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Bug 698544 – Background configuration is missing in terminal profile editor (bugzilla.gnome.org)

331 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051400 297 comments

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A note to myself (news.ycombinator.com)

297 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013061115 84 comments

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Bezier Curves and Picasso (jeremykun.com)

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Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account (socialroulette.net)

178 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051321 142 comments

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CSS Architecture (engineering.appfolio.com)

175 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051400 50 comments

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Python's sad, unimaginative Enum (www.acooke.org)

159 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013051315 98 comments

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Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles (rcmap.hatnote.com)

158 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2022090100 34 comments

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'The IT Crowd' to return for finale special (insidetv.ew.com)

151 points first seen 2013051200 last seen 2013051221 54 comments

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Tesla: a little bit Apple, a little bit Google, and about to be huge (www.slate.com)

148 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013051306 160 comments

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Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was (www.messynessychic.com)

131 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051400 18 comments

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True-color GIF with 32697 colors (phil.ipal.org)

128 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051321 61 comments

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Call Mom Maybe (blog.twitter.com)

121 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051315 34 comments

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Should you submit to Hacker News? (mayank.lahiri.me)

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The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) (www.stroustrup.com)

118 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051306 135 comments

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How to Build a Building (www.sparkfun.com)

112 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051321 7 comments

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A rant about some of the nice things in the NT kernel (neosmart.net)

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Beyond Unlocking: Don’t Let Them Kill the First Reasonable Copyright Reform Bill (www.wired.com)

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IOS devices wirelessly broadcast home location wherever they go (github.com)

89 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051312 21 comments

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Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby (gist.github.com)

83 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051400 28 comments

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Declarative Data Visualization library (akngs.tumblr.com)

82 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051400 7 comments

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The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When (www.nytimes.com)

71 points first seen 2013051200 last seen 2013051306 37 comments

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American Airlines offer lounge access to anyone with a Klout score over 55 (corp.klout.com)

65 points first seen 2013051215 last seen 2013051303 77 comments

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Why are clients shocked by the price for web development? (news.ycombinator.com)

62 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051206 74 comments

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Developing database-driven web applications with Chicken Scheme (mathieu-desrochers.github.io)

59 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051312 5 comments

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GNU awk 4.1.0 (groups.google.com)

58 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051306 8 comments

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Building HTML5 Apps with Yeoman and Backbone (rockyj.in)

56 points first seen 2013051200 last seen 2013051303 18 comments

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ISS emergency spacewalk to repair ammonia leak [live video] (www.nasa.gov)

55 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051306 13 comments

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Realizing too many good things gone in HN newest, I created this after 2 hours (http://www.cahella.com)

54 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051321 21 comments

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Distributed personal wikis (bugsplat.info)

49 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051300 42 comments

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Programming in D (ddili.org)

49 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051321 34 comments

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The Long Shadow of Bad Credit in a Job Search (www.nytimes.com)

48 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051215 71 comments

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Ouya Android game console gets VC-funded, torn down (linuxgizmos.com)

48 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051321 10 comments

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Classic Nintendo Games are NP-Hard (jeremykun.com)

44 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051321 17 comments

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Full Stack Developers: Renaissance Men of The 21st Century (www.singularityhacker.com)

41 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051209 37 comments

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Stop developing for the 90% use case (gist.io)

41 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051300 41 comments

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Tell HN: We should say “shim,” not “shiv” (news.ycombinator.com)

38 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051300 10 comments

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WordPress Caching with Nginx and Redis (eamann.com)

31 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051306 23 comments

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Scientists develop 'superwheat' (www.bbc.co.uk)

31 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051303 31 comments

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Create heatmaps of geocoded IP Addresses with rails (mikeorr.info)

29 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051300 10 comments

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Wary of Bitcoin? A guide to some other cryptocurrencies (arstechnica.com)

28 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013051209 42 comments

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OpenLiteSpeed 1.0 Released under GPL3 (open.litespeedtech.com)

28 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051306 21 comments

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How To Talk To Girls At Parties (short story) (www.neilgaiman.com)

28 points first seen 2013051215 last seen 2013051215 9 comments

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Algoraves: dancing to algorithms (boingboing.net)

26 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013051300 14 comments

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Show HN: A set of handy tools to work with sequences and collections in Python (github.com)

26 points first seen 2013051215 last seen 2013051312 9 comments

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Magnets in the iPad2 and its smart cover can turn off defibrillator implants (www.recordnet.com)

26 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051309 10 comments

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Someone please make it easy for me to vote with my wallet (blog.joellehman.com)

25 points first seen 2013051215 last seen 2013051218 35 comments

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AsK HN: Why can't the US change to the metric system? (news.ycombinator.com)

25 points first seen 2013051215 last seen 2013051218 24 comments

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East Palo Alto girls create app to clean up graffiti, trash (paloaltoonline.com)

24 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051221 35 comments

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Obama Launches Competition for Three New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (www.whitehouse.gov)

24 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051303 12 comments

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Using Skype in UAE could get you jail.. and Dh1 million fine (www.emirates247.com)

21 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051312 14 comments

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Freelancing and Lifestyle Design (bucketlistjournal.com)

20 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013051206 27 comments

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Patent Court Torn on Whether Software Deserve Patents (mobile.bloomberg.com)

20 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051300 9 comments

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NZ police uncover large educational cheating service (www.stuff.co.nz)

19 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051306 11 comments

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Show HN: Chrome extension for interactive in-app training inside Google Apps (www.synergyse.com)

18 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051300 3 comments

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Spear Phishing using Facebook activity (jonathanhstrauss.com)

16 points first seen 2013051215 last seen 2013051303 4 comments

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A Step-by-Step Process to Teach Yourself Anything (in a Fraction of the Time) (www.scotthyoung.com)

10 points first seen 2013051200 last seen 2013051203 0 comments

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Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines) (www.wired.com)

9 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013051215 6 comments

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Ask HN: What are some good books? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013051209 17 comments

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How zsh is more useful than bash (www.slideshare.net)

7 points first seen 2013051200 last seen 2016041418 0 comments

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Where to buy an online business? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051212 7 comments

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W3C presses ahead with DRM interface in HTML5 (www.h-online.com)

7 points first seen 2013051215 last seen 2013051221 0 comments

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Microsoft responds to 'extreme' Windows 8 criticism (news.cnet.com)

6 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051215 0 comments

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Why is Google's source/HTML structure unreadable? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051221 4 comments

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How Sim City greenwashes parking (www.humantransit.org)

5 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051215 2 comments

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Fizeau’s experiment: The original paper (skullsinthestars.com)

5 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051215 0 comments

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Awesome UI (http://awesome-ui.tumblr.com)

5 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051221 0 comments

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DEC advertised with a custom Matchbox bus (www.ebay.com)

5 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051300 0 comments

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The Scientific 7-Minute Workout (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2013051200 last seen 2013051203 0 comments

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Why Bitcoin will succeed (articles.marketwatch.com)

4 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013051206 0 comments

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Freenode attacked by DDoS yet again (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051215 0 comments

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2001: A School Odyssey (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051209 0 comments

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Show HN: Cron Jobs on AppHarbor with TinyCron (www.rbwestmoreland.com)

4 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051215 0 comments

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"ONLY code when you can't think of ANY other way to validate your hypothesis" (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051212 2 comments

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A Short Quiz About Language Design (prog21.dadgum.com)

4 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051218 3 comments

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Ask HN: How to ignore guilt while using open source code? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051218 5 comments

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Richwine's Harvard PhD: The Committee and Dean Respond (www.dailykos.com)

4 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051218 0 comments

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Cartesian Tree Product (tomerfiliba.com)

3 points first seen 2013051200 last seen 2013051203 0 comments

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Mechanicards (mechanicards.com)

3 points first seen 2013051200 last seen 2013051200 0 comments

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Show HN: Elevatr (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051203 0 comments

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Ask HN: Boston (free) hacking spaces? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013051203 last seen 2013051203 0 comments

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True-Color GIF Example (phil.ipal.org)

3 points first seen 2013051206 last seen 2013051206 0 comments

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The story you should always keep in mind (www.jovicailic.org)

3 points first seen 2013051209 last seen 2013051209 0 comments

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Historical Tuning of Keyboard Instruments (historicaltuning.com)

3 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051212 2 comments

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Ask HN: Top Python/Django Shops in NYC? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013051212 last seen 2013051212 0 comments

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Proposed law in North Carolina would block Tesla from selling cars in the state (thenextweb.com)

3 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051218 0 comments

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Sudoku Solver in python (www.codingismycraft.com)

3 points first seen 2013051218 last seen 2013051218 3 comments

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Dabblet: A visual IDE for rapid prototyping (thesis.dabblet.com)

3 points first seen 2013051221 last seen 2013051221 0 comments

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Build the world's most powerful database for real-time analytics in C++ (www.memsql.com)

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