hackerNews

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Skype backdoor confirmation (lists.randombit.net)

330 points first seen 2013051821 last seen 2013052100 114 comments

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Creating Shazam in Java (www.redcode.nl)

285 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013052015 41 comments

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Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million (www.chicagogrid.com)

270 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013052021 162 comments

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Bright Explosion on the Moon (science.nasa.gov)

267 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013052021 60 comments

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NixOS - Declarative configuration OS (nixos.org)

234 points first seen 2013051812 last seen 2013052100 75 comments

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The theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (www.muppetlabs.com)

221 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013052003 125 comments

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Sacha Chua: "How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners" (sachachua.com)

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Welcome to Google Island (www.wired.com)

171 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013052003 89 comments

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Reddit’s Pitch deck to Advertisers (www.slideshare.net)

158 points first seen 2013051812 last seen 2013052015 108 comments

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At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

140 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013051821 176 comments

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How do GameShark/GameGenie codes work? (gaming.stackexchange.com)

139 points first seen 2013051821 last seen 2013052015 38 comments

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AngularJS Cheat Sheet (www.cheatography.com)

137 points first seen 2013051821 last seen 2013052012 10 comments

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Capacitor plague (en.wikipedia.org)

130 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013052003 61 comments

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Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist’s laptop (arstechnica.com)

119 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013052003 55 comments

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Meta: The Most Advanced Augmented Reality Interface (www.kickstarter.com)

118 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013052003 82 comments

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Coinpunk - Run your own Bitcoin wallet service (http://coinpunk.org)

117 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013052000 36 comments

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Eclipse committer on Android IDE switch to IntelliJ (twitter.com)

114 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013051809 114 comments

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Copyright of pulsar image (famous Joy Division album) (adamcap.com)

114 points first seen 2013051821 last seen 2013052012 41 comments

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Containers have been more important for globalisation than freer trade (www.economist.com)

111 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013052000 54 comments

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Why Awk for AI? (1997) (www.wra1th.plus.com)

110 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013052009 53 comments

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Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1B, All-Cash Deal for Tumblr (allthingsd.com)

110 points first seen 2013051812 last seen 2013051918 107 comments

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Label.css - Simply easy way to label each element you want (usablica.github.io)

108 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013052000 27 comments

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$100 Invested in 100 $1 Lottery Tickets (www.investinged.com)

105 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051900 119 comments

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Inside the seedy underworld of spammers and phishers (blog.mailgun.com)

94 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013052003 47 comments

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Hacker serving 5-year sentence invents ATM add-on to prevent theft (arstechnica.com)

92 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013052000 50 comments

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EFF now accepting Bitcoin again (www.eff.org)

92 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013052000 29 comments

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Tell HN: Why I have left Samsung (dream-force.com)

90 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051803 132 comments

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Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk [video] (foundation.bz)

88 points first seen 2013051815 last seen 2013052003 14 comments

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Clojure Debugging ’13: Emacs, nREPL, and Ritz (ianeslick.com)

79 points first seen 2013051815 last seen 2013052003 8 comments

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Linux Mint 15 Most Ambitious Release Ever (ostatic.com)

75 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051903 30 comments

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Web Framework Benchmarks Round 5 (www.techempower.com)

73 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013051821 56 comments

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Google Introduces Portable Native Client (techcrunch.com)

70 points first seen 2013051815 last seen 2013051903 79 comments

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I'm proud to say that I have accepted a “part-time partner” role at Y Combinator (daltoncaldwell.com)

62 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051903 8 comments

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Source Code Typography (naildrivin5.com)

62 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013051815 61 comments

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Australian government tries to block two sites, takes down 1,200 (arstechnica.com)

60 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013051909 12 comments

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Bookmarking is more complex than you think (dfernandez.me)

60 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051909 28 comments

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Hangouts are swallowing all other Google communication clients (www.wired.com)

58 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051821 53 comments

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How We Built eBay’s First Node.js Application (www.ebaytechblog.com)

58 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051909 26 comments

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Tomorrow's Eurovision final forecasted with Bayesian statistics (mewo2.com)

55 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051900 20 comments

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Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low” (techcrunch.com)

54 points first seen 2013051821 last seen 2013051915 49 comments

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Meteor on Windows (http://win.meteor.com)

53 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051909 20 comments

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The Most Innovative Employees at Google Aren’t grads with Perfect SATs (blog.idonethis.com)

53 points first seen 2013051812 last seen 2013051821 42 comments

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Data initialization in C++ (woboq.com)

52 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051900 14 comments

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Rackspace launches "Fanatical Support for Developers" (www.thewhir.com)

52 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051809 49 comments

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US Uses Special 301 To Bully Ukraine, Likely Violating WTO (www.techdirt.com)

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I thanked Rand Paul for his Internet Rights efforts lately. He replied. (camtyler.com)

47 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051803 76 comments

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Show HN: Dynamic Cards Against Humanity cards based on Facebook data (https://deckepic.com)

45 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013051909 11 comments

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Hacking Java Bytecode for Programmers (Part 2) (www.acloudtree.com)

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Canada targeting San Francisco Bay's Intelligent Immigrants? (www.flickr.com)

41 points first seen 2013051821 last seen 2013051903 20 comments

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When you shoudn't bother unit testing (invalid-arg.github.io)

40 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051806 42 comments

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Ragebooter: ‘Legit’ DDoS Service, or Fed Backdoor? (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Where robots fail: Why education can’t just be digital (venturebeat.com)

36 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051903 29 comments

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Formlabs Form 1 Teardown (www.bunniestudios.com)

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UK MP to Google: 'you do do evil' when it comes to tax (www.wired.co.uk)

34 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051803 64 comments

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Fast median search: an ANSI C implementation (ndevilla.free.fr)

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MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU refresh (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: WhitePad - iPhone-sized whiteboard - our first physical product (www.indiegogo.com)

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Poll: is your startup profitable? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Contactless 'charging errors' at Marks and Spencer (www.bbc.co.uk)

29 points first seen 2013051821 last seen 2013051903 39 comments

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Database startup Drawn to Scale is closing down (gigaom.com)

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Can You Teach Yourself Synesthesia? - Megan Garber - The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

26 points first seen 2013051815 last seen 2013051909 25 comments

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Show HN: HTMLify - Turn code snippets into HTML, for tech bloggers (www.htmlify.net)

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When Part of Apollo 13 Reached the Moon (news.discovery.com)

21 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013051821 8 comments

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Group Chat for teams powered by Firebase (www.tesla.im)

21 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051900 17 comments

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Instant Messaging for Teams (https://www.tesla.im)

21 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051900 28 comments

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Show HN: Introducing CircleUp - group photo sharing made simple. (http://circleupapp.com)

20 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013051900 10 comments

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Zynga Tells CupidWithFriends To Stop Using ‘With Friends’ (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Spellbinder, real-time view/model binding for backbone.js (github.com)

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Amazon, Google employees bullish; 25% of Microsofties say things will get worse (www.geekwire.com)

17 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013051803 30 comments

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CSS Only Macbook Air (cssdeck.com)

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Ask HN: Can anyone help me here? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: In building your startup, who do you use for accounting? (news.ycombinator.com)

15 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013052006 8 comments

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One week of crowd-sourcing the weather. (opensignal.com)

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How I Made a Fully-Functional Arduino Weather Station for $300 (www.toptal.com)

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The Road to Making - From Starter League to Developer (blog.inklingmarkets.com)

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Trends in modern programming language syntax (rdallasgray.github.io)

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Do customers pay for your B2B product in a cost center or a profit center? (matthewpaulmoore.com)

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Human body hackathon - powered by the Human API project (http://humanapi.me)

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Algorithms don't predict compatibility (jtame.com)

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OpenGL 101 - Textures (with shaders) (solarianprogrammer.com)

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Ask PG: Can We Have An Honest Discussion Around Abusive Flagging On HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I want to work with more women (blog.dwolla.com)

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Verbalize It on Shark Tank Season Finale (www.verbalizeit.com)

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What's a good way to find talented people to hire? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Living in the Future: Startup Ideas (www.jacobsheehy.com)

8 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013051806 7 comments

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The Professional Coworker (mikecr.it)

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Google engineers discuss fragmentation, hardware, and Project Butter (arstechnica.com)

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Developer-friendly Twitter alternative App.net hits 100K registered users (thenextweb.com)

8 points first seen 2013051812 last seen 2013051815 9 comments

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Dear Class of ’13: You’ve been scammed (www.marketwatch.com)

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Otto: unifying deployment, application management, and platform management (blog.spindle.com)

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I know how to do, but I don't have a good idea, how I start? (pastebin.com)

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AngelList has blown open early-stage investments (www.wired.co.uk)

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Instaparse: Parsing With Clojure Is the New Black (walkwithoutrhythm.net)

7 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013051812 0 comments

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Show HN: My Cards Against Humanity clone built on Meteor (http://www.redactedonline.com)

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Ask HN: Killer idea, no cash to build an MVP, what to do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Even Google’s Own Developers Won't Be Seen Wearing Google Glass (www.fastcodesign.com)

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Psychological Pitfalls And Lessons of A Designer-Founder (www.azarask.in)

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How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service (www.theverge.com)

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Printable A3-Sized Solar Cells (mashable.com)

6 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051809 0 comments

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Bad Code: Too Many Object Conversions Between Application Layers (wondersofcode.wordpress.com)

6 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051806 0 comments

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The Realities of a Freelance Digital Artist (www.surrealpsd.com)

6 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013051812 0 comments

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Node.js 0.10.7 released (blog.nodejs.org)

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Intel's CEO Says He Passed On A Chance To Get Chips Inside The First iPhone (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: Can reading SICP and doing its exercises get you hired? (news.ycombinator.com)

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WebRTC without a signaling server (blog.printf.net)

5 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051809 0 comments

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Show HN: 3 Day Coder - For Bootstrappers (http://www.3daycoder.com)

5 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051806 3 comments

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The Binary Keypad (www.msarnoff.org)

5 points first seen 2013051812 last seen 2013051815 0 comments

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Office document directly in the browser (opendocumentformat.org)

5 points first seen 2013051812 last seen 2013051815 0 comments

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Quantum computing: Faster, slower, or both at once? (www.economist.com)

5 points first seen 2013051812 last seen 2013051812 0 comments

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Ask HN: What are your day to day pain points while coding? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Creating a Performance Culture (www.stevesouders.com)

4 points first seen 2013051800 last seen 2013051800 0 comments

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Show HN: Mixpanel Query Tool (http://www.mixpanelquerytool.com)

4 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2013051803 0 comments

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Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Sergey Brin TED talk: Why Google Glass? (www.ted.com)

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Watch the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen on the Moon (www.wired.com)

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AnyPerk (YC W12) Expands Concept of Employer Driven Discount Clubs (localonliner.com)

4 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051809 0 comments

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What number of simple operations is safely out of reach for all humanity? (2011) (security.stackexchange.com)

4 points first seen 2013051806 last seen 2013051806 0 comments

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The Dangers of Book Learnin' (jobtipsforgeeks.com)

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Is TCP turing complete? (www.gghh.name)

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The Apathy Epidemic: Why your startup will suck you dry (pandodaily.com)

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Google's Five-Front Assault On Apple (www.forbes.com)

4 points first seen 2013051809 last seen 2013051809 0 comments

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Ask HN: Interested in helping test out my Hacker News app for Windows Phone? (news.ycombinator.com)

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You'll need to download Chrome before installing Hangouts (imgur.com)

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Freelancer HQ: Client, Project and Invoice Management Application (news.ycombinator.com)

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Crowdfunding justice: "Crackstarter" campaign to out Toronto mayor (www.indiegogo.com)

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Let's bring friction back into computing (cacm.acm.org)

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NPR's interactive guide to the running gags from Arrested Development (apps.npr.org)

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GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge (techcrunch.com)

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How To Get Famous People To Respond To You (seanmeverett.quora.com)

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Top-level domain registry of .SE sued over The Pirate Bay (torrentfreak.com)

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Source code example of the Shazam algorithm (dream-force.com)

3 points first seen 2013051803 last seen 2015070500 0 comments

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Design-dependent media queries in LESS (lab.la-grange.ca)

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$100 Invested in 100 $1 Lottery Tickets | Investing Education (www.investinged.com)