hackerNews

6

Edward Snowden Live Q&A (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Repository Next (github.com)

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How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (www.yosefk.com)

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Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (aaronwinborn.com)

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Buying the new MacBook Air (virtualpants.com)

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I Know What You Think of Me (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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2

Bootable Minecraft clone written in x86 Assembly (github.com)

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European roaming charges will end in 2014 (www.wired.co.uk)

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Journalists Need To Start Asking About Storage, Not Access (uncrunched.com)

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4

Want to File a Motion in the FISA Court? First You Have to Find Them (www.mynsarecords.com)

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4

Cryptography is a science, not engineering (www.daemonology.net)

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4

Skrollr - parallax scrolling for the masses (prinzhorn.github.io)

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1

Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists (www.marco.org)

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If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAP (www.kalzumeus.com)

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Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests (techcrunch.com)

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9

Digg Reader Update (blog.digg.com)

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10

Airbnb vs. Hotels: A Price Comparison (priceonomics.com)

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14

Shakespeare.txt.jpg: A JPEG compression experiment (www.tomscott.com)

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2

The World of Black-Ops Reputation Management (nymag.com)

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Priced out of Paris (www.ft.com)

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7

Snowden: NSA snoops on U.S. phone calls without warrants (news.cnet.com)

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Brazil protests spread in Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio (www.bbc.co.uk)

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9

Edward Snowden, Ars, the NSA, and me: digging through the past (www.penny-arcade.com)

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6

LLVM 3.3 Released (llvm.org)

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Effective Technical Leadership (medium.com)

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A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry (www.technologyreview.com)

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We're Too Cheap to Fly Faster (medium.com)

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5

Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness (ieet.org)

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Obama: If you are a US citizen the NSA can’t listen to your calls (thenextweb.com)

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8

Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over (mintchaos.github.io)

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9

Python Headless Web Browser Scraping on Amazon Linux (fruchterco.com)

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11

Vegas Tech, We Need To Talk (www.evernote.com)

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19

Real World OCaml (www.realworldocaml.org)

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18

Forget PRISM, the recent NSA leaks are plain: Digital privacy doesn’t exist (thenextweb.com)

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49

Jonathan Mayer Threatens To End “Do Not Track” Talks (www.businessinsider.com)

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16

Show HN: Stripe for Printing (www.infraprint.com)

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16

Tesla Clashes With Car Dealers (online.wsj.com)

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Deep Learning With Commodity Off-The-Shelf High Performance Computing [pdf] (stanford.edu)

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Body scanner ruling could squelch NSA domestic spying (news.cnet.com)

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27

Ask HN: Favorite mailing lists, IRC channels (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Binary, a cloud development environment on the iPad (http://www.thebinaryapp.com)

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14

Django-registration 1.0 is out (pypi.python.org)

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27

Avoid Null Checks by Replacing Finders with Tellers (michaelfeathers.typepad.com)

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28

Do You Have A Right to Remain Silent? Thoughts on Salinas v. Texas (www.volokh.com)

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Supreme Court: Pre-Miranda silence can be used as evidence of guilt (seattletimes.com)

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27

New Particle Hints at Four-Quark Matter (physics.aps.org)

52 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061900 13 comments

35

With Prism Cooperation, Tech Giants Look Weak (mobile.businessweek.com)

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Cracking iOS personal hotspots using a Scrabble crossword game word list (www1.cs.fau.de)

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‘Location tracking’ of every Indian mobile user by 2014 (www.firstpost.com)

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9

Show HN: A weekly assemblage of startup founders in Palo Alto (http://whynotcombinator.com)

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Realistic camera model demo (delight-engine.com)

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'NSA should come clean about domestic spying': NYC Police Commissioner (www.nypost.com)

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1 Billion-Year-Old Water Tastes 'Terrible' (www.theatlantic.com)

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The history of NSA spying, from telegrams to email (www.dailydot.com)

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LinkedIn profiles of people working on #PRISM or affiliated programs (gist.github.com)

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How To CryptoParty (cryptoparty.informatick.net)

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13

DreamWorks and Netflix in Deal for New TV Programs (www.nytimes.com)

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What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue... (news.ycombinator.com)

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Blink's Rendering Pipeline (docs.google.com)

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39

Fibonacci series and Dynamic programming (functionspace.org)

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NASA Selects 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class (www.nasa.gov)

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These Guys Want to Hack Your Home And You Should Let Them (www.wired.com)

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85

Hey Hadopi, You’re Breaking The Law. (torrentfreak.com)

28 points first seen 2013061803 last seen 2013061806 9 comments

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OpenAirplane: Find airplanes near you (www.openairplane.com)

28 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061900 14 comments

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Snowden: Feds can't cover up leaks by 'murdering me' (news.cnet.com)

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Declarative Computation, Syntactic Sugar, and the Abstract Machine (michaelrbernste.in)

25 points first seen 2013061803 last seen 2013061815 6 comments

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The Commoditization Of SaaS (profitbaron.tumblr.com)

24 points first seen 2013061809 last seen 2013061900 15 comments

29

Google Glass Lifestream (www.stephenbalaban.com)

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12

Are modern games easier or simply designed better? (venturebeat.com)

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39

PRISM: Capturing the unencrypted network traffic of Google et al. (joshcuppett.com)

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87

Duolingo Helps Student to Propose to His American Girlfriend (blog.duolingo.com)

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UK to award £1 million for world's biggest problem solution (bbc.co.uk)

18 points first seen 2013061800 last seen 2013061800 35 comments

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Another reason you should be doing TDD (mat-mcloughlin.github.io)

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38

Backlift's Tunnel API: connect to 3rd party APIs without JSONP (blog.backlift.com)

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29

Universities that train U.S. teachers get mediocre marks in ratings (www.washingtonpost.com)

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82

Tmate - Instant terminal sharing (tmate.io)

16 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061809 12 comments

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Binary ANSI Art in the Terminal (jasonchen.me)

16 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061806 4 comments

65

Zombie-proof tent (www.tentsile.com)

15 points first seen 2013061800 last seen 2013061803 12 comments

87

Show HN: APIxChange A marketplace for custom API integration. (http://apixchange.com)

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68

Ask HN: Non-US citizen. Why should I care about NSA/PRISM? (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

Dictionary of Numbers | xkcd (blog.xkcd.com)

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America's Leading Metros for Venture Capital (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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36

Snowden denies allegations of spying for China (www.nytimes.com)

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Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20 (techcrunch.com)

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Ruby 2.0.0 Now Default on All New Ruby Applications (blog.heroku.com)

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Texas becomes first state to require warrant for e-mail snooping (arstechnica.com)

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0

Bitcoin ≈ MySpace (5nf5.blogspot.com)

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69

Obama's Soft Totalitarianism (www.spiegel.de)

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77

Billionaire Seeks $186 Million Tax Refund, Claims IRS Bias (www.forbes.com)

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UK government issues notice to BBC to limit publication of surveillance tactics (www.guardian.co.uk)

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64

Why Men Die Younger Than Women: The 'Guys Are Fragile' Thesis (www.npr.org)

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88

Ask HN: Any downsides of programming in Haskell? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013061803 last seen 2013061806 9 comments

77

Ask HN: How would the world be 20 years from now with absolute free market? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Samsung starts mass producing PCIe SSDs with 1400MB/s read speeds (www.geek.com)

9 points first seen 2013061815 last seen 2013061900 3 comments

0

66% Believe Obama Administration 'Right' to Analyze and Collect Internet Data (www.weeklystandard.com)

8 points first seen 2013061800 last seen 2013061800 7 comments

0

An Experiment (fullstack360.wordpress.com)

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73

Cheating Ourselves of Sleep (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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76

Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents (2011) (boingboing.net)

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Virtual gaming headset Oculus Rift raises $16 million from Spark Capital (pandodaily.com)

8 points first seen 2013061809 last seen 2013061815 0 comments

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Manhattan's Secret Payphone Graveyard (gothamist.com)

8 points first seen 2013061809 last seen 2013061809 5 comments

0

Building Know Your Company (37signals.com)

8 points first seen 2013061809 last seen 2013061809 0 comments

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Massive number of Yahoo email accounts compromised (news.ycombinator.com)

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81

FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 Website Hacked (copaemcuiaba.com.br)

8 points first seen 2013061815 last seen 2013061818 0 comments

59

Norway Cloud Service Touts NSA-Free Storage As Alternative To Dropbox And Others (techcrunch.com)

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“Truth Is Coming, And It Cannot Be Stopped”: The Best Of Edward Snowden’s Q&A (techcrunch.com)

8 points first seen 2013061818 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

0

How Wealth Reduces Compassion (www.scientificamerican.com)

7 points first seen 2013061800 last seen 2013061800 0 comments

74

How to 'backdoor' an encryption app (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

7 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061812 0 comments

75

Our Experience With Mozilla’s WebFWD (mobozi.tumblr.com)

7 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061809 2 comments

0

Co-Ed Supply Ships You a Box of College Essentials for $20 a Month [video] (rockthepost.com)

7 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061806 4 comments

66

Z-order curve (en.wikipedia.org)

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71

Father of Edward Snowden urges son not to commit 'treason,' to return home (www.foxnews.com)

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77

How Dozens of Companies Know You're Reading About Those NSA Leaks (www.eff.org)

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82

Tell HN: The CSS that Makes Medium.com Load Really Slowly (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013061815 last seen 2013061818 8 comments

0

The West Wing on privacy (1999) (www.youtube.com)

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61

AngularJS: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Directive (amitgharat.wordpress.com)

7 points first seen 2013061821 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

89

Typographer Erik Spiekermann on iOS 7 [German] (www.youtube.com)

7 points first seen 2013061821 last seen 2013061900 5 comments

0

State photo-ID databases become troves for police (www.washingtonpost.com)

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0

Ask HN: How do I get into programming? (news.ycombinator.com)

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84

Privacy Statement: We Are Transparent (silentcircle.com)

6 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061809 0 comments

0

JQuery Promises: The answer to PostMessage's asynchrony (engineering.wingify.com)

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65

Apartable pulls back curtain on landlords' management histories (inman.com)

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71

How Do You Make a Building Disappear? (www.nytimes.com)

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83

Arduino-Controlled Lego Maglev Vehicle (www.theonerobot.com)

6 points first seen 2013061809 last seen 2013061812 0 comments

65

Microsoft Improves Windows Phone Voice Recognition: 2X Faster, 15% More Accurate (techcrunch.com)

6 points first seen 2013061812 last seen 2013061815 0 comments

82

A closed letter to myself about thievery, heckling, and rape jokes (www.pattonoswalt.com)

6 points first seen 2013061812 last seen 2013061815 2 comments

73

More Data on Privacy, but Picture Is Still Fuzzy (www.nytimes.com)

6 points first seen 2013061818 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

65

House Intelligence Committee Hearing 10 a.m. Tuesday: NSA Director Alexander (intelligence.house.gov)

6 points first seen 2013061818 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

65

Bitcoin transactions taxable, says GAO (thehill.com)

6 points first seen 2013061821 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

85

World Cup website hacked to show the world what's happening in Brazil right now. (http://copaemcuiaba.com.br)

6 points first seen 2013061821 last seen 2013061903 0 comments

33

AngularJS vs Ember (eviltrout.com)

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76

How I first got into Ada. (www.niestu.com)

5 points first seen 2013061803 last seen 2013061806 0 comments

0

Can we please have "certified/guaranteed not in U.S. jurisdiction"? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013061803 last seen 2013061803 5 comments

0

Skinny Controllers: Taking Advantage of Futures in Angular JS (imownbey.github.io)

5 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061806 0 comments

0

New MailChimp Is Here (blog.mailchimp.com)

5 points first seen 2013061806 last seen 2013061806 0 comments

0

America is overrated (www.globalpost.com)

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56

Czech PM Petr Necas resigns over aide scandal (www.bbc.co.uk)

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70

Intel XDK (xdk-software.intel.com)

5 points first seen 2013061809 last seen 2013061812 7 comments

0

Poll: Snowden should be prosecuted for NSA leaks (www.usatoday.com)

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0

Why you should quit your job and travel now (medium.com)

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64

Obama on NSA programs: Americans "not getting the complete story" [video] (www.cbsnews.com)

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65

It Is Our Time (prometheusx.net)

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70

Integrating Sublime Text 2 and Unity (www.holoville.com)

5 points first seen 2013061818 last seen 2013061900 0 comments

0

Help me collect the best A/B testing tools (news.ycombinator.com)

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74

Goodbye Google Reader (www.mondaynote.com)

4 points first seen 2013061800 last seen 2013061803 5 comments

0

DConf 2013: LDC (the LLVM-based D compiler) by David Nadlinger (youtube.com)

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0

Ask HN: lawyer needed for unpaid invoice (NYC) (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

Using Wikipedia page view counts to predict market movements. (www.quantopian.com)

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0

Gabe Newell on Game Development and Perceptual Computing (software.intel.com)

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0

Youtube TV Friendly Interface (www.youtube.com)

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0

Ask HN: Javascript or CoffeeScript for a newbie? (news.ycombinator.com)

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86

The JVM Situation and Scala (groups.google.com)

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86

Real Entrepreneurs don't take money from the Government. (www.shoestring.com.au)

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78

Primes (modular.math.washington.edu)

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0

Show HN: Sketch interactive Wireframes with pentotype (www.pentotype.com)

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0

How to Not Feel Like an IT Geek When You’re Giving a Presentation (www.mendix.com)

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0

Edward Tufte essays and book available electronically (PDFs for $2) (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

Ask HN: How do you come up with ideas when your to-do list is empty? (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

Samsung: "Apple couldn't have sold a single iPhone without us" (www.uswitch.com)

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0

UK hacked allies at G20 (news.ycombinator.com)

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83

Building a DSLR Simulator with Canvas (writing.ludwignz.com)

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0

Apple says it can’t read your iMessages. What about everything else? (qz.com)

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0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 software stack still under wraps (www.zdnet.com)