hackerNews

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An Apology to my European IT Team (fredlybrand.com)

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Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was eliminated (markmail.org)

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Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong (wikileaks.org)

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Bitcoin Foundation Receives Cease And Desist Order From California (www.forbes.com)

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Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S. (www.mcclatchydc.com)

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Eigengrau (en.wikipedia.org)

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Sacrificing everything for my dog. How I became a programmer (medium.com)

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Bitcoins Seized by DEA (letstalkbitcoin.com)

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Let's deploy via Git (coderwall.com)

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List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks (apple.stackexchange.com)

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Former Facebook Exec Now Works for the NSA (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin (arstechnica.com)

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This Really is Big Brother: The Leak Nobody's Noticed (digbysblog.blogspot.com.br)

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Project Meshnet (wiki.projectmeshnet.org)

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Ecuador has received asylum request from NSA leaker Snowden (rt.com)

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OpenGL – OS X Mountain Lion vs OS X Mavericks (rk.md)

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Chomsky: spying does not protect you (www.commondreams.org)

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For the next 49 days you can donate to WikiLeaks (wikileaks.org)

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Quickmeme banned from Reddit for alleged vote manipulation (www.dailydot.com)

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A very old problem turns 20 (plus.maths.org)

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A list of Useful Backend Architectures (gist.github.com)

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Birgitta Jonsdottir on why Iceland is not a good destination for Snowden. (www.twitlonger.com)

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Snowden 'arrives at Moscow airport from Hong Kong' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Do you really read? (jasonevanish.com)

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For secretive surveillance court, rare scrutiny in wake of NSA leaks (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Map of Botched Paramilitary Police Raids (www.cato.org)

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NSA "can – and does – listen to everyone from senators to lovers" (1995) (articles.baltimoresun.com)

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Snowden touches down in Moscow ... tweeted by Wikileaks (twitter.com)

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US 'disappointed' with Hong Kong, asks Latin American countries to stop Snowden (rt.com)

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25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhones (finance.yahoo.com)

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The Decline and Fall of the English Major (www.nytimes.com)

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Numba - JIT specializing compiler for annotated Python and NumPy code to LLVM (numba.pydata.org)

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Baking Pi – Operating Systems Development (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)

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Why You Won’t Be the Person You Expect to Be (www.nytimes.com)

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Jump Point Search Explained (zerowidth.com)

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Show HN: Ask the NSA (askthensa.com)

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Heirs of Infocom: Where interactive fiction authors and games stand today (arstechnica.com)

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Basic income as an answer to all out automation (www.newstatesman.com)

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20 Things to hate or love in USA (filipmolcan.com)

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Celery - Distributed Task Queue (github.com)

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Snowden's flight from Moscow to Havana passes over US airspace. (twitter.com)

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Building a Raspberry Pi based server powered 100% by solar energy (pi.qcontinuum.com)

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Introduction to Concurrent Programming with Stackless Python (www.grant-olson.net)

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US has revoked Snowden's passport. (twitter.com)

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Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA (yro.slashdot.org)

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Ember.js 1.0 RC6 released (github.com)

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Mocl – a Common Lisp implementation for mobile platforms (wukix.com)

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"Why I’m quitting the C++ Grandmaster Certification course" (grahampentheny.com)

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Julian Assange on Edward Snowden exit from Hong Kong (www.smh.com.au)

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The Changing Face of Web Development (blog.opbeat.com)

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Show HN: Serial communication using the WebAudio API (github.com)

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MPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With ‘Precision’ Takedown (torrentfreak.com)

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Show HN: vim-github-comment - Comment commits on GitHub using Vim (github.com)

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Tracking Snowden (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)

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In defense of San Francisco's techies (www.sfgate.com)

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Show HN: Ever wish you could save what you had just heard? Thank my 2-year-old (www.heardapp.com)

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How to Make a Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Adapter (tech2.in.com)

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Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Celebrating Mathematica’s First Quarter Century (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

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Ask HN: I'm in NYC, any one wanna grab coffee / beer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A funny case of using the PC (luaz.blogspot.com)

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Vim and Ctags tips and tricks (stackoverflow.com)

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LevelDB for Ruby (embedded) (github.com)

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My Boston T map used in “The Last of Us” PS3 game (transitmaps.tumblr.com)

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NSA PRISM puts "public" cloud in a new light (www.zdnet.com)

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Why Tipping Should Be Outlawed (www.esquire.com)

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Study of lead levels in rice under scrutiny (m.bbc.co.uk)

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Git hook plugin system built using python (github.com)

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Investigators Say TWA 800 Crash Not An Accident (www.gadling.com)

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Show HN: Test your website's responsiveness (mobilewebsim.jonahkatz.me)

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Plants do sums to get through the night, researchers show (m.phys.org)

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Snowden examined by Ecuadorian embassy doctor at Moscow airport upon arrival (rt.com)

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Product Managers, Stop Pissing Off The Engineers (blog.aha.io)

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NSA.gov is down (http://nsa.gov)

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U.S. to Pursue Snowden After He Departs Hong Kong (online.wsj.com)

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Ghost Production: The EDM scene's little secret (www.crossfadr.com)

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Take a moment to reflect on how bad your code once was (gist.github.com)

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Particle Accelerator That Can Fit On a Tabletop (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Always assume the worst - You are likely being watched by not only the NSA (dcid.me)

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Probably the best thing i've seen on Google Street View (www.google.com)

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Moving From Backbone To React (usepropeller.com)

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GoDaddy is down (http://godaddy.com)

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Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be "the best personalized newspaper in the world." (online.wsj.com)

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Australian Tax Office targets Bitcoin (www.afr.com)

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Edward Snowden says British spy agency GCHQ 'worse' than NSA (www.globalpost.com)

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The Old Facebook (www.thefacebook.us)

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Show HN: WiseCash, cash flow forecasting for small businesses and freelancers (https://www.wisecashhq.com)

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Ask HN: PRISM-free laptops? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Whistleblower Snowden escapes arrest in Hong Kong thanks to US errors (www.guardian.co.uk)

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As Microsoft Restructuring Nears, Top Execs Fret Over Their Fate (allthingsd.com)

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GEOS 8-bit_operating_system (en.wikipedia.org)

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Dear India, Show Some Spine: Take Hong Kong for Example (www.nextbigwhat.com)

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So Coded Early Bird Ticket Sale / Hamburg, Germany / Sept 19/20th (http://socoded.com)

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Snowden is Heading for Iceland (www.aftenposten.no)

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Embercasts: Client-side Authentication Part 2 (www.embercasts.com)

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Egyptian statue spins all by itself at Manchester Museum (www.news.com.au)

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Human rights lawyers in Hong Kong reveal they worked closely with Snowden (www.scmp.com)

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The 51-minute OkCupid experiment (blog.seangransee.com)

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A Look At The Charges Against Edward Snowden (www.popehat.com)

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Where Don Draper ends, D.B. Cooper begins (medium.com)

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Security Without Identification (www.chaum.com)

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Phil Zimmerman, Creator of PGP, Quote from 1996 Predicted the NSA PRISM Event (joshldavis.com)

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The emerging-brand battle (www.economist.com)

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WikiLeaks Statement On Edward Snowden’s Exit From Hong Kong - Updated (wikileaks.org)

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Pelosi booed for saying NSA leaker Snowden violated the law (thehill.com)

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Scale PHP on EC2 to 30k Concurrent Users (coderwall.com)

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New iOS App Lets You Record What You Heard Five Minutes Ago (techcrunch.com)

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Hlld - A high performance C server for HyperLogLogs (github.com)

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Edward Snowden is not on the flight from Moscow to Cuba (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Snowden's passport revoked (twitter.com)

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Why exactly do we care about where Snowden is going? (i.snag.gy)

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Snowden asks Ecuador for asylum (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A successful Git branching model (nvie.com)

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From the principal architect - Skype/ NSA (www.listbox.com)

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Ask HN: I'm in the Bay Area. Anyone wanna grab coffee/beer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Source: NSA leaker Snowden's passport revoked (www.detroitnews.com)

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Snowden heading for Iceland, via Norway - Pirate Party. (piratetimes.net)

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A Yahoo Employee Sent Us This Satirical Letter Mocking Marissa Mayer's Policies (www.businessinsider.com)

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JDownloader Court Ruling Worries Open Source Software Developers (torrentfreak.com)

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Building a Stereoscopic Microscope (1997) (www.funsci.com)

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Building LLVM using Shake (neilmitchell.blogspot.com)

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Ask HN: How do I find projects to contribute to on github -- as a Junior dev (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How to do freelance jobs and a full time at the same time (news.ycombinator.com)

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Legal, political maneuvering let Snowden flee (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Now Google is threatened with criminal action over Street View data theft (www.express.co.uk)

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Explained to a Five Year Old - Espionage Vs Exposure (mohit.me)

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Fire wants to be free (xkcd.com)

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Arm-js is an ARM emulator written in Javascript (github.com)

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Edward Snowden will touch down in Moscow in under 10 minutes (twitter.com)

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Man vs. Machine; Wall Street cuts trading staff for algorithms (www.nypost.com)

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LIVE updates, on Snowden's trip (by the Guardian). (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Edward Snowden, NSA Whistle-Blower, Wins Unusual Sympathizers in Latin America (world.time.com)

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Why the NSA thing isn’t keeping me up at night (medium.com)

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WikiLeaks: Snowden arrives in Moscow (www.cnn.com)