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I Don't Want Your Fucking App (http://idontwantyourfuckingapp.tumblr.com)

527 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051321 254 comments

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Vector Tiles for MapBox Streets (mapbox.com)

262 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051500 47 comments

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Unbelievable (www.hackerfactor.com)

216 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051418 106 comments

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Samsung is hurting Android (www.trustedreviews.com)

187 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051406 107 comments

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Philip Greenspun Reviews “Lean In” (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

165 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051500 106 comments

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Why Google Analytics says most visits to your site are 0-10s long (paweljaniak.co.za)

159 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051403 56 comments

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Learn Web Penetration Testing: The Right Way (www.pentesterlab.com)

143 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051418 22 comments

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Why babies in every country on Earth say 'mama' (theweek.com)

129 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051403 84 comments

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The Startup Story I Want To Hear (www.whattofix.com)

127 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051403 57 comments

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Angry young Indians: What a waste (www.economist.com)

123 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051403 104 comments

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Akiyoshi's illusion pages (www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp)

123 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051500 15 comments

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Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL (stackednotion.com)

117 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051421 72 comments

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Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined (www.thegenesisblock.com)

115 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051421 100 comments

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My last Android app sales figures, & why it's still great to start a mobile app (blog.edward-kim.com)

107 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051500 25 comments

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Prototype Android apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (jaunesarmiento.me)

97 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013060103 20 comments

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Engineering the $325,000 Burger (www.nytimes.com)

97 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051321 120 comments

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Twitter's odd use of the word 'followed' (blog.jgc.org)

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How Colleges Are Selling Out the Poor to Court the Rich (www.theatlantic.com)

94 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051406 64 comments

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How Facebook ruined comments (at least for me). (techland.time.com)

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Another user/developer banned from GNOME's bugzilla without any warning (felipec.wordpress.com)

84 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051403 82 comments

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Show HN: Brand new Google Glass concepts, including Twitter, Google+ and YouTube (jackwmorgan.com)

80 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051421 61 comments

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This phosphine will get you fired (orgprepdaily.wordpress.com)

79 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051421 10 comments

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HTML5 vs Flash Video: Battery performance analysis (iss.oy.ne.ro)

75 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051406 20 comments

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Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a developer (pbrisbin.com)

74 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051321 69 comments

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Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping (www.nytimes.com)

73 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051421 22 comments

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IRS targeted groups critical of government (www.washingtonpost.com)

73 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051403 51 comments

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Interesting Unix World Magazine Ads. (1992-1996) (www.sunhelp.org)

73 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051421 21 comments

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Google SMS search has been shut down (productforums.google.com)

72 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051403 54 comments

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HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article? (www.quantisan.com)

71 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051318 71 comments

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Contextinator: Divide your web browsing into projects (contextinator.cs.vt.edu)

71 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051403 23 comments

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How To Win At Email (www.nikilster.com)

71 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051415 48 comments

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Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class (www.salon.com)

68 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051600 62 comments

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What Mir means to Kubuntu and why KDE KWin developers have no interest in Mir (blog.martin-graesslin.com)

67 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051400 31 comments

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Grad school four months out (www.umbrant.com)

67 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051403 17 comments

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Comprehensive list of HN Apps (github.com)

65 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051400 20 comments

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Modes in UI are bad; even worse are timed modes (ilyabirman.net)

61 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051321 76 comments

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The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant: Nick Bostrom on Death (www.nickbostrom.com)

54 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2015051821 33 comments

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo and the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest (mewo2.com)

50 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051421 4 comments

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North Korea's silent football matches (www.bbc.co.uk)

49 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051309 50 comments

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New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies (www.npr.org)

49 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051403 20 comments

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Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust (www.newscientist.com)

49 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051409 41 comments

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Debugging & Profiling Node.js (gist.github.com)

48 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051321 5 comments

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HTTP as Imagined versus HTTP as Found (programmingisterrible.com)

45 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051321 13 comments

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How a nation of junkies went cold turkey (www.newrepublic.com)

45 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2014110506 6 comments

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Startups and Moms (42floors.com)

42 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051400 12 comments

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STM in Haskell (joeyh.name)

42 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051409 11 comments

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Student data-mines himself, sells the info (www.fastcompany.com)

41 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051403 2 comments

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Android tablet as a developer workstation (bergie.iki.fi)

40 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051312 45 comments

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Ask HN: how do you book hotels? (news.ycombinator.com)

39 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051400 55 comments

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Flesh-Eating Plant Cleaned Junk From Its Minimalist Genome (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)

39 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051400 9 comments

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How To Get Great Ratings For Your Mac App (www.evanmiller.org)

37 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051309 6 comments

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Why virtual worlds died (iteratingfun.com)

37 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051318 44 comments

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An Incomprehensible Retirement (medium.com)

37 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051315 45 comments

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U.S. Students Rank Worst in New Sleep Study (newsfeed.time.com)

36 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051321 25 comments

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Equate - Clojure fact management library (github.com)

24 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051321 2 comments

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Ask HN: Does versioning an encrypted file in a git repo make it less secure? (news.ycombinator.com)

23 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051403 10 comments

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Flying Car Crashes In British Columbia (www.cbc.ca)

22 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051321 32 comments

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Ask HN: Thinking of mentoring? looking for a mentor? (news.ycombinator.com)

20 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051321 11 comments

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Giving $50 pre-paid cards to the homeless and tracking purchases (www.thestar.com)

18 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051303 6 comments

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Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from? (news.ycombinator.com)

18 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051309 27 comments

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Our most recent startup venture did not just fail, it deserved to fail (willthisfly.net)

18 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051321 8 comments

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Egor Homakov available for hire (homakov.blogspot.ru)

18 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051321 3 comments

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Asterix: Latin Jokes Explained (www.andrewgirardin.com)

16 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051312 2 comments

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Show HN: Hacking SMS Voting (jonathanhculver.tumblr.com)

15 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051400 5 comments

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A Case for Grade Inflation in Legal Education (papers.ssrn.com)

14 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051400 10 comments

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Stop avoiding regular expressions damn it (bradt.ca)

13 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051300 14 comments

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IITian quits Hollywood to design lab in suitcase (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

13 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051309 5 comments

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Jail Terms for Unlocking Cellphones Shows the Heart of the Copyright Monopoly (torrentfreak.com)

13 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051312 3 comments

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Why education startups do not succeed (avichal.wordpress.com)

12 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013112312 6 comments

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5/12/13 — Happy Right Triangle Day (mrhonner.com)

12 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051309 0 comments

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Show HN: Automatic account and SSH access provisioning tool for server admins (bastio.com)

12 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051400 29 comments

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Commander Chris Hadfield's final post from 236 miles above us. (www.youtube.com)

11 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051312 2 comments

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What is freedom? (paraschopra.com)

11 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051400 3 comments

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Understanding Python Super [video] (www.neckbeardrepublic.com)

9 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051309 0 comments

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Show HN: Mother’s Day Call Reminder (blog.johncoogan.com)

9 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051321 3 comments

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Ask HN: Well-designed, simple-but-complex games like Letterpress? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051321 13 comments

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Bill Gates 2.0 (m.cbsnews.com)

9 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051318 5 comments

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The Posture Guru of Silicon Valley (www.nytimes.com)

8 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051312 0 comments

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Amazing Career Advice For College Grads From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder (www.businessinsider.com)

8 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051400 4 comments

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The Biggest Threat to the Future of Tech (altideas.tumblr.com)

7 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051303 5 comments

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CephFS filesystem (www.techbar.me)

7 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051303 0 comments

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The Holy Grail of Battle Re-enactments (www.nytimes.com)

6 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051309 2 comments

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Student suspended after posting principal's mugshot on Instagram (www.wsbtv.com)

6 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051300 0 comments

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Omega: Google's next-gen job scheduling system (2011) [video] (www.youtube.com)

6 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051309 0 comments

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Thoughts on Mercurial and Git (gregoryszorc.com)

6 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2014020709 0 comments

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World War II’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together (www.thedailybeast.com)

6 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051312 0 comments

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Final Call: HN Tokyo Meetup #22 – Wednesday 15th of May, 2013 (70 people max) (www.makeleaps.jp)

6 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051315 0 comments

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Ask HN: Dev bootcamps for experienced but mediocre developers (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051321 5 comments

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Ask HN: Community restaurant menu generation idea (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051318 4 comments

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Ex-AWS engineer does an AMA (www.reddit.com)

6 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051318 2 comments

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How to write your own native node.js extension (syskall.com)

5 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051306 0 comments

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Jasmine – write JavaScript unit tests (pauloortins.com)

5 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051312 0 comments

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Show HN: What would you improve before promoting this? (spacedeck.net)

5 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051318 8 comments

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How tiny flaw in deck design gave poker star the upper hand (www.dailymail.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051315 0 comments

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Steve Jobs on Branding (www.youtube.com)

5 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051315 0 comments

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Ask HN: Best note taking software? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Four Power Days (blog.jgc.org)

4 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051309 0 comments

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International Space Station switches from Windows XP to Linux (www.telegraph.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051309 0 comments

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We Love Icon Fonts (weloveiconfonts.com)

4 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051318 0 comments

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Mentorship : The presence and lack of it (medium.com)

3 points first seen 2013051300 last seen 2013051303 0 comments

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Los Alamos Scientists Build A Prototype Quantum Network (www.forbes.com)

3 points first seen 2013051303 last seen 2013051303 0 comments

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Better Than Buffett, This Investor Made Me Rich for Life (blogs.wsj.com)

3 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051309 0 comments

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Android apps found on Google Play download spyware (thenextweb.com)

3 points first seen 2013051306 last seen 2013051309 0 comments

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SaveAllTheTime: Git Commit Helper for Visual Studio (xpaulbettsx.github.io)

3 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051312 0 comments

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'Junk' DNA Mystery Solved: It's Not Needed (news.yahoo.com)

3 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051312 0 comments

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JavaScript data structures in CoffeeScript (github.com)

3 points first seen 2013051309 last seen 2013051309 0 comments

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Ask HN: Who are good web hosting companies in Canada? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051315 2 comments

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The Best VPN For Android In 2013 (greycoder.com)

3 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051312 2 comments

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For Witness to Nagasaki, a Life Focused on Science (www.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051312 0 comments

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Paypal Effectively Destroys My Indiegogo Fundraising Campaign For The Blog (brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013051312 0 comments

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SAT Exam Canceled in South Korea After Reports of Cheating (world.time.com)

3 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051318 0 comments

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Facebook’s iPhone Culture Builds An Overzealous Home On Android (techcrunch.com)

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Litterbugs Beware: Turning Found DNA Into Portraits (www.npr.org)

3 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051318 0 comments

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FBI’s Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed (www.wired.com)

3 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051315 0 comments

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield sings David Bowie's Space Oddity in space (www.slate.com)

3 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051315 0 comments

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Ask HN: Is Gmail Down? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051318 3 comments

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CoffeeLint - Lint your CoffeeScript (www.coffeelint.org)

3 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051318 0 comments

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How we built a research lab for mobile app testing in just a few hours (www.designstaff.org)

3 points first seen 2013051318 last seen 2013051318 0 comments

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U.S. Senators Introduce 'Deter Cyber Theft Act' to Help Protect Trade Secrets (www.securityweek.com)

3 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051400 0 comments

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Ask HN: why Google glass is not 3D? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051321 0 comments

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Ask HN: Moving to Bay Area (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051321 0 comments

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LAPTOP U: Has the future of college moved online? (www.newyorker.com)

3 points first seen 2013051321 last seen 2013051321 0 comments

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Code, design, Halo. Sound like an ideal weekend? (news.ycombinator.com)

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JavaScript hackers – help retailers compete with Amazon and Walmart (www.jobscore.com)

0 points first seen 2013051312 last seen 2013070718 0 comments

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Cube (YC W12) is looking for mobile and web interns (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2013051315 last seen 2013051403 0 comments