hackerNews

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US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits (boingboing.net)

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42 (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Hangover - How far can you overhang blocks? (www.datagenetics.com)

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I took the $300K (boundary.com)

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This Is What Winning Looks Like [in Afghanistan] (www.vice.com)

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Full Disclosure: PayPal.com XSS Vulnerability (seclists.org)

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Chinese DIY Inventions (www.theatlantic.com)

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Rustboot: a 32 bit kernel written in Rust (github.com)

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Unlabeled Object Recognition in Google+ (byronknoll.blogspot.com)

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The declining profitability of Google Adwords (successfulsoftware.net)

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The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India (www.atlasobscura.com)

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US spy device 'tested on NZ public' (www.nzherald.co.nz)

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Saving 300,000 ancient books and manuscripts from Al-Qaeda - library of Timbuktu (www.indiegogo.com)

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Django 1.6 alpha 1 released (www.djangoproject.com)

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37 YC Companies have valuations or been sold for at least $40 Million (twitter.com)

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SQLAlchemy Migrated from Mercurial to Git (www.sqlalchemy.org)

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Posting illicit rap songs can get you jail without bond and felony charges (cms.fightforthefuture.org)

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Liberty Reserve Founder Arrested, Site Shuttered (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Relationships between Depression and High Intellectual Potential (www.hindawi.com)

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Show HN: Got my Pebble and built a seven minute workout watchapp today (kennberg.com)

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Show HN: I've used Go to build a nifty daemon for the Raspberry Pi (jondot.github.io)

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Why Twitter is a Big Deal (2009) (paulgraham.com)

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Good news everyone, PyPI is behind a CDN (mail.python.org)

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List of unsolved problems in computer science (en.wikipedia.org)

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Brain Functions That Improve with Age (blogs.hbr.org)

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The true power of regular expression (nikic.github.io)

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Ted Nelson's Computer Paradigm, Expressed as One-Liners (1999) (hyperland.com)

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Finishing (www.avc.com)

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Scientists find woman who sees 99 million more colors than others (2012) (www.digitaljournal.com)

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JavaScript: The Important Parts (benlakey.com)

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Lithium: a 16-bit kernel (sort of) written in Clojure (sort of) (blog.danieljanus.pl)

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Desire for Daft Punk's iconic helmets creates cottage industry (online.wsj.com)

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Dictdiffer: Diff and Patch Python dictionaries (github.com)

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Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food (www.nytimes.com)

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Peter Molyneux's Curiosity cube is now open, contents still a mystery (www.engadget.com)

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Internet Forums Reimagined: The Future Of Online Discussions (www.makeuseof.com)

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Quebec Cracks Down on Airbnb (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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uWSGI 1.9.11 released with PyPy support (uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org)

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Java developer says he built, launched basic open source office suite in 30 days (www.networkworld.com)

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Who Needs Ops Anyway? (joerussbowman.tumblr.com)

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Why People Hate the Google Bus (www.businessinsider.com)

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Retire in your Mind even if you Love your Job (www.mrmoneymustache.com)

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Inside of an atom snapped (www.stuff.co.nz)

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Interfaces in Go make it hard to navigate code (www.swageroo.com)

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What's the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'? (stackoverflow.com)

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Amazon starts to do Grocery Delivery (www.businessinsider.com)

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Yahoo's Design Chief Leaves Company (mashable.com)

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Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic time zone detection. (gifcountdown.com)

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BetterPlace - The Fat Startup (www.eytanlevit.com)

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Tell your customers whats new with your service automatically (http://whatsnew.io)

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A young person's guide to building something (blog.zmitri.com)

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Fargo, online outliner and more with Dropbox storage (fargo.io)

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Electric car startup Better Place liquidating after $850 million investment (m.cnet.com)

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OOScss architecture for Rails apps. (blog.netguru.co)

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Comparing alternatives to ZenDesk (www.grobmeier.de)

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Sacrificing Trust for Virality: Spammy Mobile Apps (medium.com)

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If everything fades into the background, you may have a high IQ (arstechnica.com)

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Flatdoc is the fastest way to create a site for your open source project. (ricostacruz.com)

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Former Drupal dev compares the project to Scientology (gist.github.com)

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Brainfilling Curves - a Fractal Bestiary (online book) (archive.org)

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Someone’s Trying to Nail the RIAA for Downloading Porn (torrentfreak.com)

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Ask HN: How do you focus? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Responding to peer review (matt.might.net)

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What was inside Peter Molyneux's Curiosity (www.youtube.com)

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JDK 8 calendar builder (marxsoftware.blogspot.co.il)

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WTF Godaddy SSh access to shared server exposes everyones username (news.ycombinator.com)

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Measuring the rotation of the galaxy with a USB TV tuner [pdf] (www.sbrac.org)

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An experimental, invite-only peer review community for just about anything (wereview.io)

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Ask HN: Where to start? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Free Cammy Dee (www.crowdtilt.com)

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Advanced biological computer developed (www.sciencedaily.com)

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ASK PG: Look like New User from India are Banned from Posting New Content (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Found a major vuln in competitor's software. What now? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Failure looms for "world’s biggest agile project", UK welfare payment system (cartesianproduct.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What if Google starts doing it? (bhashkar.me)

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Why doesn't HN get the hackernews.com domain? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The story of the forgotten BMX riders in E.T (narrative.ly)

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Python as a First Language (mcsp.wartburg.edu)

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Next gen consoles in a rut (www.forbes.com)

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Servo Update: Navigation, Scrolling, GPU Rendering, Underlines, and more (metajack.im)

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How to Give a Killer Presentation (hbr.org)

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Your Job Title Is Wrong, Here Is What It Should Be (www.simpleprogrammer.com)

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In the game against Facebook, Amazon and Apple, Google is winning (www.fastcompany.com)

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Is Global Warming Cooler than Expected? (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Show HN: paleorecipes.io: For Geeks, By Geeks (blainsmith.com)

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10 (Plus 1) Ways to Change the World With Computer Science (blog.prof.so)

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Hacking My Weight - How I Gained 100 lbs Over 6 Years and Lost It in 6 Months (medium.com)

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Fairphone (http://fairphone.com)

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Scientists Build Record-Setting Metamaterial Flat Lens (www.nist.gov)

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ECMAScript 6 support in Firefox (developer.mozilla.org)

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Making Formulas… for Everything — From π to the Pink Panther to Sir Isaac Newton (blog.wolfram.com)

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How to run Android Apps on Google Glass (songz.quora.com)

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Tips and tricks about JavaScript from Google (www.pixelstech.cn)

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Silencer: Mute Arrested Development and Game of Thrones spoilers with one click (http://silencer.io)

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How to run Google Glass on your Android device (awaissoft.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: What's the new Slashdotting? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Brazil cancels most of African debt (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Javascript type inference and Asm.js (news.ycombinator.com)

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Conductive paint lands in pens and pots for creatives (phys.org)

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Healing a Facebook addiction (hack) (blog.rinik.net)

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X-Wing is Biggest Lego Model Ever (www.wired.com)

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No VC: How 5 Startups Skirted Tech’s Financiers (go.bloomberg.com)

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The Stone Age (pub.gajendra.net)

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Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: IF EXISTS and IF NOT EXISTS (michael.otacoo.com)

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Failure to Communicate (stevenkovar.com)

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Crunch with us before demoday. YC S13 company needs scrappy intern (news.ycombinator.com)

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