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Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging (www.eff.org)

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The Girl Who Turned to Bone (www.theatlantic.com)

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I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore (arstechnica.com)

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Lying Microsoft Advertising (www.curi.us)

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How to work remotely as a software developer (markcampbell.me)

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Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project (joelhooks.com)

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Massive Number of Vulnerabilities Found in X.Org (lists.x.org)

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Reverse engineering native apps by intercepting network traffic (nickfishman.com)

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SQLite improves performance with memory-mapped I/O (www.sqlite.org)

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Kiera Wilmot is going to Space Camp (abcnews.go.com)

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Deleted my portfolio, made $30k in my first six months (robertwilliams.wpengine.com)

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Trying out this Go thing at Disqus (blog.disqus.com)

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Selling Your Software To Businesses - TwilioCon 2012 presentation (www.kalzumeus.com)

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The terrifying rise of the political entrepreneur (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers (www.datacenterknowledge.com)

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Designing blogs for readers (mattgemmell.com)

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Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns (blog.golang.org)

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Wisp: a homoiconic JS dialect with a clojure syntax, s-expressions and macros (jeditoolkit.com)

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The real origins of Tumblr (www.dailydot.com)

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8.2 mag earthquake off Russian with potential to generate a destructive tsunami (wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov)

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Google 'kerning' easter egg (www.google.com)

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Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist at the Same Time (www.wired.com)

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Excel and SQL (datanitro.com)

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Interview with a Blackhat (Part 3/3) (blog.whitehatsec.com)

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IPv6 address space layout best practices (networkengineering.stackexchange.com)

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Machine Learning with F# (fsharp.org)

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Why we're building Loom (blog.loom.com)

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Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education (mikelev.in)

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Star Trek, tech companies, and the death of futurism in cinema (medium.com)

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Volkswagen's 261-MPG Diesel-Electric (www.wired.com)

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Educate HN: How to contribute to open source projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Students are the victims and culprits of India’s broken higher education system (qz.com)

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All about lambda functions in RethinkDB (rethinkdb.com)

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I Own two step authentication Patent, Fund my legal battle with US gov (torrentfreak.com)

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University of Reddit (universityofreddit.com)

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You're right because you're wrong. The YC success of contrarian thinking (www.inc.com)

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PHP Weekly improvements (www.phpweekly.com)

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Accelerating Python Libraries with Numba (Part 2) (continuum.io)

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Lyft Is Doing 30,000 Rides A Week, Raises $60 Million From Andreessen Horowitz (techcrunch.com)

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Free storyboard illustrations (dribbble.com)

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The Economics of The Formula One Grand Prix of Monaco (smartasset.com)

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Loom (YC W12) Is Building A Better iCloud (techcrunch.com)

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Now they have two problems (joindiaspora.com)

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Yahoo Acquires Gaming Infrastructure Startup PlayerScale (techcrunch.com)

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Rebuild YouTube's mobile-like progress bar in jQuery (blog.ynh.io)

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Our Server’s Hard Drive is Dead. We didn’t have a backup. (blog.method.ac)

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I'm writing a book on Flask, the Python web framework (robert.io)

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Tourist.js: really flexible tours by Easel (easelinc.github.io)

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Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems (cs.yale.edu)

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Unicode Character 'Slice of Pizza' (www.fileformat.info)

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Someday, you may use bitcoin without knowing it (qz.com)

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Freight Farms (Techstars Boston) fundraising on Wefunder (YC W13) Farm in a box (wefunder.com)

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Nintendo grabs money, control from fans promoting its games on Youtube (penny-arcade.com)

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Tell HN: AT&T added fees on their service; now you can cancel the contract (news.ycombinator.com)

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AngelPad’s 6th Batch Of Startups: Companies Working On Drones, Storage and More (techcrunch.com)

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Traditional Japanese Art Created Using Excel Spreadsheets (www.psfk.com)

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Show HN: Example implementation of Mozilla's persona and Go server (github.com)

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Calculating the perfect Tetris play: Part I (ains.co)

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Evernote adds reminders (blog.evernote.com)

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Bernanke: There's No Housing Bubble to Go Bust (2005) (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Wily Cockroaches Find Another Survival Trick: Laying Off the Sweets (www.nytimes.com)

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Brain work may be going the way of manual work (www.economist.com)

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Introduction to HTML5 Canvas (www.storminthecastle.com)

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The fly-by, Wi-Fi hacking machine (www.smh.com.au)

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Corporate HQ Superdesigns: Amazon Changes HQ Plans for Something More Designey (www.core77.com)

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DynamoDB - Parallel Scans, 4x Cheaper Reads, Other Good News (aws.typepad.com)

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Last Impression (ryanhoover.me)

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Rust Pattern Matching and the Option Type (nickdesaulniers.github.io)

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What I say when I “sell” - what 'sales' means at a startup (medium.com)

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Chevrolet Spark EV gets 119 MPGe and costs $17k after incentives (www.treehugger.com)

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Apple Avoids U.S. Taxes, Then Complains Our Schools Are Lousy (www.newrepublic.com)

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Shareable Web Links that Open iOS Deep Links (benroesch.com)

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Ask HN: How do you test web UI/JavaScript? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Living with parents? GTFO (www.fastcocreate.com)

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Python 3 ... (mail.python.org)

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Android's Market Share is Literally a Joke (techpinions.com)

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Elixir 0.9.0 released. Reducers inspired by Clojure's Reducers on the Erlang VM (elixir-lang.org)

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Why Facebook Is Doomed And Google Isn't (bart-calendar.livejournal.com)

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Fastmail Failed (tdh.me)

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Social Networking is Like Fast Food (www.jonhmchan.com)

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Google Talk for Developers - Open Communications (2005-ish) (developers.google.com)

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Almost Yahooed (jeichlersummers.tumblr.com)

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How to Find Your Brand's Voice (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Ask HN: Is there an easy way(Cheap) to do market research? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Windows 7 and 8 zero-day (seclists.org)

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Clever Cloud PaaS new pricings : cheaper and more finesse in your app config. (www.clever-cloud.com)

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Show HN: Speakers, a simple event system for python (falcao.it)

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Ask HN: Tips for coding with one hand? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Inside Google's Secret Lab (www.businessweek.com)

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Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billion back home (arstechnica.com)

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19 Emotions For Which There Are No Words In English [Chart] (www.bitrebels.com)

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Summer of Design: "Design for Hackers," week by week (summerofdesign.com)

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Show HN: Jumpjet Preview - real time screensharing SDK for iOS and Android apps (blog.hipmob.com)

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MyShoebox Gets Social With Collaborative Galleries (techcrunch.com)

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Bondsy: An iPhone app for trading just about anything with your friends (thenextweb.com)

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FiOS "unlimited" actually has a cap: 77TB/mo (arstechnica.com)

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Two Cheers for Two-Factor (blog.meldium.com)

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With no acceptable offers on the table, Atari is going to auction (www.gamasutra.com)

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Boy Scouts to Admit Openly Gay Youths as Members (www.nytimes.com)

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SIGGRAPH 2013 : Technical Papers Preview (www.youtube.com)

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Crisis Management (softwarerealities.com)

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Flickr is down (http://flickr.com?t=1)

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Pidora, Raspberry Pi’s Unfortunately Named Fedora Remix (www.thepowerbase.com)

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Generators come to PHP (www.lornajane.net)

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Debian's oldest developer, Ray Dassen, has died. (www.thepowerbase.com)

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Karmabox - Do something good with one line of code (karmabox.io)

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Golf for a mutaphuqin' good cause with Samuel L Jackson on Prizeo (www.prizeo.com)

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Writing as a competitive advantage (bryce.vc)

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Vt Gov Signs Novel Law Against False Patent Claims (abcnews.go.com)

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Leadership lessons from the Shirtless Dancing Guy [video] (kottke.org)

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How your posture can be more important than your job title (maxperhour.com)

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Why Switching to RackSpace Mail is Worth the $2 (thelivingpearl.com)

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Java GC tuning for High Frequency Trading apps (onthejvm.blogspot.sg)

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Google acquires kite-power generator (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Legend: Free Responsive One Page Template (www.dzyngiri.com)

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Google engineer publicises Windows 0-day - Microsoft "difficult to work with" (www.theverge.com)

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Building The New Financial Times Web App: A Case Study (coding.smashingmagazine.com)

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Ask HN: How many are homeless to cut costs in the Valley? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What kind of music do you listen to while programming? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Commandr: an automatic CLI generator for Python using inspection (tellaparteng.tumblr.com)

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Follow up to The most pleasant job interview I have ever had (swizec.com)

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Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere (readwrite.com)

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Ignore the Race, at Your Own Pace. (blog.properapp.com)

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50 Useful CSS Snippets Every Designer Should Have (www.hongkiat.com)

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Homeland Security Warns 3D-Printed Guns Are “Impossible” To Contain (techcrunch.com)

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Win-win for developers and users: Dart Google I/O 2013 (blog.dartwatch.com)

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A tethered, flying wing that generates power as it loops through the sky (www.csmonitor.com)

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US scientists unveil new IQ measure: take the test (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Generate your own icon fonts with this free online tool (iconvau.lt)

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Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding War (bloomberg.com)

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New Geography of Teen Mothers (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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Working Around Skype's Privacy Hole with LD_PRELOAD (crashcoherency.net)

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Battle Over 'GIF' Pronunciation Erupts (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)