hackerNews

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This is a web page (justinjackson.ca)

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In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal (www.nytimes.com)

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Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America (www.ellsberg.net)

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Two dozen mathematicians write a book in 6 months - on Github (math.andrej.com)

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Tesla Motors Battery Swap (www.teslamotors.com)

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The NSA can store communications of US citizens for up to 5 years, sans warrant (thenextweb.com)

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The one cost engineers and product managers don't consider (firstround.com)

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Next Generation Video: Introduction Daala (people.xiph.org)

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Tesla shows off 90-second battery swap [with video] (techcrunch.com)

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Aaron’s Law, much-needed reforms to computer crimes law, introduced in Congress (arstechnica.com)

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What happened to innovation? (blog.samaltman.com)

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Silver makes antibiotics thousands of times more effective (www.nature.com)

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What asm.js is and isn't (mozakai.blogspot.com)

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The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club (medium.com)

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Statement Regarding Temporary Hiatus on U.S. Dollar Withdrawals (mtgox.com)

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We've raised a $5.6M Series A from Union Square Ventures and Flybridge (www.firebase.com)

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More data storage? Here’s how to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD (theconversation.com)

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Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that NSA keeps your data (arstechnica.com)

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Video on Instagram (blog.instagram.com)

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FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says (www.latimes.com)

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Pirate Bay Founder Guilty of Hacking, Sentenced to Two Years in Prison (torrentfreak.com)

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An App Store Experiment (stuartkhall.com)

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Gov.uk Design Principles (www.gov.uk)

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Lawyers eye NSA data as treasure trove for evidence in murder, divorce cases (redtape.nbcnews.com)

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Project Chess: How U.S. Snoops On Your Skype (www.forbes.com)

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GitHub Got Silly Rich. Next Step: 'Make More Awesome' (www.businessweek.com)

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5 Years of Stackoverflow.com (www.stum.de)

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A Study of Assassination – CIA (1953) (www.gwu.edu)

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Whole human brain mapped in 3D: 10-trillion-byte atlas of cerebral anatomy (www.nature.com)

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Big web app? Compile it (kripken.github.io)

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Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 (2012) (andrewchen.co)

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Huge 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico (www.livescience.com)

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Tesla announces 90 sec battery swap (twitter.com)

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Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’ (venturebeat.com)

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NeDB, a pure Javascript database for Node.js and Node Webkit (github.com)

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Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Upboat, idea validation with a twist (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Responding to NSA spying with a simple consumer VPN service (news.ycombinator.com)

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SSH into your EC2 instances with ease (ozkatz.github.io)

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Autoscaling on AWS (qzaidi.github.io)

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Lua.vm.js (kripken.github.io)

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Hacker News Karma Superstars (hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com)

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Surviving public school as a blind girl in 1955 (blog.tutorspree.com)

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In Defense of Floppy Disks: The Vocabulary of the Interface (boxesandarrows.com)

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Ativ Book 9 Plus, 3200x1800, Haswell, "12 hours" battery (www.cnet.com)

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Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults (jama.jamanetwork.com)

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Apple now shows iOS usage share on App Store (developer.apple.com)

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Adobe Photoshop CC Has Apparently Been Cracked One Day After Launch (petapixel.com)

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The Obesity Era (www.aeonmagazine.com)

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PHP 5.5 released and other things PHP related (www.phpweekly.com)

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Effective companies share – Inc is built for them (blog.kippt.com)

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NSA publishes SIMON and SPECK lightweight block ciphers (eprint.iacr.org)

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A Hybrid File Storage Backend for Django (tech.onefinestay.com)

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Senator: Firm that vetted Snowden under criminal investigation (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)

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The world's most private search engine (www.ixquick.com)

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New MacBook Airs may suffer from Wi-Fi connectivity issues (arstechnica.com)

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Should we do more to incentivize open source? (jackealtman.com)

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What I Learned from Icon (vanderburg.org)

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Help zenbilling find a new name – backstabbed by $85M-in-VC-funding zendesk (calvinconaway.com)

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Jepsen: Testing the Partition Tolerance of PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB and Riak (www.infoq.com)

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Facebook Login and What We Learned from our Show HN (neiljoglekar.com)

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Bitcoin In IRS Crosshairs (www.forbes.com)

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Enabling the Web of Mobile Apps (blog.adlast.com)

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Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more (http://onboarder.co)

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Lockheed Reassigns Workers to Fix F-35 Software (www.military.com)

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Programming on Early Microcomputers: A Retrospective (blog.smartbear.com)

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How we - the Kims - use Basecamp at home (37signals.com)

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Breaking Down the Methodology Behind Word of Mouth Marketing (blog.clarity.fm)

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This is also a web page (michaelaz.github.io)

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Dear Europe, please help Bulgaria (medium.com)

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What caused the Cambrian explosion? (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)

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Admit it, Michael Hastings’ Death is Weird and Scary (ohtarzie.wordpress.com)

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How we saved over $3.5k a year for our newly launched startup (follower.io)

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Do we need a Human Data Project(HDP)? (kumar.vc)

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Show HN: SharingMeter.org - Find out how popular a link is (http://sharingmeter.org)

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NSA-Proof Your Email Without Encryption (ryaneshea.com)

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Xbox One re-overtakes PS4 on Amazon bestseller charts in UK (www.mcvuk.com)

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Self-Loathing Twitter Employee Chronicles Doom and Decadence (uptownalmanac.com)

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Video analysis of the eruption at Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano (www.empiricalzeal.com)

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Rust: A Friendly Introduction [pdf] (catamorphism.org)

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Update for Network Solutions Customers Experiencing Website Issues (www.networksolutions.com)

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Paying technical debt in Rust's compiler (aatch.github.io)

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The Obama Campaign’s Digital Masterminds Cash In (www.nytimes.com)

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Google Receives $25 Million in Equity Funding (1999) (googlepress.blogspot.com)

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Python in Excel [video] (vimeo.com)

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Ways To Manage Your Team Remotely (www.ericosiu.com)

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Ask HN: Our government is spying on us. What are we going to do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Forcing Microsoft to reverse DRM will harm the games industry (square-go.com)

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Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to the Wayback Machine? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Live From Facebook’s Instagram Video Announcement (techcrunch.com)

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Steve Gibson's take on PRISM (optical backbone tapping) (www.grc.com)

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Microsoft’s DRM U-Turn Sees Pre-Orders Of Xbox One Overtake PS4 In UK (www.redmondpie.com)

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Descriptive Camera: A camera that prints a description, not an image (mattrichardson.com)

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A Case For Immigration Reform: How Beckett Simonon Built A US Co Outside The US (www.forbes.com)

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The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant (m.guardian.co.uk)

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Seattle-based Code Fellows offers women-only coding bootcamp (dailycaller.com)

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Twenty bucks says Soylent is a viral marketing campaign (mobile.theverge.com)

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Show HN: 597 days of iterating (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Need a non-technical co-founder (news.ycombinator.com)

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Our banks are not merely out of control. They're beyond control (www.guardian.co.uk)

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I'm a Freelancer - I'm Not Lazy (www.jannahagan.com)

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The FizzBuzz Paradox (nadamhu.wordpress.com)

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Silicon Valley and Spy Agency Bound by Strengthening Web (www.nytimes.com)

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Introducing Virtual Notary (hackingdistributed.com)

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90% of feedback is crap: how to find the next big startup idea (firstround.com)

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How to encrypt Google Docs and Google Drive (www.syncdocs.com)

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Papering over app store problems. Unsustainability of the app store. (stratechery.com)

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What will pypy do for your website? (casbon.me)

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Show HN: Nipple - iPod inspired Mobile Finger Nav (Mobile Only) (dubmediagroup.com)

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How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly (www.businessinsider.com)

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Comeback: Why the US Sits at the Brink of a New Boom (www.pbs.org)

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iOS 7 icons with pure CSS (codepen.io)

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Be better, not new (blog.drifty.com)

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BerkShares (en.wikipedia.org)

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Anti Facial Recognition Visor (www.jwz.org)

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Leaked docs: NSA can keep inadvertently acquired data on Americans for years (www.theverge.com)

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OutputSocket: Beautiful website for $300 within 7 days (outputsocket.com)

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SiliconChalet is now taking bookings (www.siliconchalet.eu)

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WikiLeaks: Hastings Said He Was Being Investigated By FBI (losangeles.cbslocal.com)

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Preview of code-academy style AngularJS tutorial (198.199.117.192)

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The IMSAI 8800 (www.pc-history.org)

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Wolfram: The Modernization of Educational Publishing (blog.wolfram.com)

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A Term Sheet Written In Plain English (techcrunch.com)

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Server Density – Manage AWS & Rackspace in one place (blog.serverdensity.com)

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Show HN: Daily Bitcoin Deals, Groupon for Hackers (coinforest.com)

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Billion pixel view from Mars (mars.nasa.gov)

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Photoful Improves On iOS 7′s Photo Gallery With A More Open, Gesture-Based App (techcrunch.com)

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Robots Hallucinate Humans to Aid in Object Recognition (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Samsung Reduces Parts Inventory for First Time in Its History (english.etnews.com)

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Hire Economics: Why Applying to Jobs Is a Waste of Time (www.linkedin.com)

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Come Code with Me (www.realpython.com)

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Help HN: How do I stop my start-up from being bullied? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Droids in Star Wars: The plight of the robotic underclass. (www.slate.com)

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Sites To Help Launch Your Freelancing Career (www.gethourglass.com)

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NSA Claims Broad Authority to Monitor Americans' International Calls and Emails (www.aclu.org)

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SaltStack wins Gigaom Structure (gigaom.com)

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Why I use spaces over tabs (jarrodoverson.com)

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A new boilerplate for MEAN (Mongo/Express/Angular/Node) based applications (http://mean.io)

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Centralizing my social media is making me think about what I post (werd.io)

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Intrafold (YC S13) is your company's employee directory for Google Apps (intrafold.com)

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Mortgage Hacking Calculator – a better tool for comparing mortgages (www.mortgagehacking.com)

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Show HN: Crowdfunding Pack (6) Free Deals for Crowdfunders (crowdfundingpack.org)

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I wrote a LaTeX macro to choose a 'Therefore'-like transition at random (github.com)

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Unicode-aware string reverser written in JavaScript (github.com)

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Spill a lot? NeverWet's ready to coat your gear (news.cnet.com)

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Sex, Lies and Porn Statistics (www.ministryoftruth.me.uk)

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PHP 5.5 released in the GitHub repository. (github.com)

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The first iOS 7 app is live on the App Store (excellenteasy.com)

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How to listen to your customers - using Rails and Javascript (gocardless.com)

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(Re)trying an experiment with Github. Help make my Summer launch-heavy? (cjbarber.github.io)

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AppScale 1.8.0 released (blog.appscale.com)

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How Pivoting Our Business Almost Killed Me (www.forbes.com)

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Natural Light Cloaking (arxiv.org)

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Ask HN: What sites do you use to find inspiring iPad interfaces (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Obama Campaign’s Digital Masterminds Cash In (www.nytimes.com)

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Flat Design Is An Over Reaction (blog.collapse.io)

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Font Hacking (www.heydonworks.com)

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Perl-style Regexp Matching in Ruby (factore.ca)

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Grades Measure Test-Taking Skills and Interviews Measure Interviewing Skills (www.zoho.com)

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Brazilians using Trello to organize proposals for government (trello.com)

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No Taxes for Startups in NY initiative (www.governor.ny.gov)

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The Pace of Innovation is not Slowing Down (blog.contentdj.com)

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Privacy Rights Groups Struggle to Attract Attention in Congress (swampland.time.com)

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IcedCoffeeScript (maxtaco.github.io)

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Chinese and Love Cyberwar (blog.anitian.com)

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Android WrongCalculator : you don't need right answers. (play.google.com)

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A modest Google Calendar proposal (kfury.com)

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'B', the flying car (www.kickstarter.com)

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Ember Fest Hackaton (emberfest.eu)

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Be a sales engineer at RethinkDB. Great product, hContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1appy customers (rethinkdb.com)

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