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Lockdown (www.marco.org)

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‘Act of aggression’: Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade (rt.com)

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Announcing Releases, a workflow for shipping software to end users. (github.com)

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Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney (www.washingtonpost.com)

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One of Microsoft's Best-Kept Secrets - Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) (www.hanselman.com)

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Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome (news.slashdot.org)

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Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE” (www.nczonline.net)

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Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash (www.slate.com)

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An Open Letter to Craig Newmark (krrb.com)

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Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll (toddmoore.com)

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Google Reader Founder: I Never Would Have Founded Reader Inside Today's Google (www.forbes.com)

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BBC blocking articles from UK residents (alexwarren.co.uk)

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Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts (www.brainpickings.org)

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Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean (remcobron.com)

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How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans (pastebin.com)

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Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later (basho.com)

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A bug is found in Ecuador Embassy in London (translate.google.com)

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Show HN: Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source) (www.streak.com)

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Bolivia says Morales' plane diverted, apparently over Snowden (www.reuters.com)

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The 4 AM Army (nation.time.com)

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You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal (www.wired.com)

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Normal vs. Fat-tailed Distributions (vudlab.com)

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Pirated Apps in the App Store (lipsky.me)

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Google flights (www.google.com)

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Russian Proton Rocket crashes Seconds after Launch (www.spaceflight101.com)

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Dwarf Fortress in 2013 (www.gamasutra.com)

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State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook 'likes' (washingtonexaminer.com)

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Frameworks Round 6 (www.techempower.com)

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The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses (http://www.smiirl.com)

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Zen Photon Garden - RayTracing in the Browser (zenphoton.com)

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The Underhanded C contest (http://underhanded.xcott.com)

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Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised (support.ubi.com)

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Bitcoin Foundation's Response to California Cease & Desist (www.scribd.com)

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Pebble Smartwatch Is Coming To Best Buy On July 7 For $149.95 (techcrunch.com)

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How Google have lost opportunity to get millions of Google+ users (blog.cloudorado.com)

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Continuous Design and the NoPSD Movement (thoughtworks.github.io)

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How we perceive time: stop it slipping away by doing new things (blog.bufferapp.com)

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HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook & The Industrial Surveillance Complex (www.dailykos.com)

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How the algorithm for coloring the iTunes song list works (stackoverflow.com)

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Bolivian president's plane forced to divert over a rumor Snowden was on board (www.sbs.com.au)

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NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping (www.schneier.com)

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My First Exit (kzhu.net)

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Snowden needs "world's protection", says Venezuelan President (www.reuters.com)

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Bolivian Leader's Plane Rerouted on Snowden Fear (www.nytimes.com)

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Immutable Infrastructure and Disposable Components (chadfowler.com)

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Dropbox will kill your insane MacBook Air 2013 battery (blog.nicoschuele.com)

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What Marshmallows Tell Us About Silicon Valley (priceonomics.com)

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Why you think your phone is vibrating when it is not (www.bbc.com)

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Stanford students capture the flight of birds on very high-speed video (news.stanford.edu)

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Unmanned Russian rocket explodes seconds after liftoff (edition.cnn.com)

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Quartzy Collects $4M To Help Scientists Manage Lab Inventory (blogs.wsj.com)

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Yahoo Acquires Qwiki For Around $50 Million (techcrunch.com)

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GitHub Is Down - Storage Availability: Experiencing Problems (github.com)

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Browse the Debian source code (http://sources.debian.net)

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The Best Name Ever for a Computer Language (blog.pokercopilot.com)

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Pixate Raises $3.8M to Bring Their Dynamic UI Platform to Android and Mac (www.pixate.com)

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Google Alerts Drops RSS Delivery Option (searchengineland.com)

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Amazon Web Services’ growth unrelenting (news.netcraft.com)

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Trext – Software that engages large groups in interactive texting (http://trext.me)

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Bay Area BART Salaries (www.mercurynews.com)

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With 34M+ Visitors a Month, Twitch Raises $8.3M in New Venture Funding (mattermark.com)

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Introducing MongoMallard: A fast ORM based on MongoEngine (hack.close.io)

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Websocket-based Tethering for iOS devices (github.com)

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Announcing Firebase Support For Java and Android (www.firebase.com)

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Show HN: iTunes for 3D printing (www.layerbylayer.com)

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Study: Women performed better on a math test when using someone else's name (bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk)

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Albert Einstein’s Advice to His Son (www.brainpickings.org)

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Insights into the 2013 iOS Developer Survey (bigswing.com)

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Apple hires former Yves Saint Laurent CEO for 'special projects' (mobile.reuters.com)

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High costs and negative value of pair programming (namcookanalytics.com)

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Can Snowden fly by private jet from Moscow to Ecuador? (blog.privatefly.com)

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Bart employee salaries CSV (github.com)

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DNI James Clapper Admits He Lied To Congress About NSA Surveillance (threatpost.com)

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Ask HN: Founders, how much equity did you give up in your first funding round? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Swiftype Explains Their Cloud Stack (blog.leanstack.io)

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White House petition to protect Tesla from auto dealers close to 100k signatures (www.treehugger.com)

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Wireframing via sketching on tablets (www.pentotype.com)

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Ask HN: We screwed up our HN post. What next? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Code Wars (JS, Coffeescript & Ruby) (www.codewars.com)

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Bolivia leader's jet diverted 'amid Snowden suspicions' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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

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What blocks Ruby, Python to get Javascript V8 speed? (stackoverflow.com)

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UberChopper Service in NYC (blog.uber.com)

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A tribute to Stanislaw Lem. Thanks Snowden. (metamn.github.io)

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Building a TCP API (How we built our realtime app, Filmgrain, part 2) (blog.filmgrainapp.com)

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Ask HN - need some advice, I'm stuck (news.ycombinator.com)

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Time as a hexadecimal color value (www.thecolourclock.co.uk)

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The 5 Minute Guide to Living a Healthy Lifestyle (medium.com)

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Official HN repository (github.com)

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Why aren't mail servers configured to require public keys? (news.ycombinator.com)

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PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden: first refusals of asylum applications (translate.google.de)

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A Simple Stunt Reveals How Blogs Will Print Anything for Pageviews (betabeat.com)

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OrientDB: European startups do it the hard way (techwirenews.com)

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Why you feel phantom phone calls (www.bbc.com)

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'Buried in the immigration bill is a nat'l ID system called E-Verify' (www.the-free-foundation.org)

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To Avoid Root Canals, Teeth That Replace Themselves (online.wsj.com)

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Apple made £68 million in the UK last year, paid £0 corporation tax (www.tuaw.com)

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New York City Launches .nyc Domain Names (www.mydotnyc.com)

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Free Tesla, say 100,000 signers of White House petition (m.cnet.com)

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Shipping with Stripe and EasyPost (YC S13) is cruise control for cool (www.petekeen.com)

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The Data Behind Why Persistence Pays Off in Blogging (tomtunguz.com)

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Should LOPSA "lead the march" to DevOps? (www.standalone-sysadmin.com)

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MIT Media Lab will map your relationships like the NSA using your metadata (http://immersion.media.mit.edu)

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Secure Website Authentication Using GPG Keys (neverfear.org)

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85

Ask HN: How do you deal with severe anger issues? I need help (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bolivian Leader's Plane Rerouted on Snowden Fear (bigstory.ap.org)

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0

Here's What We Have to Say About the Westboro Baptist Church (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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How to prolong compilation time while engaging in leisure activities? (tex.stackexchange.com)

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Skype on steroids - HD video + work on 40+ file types in the browser (http://www.kollaborate.io)

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Ask HN: SaaS/Recurring Businesses - How did you figure out your prices? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Indian Embassy in Moscow did receive a request for asylum From Snowden (news.ycombinator.com)

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A collection of optical illusions made with web tech (codepen.io)

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Welcome to OAuth.io boilerplate (oauth-io.github.io)

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Ask HN: how do you manage encrypted email? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The real reason why barns are painted red (plus.google.com)

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Rails 4 on Heroku | Heroku Dev Center (devcenter.heroku.com)

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Python: hash, id and Dictionary Order (blog.amir.rachum.com)

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Knowls: Better Web Browsing (www.aimath.org)

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Yahoo Buys Qwiki for About $50 Million (allthingsd.com)

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Edward Snowden asylum: Bolivian president's plane diverted (www.guardian.co.uk)

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GoldieBlox’s engineering toy for girls hits Toys’R'Us shelves (blog.sfgate.com)

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Joyent Manta (www.joyent.com)

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90

The Internet Defense League rallies to Restore the Fourth (gigaom.com)

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Ask HN: What are you using as an Angular backend? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Our logo as a WebGL shader (http://linkergames.com)

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This ATM will turn your banknotes into Bitcoin. (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN : My week-end application, MovieWall.org (Angular.js stack) (http://moviewall.org)

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Review our launching soon page please. (lurnq.com)

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Snowden's True Motives? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Golang multipart file upload example (matt.aimonetti.net)

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Offshore developers: how do you break into U.S. market? (news.ycombinator.com)

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German government rejects asylum request from Snowden (translate.google.com)

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City announces .NYC TLD (nycgov.tumblr.com)

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Reader's Dead and Google doesn't want us to remember that. (web.archive.org)

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Want to Raise Money For Your Startup? Read This First. (matchist.com)

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Style guide boilerplate (bjankord.github.io)

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What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (cstheory.stackexchange.com)

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Show HN: Send Business Cards Direct to Email via SMS (www.swapcard.co)

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Ask HN: Who are the journalists covering Internet privacy? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS (blog.danielwellman.com)

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Microbes will be only life on earth after 2.8 billion years (www.natureworldnews.com)

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0

Technology isn't everything. Keep your bullshit filter on high. (blog.buildbettersoftware.com)

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Searching online won't help... (www.newyorker.com)

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0

Introducing the Python Bee (www.dropbox.com)

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The Plucky Contender (medium.com)

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‘Through the Wormhole’ Considers Mind Reading (www.nytimes.com)

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Why JavaScript? (infrequently.org)

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The boy killed for an off-hand remark about Muhammad (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Buy Matthew Broderick’s old movie computer and possibly impress Ally Sheedy (www.itworld.com)

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Beachmint Board Pulls the Plug - Founders Ousted (pandodaily.com)

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Show HN: Vinstavids (http://vinstavids.com)