNews

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Depression (Maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit) (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com.au)

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Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online (clippingmagic.com)

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A bill in Congress legalizes cell phone unlocking and fixes the DMCA (fixthedmca.org)

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“The Tesla Model S is our top-scoring car” (news.consumerreports.org)

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Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers reproducible (www.nature.com)

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PyPy 2.0 Released (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out (www2.macleans.ca)

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The Paradox of the Proof (projectwordsworth.com)

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My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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An Efficient Way to Extract the Main Topics from a Sentence (thetokenizer.com)

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Half-Life 2 released for steam on linux (steamdb.info)

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Plans for Vim 7.4 (groups.google.com)

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RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins (blog.rubymotion.com)

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Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information (www.whitehouse.gov)

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Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grades, are more depressed (www.slate.com)

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In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme (www.nytimes.com)

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Try Objective-C (tryobjectivec.codeschool.com)

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Scratch 2.0 (scratch.mit.edu)

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Btcd: A Full Alternative Bitcoin Implementation, Written In Go (bitcoinmagazine.com)

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The solution for designers who don't know Wordpress (bckmn.com)

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Box Acquires Crocodoc (blog.box.com)

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US Government Takes Down 3D Printed Gun Plans (on3dprinting.com)

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The CAP Theorem FAQ (henryr.github.io)

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With Rifle and Bibliography: General Mattis on Professional Reading (strifeblog.org)

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Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform (arstechnica.com)

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LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network (www.interactually.com)

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Depression Part Two (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)

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Cleaning Radar Images using Neural Nets & Computer Vision (blog.forecast.io)

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The Manual-First Startup (viniciusvacanti.com)

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The Truth About Reddit (adage.com)

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State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed (techcrunch.com)

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The Worst Room - Appalling Photos of Cheap Rooms for Rent in NYC (theworstroom.tumblr.com)

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How a few screws cost $2000 and a 240GB multinodes cluster cost $50 (www.quantisan.com)

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NSA Google Search Tips (www.wired.com)

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Friends don’t let friends calculate p-values (without fully understanding them) (www.scottbot.net)

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9th Circuit: No Relief for Copyright Troll Righthaven (www.eff.org)

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Show HN: Find profitable niche in App Store and Google Play Market (http://appsleak.com)

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Use Google Glass and Twilio to Send and Receive SMS Messages (www.twilio.com)

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Can’t raise a Series A? Just sell yourself to Yahoo (pandodaily.com)

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URGENT: Cloud 66 Security Compromise (news.ycombinator.com)

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The 2013 Thiel Fellows (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies (project-open-data.github.io)

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You can't detect a touchscreen (www.stucox.com)

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Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Greatest Challenge to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter is Unbundling (tomtunguz.com)

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How Good C# Habits can Encourage Bad JavaScript Habits (enterprisejquery.com)

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Accelerating Python Libraries with Numba (www.continuum.io)

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People who use Bang with Friends (www.facebook.com)

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The Facebook Home disaster (www.salon.com)

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Yahoo acquires GoPollGo (thenextweb.com)

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Moths That Drive Cars (Really) (www.npr.org)

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McCain working on bill to allow for 'a la carte' cable TV packages (thehill.com)

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Techno Viking Takes Youtube Uploader To Court (pulseradio.net)

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Show HN: Never forget the meaning of HTTP response code 400 (400.io)

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Too Busy To Read? - General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email Is A Must Read For You (www.businessinsider.com)

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Cyberthieves Looted A.T.M.’s of $45 Million in Just Hours (www.nytimes.com)

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SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down. (blog.clipboard.com)

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Why Going Home at 5:30 Brings in Top Talent (www.fastcompany.com)

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Show HN: Built a FeedBurner replacement in a week (feedsnap.com)

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Tips for Maintaining an Open-Source Library (segment.io)

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PayPal exec aims to “obliterate passwords from the face of the planet” (arstechnica.com)

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Open APIs are the new software patents (api500.com)

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PyPy on Pi (www.raspberrypi.org)

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Show HN: Quick and anonymous salary "surveys" at lunch (http://www.salarysecret.com)

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Cyberthieves Looted A.T.M.’s of $45 Million in Just Hours (mobile.nytimes.com)

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ShowHN: BrowserLoop - Ableton-like music remixing in the browser (http://browserloop.barcodechannel.com)

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NSA: Untangling the Web / Google Hacking (www.nsa.gov)

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Define your sizing parameters on any shirt we make (vastrm.com)

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How To Live The New American Dream (www.compylr.com)

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Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo (techcrunch.com)

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Public domain calculator (outofcopyright.eu)

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Extreme isolation in web apps: part 1 (chrismdp.com)

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Show HN: The best thing I made nobody uses. (www.yourpane.com)

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What is bare metal scripting? (thread on luajit) (www.freelists.org)

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Speeding up your Webfonts (www.webpop.com)

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Why Does Your Startup Sound Like a Startup? (medium.com)

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Perfect Audience launches Facebook News Feed retargeting (www.perfectaudience.com)

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Ask HN: NDAs, do you sign them? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Revenue vs. Value (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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The difference between a consulting client and an irrational toddler (www.treelobsters.com)

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State department demands takedown of 3D printer gun files (ITAR) (www.forbes.com)

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For $300 a Utah company can recover vanished Snapchats (www.businessweek.com)

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Distributed Consensus: Paxos by Example (blog.aetherworks.com)

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How hackers allegedly stole “unlimited” amounts of cash from banks in just hours (arstechnica.com)

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The Liberator Pistol files removed by US DoD Trade Controls (defcad.org)

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Show HN: A Yeoman generator for a front-end dev workflow (github.com)

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My Dad died because the Cardiologist didn't think to refer to a Neurologist (news.ycombinator.com)

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Video.js 4.0 released - lighter, prettier, more stable (blog.videojs.com)

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Ask HN: How would you invest in yourself with $10,000 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Today's Solar Eclipse: Live Video (events.slooh.com)

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Show HN: Open Source PHP CodeIgniter Reddit/Digg Clone (github.com)

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Ask HN: What are good compact keyboards for programming? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How do you inspire programmers to work with older tech? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Building efficient apps and extensions with push messaging (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)

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FileRock, secure Dropbox clone, has published its pricing (www.filerock.com)

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My Licensing Wake-Up Call (blog.amir.rachum.com)

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New Prenda Argument: Judge Wright's Order Is Irrelevant Because of Gay Marriage (www.popehat.com)

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Snapchat is not deleting the photos (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Quantify Thyself - Apps and websites I’m using to track my behavior (martymatheny.com)

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Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default (arstechnica.com)

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Rogue Amoeba to Apple: Reverse Engineering is Not a Crime (thenextweb.com)

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Online image classification demo. Deep Learning over 20000 object classes on GPU (horatio.cs.nyu.edu)

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Ask HN: Volunteer (remote) jobs for a sysadmin? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Is This Thing On? (Part 2) (www.icenium.com)

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What a rooftop grill says about your startup culture (www.lucidchart.com)

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Building Python Packages with Maven (urbanairship.com)

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Humble Double Fine Bundle, Now with Bitcoin! (blog.humblebundle.com)

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Raspberry Pi operating systems: 5 reviewed and rated (www.techradar.com)

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I Know I'm Supposed To Follow My Passion. But What If I Don't Have A Passion? (www.npr.org)

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Humble Bundle accepts Bitcoin through Coinbase (support.humblebundle.com)

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Rejection Letter from a VC [pdf] (mengwong.com)

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.io domains with 3 letters remaining (pastebin.com)

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Searches on YouTube giving Experiment Warning Message (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google unveils 5-year roadmap for strong authentication (www.zdnet.com)

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Crowdfunding Weekend coming to Durham, NC (www.crowdfundingweekend.org)

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3D-printed guns: State Department orders firm to remove web blueprints (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Factor That Reverses Aging of Heart Discovered (harvardmagazine.com)

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Milkypostman's single-file Emacs configuration (milkbox.net)

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Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing? (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Microsoft looks to get Nook all to itself for $1 billion (arstechnica.com)

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How to Get Hired Like a Badass (blog.zerply.com)

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Using Taskwarrior instead of Emacs+Org Mode for To-Do and Appointment Tracking (www.mostlymaths.net)

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Why LayerVault and DesignModo battle over profit while others build open-source (www.compylr.com)

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YouTube announces subscription-based channels (youtube-global.blogspot.com)

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Facebook in talks to buy Waze for up to $1 billion (www.reuters.com)

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Google launch 'Tech Support Care package' for parents (www.teachparentstech.org)

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The Speculation Trap (teddziuba.com)

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Feds demand 3D printed gun blueprints removed from Internet (blog.sfgate.com)

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Say it with robots. (www.robogram.me)

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Is this (finally) our flying car? (whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com)

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Show HN: WikiPacks - Stop sharing knowledge one link at a time - pack it (www.wikipacks.com)

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The Onion releases fartscroll.js (theonion.github.io)

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2013 Thiel Fellows Announced (finance.yahoo.com)

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2013 Thiel Fellows Include A Fashion Designer, A Poet, And A Harvard Dropout (www.fastcoexist.com)

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How I sold my first novel (www.antipope.org)

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Student data mined himself and is selling his privacy online (www.kickstarter.com)

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Bipartisan Bill to Enable Cell Phone and Wireless Device Unlocking (lofgren.house.gov)

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YouTube Paid Channels (www.youtube.com)

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An easier way to save files to Google Drive (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)

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Show HN: Queue Simulator - How many cashiers do you need? (queue.philipithomas.com)

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Poll: Are you primarily a Developer, Designer, or Idea Guy? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What's faster than a fastball? Your brain. (web.yesnetwork.com)

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As Tech Giants Scramble For Talent, It’s Buy Or Die (techcrunch.com)

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The Performance Impact of Using dict() Instead of {} in CPython 2.7 (doughellmann.com)

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Ask HN: Why do famous technical co-founders tend to fade away? (news.ycombinator.com)

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GNOME co-founder deemed not notable enough to have a Wikipedia article (en.wikipedia.org)

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Online gambling in the USA (arstechnica.com)

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Landsat Annual Timelapse 1984-2012 (earthengine.google.org)

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Google Earth Engine Timelapse (earthengine.google.org)

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Ask HN: How do you finish what you start? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Microsoft YouTube App Is A Rule Breaker; It Strips Ads, Downloads Video (readwrite.com)

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Show HN: My first side project. A Note Management Alternative (news.ycombinator.com)

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AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart (www.splatf.com)

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Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform (arstechnica.com)