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Go 1.1 is released (blog.golang.org)

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A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch (www.thoughtcrime.org)

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Every odd number greater than five is the sum of three primes. (plus.google.com)

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U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo (www.duetapp.com)

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The Lethality of Loneliness (www.newrepublic.com)

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Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint” (conorneill.com)

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Macros in Python (github.com)

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Terra – a low-level counterpart to Lua (terralang.org)

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Show HN: Beautiful charts with 1 line of Ruby (ankane.github.io)

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Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM (www.veracode.com)

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15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos (gmailblog.blogspot.com)

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ISS Commander Chris Hadfield Covers ‘Space Oddity’ in Space (newsfeed.time.com)

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My Medical Choice (www.nytimes.com)

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PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 Released (www.postgresql.org)

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Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (2008) (okasaki.blogspot.ru)

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Flat design is great for mediocre designers like me (whoo.ps)

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Announcing Evan's Awesome A/B Tools (www.evanmiller.org)

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Why Go? (nathany.com)

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Weev placed in solitary confinement for tweeting from prison (www.dailydot.com)

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Bad as Shit (www.textfiles.com)

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Linux silent patches, 2.6.37-3.8.10 0day ensues (fucksheep.org)

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Subreddit connections (redditstuff.github.io)

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Modern Physics From Scratch (theoreticalminimum.com)

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Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe (bigstory.ap.org)

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What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video] (www.mattcutts.com)

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Why I abandoned my startup (westonmcbride.com)

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How “We’re booked” was ruining our business (bigswing.squarespace.com)

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A Lesson Learned as a Technical Founder: Sell First, Build Later (blog.framebase.io)

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'Brave' creator blasts Disney for 'blatant sexism' in princess makeover (www.marinij.com)

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Google Celebrates the 37th Anniversary of Atari's Breakout (www.google.com)

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Why Zuckerberg’s Lobby Is Collapsing Like A House Of Cards Outside Of DC (techcrunch.com)

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Apple using moving letters as captcha (www.apple.com)

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Atari Breakout - Google image search (www.google.com)

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Android 4.3, Google Babel, and the Nexus 7: What’s in store for Google I/O? (arstechnica.com)

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Bookshelf.js: An ORM for Node.js with transactions, eager loading, promises (http://bookshelfjs.org)

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Freeman Dyson Answers Questions (science.slashdot.org)

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Stripe launches beta in Ireland (twitter.com)

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Show HN: Spark Inspector, a run-time debugging tool for iOS apps (static.sparkinspector.com)

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Canada and science: NRC will now only do science that promotes “economic gain” (www.slate.com)

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My experience with Firefox OS (thelab.o2.com)

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Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler (honza.ca)

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Infinite number of Prime pairs within 70 million of each other (plus.google.com)

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Show HN: Funnel Visualization in HTML/CSS/D3.js (bl.ocks.org)

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HN no longer supporting SPDY (spdycheck.org)

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Supreme Court rules for Monsanto in case against farmer (www.npr.org)

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Show HN: mist.io - Cloud management in your pocket (http://mist.io)

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New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World’s Most Popular Mobile OS (www.wired.com)

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Show HN: Codeblock.js - Editable, runnable javascript code blocks (filepicker.github.io)

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The Devil in Plain Text (devblog.arnebrasseur.net)

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Bloomberg Users’ Messages Leaked Online (www.cnbc.com)

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Using Dispatch Tables to Avoid Conditionals in JavaScript (designpepper.com)

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Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem (arxiv.org)

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XMPP For the Web with JSON (blog.superfeedr.com)

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The weird state of mobile web apps (www.position-absolute.com)

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NH-based entrepreneurs to launch Bitcoin ATM this week (www.bizjournals.com)

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Monsanto wins landmark patent case in Supreme Court (rt.com)

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GopherCon 2014 (www.gophercon.com)

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Show HN: Moscow banned Gay Pride for 100 years, so we invite them here instead (http://www.gowest2013.com)

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Exits and Assholes (why shutting down your startup makes you a turd) (blog.downie.com.au)

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Can somebody explain where is the money in a to-do app? (techcrunch.com)

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Heat map of homophobic and racist tweets (users.humboldt.edu)

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Samsung claims 5G mobile data transmission breakthrough (www.bbc.co.uk)

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TheKitchenSync - A Tool Belt for iOS Concurrency (tech.cueup.com)

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Wednesday Night’s Human Matchmakers Take Some Of The Work Out Of Online Dating (techcrunch.com)

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W3C EME DRM reaching first public draft (www.w3.org)

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France weighs 'culture tax' for Apple, Google products (in.reuters.com)

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10 Million Concurrent Connections – The Kernel is the Problem (highscalability.com)

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Linode was down (http://www.linode.com?down)

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Bee - A Collection of lightweight Dart Web UI Components (www.blossom.io)

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Show HN: Let your website visitors view images in fullscreen/lightbox (codelearn-org.github.io)

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Plants can communicate (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

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North Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent “Unfair Competition” (www.slate.com)

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How to Price Your Hardware Product (www.hackthings.com)

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First proof that infinitely many prime numbers come in pairs (www.nature.com)

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Namecheap And Bitcoin – A Review (cryptojunky.com)

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Actually, Snapchat does delete your photos. Just not straight away. (tryingtoreason.wordpress.com)

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How-To: Resurrecting Google SMS Search Using Twilio (www.twilio.com)

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Show HN: I'm 36 years old and this iPhone app took me forever (news.ycombinator.com)

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Quit worrying about attracting a crowd (medium.com)

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I’ve joined Heroku (medium.com)

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

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You're in the education business (www.gethourglass.com)

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Microsoft: Google Docs Is Not Worth The Gamble, Makes You Less Productive (techcrunch.com)

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D-Wave’s quantum optimizer pitted against traditional computers (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: SummerStageLove, my first web app in AngularJS and CoffeeScript (www.summerstagelove.com)

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Bootstrap based Admin Panel you should see (clabs.co)

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K-MAX helicopters have flown over 1,000 unmanned cargo missions (www.thestar.com)

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Launched: You Should Launch with Less (leanpub.com)

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David Kadavy: White Space – Designing the Invisible (hackdesign.org)

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Daft Punk Fights Piracy By Streaming Entire Album Days Before Release (techcrunch.com)

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IRS Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups (www.propublica.org)

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Atari Breakout easter egg in Google Image Search (www.google.com)

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SAT Scandal Shines Harsh Light on South Korean Academics (online.wsj.com)

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How the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year was faked with Photoshop (www.extremetech.com)

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Dev Toolkit 2.0: What Powers Amicus – OrientDB, Chef, Errplane & more (blog.thinkful.com)

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Lucky Sort Acquired by Twitter (luckysort.com)

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Microsoft’s Teeny-Tiny Windows 8 Product Key Is Beyond Unreadable (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: Any interest in chef/puppet hosting? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tokyo’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Startup – Gengo (beaconreports.net)

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An Open Letter about the "Silicon Valley of the North" (Waterloo) (techomelet.posthaven.com)

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Ask HN: Which web analytics service do you use for your projects / business? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Setting up your analytics (gun.io)

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A simple and powerful REST API framework for Go 1.1 (github.com)

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The Kickstarter for XXX Projects: Offbeatr (mashable.com)

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Applying Conway’s Law (haacked.com)

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Facebook Home flagship phone, HTC First, may be discontinued (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: PHPCI - Open source continuous integration designed for PHP (www.phptesting.org)

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Exits and Assholes (why shutting down your startup makes you a turd) (blog.downie.com.au)

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Ask HN: How long did it take for you to get your first active users (news.ycombinator.com)

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PostgreSQL ::xml datatype madness (joelonsql.com)

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Is the Sunk Cost Fallacy Actually Smart Business? (insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu)

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Questions Programmers Should Ask Their Interviewers (www.coderslexicon.com)

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MOOC Production Fellowship (https://moocfellowship.org)

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1Password 4.2 for iOS gets huge update to browser, sharing features (blog.agilebits.com)

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Slightly crazy ways to build a happy, productive and transparent company (www.fastcompany.com)

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Plants use underground networks to warn of enemy attack (www.nerc.ac.uk)

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Curiosity Rover Reveals White Veins On Mars (mars.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Errors detected in C++Builder (PVS-Studio) (www.viva64.com)

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A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good (www.righto.com)

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Ask HN: what is the HN equivalent in biotech? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Cars: Where does the future lie? Why so many lies in the present? (www.team-bhp.com)

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Web Design Tips for Developers (flippinawesome.org)

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French proposal would tax smartphones and tablets to fund cultural projects (www.theverge.com)

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Plan to ban printed guns makes no sense (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: What are some books that changed how you think? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HM: Where are the Zeppelins? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: EasyCSV, stop generating CSVs for non-tech colleagues (an MVP) (easycsv.com)

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Go 1.1 is released (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

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AppScale 1.7.0 Released (Open Source Google App Engine) (blog.appscale.com)

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Show HN: gander.cc – an easy way to make a collection of photos (gander.cc)

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Don't have the right gear? Make it. (37signals.com)

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Jekyll Turns 1.0 (github.com)

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Epic IRC chat from past (www.bash.org)

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Online powerpoint rvl.io is now slid.es (http://slid.es)

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EngineYard promoted their hosted Riak offering to GA (www.engineyard.com)

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A Nice Feature in core.logic and Thoughts About A Data Structure (michaelrbernste.in)

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Tata Group to Fund Innovation Fund in Israel; India’s #fail moment? (www.nextbigwhat.com)

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Intel's Haswell Takes A Major Step Forward; Integrates Voltage Regulator (hothardware.com)

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The odd Goldbach conjecture has been proven (plus.google.com)

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Google Search scratches its brain 500 million times a day (news.cnet.com)

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RGB.to - color converter with unique URLs and JSON download (rgb.to)

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With Personal Data, Predictive Apps Stay a Step Ahead (www.technologyreview.com)

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Android chief says Google I/O will focus on devs, not new products (www.engadget.com)

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Amazing Chinese DIY Inventions (m.theatlantic.com)

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What are the most surreal places one can ever visit? (www.quora.com)

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Show HN: hyperagent.js, a JavaScript library for consuming HAL hypermedia APIs (weluse.github.io)

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Using postgression on Travis CI (www.dpiddy.net)

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Choosing an SSO Strategy: SAML vs OAuth2 (www.mutuallyhuman.com)

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Amazon Bought Liquavista - Color Kindle to Follow? (www.the-digital-reader.com)

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Real Estate or Utility? Surging Data Center Industry Blurs Boundaries (www.nytimes.com)