hackerNews

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Abandoned island in the middle of NYC (backspac.es)

645 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013070200 108 comments

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Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign (sub.garrytan.com)

575 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062700 205 comments

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Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh (www.jwz.org)

459 points first seen 2013062515 last seen 2013062821 264 comments

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Foundations of Computer Science (i.stanford.edu)

417 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062703 85 comments

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Only the Lonely (www.stephenfry.com)

384 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062700 118 comments

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Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA, but almost no one uses it (blogs.computerworld.com)

334 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062700 135 comments

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Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck (blog.smartbear.com)

331 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062700 259 comments

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USA must not hunt down whistleblower Edward Snowden (www.amnesty.org)

325 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062521 208 comments

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My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89 (thetrichordist.com)

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I Knew Snowden. And He’s Not The Story (medium.com)

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Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (tylerneylon.com)

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Dirty Game Development Tricks (www.gamasutra.com)

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One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Advice for ambitious 19 year olds (blog.samaltman.com)

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Fair trial impossible in U.S., Snowden tells Ecuador (www.cnn.com)

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Australian government shelves controversial data retention scheme (www.smh.com.au)

148 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062600 34 comments

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The new php.net (www.php.net)

143 points first seen 2013062515 last seen 2013062703 132 comments

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Ambition can be poison (37signals.com)

141 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062609 97 comments

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Python and the Real-time Web (mrjoes.github.io)

139 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062606 16 comments

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From zero to cooperative threads in 33 lines of Haskell code (www.haskellforall.com)

131 points first seen 2013062518 last seen 2013062700 17 comments

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German City Set To Make Linux A Norm For Citizens (www.efytimes.com)

118 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062600 72 comments

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GitHub CEO: If you only hire in the Valley, you don't have the best talent (pandodaily.com)

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Andrew Moore's (CMU) Data Mining / AI tutorials (www.autonlab.org)

104 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013102915 2 comments

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Don Knuth and the Art of Computer Programming: The Interview (www.simple-talk.com)

99 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062618 23 comments

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PivotTable.js: a JavaScript Pivot Table implementation (github.com)

96 points first seen 2013062512 last seen 2013062606 28 comments

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Your API Consumers Aren’t Who You Think They Are (bryanhelmig.com)

89 points first seen 2013062512 last seen 2013062603 14 comments

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The Little, Big Idea (medium.com)

88 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062600 9 comments

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C# Language Specification 5.0 (www.microsoft.com)

88 points first seen 2013062512 last seen 2013062600 85 comments

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Wizards of the Coast, Equity Distributions: Part 1 (www.peteradkison.com)

87 points first seen 2013062515 last seen 2013062609 25 comments

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NSA can retain encrypted communications of Americans possibly indefinitely (www.pcworld.com)

86 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062600 46 comments

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A List of Programming Screencast Series (devblog.avdi.org)

79 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062600 18 comments

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Open letter and petition for NSA to conduct public rulemaking on surveillance (epic.org)

77 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062600 2 comments

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Snowden 'has not entered Russia' (www.bbc.co.uk)

77 points first seen 2013062521 last seen 2013062603 111 comments

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Prism Button (http://www.prismbutton.com)

74 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062603 47 comments

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AWS: We’ll go to court to fight gov’t requests for data (www.itworld.com)

73 points first seen 2013062518 last seen 2013062609 31 comments

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Open Letter to the NY Post: Snowden is a Hero, Not a Traitor (tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com)

72 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062512 6 comments

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How I Under Promised, Over Delivered and Screwed Myself (nathanconyngham.com)

71 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062603 55 comments

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OCaml in the Browser (ocsigen.org)

70 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2015011809 14 comments

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Show HN: Building an HTML5 Desktop environment with a minimal server component (github.com)

65 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062600 16 comments

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Rarely-asked questions (paulgraham.com)

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Pink Floyd: Pandora's Internet radio royalty ripoff (www.usatoday.com)

61 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062518 80 comments

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Before I Die I Want To (beforeidieiwantto.org)

59 points first seen 2013062518 last seen 2013062621 39 comments

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Lorem Gibson - Website filler text based on the works of William Gibson (loremgibson.com)

56 points first seen 2013062515 last seen 2013062603 13 comments

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Recursive Postgres Queries (blog.timothyandrew.net)

52 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062600 41 comments

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The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See (2011) (www.mensjournal.com)

52 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2015053112 5 comments

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Zotonic : Erlang Web Framework & Performance (zotonic.com)

50 points first seen 2013062521 last seen 2013062621 8 comments

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The Happy Startup Canvas (medium.com)

46 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062521 0 comments

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YouTube And a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack (googlesystem.blogspot.com)

43 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062600 10 comments

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OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air (arstechnica.com)

42 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062521 28 comments

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[Stack Overflow]Design a function f, such that f(f(n)) == -n (stackoverflow.com)

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Code Density (www.brandonbloom.name)

39 points first seen 2013062512 last seen 2013062603 9 comments

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DemoJS, the only web demoparty is back this week-end in Paris. (demojs.org)

39 points first seen 2013062521 last seen 2013062600 11 comments

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White House presses Russia to expel Snowden; sharp words for China (www.reuters.com)

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Shades: In-memory OLAP cubing, histograms, and more. (github.com)

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Razor Thin Margins Make Construction Ripe for Innovation (www.plangrid.com)

28 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062509 39 comments

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How Silicon Valley Perfected Ice Cream (www.wired.com)

28 points first seen 2013062518 last seen 2013062603 19 comments

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Hong Kong Banking System Outlook Cut by Moody’s on China Risks (www.bloomberg.com)

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Google Launches Cloud Playground, A Browser Environment For Trying Its Cloud (techcrunch.com)

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Help Put Objective-C Back in the Top 10 This Weekend (objectivechackathon.appspot.com)

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Lector - A news reader for people who want one simple thing (mauriciogardini.com)

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Experience stunning new heights with Street View in Dubai (google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk)

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Bitmaker Labs coding bootcamp shut down by Canadian government (bitmakerlabs.com)

20 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062603 6 comments

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Helios Bars: The arrival of the smart bike (www.humansinvent.com)

20 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062509 17 comments

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Are You A Hacker, Developer or Engineer? (And Why it Matters) (blog.hartleybrody.com)

19 points first seen 2013062512 last seen 2013062518 10 comments

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The Future of Design Is More Than Making iOS Flat (www.wired.com)

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Demonizing Edward Snowden: Which Side Are You On? (www.newyorker.com)

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WikiLeaks: We Know Where Snowden Is, But We're Not Telling You (www.motherjones.com)

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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Not on Cuba Flight But 'In a Safe Place' (abcnews.go.com)

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Ground Floor: Basic styling for out-of-the-box NeoCities websites (http://groundfloor.neocities.org)

16 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062509 4 comments

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Learn Git Branching (pcottle.github.io)

16 points first seen 2013062518 last seen 2016022209 0 comments

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Setting up Perfect Forward Secrecy for Nginx or Stud (baudehlo.wordpress.com)

15 points first seen 2013062512 last seen 2013062521 0 comments

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Pivot.js (rjackson.github.io)

14 points first seen 2013062518 last seen 2013062600 3 comments

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Platform limitations hurt .NET (haacked.com)

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Hack Emacs – video tutorial series on using and hacking Emacs (killring.org)

13 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062509 0 comments

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RIP Richard Matheson. (www.denofgeek.com)

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You Can Finally Buy the Magical Spray That Waterproofs Everything (gizmodo.com)

12 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062512 0 comments

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Poll: How do you learn new technologies? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Alt is a simpler and prettier interface to NewsBlur (davidjohnstone.net)

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Documents Show Liberals in I.R.S. Dragnet (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Will you help a junior developer in need of short-term employment? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Name an established product that is begging to be disrupted (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Internet startups lose value with greater traction (medium.com)

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Microsoft puts its spin on JavaScript with TypeScript (www.techrepublic.com)

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Wyden & Udall: NSA made false claims in "website factsheet" (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Why Supporting Your Competitors is Good for Business (www.thedailymuse.com)

7 points first seen 2013062515 last seen 2013062515 2 comments

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Next Hacker News Meetup in Kyoto this Friday (28th) (hnkansai.doorkeeper.jp)

7 points first seen 2013062518 last seen 2013062600 0 comments

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IRS Wasn't Fond of Open Source Either (programming.oreilly.com)

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On the role of scientific thought by E. W. Dijkstra (www.cs.utexas.edu)

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Learn Basic Ruby on Rails in just 3 hours (thenextweb.com)

6 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062515 0 comments

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Americans Hate Their Jobs, Even With Office Perks (www.cnbc.com)

6 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062509 3 comments

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Is using OData\IQueryable in your Web API an inherantly bad thing? (roysvork.wordpress.com)

6 points first seen 2013062521 last seen 2013062600 3 comments

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Fun with PostgreSQL: Tagging blog posts (www.bthlabs.pl)

5 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062515 0 comments

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An everyman's guide for going invisible on the internet (theweek.com)

5 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062515 0 comments

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The Ultimate Digital Estate Planning Guide (aftersteps.com)

5 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062509 5 comments

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Concurrent garbage collection in Rubinius 2.0 (rubini.us)

5 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2014082015 0 comments

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Canada Cracks Down On Coding Schools (readwrite.com)

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Canadian Province Cracks Down On Coding Schools (readwrite.com)

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Seameless: a TCP proxy that allow you to deploy new code without downtime. (bitbucket.org)

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15 years of Ars: Individuals who redefined gaming, music, and tech policy (arstechnica.com)

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Lorem Gibson (http://loremgibson.com)

5 points first seen 2013062512 last seen 2013062515 0 comments

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Some basics on CPU P states on Intel processors (plus.google.com)

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Show HN: A Calendar from Tweets (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mathematics: 1,000 Years Old, and Still Hot (chronicle.com)

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Why nobody gives a shit about your cool app anymore... (anthonypompliano.com)

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CodeEval Adds 4 New Languages: Haskell, Go, Bash, & Lua (blog.codeeval.com)

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Ask HN: Did you know that TOR is 60% sponsored by US Gov? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bitmaker Labs forced to halt operations mid-term by the Canadian government (hackertourism.com)

4 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062509 0 comments

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2013 Browser Security Comparative Analysis: Socially Engineered Malware (www.nsslabs.com)

4 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062509 4 comments

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Your API Consumers Aren’t Who You Think They Are (bryanhelmig.com)

4 points first seen 2013062509 last seen 2013062509 0 comments

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The dirty business of spy versus spy (2001) (www.uq.edu.au)

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FreeBSD Celebrates its 20th Birthday (bsd.slashdot.org)

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Facebook authentication in your AngularJS web app (blog.brunoscopelliti.com)

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Jake Davis released, but banned from deleting his internet history (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Does your company have a BYOD strategy? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A brief introduction on how browsers render images (vincentsanders.blogspot.co.uk)

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One-Click Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 12.10 with DigitalOcean | DigitalOcean (www.digitalocean.com)

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Raspberry Pi bot tracks hacker posts to vacuum up passwords and more (arstechnica.com)

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When Wine "Connoisseurs" Are Given the Same Glass Of Wine Over and Over (www.policymic.com)

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The Naming of Hosts is a Difficult Matter (queue.acm.org)

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Visualising worldwide location data of over 280 million tweets (www.mapbox.com)

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Snowden leaves reporters chasing shadows around an airport (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Show HN: Our logo built in JS (codepen.io)

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Mechanical bird gets attacked by a hawk (www.youtube.com)

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Difference between Beijing and Silicon Valley on innovation (www.pixelstech.cn)

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How to Help Pay For Snowden’s Getaway Without Being Caught? Bitcoins. (www.thedailybeast.com)

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I'm Ben Cohen, Ben & Jerry's co-founder. AMA (www.reddit.com)

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Teespring is growing (news.ycombinator.com)

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YC S12 testing startup looking for a web hacker as second hire (news.ycombinator.com)

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Dev Ops at Perfect Audience – 100% uptime, high volume, continuously deployed (news.ycombinator.com)

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GoCardless (YC S2011) is hiring b2b salespeople in London (gocardless.com)

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