hackerNews

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A Hacker's Replacement for GMail (dbpmail.net)

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15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand (www.extremetech.com)

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Newly released NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program (www.washingtonpost.com)

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U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks (news.yahoo.com)

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NSA: Germany considered an enemy. Intercepting 500mill messages per month (translate.google.com)

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31 Academic papers and essays that every programmer should be aware of (projectmona.com)

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Der Spiegel says US bugged EU offices in Washington (arstechnica.com)

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Freedom: The Big American Lie (www.faz.net)

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Don’t go to art school (medium.com)

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Console.image - Images in Chrome Dev tools (github.com)

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Ruby 1.8.7 retired (www.ruby-lang.org)

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“Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java” by Mark Watson (leanpub.com)

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Write Android apps in Google Go (github.com)

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The Future of Computing - An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz" Matsumoto (fredwu.me)

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Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps for First Time Ever, Feds Say (www.wired.com)

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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java [video] (marakana.com)

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Ask HN: What is your experience making a free service completely paid? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for U.Va. student (www.timesdispatch.com)

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License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers (www.cryptogon.com)

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U.S. Army Restricts Access To 'The Guardian' Website (www.npr.org)

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Wi-Vi: See Through Walls with Wi-Fi Signals (people.csail.mit.edu)

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Free Speech Zone (en.wikipedia.org)

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Best ways to learn a foreign language (domenicodefelice.blogspot.it)

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MySQLgame - a game that just is a database (mysqlgame.com)

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Why is Larry Lessig plugging Palantir? (labels-kill.blogspot.com)

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Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776) (www.constitution.org)

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NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again (www.nytimes.com)

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Hollywood’s role in shaping public views on mass surveillance (www.slashgeek.net)

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Replacing All The Things with Unite.vim (www.codeography.com)

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Aziz Ansari becomes funnier with A/B testing and analytics (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Tomorrow’s Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time (techcrunch.com)

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The Wonderful Power of Storytelling (1991) (w2.eff.org)

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The 10 Megabyte Manifesto (10mbmanifesto.neocities.org)

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Clinkle: App Teardown (Part 1) (svstealth.tumblr.com)

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Using hashtags to organize your bash history (vignesh.foamsnet.com)

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The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: kouio, the Reader you've always wanted (https://kouio.com)

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U.S. asked Ecuador not to give Snowden asylum: Correa (www.reuters.com)

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How a total n00b mined $700 in bitcoins (arstechnica.com)

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Perl::Critic - Automatically review your code (perltraining.com.au)

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Join Oliver Stone & Noam Chomsky in Urging Correa to Grant Snowden Asylum (org.salsalabs.com)

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Game On Ladies - A man logs in as his wife's character in a videogame (flygirlgamers.com)

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Cloud Star Heroku Preps for Second Act With New CEO (www.wired.com)

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Economics Is A Lost Field (www.thisviewoflife.com)

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The laziness of synchronous work (blog.vivekhaldar.com)

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How much information can you convey with a 1 bit interface? (justindunham.net)

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Where will Google Reader traffic go? (daltoncaldwell.com)

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Open source style checker for Objective C (github.com)

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Show HN: Air Code (twolivesleft.com)

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Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement (www.nytimes.com)

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WikiLeaks refutes media reports about 'Ecuadorean disarray' (rt.com)

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Motives Aside, the NSA Should Not Spy on Us (reason.com)

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Sell everything (medium.com)

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I want a text editor that is a pain in the ass (medium.com)

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django-yarr - open source self-hosted Django RSS Reader (github.com)

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Our Journey To Empower A Thousand New Kickpreneurs (www.kickpreneur.com)

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Show HN: IssueKit - Drop-In GitHub Issues for your iOS project (www.github.com)

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Deep Uunderstanding Node.js - An overview of Node: Modules and npm (book.mixu.net)

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Show HN: Help me build a better alternative to basecamp (news.ycombinator.com)

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Learn c in Minutes (learnxinyminutes.com)

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You'll Never Know if the NSA Is Breaking the Law or Keeping You Safe (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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From Whistleblower to Apple Store Employee (www.nytimes.com)

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Secret European deals to hand over private data to America (www.guardian.co.uk)

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CENotifier: growl-like notification UI compoment for iOS (github.com)

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33 Startups That Died Reveal Why They Failed (www.businessinsider.com)

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The Play Framework at LinkedIn: Productivity and Performance at Scale (news.ycombinator.com)

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We need encryption for private communications (www.guardian.co.uk)

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New leak: NSA storing contents of 1 Billion cellphone calls per day (www.businessinsider.com)

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CueTableReloader - Automatically infer animations for UITableView (github.com)

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July startup sprint - who's with me? (news.ycombinator.com)

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LLDB 3.3 and beyond (blog.llvm.org)

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Secret Court Declassifies Yahoo’s Role in Disclosure Fight (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Why is everyone suddenly making Google Reader replacements? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What every web developer must know about URL encoding (blog.lunatech.com)

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Rationality fanfic HPMoR updated with new chapters (hpmor.com)

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PRISM slides: 100,000+ surveillance targets, mention of real-time monitoring (www.theverge.com)

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Amazon's $600 Million CIA Deal Really Is For A Game-Changing 'Private' Cloud (www.sfgate.com)

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US army blocks access to Guardian website reports about US govt surveillance (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Foundation 31 – Ev Williams (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: How about an anonymous social network? (news.ycombinator.com)

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ClojureScript: Lisp's Revenge [video] (vimeo.com)

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Initial Web MIDI support in Chrome Canary (plus.google.com)

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Evernote's 5 Year Anniversary (evernote.com)

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Ask HN: Whats the Biggest Lesson You've Learned With Your Startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Simple Performance testing with PhantomJS (www.techbar.me)

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Secret European deals to hand over private data to America (Taken down) (www.guardian.co.uk)

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America the great, yea right (c-1-d.tumblr.com)

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New Leak: NSA is wiretapping the European Union Offices in Brussels (www.spiegel.de)

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Learn PHP in Minutes (i.imgur.com)

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FillText – generate JSON data sets for testing or demonstration (www.filltext.com)

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Why Software Brains can not feel pain (panuviljamaablog.blogspot.com)

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Here are the Massachusetts police department using license plate scanners (www.muckrock.com)

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The Bernal Heights Piano Incident(s) (tynan.com)

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Help build a better matplotlib rcparams: PlotOrNot (warm-escarpment-9042.herokuapp.com)

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Number of Federal Wiretaps Rose 71 Percent in 2012 (www.washingtonpost.com)

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What are some Japanese Payment Gateways? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Former Stasi officer: NSA spy program would've been 'a dream come true' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: Best command line Usenet clients? (news.ycombinator.com)

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STELLA - Lisp-style Programming with Delivery in Common-Lisp, C++, and Java (www.isi.edu)

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Could Superman Punch Someone Into Space? (www.wired.com)

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Greenwald: Speaking on NSA stories, Snowden and journalism (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Wikipedia once argued whether the List of lists of lists should include itself (en.wikipedia.org)

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What is the political equilibrium when tiny drone assassins are available? (marginalrevolution.com)

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PHP Engineer: Director of Engineering (news.ycombinator.com)

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