hackerNews

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Doug Engelbart has died (www.ietf.org)

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CryptoCat, meet DecryptoCat (tobtu.com)

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U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement (www.nytimes.com)

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Restore the Fourth (www.restorethefourth.net)

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MasterCard breaks ranks in WikiLeaks blockade (wikileaks.org)

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Nginx just became the most used web server among the top 1000 websites (w3techs.com)

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FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire" (whowhatwhy.com)

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EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment (www.eff.org)

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Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers (torrentfreak.com)

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Uncovering Android Master Key That Makes 99% of Devices Vulnerable (bluebox.com)

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Reddit, Mozilla to stage Fourth of July protest against NSA spying (thehill.com)

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Students Question the NSA at Recruiting Session [audio] (soundcloud.com)

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German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NSA spying (www.zdnet.com)

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The Demo (sloan.stanford.edu)

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Web Framework Benchmarks Round 6 (www.techempower.com)

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“A Dark Room” game open-sourced (github.com)

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A few words on Doug Engelbart (worrydream.com)

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Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Dies at 88 (www.nytimes.com)

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Ansible Simply Kicks Ass (devo.ps)

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Snowden's Constitution vs Obama's Constitution (www.techdirt.com)

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Rust 0.7 Released (github.com)

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Lost your encryption key? Then go to jail. (www.itworld.com)

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RethinkDB 1.7: hot backup, atomic set/get, 10x insert performance improvement (rethinkdb.com)

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Client won’t pay, my final resort (pixxel.co)

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Product Strategy Means Saying No (insideintercom.io)

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Somewhat Verbatim Conversation with a Startup Recruiter (blog.galler.io)

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Show HN: I made an HN job board (hnjobs.org)

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10

The Top F2P Monetization Tricks (www.gamasutra.com)

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Did Google Panda kill Google Alerts? (www.gwern.net)

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Here’s a big shock: AT&T will start selling customers’ usage data (gigaom.com)

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Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night (gist.github.com)

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Mass protests planned over web NSA spying revelations (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Your test suite is trying to tell you something (blog.jgc.org)

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Boxee Acquired By Samsung For Around $30M (techcrunch.com)

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Humble eBook Bundle 2 (www.humblebundle.com)

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How Mac got its Command key symbol (folklore.org)

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Notes on computer science, math, research, programming, and industry (yz.mit.edu)

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Sails.js – Real-time MVC Framework for Node.js (sailsjs.org)

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This Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting (adage.com)

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Qt 5.1 With Android & iOS Technology Previews Released (blog.qt.digia.com)

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Revelations about the French "PRISM" (www.lemonde.fr)

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Final Fantasy VII is available on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

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Yahoo acquires Xobni (allthingsd.com)

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These charts show how the Edward Snowden story is overwhelming the NSA story (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Why Not Python - the GIL hinders concurrency (www.chrisstucchio.com)

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JavascriptOO - every javascript project you should be looking into (www.javascriptoo.com)

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Minecraft meshing, Part 1 / 2 (0fps.wordpress.com)

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Teen Jailed For Facebook Comment Reportedly Beat Up Behind Bars (www.npr.org)

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Ecuador’s strange journey from embracing Snowden to turning him away (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Show HN: Spread bitcoins by lending to friends (bitcoinswithfriends.com)

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Kim Dotcom, New Zealand PM spar in spy debate (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Why DRM-free comic books are a big deal, even if you don’t read comics (arstechnica.com)

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What we look for in students (www.hackerschool.com)

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Everything you need to know about hash length extension attacks (www.skullsecurity.org)

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Tools To Help You Hide Online Raise The Ire Of Advertisers (www.npr.org)

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Module that casts photorealistic shadows (indamix.github.io)

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Candy — a JavaScript-based multi-user xmpp chat client (candy-chat.github.io)

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Schema-less is usually a lie (blog.mongohq.com)

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Computer Keyboard from Bananas [video] (vidinterest.com)

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Just-released Fedora 19 adds native support for 3D printers (www.3ders.org)

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A Better Way to Learn AngularJS (www.thinkster.io)

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5 Programming Mistakes You Should Stop Making (www.singhrahul.com)

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Poll: What is your favorite programming font? (news.ycombinator.com)

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We Are Pioneers: the Journey to Ember.js (hawkins.io)

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Automated, large-scale deployments with Ansible's pull-mode (www.stavros.io)

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Ambient occlusion for Minecraft-like worlds (0fps.wordpress.com)

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Show HN: Calculates full scholarships available based on your grades (www.collegemerit.com)

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Army Ousts Egypt’s President (www.nytimes.com)

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Using Trello to Keep Track of Ideas (feint.me)

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Pitfalls of Equity for Employees In Startups (blog.upcounsel.com)

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Mastercard and Visa start banning VPN providers (torrentfreak.com)

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Major app vulnerability that could affect 99% of Android devices unearthed (thenextweb.com)

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Ask HN: CS Student - Need Help. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tech That Helped Turkish Protesters Save Taksim Square (www.forbes.com)

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3D Printed Gun Smuggled Into Israeli Parliament (translate.google.com)

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Italian stem-cell trial based on flawed data (www.nature.com)

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New History Tab in GitHub for Mac (github.com)

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Ecuador says it found a hidden microphone at its London embassy (ca.reuters.com)

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Postpwnium Writeup (rpw.io)

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New Service (by me, solo) Lets Musicians Sell On Itunes For Cheap (www.forbes.com)

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Criticue.com - 6 months ago we launched on HN (news.ycombinator.com)

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AirBnB for Boats (www.boatbound.co)

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Ask HN: help with my startup (news.ycombinator.com)

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Plain-Text Offenders "Celebrates" 1500 Offenders; Asks For Your Help (news.ycombinator.com)

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20 JavaScript Libraries to Simplify Development Tasks (codegeekz.com)

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Shared Command (bhorowitz.com)

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Snowden and a muzzled free press (edition.cnn.com)

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Exploring the Calendar Metaphor on iOS (labs.teehanlax.com)

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#snowden4pres2020 (brent-noorda.blogspot.com)

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Forensic Analysis of the Tor Browser Bundle on OS X, Linux, and Windows [pdf] (research.torproject.org)

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Goldie Blox (www.goldieblox.com)

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Massive online and offline NSA protests today (http://CallForFreedom.org)

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The Updated Guide to Unicode on Python (lucumr.pocoo.org)

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Mars Rover Opportunity Passes Half-Way Point to Next Destination (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Offer HN: Buy my file sharing site (news.ycombinator.com)

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We lost a great one (Doug Engelbart) (plus.google.com)

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Reddit, Mozilla, Wordpress, and others plan July 4 protest against NSA (www.pcworld.com)

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Security expert: All Occupiers’ phones were logged (www.salon.com)

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Your MacBook Has a Force Field. This Is What It Looks Like (www.wired.com)

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Using AI for Map Marker Labeling (tech.adstruc.com)

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Clapper: I gave 'erroneous' answer because I forgot about Patriot Act (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Boston U sues Apple over iPhone (gigaom.com)

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Splitting founder equity – how we did it and why we’re sharing (blog.zenlike.me)

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Engineering Wonders of the World (1909) (archive.org)

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Show HN: An API that analyzes names (Drillbit) (drillbitapp.com)

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Doug's 1968 Demo (dougengelbart.org)

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Minecraft meshing, Part 2 / 2 (0fps.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: what problems do you have in your company? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Austrian plane search for leaker Snowden enrages Bolivia (www.reuters.com)

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Ember 1.0 RC6 released - async router and web components (emberjs.com)

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MedHack: mentorathon for startups to land clients and VCs (http://medhack.prebacked.com)

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Sharp to Introduce 32-inch 4K Touchscreen Monitor (sharp-world.com)

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Quadstreaker for iPhone - streak some quads on your Jul 4 trip (quadstreaker.com)

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Rap Genius and the long tradition of black music explained for whites (thenewinquiry.com)

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Two obscure people who changed the world (shkrobius.livejournal.com)

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Privacy Protests (www.schneier.com)

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Canada's recently announced Open Data Portal and RESTful API (www.data.gc.ca)

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Adding a Backend to Your App In Android Studio (android-developers.blogspot.com)

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AT&T prepping sale of customers' anonymous location information (www.fiercewireless.com)

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Rampant Apache website attack hits visitors with highly malicious software (arstechnica.com)

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I'm leaving SendGrid (theycallmeswift.com)

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There are 42% fewer new secrets for future Edward Snowdens to leak (qz.com)

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UN Secretary General: Edward Snowden's digital 'misuse' has created problems (www.guardian.co.uk)

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U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Xobni on being acquired by Yahoo (blog.xobni.com)

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Ask HN: Will Go become a popular web development language? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Pentester's Guide to IPMI (community.rapid7.com)

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Google Location History (maps.google.com)

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The multicore dilemma is worse than you think (www.flowlang.net)

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Silicon Valley Can’t Be Copied (www.technologyreview.com)

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Bone marrow frees men of HIV drugs (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Europe must get tough with the US over NSA spying revelations (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Bayesian Estimation with PyMC and IPCluster (www.wakari.io)

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Progressive enhancement is still important (jakearchibald.com)

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Latest Updates on Egypt’s Political Crisis (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)

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LIMBO Game for iPhone and iPad (itunes.apple.com)

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Technology Alone Will Not Save Health Care (www.forbes.com)

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Egyptian Military Ousts Morsi, Suspends Constitution (www.breitbart.com)

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Should I rewrite my app in Go for better scalability? (screamingatmyscreen.com)

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Nginx Download File Trigger (www.codestance.com)

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Flying Passenger (blog.phusion.nl)

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Make your AngularJS, EmberJS, or BackboneJS website Crawlable by Google (http://www.brombone.com)

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Doug Engelbart publications (www.dougengelbart.org)

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Keep coding. Punchy Prose will handle copywriting and editing for you. (punchyprose.com)

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Ask HN: Does anyone else see a black band on top of the HN page ? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Beej's Guide to Network Programming - Updated with IPv6 Content [pdf] (www.beej.us)

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Soylent: Stop Eating Food (www.inc.com)

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Ask HN: Which javascript charting library to use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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We need a simple ad free youtube alternative (news.ycombinator.com)

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Write good commit messages (blog.jgc.org)

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Courts Can't Agree on Whether Cops Can Track Your Cell Without a Warrant (www.wired.com)

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In short the US has no clue where Snowden is. (news.ycombinator.com)

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25 Secrets for Faster ASP.NET: free ebook from RedGate (www.simple-talk.com)

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Majority of gamers today can't finish level 1 in Super Mario Bros (www.p4rgaming.com)

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Authorities 'use analytics tool that recognises sarcasm' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Perseverance Won’t Make You Successful (But without It You Won’t Get Anywhere) (www.ezeep.com)

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Scaling PHP to 30,000 Concurrent Users Per Server (highscalability.com)