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Teacher under fire for informing kids of their Fifth Amendment rights (www.dailyherald.com)

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You are dangerously bad at cryptography (happybearsoftware.com)

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How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” (arstechnica.com)

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3px of padding makes all the difference in the world (blog.garrytan.com)

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Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa (www.wired.co.uk)

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Sucks to be an old engineer (lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com)

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Some annotations that will help you express yourself ;) (code.google.com)

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Is Silicon Valley only interested in the problems of twentysomethings? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Indiegogo fund raises enough money to buy video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack (www.indiegogo.com)

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OAuth.io - OAuth that just works. (http://oauth.io)

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Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 (www.haskell.org)

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Opera 15 Preview for Win & Mac with Chromium Engine Released (business.opera.com)

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How to hire good people instead of nice people (qz.com)

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Find Your Color Scheme (colourco.de)

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Elsevier journals: has anything changed? (gowers.wordpress.com)

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Open Source Game Clones (http://osgameclones.com)

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The house I was born in sold for $4000 (baus.net)

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Haxe 3 Released (haxe.org)

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Twitter API returning results that do not respect the arrow of time (twitterbug.quietbabylon.com)

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A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins (2007) (www.codinghorror.com)

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Dear WordPress (ma.tt)

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Productivity hacks of a startup dad (sahilparikh.com)

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Where did all the HTTP referrers go? (smerity.com)

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How to eat healthily for £1 per day - v0.2 (supplementsos.com)

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BitTorrent Sync Is A Dropbox Killer, Or Maybe Much More Than That (www.forbes.com)

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Results of the Debian systemd survey (people.debian.org)

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Researchers turn cement into metal (phys.org)

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Rails Developers - My Server was hacked - Help. Cron taken over. (gist.github.com)

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Go 1.1 performance improvements, part 3 (dave.cheney.net)

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Best Place To Start A Company (If You Have Kids) (jeffkward.com)

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Preparing a Mac laptop for your Grandma (blog.accursedware.com)

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Why Should I Pay For Your SaaS Every Month? (jerviswhitley.com)

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Rundown of the newest features in C++11 [pdf] (dl.dropboxusercontent.com)

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Sony’s Bread and Butter? It’s Not Electronics (www.nytimes.com)

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Wintersmith – a flexible static site generator (wintersmith.io)

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How Email On Acid stole our work (stampready.net)

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Schedule: Python job scheduling for humans. (github.com)

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Coinbase Leads Charge In Bitcoin’s Consumerization (techcrunch.com)

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U.S. is the only developed country with no guaranteed paid vacation or holidays (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Global flight paths (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Educating a child who is severely behind (news.ycombinator.com)

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45-year-old man living in hospital since age 1 is directing a 3D animation (catarse.me)

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WordPress is 10 years old today: Here’s how it’s changed the Web (thenextweb.com)

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Exporting PGP via Book (www.pgpi.org)

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People of ACM: Christos Papadimitriou (www.acm.org)

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'The chair is out to kill us'. Studies point to the health risks of sitting (www.latimes.com)

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100% uptime for a web application (serverfault.com)

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Is It Possible to Be Both a Founder and a Daddy? (www.techinasia.com)

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Centuries-old frozen plants revived (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Crate.io: A new kind of Python package index (crate.io)

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Namecheap $0.98 com/net per year coupon (www.namecheap.com)

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Bitcoin is not a Donut: Bitcoin price=Miner Psychology (blog.inbitbox.com)

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Judge agrees that Apple was complicit in fixing price of e-books (www.techradar.com)

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German railways to test anti-graffiti drones (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Soylent: Gruel today, gruel tomorrow (www.economist.com)

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New Opera 15 Beta with Blink engine (my.opera.com)

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UTC: How Greenwich mean time became the world standard (news.nationalgeographic.com)

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Chinese boy defaces ancient Egyptian sculpture, prompts online outrage (behindthewall.nbcnews.com)

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How to relax with all the powers of the universe at your fingertips (medium.com)

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Show HN: Rapid prototyping and development tool for web and mobile apps (www.steveapp.com)

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Lessons Recreating the Image Viewer UI From Blade Runner (rorygianni.me.uk)

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Pure Javascript HTML Templating for jQuery and Node.js (http://json2html.com)

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Apple’s Ive Seen Risking iOS 7 Delay on Software Overhaul (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice (www.creativitypost.com)

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Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace - part 2 (crypt.codemancers.com)

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Show HN: Git(lab), Jenkins, Redmine and IRC on our wall (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tapping Into an 'Entrepreneurial Ecosystem' (blogs.wsj.com)

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How Michigan took hackathons by storm. (medium.com)

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A minimal Linux kernel module written in Rust (github.com)

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Sell your data to save the economy and your future (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Computer Network Piecing Together a Jigsaw of Jewish Lore (www.nytimes.com)

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Ex-Apple Employees Reveal How The Company Is So Good At Keeping Secret (www.businessinsider.com)

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Chinese steal blueprints for Australia's spy headquarters (www.scmagazine.com.au)

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The Simple Bayesian Estimator Every Programmer Should Know (jgeer.com)

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What is the *correct* JSON content type? (stackoverflow.com)

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Google Boss: We Follow The Law On Tax (news.sky.com)

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The Weird Stuff Warehouse is where old tech goes to retire (arstechnica.com)

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How rich would you be if you’d bought Apple shares instead of a Mac in 2003? (thenextweb.com)

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Dead bodies on Mount Everest (imgur.com)

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Building Lisp (www.lwh.jp)

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Java8 plugin that adds supports for persistent local variables (github.com)

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Ask HN: Review my startup. https://www.tesla.im (news.ycombinator.com)

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My Teenage Son Does Not Know How To Mail A Letter (readwrite.com)

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Any demand for experienced java freelancers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to Not Ruin the 'Snow Crash' Movie (www.movies.com)

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The most useful "Swiss army knife" one-liners on Unix (www.quora.com)

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CLI Applications With Docopt and Packaging [video] (www.neckbeardrepublic.com)

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Ask HN: Why do startup company websites look better than corporate sites? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stigler diet - an early rigorous approach to nutrition (en.wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: How do I get in touch with technologically savvy blind people? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Early bird rates for PyCon Singapore 2013 will be available until May 31. (https://pycon.sg)

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The New Flickr Sucks and Here’s Why (www.infinitehollywood.com)

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Ask HN: Resources for Learning CSS (news.ycombinator.com)

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Vancouver high school teacher launches students into computer-world big leagues (www.vancouversun.com)

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Three years attacking web crypto (docs.google.com)

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KnobFeel - Reviews based purely on the feel of the knob (knobfeel.tumblr.com)

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George Packer’s Silicon Valley myopia (jseliger.wordpress.com)

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Boise-canceling tech could lead to 400gbps home Internet (venturebeat.com)

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5 Bullsht Want-repreneur excuses for not being as big as they could be (www.rudebaguette.com)

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Dear Wired (www.hackerfactor.com)

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Foxconn and Mozilla join hands over Firefox OS (www.engadget.com)

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Metrics Monday: Google Analytics live today at 15:00 UTC (plus.google.com)

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Is vacation rental site Airbnb illegal? (www.marketplace.org)

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Voice Recording in the Home Studio (transom.org)

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Forget Windows Media Center: Use a Free Linux-Based Media Center System (www.howtogeek.com)

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The PostgreSQL JDBC Driver is now PgBouncer compliant (engineering.clever-cloud.com)

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Are you sure you use JSONP properly? (homakov.blogspot.com.ar)

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Ask HN: Help me price my product. What's the most you would pay for this? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stitcher (podcast app) does not encrypt user passwords (peg.gd)

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Bitmesssage introduction (www.youtube.com)

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Sources spill details of Ive's Apple overhaul (www.stuff.co.nz)

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MIDI Sequencer [design and build for college course] (instruct1.cit.cornell.edu)

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OpenSAP (https://open.sap.com)

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Connecting AWS Data Pipeline with Redshift (blog.trenthauck.com)

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Map of Pangea supercontinent with current nation borders (eatrio.net)

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Creating printable 3D models with Ruby (Example included) (stefankracht.de)

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Mercedes-Benz adds QR codes to save car crash victims (bbc.co.uk)

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How I very nearly bankrupted Red Robin, just by using the bathroom. (news.ycombinator.com)

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CitiBike launch: Bikeshare will be great for New York. (www.slate.com)

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Watch this homemade ‘lightsaber’ quickly burn through everything (thenextweb.com)

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ASIO building blueprints stolen by Chinese hackers (www.abc.net.au)

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Dear WordPress Happy birthday, but fuck you. (unserkaiser.com)

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Teenagers' mistakes will stay with them forever, warns Google chief Eric Schmidt (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Popular Weekend Programming Languages (smahesh.com)

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Automated your development environment (simoniong.info)

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Why Developing for Firefox is Torturous (log.nadim.cc)

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Comparing various negotiating styles: Jewish, Japanese and American (2010) (donbeihutalk.blogspot.com.ar)

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Beating conference stage fright (medium.com)

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In a First, Regulators Want Urine Analysis App uChek to Get FDA Approval (www.nextbigwhat.com)

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Build the platform for modern K-12 education – Clever (S12) (news.ycombinator.com)

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