hackerNews

1

Pixar moves to raytracing (thisanimatedlife.blogspot.com)

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Topcoat – CSS for clean and fast web apps (topcoat.io)

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Show HN: Learn English with movies & TV Shows (http://fleex.tv)

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The Unexotic Underclass (miter.mit.edu)

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Secure Boot isn't the only problem facing Linux on Windows 8 hardware (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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Introducing GitHub Sudo Mode (github.com)

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Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules (purecss.io)

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Reversal: Australian Govt picks ODF doc standard over Microsoft (delimiter.com.au)

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Our SQL interview questions (www.jitbit.com)

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FB Engineer's perspective on his job (www.facebook.com)

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A Terrifying, Fascinating Timelapse of 30 Years of Human Impact on Earth (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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Plain English explanation of Big O (stackoverflow.com)

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Humble Indie Bundle 8 (https://www.humblebundle.com)

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Principles of Flat Design (designmodo.com)

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An Ill-Advised Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable" (worrydream.com)

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Non-blocking transactional atomicity (www.bailis.org)

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How to Get a Job (HireArt YC W12) (www.nytimes.com)

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A CP Solution for XKCD NP Complete Restaurant Order (www.roryhart.net)

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Ember.js 1.0 RC4 released (emberjs.com)

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Your pull request won’t be accepted (paulmillr.com)

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Building a Hacker News clone in Django - Part 1 (Screencast) (arunrocks.com)

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U.S. Alleges $6 Billion Money-Laundering Operation Using Virtual Currency (online.wsj.com)

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Bill Tutte - the lesser known WWII code breaker (billtuttememorialfund.wordpress.com)

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5th Amendment Teacher disciplined by school board (www.dailyherald.com)

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Singapore to regulate high traffic websites that report on Singapore (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: It's hard to make friends offline, so we built a solution (www.letsbeamigos.com)

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Using HTML5 prerendering to speed up a multi-page registration process (www.holovaty.com)

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Is Data Science Your Next Career? (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches) (www.boston.com)

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Show HN: Subtask - Organize projects the way your mind works (https://www.subtask.com)

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Unprecedented e-mail privacy bill sent to Texas governor’s desk (arstechnica.com)

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Younger Than The Xbox 360 (www.marco.org)

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The Year of Dressing Formally (chronicle.com)

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Show HN: Distraction Free Reader/Writer (inkpen.in)

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List of Free science books (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

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MongoDB's New Query Matcher (blog.mongodb.org)

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How Patents Are Ruining the Adoption of HTML5 Video (blog.framebase.io)

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Bike Share Program Opens in New York City After Long Delay (www.nytimes.com)

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Why Geeks Get Bullied (It's Not Necessarily for Being Geeks) (www.theatlantic.com)

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AWS IAM Now Supports Amazon, Facebook, and Google Identity Federation (aws.typepad.com)

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How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter (And Everywhere Else) (www.eff.org)

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Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud (friendco.de)

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Django System Monitor (github.com)

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OHM2013 - a 5 day hacker/maker camp in The Netherlands (ohm2013.org)

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Ember Data 0.13 Released (emberjs.com)

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Doctor stops accepting insurance, posts prices online (bangordailynews.com)

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The fate of published peer-reviewed articles, submitted again (1982) (journals.cambridge.org)

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'Likes' are a Flawed Currency (blog.photographer.io)

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Daily Meetings Are Great but You Should Never Have Them (wellbredgrapefruit.com)

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My takeaways from "Clean Code" (medium.com)

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Liberty Reserve sealed indictment from US DOJ Southern District [pdf] (krebsonsecurity.com)

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China Builds EU Beachhead With $5 Billion City in Belarus (www.bloomberg.com)

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At This Rate, The Last New Bitcoin Will Be Issued 15-55 Years Ahead Of Schedule (www.thegenesisblock.com)

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Bruce Sterling: Secret Service rumbles into action against Bitcoin facilitators (www.wired.com)

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Laravel 4.0 Released (github.com)

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iDoneThis – Simple Team Performance Management (idonethis.com)

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Show HN: Zerobox – a small lightbox (github.com)

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A two minute tour of Airfoil: A/B tested landing pages built on Backlift (blog-colevscode.backliftapp.com)

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Show HN: Laravel 4 - This framework is revolutionizing PHP. (laravel.com)

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Attracted to Hard Problems (www.gabrielweinberg.com)

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Prove: Phone verification for developers (getprove.com)

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My product failed (www.ironconversions.com)

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PayPal denies teenager reward for finding website bug | PCWorld (www.pcworld.com)

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Security with Spring (www.baeldung.com)

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Dora, Diego, SpongeBob and Other Viacom Shows Leave Netflix (allthingsd.com)

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Show HN: I wrote an eBook on building iOS apps. First chapter is free. (http://yourfirstiosapp.com)

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Pick the right metric to incentivize the behavior you want (www.theeffectiveengineer.com)

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How to Set Up Git Completion and Repo State on OS X (neverstopbuilding.net)

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Natural Gas: Fuel for the future? (www.economist.com)

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Harvard: The Class of 2013 Senior Survey (www.thecrimson.com)

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Facebook agrees to block sexual assault 'humor' (www.nbcnews.com)

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W. T. Tutte - mathematician and code breaker (en.wikipedia.org)

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Show HN: The Hacker News Button (www.hn-button.com)

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Slickmap CSS file to map out sites during design (astuteo.com)

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Visualizing CitiBike Share Station Data (fredbenenson.com)

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Self-doubt and launch stats (nathanbarry.com)

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The Transit App now free with vehicle locations (http://thetransitapp.com)

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New York City bicycle sharing program starts today (www.nytimes.com)

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Prove's HN Easter Egg for Simple Phone Verification (getprove.com)

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Another XSS vulnerability and Paypal shows no response (seclists.org)

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Managing SSH configurations with python (emreyilmaz.me)

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Testing Google Compute Engine - Visit this URL (gce-test.cojac.me)

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Why we need real cryptography instead of passwords (blog.getclef.com)

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Best Emulators (NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, and more) (www.digitaltrends.com)

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Learn Chef, Puppet, configuration management, and automation (http://makerops.com)

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BeatDeck Launches – Free analytics for Artists (YC W13) (http://www.beatdeck.com)

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Fandalism’s Pud Launches DistroKid, An Affordable Way To Upload Music To iTunes (techcrunch.com)

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Why does 500 Startups' www point here? (www.500.co)

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Google Roll it (chrome.com)

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Mesos Meetup at BOX (www.meetup.com)

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Show HN : Animate your Ideas (explee.com)

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Tesla Motors shares rise above $110, market cap almost $13B (www.google.com)

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Can anyone explain why Ruby is so popular? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to learn to program without going on a £1,000 training course (swombat.com)

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Who took a chance on you? (startupedition.com)

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The Anti-Dropout (medium.com)

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Why practice makes perfect: How to rewire your brain for better performance (blog.bufferapp.com)

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Why does Kenya lead the world in mobile money? (www.economist.com)

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Joss Whedon Delivers 181st Commencement Address at Wesleyan University. (newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu)

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FUTON bias (en.wikipedia.org)

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Tell HN: Stitcher does not encrypt users' passwords (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: A photo sharing app that you can finally trust (pixter.in)

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Clarity.fm will be your Startup’s BFF (blendah.com)

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Walmart Announces 100,000 Jobs for Veterans Over 5 Years (corporate.walmart.com)

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The story behind Raspberry Pi, coffee & counter. Push the button (blog.netguru.co)

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Google haxor (www.google.com)

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Backlift Launches A/B Testing Service (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Leaving jQuery behind with Backbone.Native (www.inkling.com)

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Show HN: Today I launched DistroKid to help musicians upload to Spotify & iTunes (distrokid.com)

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RACER: A Chrome Experiment (www.chrome.com)

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Triggers (www.randsinrepose.com)

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Ask HN: Why is living in the bay area such a big deal? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The other side of "academic freedom" (matt-welsh.blogspot.in)

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PiJS - embedded Raspberry Pi apps, in JavaScript (meteor.com)

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When will the US realize the battlefield isn't physical anymore? (haekuh.kinja.com)

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One Question to Beat Procrastination, Whining, and Struggle (www.theatlantic.com)

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Feds shut down payment network Liberty Reserve. Is Bitcoin next? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Pricing Jason's Launch Ticker: Three Big Pricing Strategy Lessons (blog.priceintelligently.com)

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Show HN: DevPressed, a forum for mental illness in the tech community. (http://www.devpressed.com)

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Ask HN: Travelling the world while working on projects. Best way to do this? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Pragmatic Chef: Verifying Remote Files (tech.yipit.com)

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Neiman Marcus Takes Fight to ‘Intolerable’ Patent Suers (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: what are simple problems where Machine Learning can help? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Are my options worthless now? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I left a comment on his blog and he hired me (whoo.ps)

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37 Y Combinator Companies Have Valuations Of Or Sold For At Least $40M (techcrunch.com)

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Moot Forums and Commenting – v1.3 (moot.it)

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Is the Windows user ready for apt-get? (www.hanselman.com)

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How Draft Grew Paying Customers by 200% (insideintercom.io)

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The Jargon File (www.catb.org)

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Liberty Reserve Operators Accused of $8B Money Laundering (www.nytimes.com)

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Hacking Java Bytecode for Programmers (Part 3) (www.acloudtree.com)

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Stephen Watt keynote at Infiltratecon 2013 (www.infiltratecon.com)

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Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (vimeo.com)

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Ask HN: What are the biggest problems you think need fixing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah clinically dead: Report says (www.presstv.ir)

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How The Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing (2009) (www.popsci.com)

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Ask HN: What do you use when you need a "secure" VoIP/IM connection? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Export Your Bitcoins to a Paper Wallet Using Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

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Ask HN: 6 months of trying to get a job with no luck, should I go get a degree? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Author publishes his novel... on Youtube (www.youtube.com)

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Tesla Stock Breaks $100 for the First Time (mashable.com)

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How Not To Be An Entrepreneur (medium.com)

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Towards a better Haskell package (fvisser.nl)

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Whats the dark side of Silicon Valley? (www.quora.com)

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I Am Community (And So Are You) (blog.shoutt.me)

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What’s the best music to work to? (blog.earbits.com)

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Why coffee is called “joe” (qz.com)

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Collaborative Editing in Emacs using Floobits (to Vim and Sublime) (github.com)

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Ask HN: Examples of rev share + fixed pricing model side by side? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Running a startup on Haskell (Video) (newslamp.com)

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Justine Bateman (Family Ties) is a freshman at UCLA, intends to get CS degree. (lacurrents.com)

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Mobile is eating the world (www.businessinsider.com)

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Iron Man told in 60 seconds | 8-bit animations (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Remote encrypted backup recommendation? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Collapsing Futures: Easy to Use, Hard to Represent (twistedoakstudios.com)

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Entrepreneurs Help Build Start-Ups by the Batch (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Are you willing to pay for a Summly-like API? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Rate my startup: Quivee.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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Consensus decision-making in large groups destroys communities and hurts people (www.eyrie.org)

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Get journal articles free (titojankowski.com)

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How to Get People to Read Your Startup's Emails (ryanluedecke.com)

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How much research has gone into developing the Facebook ping sound? (www.quora.com)

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Inventor Of ADHD's Deathbed Confession: "ADHD Is A Fictitious Disease" (www.worldpublicunion.org)