hackerNews

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Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more (kkinder.com)

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Hacker News is depressing (threads2.scripting.com)

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Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job (medium.com)

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Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github (github.com)

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Soylent Campaign (campaign.soylent.me)

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The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down (medium.com)

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New closure allows camping mattress to be inflated in seconds (www.kickstarter.com)

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Our XMPP services at DuckDuckGo (dukgo.com)

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Four Pricing Principles to Never Forget (insideintercom.io)

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Cancer and Startups (www.chris-granger.com)

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NY official: Airbnb stay illegal; host fined $2,400 (news.cnet.com)

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GeoGuessr: Can you guess the location from Google streetview? (geoguessr.com)

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Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age (medium.com)

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Teenager facing terrorism charges for something he posted on Facebook (cms.fightforthefuture.org)

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Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released (www.gnu.org)

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An eBook pricing model that resulted in $100,000 in sales (blog.asmartbear.com)

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Vim 7.3.1000 (ftp.vim.org)

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Airbnb Declared Illegal In New York City (www.businessinsider.com)

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Memcached turns 10 years old today (arstechnica.com)

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Surveillance and the Internet of Things (www.schneier.com)

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The NewsBlur Redesign (blog.newsblur.com)

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Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System (techcrunch.com)

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You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (2011) (sixrevisions.com)

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The Firing Offense (thedailywtf.com)

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Call Congress today to support HR 1892, "The Unlocking Technology Act" (fixthedmca.org)

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Show HN: Raspberry Pi Laptop (raspberry.io)

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Airbnb Stay Illegal In New York City, Rules Judge (www.fastcompany.com)

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Starters Guide to iOS Design (taybenlor.com)

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2010 Unibody Macbook schematic (fast.partsdirect.ru)

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Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is (programming.oreilly.com)

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Union Square gets 5,000% return on Tumblr (www.crainsnewyork.com)

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Show HN: My new homepage (http://awaxman.com)

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NASA's audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food (qz.com)

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FreedomHTML (freedomhtml.org)

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Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS (hacks.mozilla.org)

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The New Arduino Yún (blog.arduino.cc)

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How to Attend a Conference (www.trevormckendrick.com)

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Why do professional photographers charge so much? (www.modelmayhem.com)

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Xbox One Revealed (news.xbox.com)

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IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon (www.forbes.com)

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In 1949, He Imagined an Age of Robots (www.nytimes.com)

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New kinect will sense more detail, heartbeat and minuscule shifts (www.techradar.com)

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How tcmalloc Works (jamesgolick.com)

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Go Replace - simple and fast search&replace tool for command line (solovyov.net)

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Sony stock price spikes up 9% after Microsoft's Xbox One presentation (www.google.com)

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Linus as one of the top 14% most vulgar users on GitHub (osrc.dfm.io)

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Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam) (www.xbox.com)

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Remember: your git commit email is public (theflyingdeveloper.com)

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An Honor for the Creator of the GIF (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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The Pricing Trilogy (sachagreif.com)

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Paperkey - backup your GnuPG secret key on a piece of paper (www.jabberwocky.com)

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A Modest Proposal for Improving Website Authentication (www.kijinsung.com)

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The 2-second “Rule” (medium.com)

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Nimrod 0.9.2 released (nimrod-code.org)

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Authority (nathanbarry.com)

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Useful Android resources (www.sapandiwakar.in)

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GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X (gpgtools.org)

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WorldChat.io: Chat with realtime translation (worldchat.io)

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Google engineers: We're trying to fix Android fragmentation (news.cnet.com)

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The Biggest Pivot in YC History (blog.soylent.me)

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Celery Lets Sellers Accept Pre-Orders, Charge When Ready (Airbrite YC S’12) (techcrunch.com)

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Need a browser with one Tab (bhoomitv.tumblr.com)

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Bitcoin is Deflationary, and That's OK (andrewbadr.com)

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Manage your SSH like a boss (github.com)

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Gawker, How Dare You (www.diycouturier.com)

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KTAP: A New Scripting Dynamic Tracing Tool For Linux (lwn.net)

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Microsoft: 300,000 servers on Xbox One (venturebeat.com)

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Userfox wants to make A/B testing emails effortless (thenextweb.com)

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Android Applications with Kotlin (hadihariri.com)

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Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy and more sick (qz.com)

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The New iTunes Mini Player (chasingperfection.co.uk)

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Descrambling the voice inversion scrambler (windytan.blogspot.co.uk)

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Rand Paul: "Apple deserves apology from US govt" (regarding tax avoidance issue) (www.bloomberg.com)

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Pixelapse (YCW12) launches new UI (blog.pixelapse.com)

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Twitter Launches Innovator’s Patent Agreement (www.eff.org)

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IBM’s Watson Tries to Learn… Everything (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Loadtests for the Real World (medium.com)

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I Will Build Your Prototype (iwbyp.chris-granger.com)

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Exclusive First Look at Xbox One (www.wired.com)

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What if Enterprise IT built a race car? (www.scriptrock.com)

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Immigration Overhaul Wins Panel’s Backing in the Senate (www.nytimes.com)

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Interview With A Blackhat (Part 1) (blog.whitehatsec.com)

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A fast lock-free queue for C++ (moodycamel.com)

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Unity for Android and iOS is now free for Indie developers (blogs.unity3d.com)

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CircleCI: Our First Postmortem (blog.circleci.com)

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Algorithms for the Masses (www.google.com)

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Is This Why TED Talks Seem So Convincing? (priceonomics.com)

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Apple Isn’t a Financial Mastermind, They're Only Following the Law (behindcompanies.com)

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The non-sleazy way to sell on forums (www.bootstrappingindependence.com)

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Wakari (in-browser analytics) out of beta (continuum.io)

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Real Artists Ship [teesprint shirt] (teespring.com)

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Whistleblowing, Bank Fraud and Bad Faith at Balanced Payments (intuitiveink.tumblr.com)

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Focus On What Matters Or Sleep Alone (www.jjude.biz)

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Date() for humans (matthewmueller.github.io)

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Microsoft reveals the new Xbox One console (www.theverge.com)

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Why Startups Should Create Customer Personas (www.markevanstech.com)

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How Draft got me to pay for a free product (swizec.com)

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Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school? (bigstory.ap.org)

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Ask HN: What are the best startups working on text analysis? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Pmarchive Returns (blog.fictivekin.com)

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Apple's Tim Cook defends tax strategy in Senate (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Induction powered LED lit engagement ring (www.kokes.net)

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Announcing UnQLite: An Embeddable NoSQL(Key/Value + Document store) Database (unqlite.org)

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Graph Database Neo4j 1.9 GA released (blog.neo4j.org)

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Google Login Buttons Are Worth It (blog.theappifier.com)

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Soylent taking pre-orders on Crowdhoster (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Wakari 1.0 released today (www.continuum.io)

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Dart is not the language you think it is (programming.oreilly.com)

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6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism (news.nationalgeographic.com)

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Ask HN: Is it worth learning a new language for your startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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So I got tired of Ads cluttering my Facebook Newsfeed (programmerhrishi.blogspot.in)

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PyPy 2.0.2 - Fermi Panini (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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Brewing our first IPA patent, and new adopters (blog.twitter.com)

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AngularJS Fundamentals In 60-ish Minutes (www.youtube.com)

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Schemer - the beginning of everything worth doing. (https://www.schemer.com)

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In Defense of New Food (robrhinehart.com)

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Can you catch up on lost sleep? (online.wsj.com)

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Xbox : Xbox One :: Atari 800 : Atari 800 XL (www.jeffwofford.com)

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Paul Graham Talk - Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas [video] (www.youtube.com)

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How to Deal with Angry Customers Online (www.thedailymuse.com)

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SAP in autism recruitment drive (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Make $30 an hour, no bachelor's degree required (money.cnn.com)

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Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers (www.wired.com)

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Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (nbviewer.ipython.org)

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Unity's mobile licenses are now free (www.gamasutra.com)

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Neural Network Back-Propagation for Programmers (msdn.microsoft.com)

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Have you tried to keep a journal, but given up? You’re not alone (blog.narrato.co)

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Creating GitHub gists from Sublime Text (aspirecode.com)

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Pirate Bay User Downloads Visualized in Real-Time Art Installation (torrentfreak.com)

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A lonely table - becoming more interesting (ninjasandrobots.com)

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U.S. Tracked Foreigners Leaving for Canada (www.nytimes.com)

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Building Xbox One (www.engadget.com)

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Hipmunk: We know we can be bigger than Kayak (skift.com)

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Microsoft unveils its next game console, the Xbox One (www.engadget.com)

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Ask HN: Which agile development process do you use or not hate? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Let's start a conversation at a coffee shop (blog.truffle.io)

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Oklahoma: Help the Civil Air Patrol Sort Images By Damage Levels (mapmill.hotosm.org)

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Know you're right: Always triangulate conclusions (www.onebigfluke.com)

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Amazon changes building design from boxy to spherical (www.bizjournals.com)

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Google's chat client drops Jabber compatibility (www.h-online.com)

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Kinect 2 Full Video Walkthrough (gizmodo.com)

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Decoding the great Indian real estate ponzi scheme (www.firstpost.com)

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A More Awesome Web (www.moreawesomeweb.com)

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The mammoth's lament: Cosmic impact sparked devastating climate change (www.sciencecodex.com)

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What are the canonical answers we've discovered over the years? (meta.serverfault.com)

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Unity goes free on Android and iOS (www.pocketgamer.biz)

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Can we become better programmers through studying code? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Engineers need to do more art (www.kickstarter.com)