hackerNews

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Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans (www.eff.org)

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Are coders worth it? (www.aeonmagazine.com)

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Seriously.js (seriouslyjs.org)

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U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls (www.nytimes.com)

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An inadvertent "child pornographer" (abarristerswife.wordpress.com)

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Send payouts with Stripe (stripe.com)

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NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Stephen Fry reveals he attempted suicide in 2012 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader (https://yoleoreader.com)

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Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)

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Tatsuo Horiuchi, the 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist (www.spoon-tamago.com)

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Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor (news.ycombinator.com)

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Welcome to Echelon 2.0 (erratasec.blogspot.com)

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Ask HN: Alternatives to HN (news.ycombinator.com)

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Evidence of Turkish police brutality (pictures) (roarmag.org)

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Breeze is closing on August 1 (basecamp.com)

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Toxic workplace, what do I do? (pastebin.com)

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Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception (www.itweakios.com)

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Facebook is just fine (medium.com)

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Fitbit for Dogs (www.whistle.com)

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History of Lisp (www-formal.stanford.edu)

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Machine Learning Cheat Sheet (for scikit-learn) (peekaboo-vision.blogspot.ca)

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Police admit they're 'stumped' by mystery car thefts (www.today.com)

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Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other (www.businessinsider.com)

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Time is money: How Clash of Clans earns $500,000 a day with in-app purchases (gyrovague.com)

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Interview with Stephen Lake, Co-Founder of Thalmic Labs (YC W13) (www.shoplocket.com)

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A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators (jlongster.com)

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Internet Surveillance and Free Speech: the United Nations Makes the Connection (www.eff.org)

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JavaScript in your Postgres (postgres.heroku.com)

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If Only 3D Animation Were This Easy [video] (kotaku.com)

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Show HN: Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format (github.com)

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How to handle Hacker News feedback on your beloved app (hrishimittal.com)

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Show HN: A high performance airplane for the price of a luxury car (news.ycombinator.com)

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Heap for iOS: the capture-everything approach to mobile analytics (blog.heapanalytics.com)

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PyPy's Software Transactional Memory subsystem re-written in C (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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Party Rounds (blog.samaltman.com)

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Show HN: Too busy for online dating? Try Wednesday Night (www.wednesdaynight.me)

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Branding: Google Visual Assets Guidelines (abduzeedo.com)

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A conversation with the Go team (blog.golang.org)

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Google Reader API replacement, powered by Riak (blog.superfeedr.com)

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Registrations Open for Pycon India 2013 (in.pycon.org)

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Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf] (isotropic.org)

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TokuMX - MongoDB with Fractal Indexes (80x faster) (www.tokutek.com)

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Why did we build React? (facebook.github.io)

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Geo for Bootstrap - bootstrap theme (divshot.github.io)

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Show HN: WhatsNew - Show your users new features since their last visit (whatsnew.io)

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Roots | Better CSS (roots.cx)

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Show HN: Popline An HTML5 WYSIWYG Toolbar (kenshin54.github.io)

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College grad hacks ICSE, ISC results, shows up India’s cyber flaws (www.firstpost.com)

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Google Reader alternatives (getgini.com)

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REST Client for Google Chrome (chrome.google.com)

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All major UK ISPs prepping network-level porn 'n' violence filters (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Show HN: Lookback - user experience collecting for iOS (http://lookback.io)

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Thalmic Labs (YCW13) Raises $14.5M (techcrunch.com)

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The state of some travel startups and why some are missing the pain point (www.tnooz.com)

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The 800 Pound Gorilla Amazon Tried to Kill is Google's Trojan Horse (blog.jasonshah.org)

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Wikipedia’s Emergency (www.markbernstein.org)

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Miniature Quadruped Robot Is Blazingly Fast (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts (www.livescience.com)

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Why Chris Hughes And Google Are Giving Cash Directly To The Poorest (www.forbes.com)

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Crunching subway data – a New Yorker’s busiest stations (blogging.alastair.is)

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Show HN: HNBlocker – Chrome extension that lets you block other HN users (chrome.google.com)

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MYO - Gesture control armband (www.thalmic.com)

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Trust upholds complaint about BBC homepage clock (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Yumcoin - Share and sell your digital creations for Bitcoin (https://yumcoin.com)

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Thalmic Labs gets $14.5 million (gigaom.com)

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Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Big Data Is Booming but Big Results Are Lacking (allthingsd.com)

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CIA Releases Analyst's Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture (www.wired.com)

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YaST is being rewritten in Ruby; Geeko gets a nosejob (opensuseadventures.blogspot.com)

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Why aren't more companies like Amazon? (medium.com)

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Amazon's full size PDF reader, the Kindle DX, is back (www.amazon.com)

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GinzaMetrics Gets Major Update, LaunchRock Co-Founder Sean McCullough In As CTO (techcrunch.com)

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Largest Canadian kickstarter to teach music through MMORPG (www.kickstarter.com)

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Building a Hacker News clone in Django - Part 2 (arunrocks.com)

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Ask HN: what projects are you working on? (news.ycombinator.com)

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FreedomPop Announces Completely Free Smartphone Service (techcrunch.com)

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FreedomPop spams my contacts for 8 months and won't stop (pushingproduct.co)

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Visualizing Hash Functions (gfredericks.com)

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Skip the Post Office, Use Shyp (blog.geteasypost.com)

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Integrating Stripe Payouts into Exec (iamexec.com)

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A fantasy league for League of Legends (www.draftdemacia.com)

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DeveloperAuction Expanding to Designers, Offering Free Intern Placement (techcrunch.com)

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Send payouts with Stripe (stripe.com)

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Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches (washington.cbslocal.com)

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How tiny commuting app Transit is beating Google Maps (venturebeat.com)

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How to Find the Right Designer (www.trevormckendrick.com)

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I'm still alive after my startup failed. This is how I felt (pastebin.com)

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Cooking up an Office Dashboard Pi (gocardless.com)

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Ask HN: Appetite for DevOps Screencasts? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A $5 app isn't expensive: Customers need to help fix the App Store economy (www.macworld.com)

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Year 1 of the Revolution: Complete Novice to Skilled Developer (chriszf.posthaven.com)

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Didn't Get the Job? You'll Never Know Why (online.wsj.com)

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Zhang's Prime Result Being Improved Everyday (michaelnielsen.org)

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Show HN: Quickly Start Your Morning with Top of the Morning iPhone App (http://gettopofthemorning.com)

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Ask HN: Best progressive way to learn web development (news.ycombinator.com)

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CIA Releases Analyst's Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture (www.wired.com)

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A Query to Compare Size and Growth Trends for StackOverflow Tags (data.stackexchange.com)

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Ask HN: How much do you make from Adsense? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Wisee uses wi-fi signals to recognise body gestures (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Why should you ship fast? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Turkey PM: Social Media Is “Worst Menace To Society”, 25 Twitter Users Arrested (techcrunch.com)

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Gazel - A high performance key/value store for the browser modeled after Redis (gazeljs.org)

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Stock Google Keyboard now available on Google Play (play.google.com)

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Intel’s Thunderbolt 2 Doubles Bandwidth, Enabling 4K Video Transfer & Display (blogs.intel.com)

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Is AngularJS a hoax? (www.reddit.com)

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Show HN: Measure what people are saying about your website (www.referrerly.com)

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Show HN: BuzzKill automatically removes all Buzz Feed content from Facebook (github.com)

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Code Fellows: Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Review (www.billyshih.com)

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Ask HN: Is there a mobile version of HN, or an app? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Markov.sql: Higher Order Markov Chains (ef.gy)

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Chromebooks soon to get NFC support (chromespot.com)

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Why don't software communities serve as job hubs? (blog.fiveyearitch.com)

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Would you sell your startup for 5x its valuation to Google so they can kill it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Heroku targets MongoDB with new Postgres V8 feature (gigaom.com)

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Ask HN: What money management tool do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Certificate Authority change at HN from Comodo to Entrust. No warning? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why short stories can be nice (blooki.st)

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Ask HN: Would you pay for someone to answer your StackOverflow question? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Vim Icon Replacement (dribbble.com)

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Japanese 311mph mag-lev train tested successfully (www.independent.co.uk)

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How Expedia Lost Me As A Customer Forever over $1.92 (insamshead.tumblr.com)

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Wifi in the Sky (opensignal.com)

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Why patent trolls will laugh at US gov’s weak attempts to fight them (qz.com)

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Search is Not a Solved Problem (www.hilarymason.com)

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Is Barefoot-Style Running Best? New Studies Cast Doubt (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Amazon’s cloud is how big again? (gigaom.com)

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Ask HN: Want to grab coffee in NY? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Zone2, the time tracker for Mac (rinik.net)

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Mix & Match Stripe/PayPal, Dropbox/S3, Gmail/Mailgun to Sell Files (zapier.com)

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Apple registers iWatch trademark in Russia (venturebeat.com)

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Google To Keep CalDAV API Public, Releases CardDAV API (thenextweb.com)

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Boxer launches with Dropbox integration before Mailbox (readwrite.com)

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The key to scale: letting go of customers and partners (firstround.com)

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Data for Nothing, Calls for Free: How FreedomPop Will Offer Free Phone Service (www.forbes.com)

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A Google Engineer Is Teaching Hackers How To Break Microsoft's Software (www.businessinsider.com)

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Apple loses US trade panel ruling in Samsung dispute (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: My first iOS app - a super effective alarm clock (http://spinmealarm.com)

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How to determine if a number is divisible by 7 (www.quora.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone need a designer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to ask Tim Cook questions (thenextweb.com)

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The product design sprint: a five-day recipe for startups (2012) (www.designstaff.org)

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Further Evidence That IQ Does Not Measure Intelligence (io9.com)

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Entrepreneurship can help solve veteran suicide problem (anthonypompliano.com)

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AntiTaintDroid - Stealing private information on Android for Fun and Profit (gsbabil.github.io)

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UPDATE considered harmful (www.chrisdew.com)

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All DjangoCon Europe 2013 Talks are online (www.youtube.com)

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Show HN: Blog using Github Gists (sankha93.github.io)

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Ask HN: What have you chosen as your Google Reader replacement? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A tiny version of Linux for education (thetechblock.com)