hackerNews

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Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors (eff.org)

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The Criminal N.S.A. (www.nytimes.com)

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New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and BCC lines of e-mail data (arstechnica.com)

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Lorem Ipsum translated by Google (translate.google.ca)

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WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI (www.wired.com)

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The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner (www.foreignpolicy.com)

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Memories of Stasi color Germans’ view of U.S. surveillance programs (www.mcclatchydc.com)

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Ecuador waives U.S. trade rights over Snowden case (www.reuters.com)

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Go read: fast Google Reader clone in AngularJS with Go on App Engine (mattjibson.com)

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DevDocs (devdocs.io)

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Netflix ditches Silverlight with support for HTML5 video in IE11 (thenextweb.com)

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Voyager 1 Discovers Bizarre and Baffling Region at Edge of Solar System (www.wired.com)

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The IIT Entrance Exam (priceonomics.com)

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NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Illegally climbing the Golden Gate bridge at dawn (2011) (www.nopromiseofsafety.com)

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Defense Department Blocks Access to Guardian to Prevent Viewing of NSA Leaks (dissenter.firedoglake.com)

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MasterCard's Simplify Commerce (www.simplify.com)

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Introducing Heroku Fork (blog.heroku.com)

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Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo (blog.seanmartell.com)

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How Rap Genius Raised $1.8M in Seed Funding Without Knowing What We Were Doing (news.rapgenius.com)

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DuckDuckGo launches Search & Stories app (duckduckgo.com)

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21 Months In: How to Manage a Remote Team (zapier.com)

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Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism (techcrunch.com)

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Don't hire me! I’m young, inexperienced and a perfectionist. (medium.com)

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Multiplayer Genetic Cars (http://gencar.co)

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You Should Be Using Nginx + UWSGI (justcramer.com)

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Cool water vapor effect in HTML5 Canvas (raizin-japan.com)

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Cap'n Proto beta release 0.1 is ready for Real Work (kentonv.github.io)

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Man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk (topinfopost.com)

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Experimenting with QUIC (blog.chromium.org)

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Stop selling your Software for Peanuts (www.irrlicht3d.org)

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Free Jeremy Hammond (freejeremy.net)

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Tiedot - Your NoSQL document database engine powered by Go (github.com)

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Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire (www.nytimes.com)

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C Preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (github.com)

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An Introduction to the Go Language: Boldly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before (blog.smartbear.com)

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Google is developing its own Android game console - Report (www.gamasutra.com)

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What's Really 'Immoral' About Student Loans (online.wsj.com)

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Intuition and Logic in Mathematics (1905) (www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk)

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I’m taking a break from my wife and kids (medium.com)

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The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming (tomtunguz.com)

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UK National police unit monitors 9,000 'domestic extremists' (www.guardian.co.uk)

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A Debian GNU/Hurd snapshot (lwn.net)

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DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus On Simplicity (techcrunch.com)

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MAYHEM – automatically ﬁnding bugs and shell-spawning exploits in binaries [pdf] (users.ece.cmu.edu)

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AES timing variability at a glance (cr.yp.to)

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RC4 in TLS is broken: now what? (community.qualys.com)

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Tell HN: The front page of Hacker News has been deindexed from Google (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice (www.outbound.io)

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ST-09-0002 NSA/CSS OIG Draft about Stellar Wind [pdf] (s3.documentcloud.org)

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Ecuador says letter of safe conduct for Snowden is unauthorized and invalid (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (searchdatacenter.techtarget.com)

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Paul Graham: Some VCs Push For Large Rounds, Even When Startups Don't Need Them (www.forbes.com)

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Building an iOS weather app with Angular and ClojureScript (keminglabs.com)

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Project outline for the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage (www.surgicalneurologyint.com)

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Stateless CSRF Protection (appsandsecurity.blogspot.de)

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Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (lwn.net)

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How to botch TLS forward secrecy (www.imperialviolet.org)

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Show HN: fluent SQL a minimalistic SQL builder for Java (github.com)

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World's Oldest Genome Sequenced From 700,000-Year-Old Horse DNA (news.nationalgeographic.com)

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Horses for courses: choosing Scala or Clojure (rrees.me)

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Human enhancement: does nature know best? (ieet.org)

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Are Smartphones Emasculating After All? (www.slate.com)

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iOS 7 As Defense (www.marco.org)

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Long Climb From Sun's Core (www.badastronomy.com)

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A public cloud taking a stand against government intrusion (www.cloudsigma.com)

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Beware your project’s Schwarzschild radius (peternixey.com)

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Deploying Python Without Downtime (philipcristiano.com)

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Propeller Gets $1.25m From A16Z, ffAngel, Levchin, Rabois (techcrunch.com)

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The basics of reality distortion (threads2.scripting.com)

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Obama refuses to barter over Snowden (www.aljazeera.com)

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Internet Credit Union (iafcu.org)

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UK government backs three-person IVF (www.bbc.co.uk)

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But… I could have written that in a week (deepakbala.me)

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Announcing a pre-release of F# 3.1 and the Visual F# tools in Visual Studio 2013 (blogs.msdn.com)

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Media is ruining the NSA debate (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Former Four-Star General Cartwright Targeted in Stuxnet Leak Investigation (investigations.nbcnews.com)

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Sean Parker Hates The World He Helped Create (www.forbes.com)

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The Ouya game console has geopolitical implications - for your kids (falkvinge.net)

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Show HN: Bulletin, a fast, clean Google Reader replacement (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Term.app, a terminal + shell replacement for Mac (mehdi.is)

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The American way of using fork and knife is inefficient and inelegant. (www.slate.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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Are We Warming Up To Cryonics? (www.readability.com)

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The DEA Seized Bitcoins In A Silk Road Drug Raid (techcrunch.com)

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How the NSA is still harvesting your online data (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Cross-Browser Development Tips (or how to make CSS work in IE8) (www.tinfoilsecurity.com)

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GoodUI (goodui.org)

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You just broke your child (www.danoah.com)

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The weirdest languages (idibon.com)

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Writing Idiomatic Python Book (www.jeffknupp.com)

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The all-night Goldman Sachs scavenger hunt (qz.com)

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Hasty hastens healthy food delivery from your mobile (thenextweb.com)

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When To Leave Your Programming Job (jobtipsforgeeks.com)

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“Do the words above appear in several different colors?” (apenwarr.ca)

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Ember vs Angular Cagematch (vimeo.com)

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Startup Weekend Employees win Seattle without disclosing connection (news.ycombinator.com)

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For Edward Snowden: How to live in an airport (en.wikipedia.org)

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Building an iOS weather app with Angular and ClojureScript (keminglabs.com)

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Micro-Projects for Fun and Profit (niftylettuce.com)

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Arabic: A language with too many armies and navies? (www.economist.com)

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On Wendy Davis, the Supreme Court, and Speaking Out As Women (nymag.com)

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Hacker group Anonymous is no match for North Korea (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: How does Austin, TX compare to other tech cities? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Social Products (blog.eladgil.com)

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Immigration Overhaul Passes in Senate (www.nytimes.com)

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Students cite EU data protection laws, challenge firms over NSA data transfers (arstechnica.com)

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#CancelNetflix: Arrested Development isn't the only thing they screwed up (www.defectivebydesign.org)

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Stop selling your software for peanuts (www.irrlicht3d.org)

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Network Monitor, now in Firefox Developer Tools (hacks.mozilla.org)

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XMir and Mir to ship by default in Ubuntu 13.10 (fridge.ubuntu.com)

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Ask HN: I want to create a mobile web app with Django. Where to begin? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google suspends game developer's account after inquiry over payment. (twitter.com)

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21-Year-Old Raises Largest Seed Round In Silicon Valley History — $25 Million (www.businessinsider.com)

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Microsoft Adds Auto Scaling To Windows Azure (techcrunch.com)

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Another victory for Tesla - this time in NC (www.newsobserver.com)

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Google will remove all Blogger sites that monetize adult content, from June 30 (thenextweb.com)

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Ask HN: We need your feedback (news.ycombinator.com)

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Imgur takes over quickmeme's functionality (imgur.com)

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Ubuntu is rushing its new display server one version early (www.thepowerbase.com)

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Apache CouchDB 1.3.1 Released (blogs.apache.org)

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Obama: "I'm Not Going To Be Scrambling Jets To Get A 29-Year-Old Hacker" (www.youtube.com)

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Need collaborators for ADHD management system called Poppins (news.ycombinator.com)

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Pivoting data in Postgres (www.craigkerstiens.com)

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A Productive Android Development Environment (cyrilmottier.com)

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Four years ago, Ed Snowden thought leakers should be ‘shot’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Turkey seeks to tighten control over Twitter (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Do we really need javascript frameworks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Continuum Analytics Expands Global Presence into Europe (continuum.io)

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Creating and Connecting to an AWS EC2 Instance via SSH (codyhenshaw.com)

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Heading to LA for next week, any open doors? (news.ycombinator.com)

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As global warming heats waterways, brain-eating amoebas thrive in US lakes (www.theverge.com)

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Why I no longer have excel on my computer (www.hugoguzman.com)

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The case against using RubyGems.org in production (www.honeybadger.io)

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Sn0wd3n: the Game (sn0wd3n.com)

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The Future of Reeder (reederapp.com)

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Kubuntu Won't be Switching to Mir or XMir (blogs.kde.org)

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Tindie: Hardware marketplace, 1 year later (blog.tindie.com)

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Surveillance 'partnership' between NSA and telcos points to AT&T, Verizon (news.cnet.com)

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US Senate passes comprehensive immigration bill. Read tech’s joyous reactions (pandodaily.com)

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Computer Science Education Act (www.computinginthecore.org)

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An Open Letter to Paula Deen (afroculinaria.com)

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Just launched my first product - Earbuds you can wear on your wrist (www.fluxaud.io)

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I accidentally the entire heap: debugging Haskell programs with space leaks (www.bitba.se)

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Facebook news feed ads generate 49X more clicks at 45% less cost (venturebeat.com)

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LAN party tax hits Swedish gamers (www.friatider.se)

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The Great Divide (benlakey.com)

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Elliptic curves and their implementation (04 Dec 2010) (www.imperialviolet.org)

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Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef (www.earth-policy.org)

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Offer HN: Let me give you a report on your customers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: SVN Branching as easy as Git (blog.lagentz.com)