hackerNews

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Making the web fun again (neocities.org)

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A dark room, minimalist text based game. (adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com)

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Why reactions to US cyber snooping hurts so much (as foreigners) (medium.com)

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An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake (bugs.mysql.com)

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Sublime Text 3 Public Beta (www.sublimetext.com)

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In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Refactoring GitHub's Design (ianstormtaylor.com)

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Tesla wins in North Carolina, paves the way for direct-to-consumer sales (www.engadget.com)

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U.S Government Surveillance: Bad for Democracy Around the World (www.theatlantic.com)

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Facebook Android app sends phone number to Facebook servers without consent (www.symantec.com)

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CIA Agents Were Embedded With NYPD And Had “No Limits” (news.firedoglake.com)

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Clojure core.async Channels (clojure.com)

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Why The NSA's Surveillance Program Is Illegal And Unconstitutional (www.techdirt.com)

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Productizing A Freelancing / Consulting Business (training.kalzumeus.com)

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Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed (dailycaller.com)

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Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms (www.packer.io)

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A surprising JavaScript memory leak found at Meteor (point.davidglasser.net)

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Army restricts access to The Guardian in the wake of NSA leaks (arstechnica.com)

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Learn Python in minutes (learnxinyminutes.com)

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Lawyers said Bush couldn’t spy on Americans. He did it anyway. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A Practical guide to StatsD/Graphite monitoring (matt.aimonetti.net)

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Django 1.6 beta 1 released (www.djangoproject.com)

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Ecuador cancels US trade deal & donates $23MM to US for "human rights education" (thehill.com)

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Anatomy of a Compiler Bug (www.mikeash.com)

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How People Think Facebook Connect Log‑in and Log‑out Work (skinnywhitegirl.com)

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The State of the Tau (tauday.com)

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What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter (www.newyorker.com)

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A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur (bazqux.com)

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Large-scale quantum chip validated (news.usc.edu)

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Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services (yahoo.tumblr.com)

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Getting ALL your data out of Google Reader (from Reader's TL) (blog.persistent.info)

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ArchiveTeam needs OPMLs and feed URLs to grab cached data from Google Reader (allyourfeed.ludios.org:8080)

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Git Cheet Sheet (www.git-tower.com)

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Meditation Genius: Vipassana Trip Report by Rap Genius Founder (rapgenius.com)

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Edward Snowden's Father Gives Interview: My Son Is Not A Traitor (www.today.com)

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And this, dear children, is why Java should stop taking drugs (stackoverflow.com)

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Ecuador Using Copyright To Try To Take Down Leaked Docs About Its Surveillance (www.techdirt.com)

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Python for Space Science (spacepy.lanl.gov)

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Alan Turing wanted to base early computer memory on gin (www.theregister.co.uk)

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How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself from being spied on (www.extremetech.com)

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AuraJS – event-driven architecture for developing scalable applications (aurajs.com)

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Evi Nemeth, retired Boulder computer professor, missing at sea near New Zealand (www.dailycamera.com)

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Schneier's talk at Google on power and security (www.schneier.com)

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A Difficult Month - Post Mortem (blog.iron.io)

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Entrepreneurs, not investors, kill startups (mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com)

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Ice mass the size of Greenland overlooked in climate models (www.latimes.com)

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Lemote YeeLoong 8101B with Loongson 2F CPU Review (b.mtjm.eu)

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HiDPI support in Gnome (blogs.gnome.org)

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204 mph world record for electric car, another Le Mans win for diesel (www.extremetech.com)

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Show HN: l2met – Turn logs into metrics (r.32k.io)

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Television White Spaces database receives FCC certification (blog.google.org)

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Skip Silicon Valley: Why Smart Startups Start In Europe (www.forbes.com)

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BlackBerry reports unexpected loss, shares slide 20 percent (www.reuters.com)

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How I use email for marketing (nathanbarry.com)

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What could the NSA do with a quantum computer? (www.newstatesman.com)

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Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)

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I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here’s why. (notes.brianmayer.com)

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Create lightweight Docker containers with Buildroot (blog.docker.io)

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Ask HN: What proof is there that Snowden is safe? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Father proposes deal for Snowden's voluntary return (www.cnn.com)

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Competition, Ethics, and Add-ons (ellislab.com)

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Google And Apple May Bring Us A Console War We Didn't See Coming (www.forbes.com)

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8th Grade Twins take Astrobiology and Einstein Courses on Coursera (blog.coursera.org)

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Google's Quantum Computer Proven To Be Real Thing (Almost) (www.wired.com)

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The Middle East Plague Goes Global (www.foreignpolicy.com)

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How does database indexing work? (stackoverflow.com)

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Secret no-fly list blamed for American's Bangkok nightmare (www.latimes.com)

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Show HN: Complete list of Google Reader alternatives (starthq.com)

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People Wearing Fake Google Glass (http://peoplewearingfakegoogleglass.tumblr.com)

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The Ardent Mobile Cloud Platform (www.kickstarter.com)

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Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s (www.slate.com)

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Two Hacker FBI Informants Try To Inform On Each Other (www.forbes.com)

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Gold in them bits: Inside the world’s most mysterious Bitcoin mining company (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: What do you do for activities outside of work? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stormpulse Raises $1.3m Series Seed (twitter.com)

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How I [Nathan Barry] use email for marketing (nathanbarry.com)

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A flat bootstrap, no corners, no gradients with font awesome and metro buttons (www.twittstrap.com)

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NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower (www.wired.com)

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How Silicon Valley's Tech Reign Will End (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: Taco - Basecamp to Zendesk, All Your Tasks in One Place (news.ycombinator.com)

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Steve Wozniak on Google Glass: "Oh my gosh, I want one already" (www.facebook.com)

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Ecuador Spikes Halts Snowden's Asylum Because Julian Assange Is a Fame Hog (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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Ask HN: Instagram says I'm infringing on their name (news.ycombinator.com)

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Intel’s Haswell CPU Microarchitecture (www.realworldtech.com)

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Running R and Rstudio on EC2 (blog.yhathq.com)

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Federal Judge None Too Impressed With Government’s Defense Of Its ‘No Fly’ List (abovethelaw.com)

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Why Gov't That Collects Private Data Won't Let Employees Access Public Info (reason.com)

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Neal Khosla on how Stanford dropouts are missing the boat on changing the world (blog.dormroomfund.com)

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Pico: A simple and fast flat-file CMS (pico.dev7studios.com)

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Why Codecademy Didn't Work For Me (blog.onemonthrails.com)

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Apple Finds It Difficult To Divorce Samsung (online.wsj.com)

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Digital Health Records’ Risks Emerge as Deaths Blamed on Systems (www.bloomberg.com)

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26 senators say US relying on 'secret law' to collect data on citizens (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Louisiana Voter Literacy Test (1964) (www.crmvet.org)

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MIT researchers see through walls using 'Wi-Vi' (www.techhive.com)

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Ask HN: What podcasts will make me a better software engineer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Giants Are Getting Crushed (www.propublica.org)

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The Origin of Tweet (furbo.org)

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Digg Reader Officially Opens To The Public (techcrunch.com)

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What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers? (stackoverflow.com)

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How ARM’s Business Model Works (www.anandtech.com)

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Pierre Borghi: How I gave the Taliban the slip (www.bbc.co.uk)

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What if hackers ran Washington? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How 7 Lines of Ruby Will Speed Up Your Heroku Deploys 10x (www.thirdprestige.com)

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Introducing multilang-hstore gem (blog.heapsource.com)

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Entrepreneurs need not apply: Companies shun the self employed (finance.yahoo.com)

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Incredible Image Manipulation Examples in the Browser (www.calvrett.com)

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Intel's C.T.O. to Step Down (newsroom.intel.com)

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Google making the Web faster with QUIC, a new protocol that reduces round trips (arstechnica.com)

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CopCards: Cheatsheets for dealing with the police (s.ai)

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Nothing to Fear : Mostly Harmless (robrhinehart.com)

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30 years of MSX (www.theregister.co.uk)

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A mimic eats its model (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)

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Russian meteor shockwave circled globe twice (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Write your way to happiness (medium.com)

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30 Is Not the New 20 - TED Talk (www.glamour.com)

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The Jaguar C-X75 Prototype (vidinterest.com)

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500 page: distract users with cat puzzle (recognizeapp.com)

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Edward Snowden's Half-Baked Revolution (www.nsfwcorp.com)

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Americans are wasting billions a year on name-brand pills (www.slate.com)

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My side project Android app is trending on the Google Play Store right now (aschuenemann.com)

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The NSA vs. democracy (www.washingtonpost.com)

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ShowHN: Ultimate Tic Tac Toe (tictac9x.kissr.com)

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First Round Review (firstround.com)

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Thank you for using Google Reader. (kfury.com)

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No Partisan Apps At Koch Institute Sponsored Hackathon, After All (techpresident.com)

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How a 22-Year-Old Stanford Grad Won Silicon Valley’s Money Chase (nymag.com)

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Bitcoin Exchange Makes Apparent Move to Play by U.S. Money-Laundering Rules (online.wsj.com)

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Digg Reader is Live (blog.digg.com)

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Hosting Feedbin on Full Metal (blog.feedbin.me)

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Seriously, why is software so hard for non-software companies? (pandodaily.com)

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Java 9 to Drop Support for Compiling 1.5 and Older Source Code (www.infoq.com)

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Password complexity rules more annoying, less effective than length ones (arstechnica.com)

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Can't keep up (blooki.st)

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Not another VC blog - First Round Review (firstround.com)

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Understanding what Clinkle is aiming to do. (www.pymnts.com)

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Announcing labyl, a social news reader with realtime features. Feedback welcome (labyl.com)

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Flat design dangerous? (blog.uxpin.com)

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Grep in the Cloud: A Cost-effective Approach to Data Collection and Analysis (building.wanelo.com)

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How to Report Sexual Harassment (www.maryrobinettekowal.com)

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Preorder Your Leap Motion Controller - $79 (ships July 22nd) (central.leapmotion.com)

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Show HN: Preamp.fm turns concert listings into a video playlist (http://www.preamp.fm)

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Voyager surfs Solar System's edge (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Loongson Alive and Well in Linux Kernel (patchwork.kernel.org)