hackerNews

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Ubuntu's Bug #1 is fixed (bugs.launchpad.net)

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Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days (unsplash.com)

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Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons (www.motherjones.com)

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Letter from Loretto - A Prison Letter from a CIA Whistleblower (openwatch.net)

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How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90% (www.jitbit.com)

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We Think We Know What Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is (www.businessinsider.com)

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Good Old Games: GOG.com And The DRM-Free Revolution (www.forbes.com)

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The secret button at pedestrian crossings (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Camino browser reaches its end (caminobrowser.org)

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The Central Limit Theorem Visualized with D3 (blog.vctr.me)

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First-ever images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds (phys.org)

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Google’s Go has some coders raving (arstechnica.com)

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3D Printer for less than $400 (www.kickstarter.com)

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Pin Payments is Australia’s first all-in-one online payment API (pin.net.au)

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Why DIY fecal transplants are a thing (and the FDA is only part of the reason) (blogs.plos.org)

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Tesla to triple supercharger network by the end of June (www.teslamotors.com)

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I'm bored. Let's build an entire programming environment around Brainfuck. (malone.cc)

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The making of Medium.com (www.teehanlax.com)

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Everyone Does Everything: How To Work on Teams of Generalists (medium.com)

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Why high fructose corn syrup replaced sugar in US (shkrobius.livejournal.com)

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Are HN comments broken for everyone? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google: 7 days advance notice is enough for actively exploited vulnerability (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com.br)

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User-triggerable NULL pointer dereference due to utter plebbery (jira.mongodb.org)

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New Kuler website and app (kuler.adobe.com)

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SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type (blog.hyfather.com)

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Double Fine launched a new game on Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com)

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Straczynski reveals moving story: why Michael O'Hare (Sinclair) left Babylon 5 (www.blastr.com)

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Machine Learning as a Service (about.wise.io)

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Show HN: The Choice | An online programming puzzle RPG (thechoice.amos.me)

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BitCoin is a public ledger (erratasec.blogspot.com)

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Why so many people are moving to Texas (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Running Lua in a browser via Emscripten (mozakai.blogspot.com)

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A Collection of PostgreSQL Indexing Tips (www.craigkerstiens.com)

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Landsat 8 Data Now Available (landsat.usgs.gov)

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The trick Max Levchin used to hire the best engineers at PayPal (firstround.com)

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Google Finds NUMA Up to 20% Slower for Gmail and Websearch (highscalability.com)

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Microsoft U-turn sees Start button back on Windows 8 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Who killed the futurist in you? School or you? (medium.com)

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New Rackspace Developer Center (developer.rackspace.com)

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DMD 2.063 released with 260 bugfixes and enhancements (forum.dlang.org)

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Mac OS Screenshot does not Allow DVD Player to Appear in Captured Region (jacobirw.wordpress.com)

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Continuing the Windows 8 vision with Windows 8.1 (blogs.windows.com)

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Show HN: Blow Google away with your Node.js personal cloud (cozy.io)

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The Linux kernel trumps the moonshot by a few orders of magnitude (discursive.com)

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Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says (phys.org)

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Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet (www.wired.com)

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The Silent Killers Of Startup Growth In India (lightspeedindia.wordpress.com)

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Wait, What? (github.com)

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Heroku Platform API, Now Available in Public Beta (blog.heroku.com)

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Another Silly Startup Analogy (diegobasch.com)

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If carpenters were hired like programmers (dawood.in)

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Watchman: Faster builds with large source trees (www.facebook.com)

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Not So Anonymous: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Tightens Identity Requirement (www.forbes.com)

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Dropbox is Down (news.ycombinator.com)

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What You Need To Know About The New Git 1.8.3 (blogs.atlassian.com)

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Introducing Battle Hack (battlehack.org)

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Falsehoods programmers believe about geography (wiesmann.codiferes.net)

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Javascript Framework Popularity graphed by Github Archive (caliper.io)

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Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt (www.bloomberg.com)

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Experience Rot (www.uie.com)

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Poll: How do you protect your privacy? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Georgify: Make Hacker News More Readable (tuhinkumar.com)

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Deliberate Programming (medium.com)

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U.S. urges states not to allow general use of self-driving cars (www.detroitnews.com)

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560 millions of people can't see your success button (julesinthemiddle.tumblr.com)

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Bill Gates at India(Day 1):QA with Prannoy Roy and Aamir Khan (www.thegatesnotes.com)

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HackerPit: challenge your inner hacker (hackerpit.com)

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Hands-on AngularJS with Backlift part 2: Wiring up a back-end API (blog.backlift.com)

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Climate Slowdown Means Extreme Rates of Warming 'Not as Likely' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Climate Slowdown Means Extreme Rates of Warming 'Not as Likely' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Suggestion: a monthly "Want to be a beta user? Looking for beta users?" thread (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Sleep Debt Calculator (sleepdebtcalc.com)

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I love Firefox OS: System wide orientation lock in 45LOC. Eat that WinPhone (github.com)

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Skout: a devastating privacy vulnerability (corte.si)

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Double Robotics has started shipping its iPad-equipped telepresence robots (venturebeat.com)

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Comparison of CSS preprocessors (www.slant.co)

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An experiment. (blog.wereview.io)

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Ask HN: Do you have side projects you want to sell? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Startup Transparency (Founder Salary) - An Interview with Buffer Founder (99u.com)

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Jack Vance, in memoriam: 1916 - 2013 (www.jackvance.com)

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App.net(Paid) vs Twitter(Free) and our motivation for Pixter (blog.metarain.com)

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

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Why can’t Microsoft get their products right on the first try? (owened.co.nz)

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GitTogether: Video Chat for GitHub (powered by WebRTC) (blog.vline.com)

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Hardware Summer Camp - Attendee Application (docs.google.com)

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Apportable SDK: Free Android support for cocos2d-iphone (www.cocos2d-iphone.org)

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Centralized Oauth (oauth.io)

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Obama Foreshadows New Internet Surveillance Proposal During Speech (www.eff.org)

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Search Your Entire IIS/ASP.NET Stack (blog.leansentry.com)

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Crashlytics for Android released (www.crashlytics.com)

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak speaks out on tax (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How secure is my password (howsecureismypassword.net)

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Entrepreneurial Seductions and Distractions (blog.eladgil.com)

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Khan Academy: Machine Learning → Measurable Learning (derandomized.com)

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How Adzerk Made It Big (techcrunch.com)

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Imprisoned CIA Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Pens “Letter from Loretto” (dissenter.firedoglake.com)

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The Economics of Yoga (smartasset.com)

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It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Consumers (founderdating.com)

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Circuits.io releases Pro plans, generates 3D printable cases for all boards (blog.circuits.io)

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Book that explains how Bitcoin works (Draft) (rampantlogic.com)

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CNET founder (sold for $1.8 billion five years ago) filed for bankruptcy (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: I was the victim of a targeted cybercrime and found the perpetrator (news.ycombinator.com)

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Thank you, HN (h-s.io)

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Steve Wozniak: "For a corporation, there's no such thing as personal ethics." (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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The Little Guide to HTML Email (rodriguezcommaj.com)

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Former Mexican president pushes for pot legalization (www.cnn.com)

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Alex Osterwalder and friends launch business model canvas game dev bootcamp (startupjuncture.com)

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Eric Schmidt investing seed money into former Obama campaign staff's ventures (www.businessweek.com)

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Google adds nutrition info for over 1,000 foods to search results (www.theverge.com)

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A Brief History of Humankind (www.coursera.org)

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Is it okay for me to initially charge low rates on an Elance? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Affordable Care Act provisions spark a tech and app gold rush (www.marketwatch.com)

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A short Guide on efficient use of Google Scholar (www.tenoke.com)

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HN comments down for anyone else? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Brain Food Dump - Sites I read that helped me transform myself (nojonedge.com)

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D3 Advanced Brush Styling (engineering.emcien.com)

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How a Career Con Man Led a Federal Sting That Cost Google $500 Million (www.wired.com)

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Tests Are Your Best Friends: Do Not Neglect Them (victorarias.com.br)

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HTC One Google Edition announced, launching June 26th for $599 (www.theverge.com)

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How Windows 8 Surprised Me (www.technologytell.com)

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How I became a Meddler (hackertourism.com)

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Mutator: Really Mute Your iPhone (www.kickstarter.com)

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Things you will always find in my bag (akhil.me)

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A first look at Microsoft's answer to Google Glass (humor) (i.imgur.com)

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The Gender Gap Is Smaller Than Realized (www.businessinsider.com)

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Announcing the Binc data interchange format (blog.ugorji.net)

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Ask HN: Did you throw away all of your college textbooks and regret it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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McDonalds Creates Highest Calorie Menu Item Ever. (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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In praise of celestial mechanics (www.economist.com)

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Computer Scientists Urge Court to Block Copyright Claims in Oracle v Google (www.eff.org)

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Are You a Data Scientist? (www.perceptualedge.com)

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Sunny uplands: Alternative energy will no longer be alternative (www.economist.com)

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Singapore’s Pirate3D raises USD 100k in 10 minutes for 3D printer (sgentrepreneurs.com)

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How Google-Plus can kill your traffic by 90% (www.jitbit.com)

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Rails 2 Long Term Support (railslts.com)

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Harnessing human computation (www.economist.com)

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Github Archives 18 Event Types Examined (datasyndrome.com)

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Elon Musk hinting at June 20 for news on Hyperloop (www.theverge.com)

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Giant fluorescent pink slugs found in Australia (www.smh.com.au)

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Things Startups Can Learn From Reading ‘One Piece’ Manga (www.techinasia.com)

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Parse now supports stronger typing on Android (blog.parse.com)

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Tips for space travel (imgur.com)

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From Receptionist to CEO - Movin on up (finance.yahoo.com)

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Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars (alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com)

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Google starts showing nutritional information for 1000+ products (insidesearch.blogspot.com)

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It ships when it ships (medium.com)

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Codequizzes (www.codequizzes.com)

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Sweden school is free but students still have a ton of debt (qz.com)

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JSON Generator (www.json-generator.com)

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Email Receipts (stripe.com)

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iOS Engineer? Join us and take on the Telecom giants (news.ycombinator.com)

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Crowdtilt seeks summer intern to hack on our open-source tool, Crowdhoster.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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Come help us hack the Auto Industry - full stack engineer at CarWoo (YC S09) (news.ycombinator.com)

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