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Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway (www.extremetech.com)

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Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted (translate.google.com)

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Venezuela offers asylum to Snowden (www.reuters.com)

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Novena Open Laptop (www.bunniestudios.com)

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Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Revel Web Framework for Go (robfig.github.io)

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2007 article described suspected NSA backdoor 2 months after PRISM started (www.schneier.com)

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Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals (1981) (www.nytimes.com)

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A Disease Without a Cure Spreads Quietly in the West (www.nytimes.com)

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Basic Neural Network on Python (danielfrg.github.io)

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Self-Destructing Cookies – add-on for Firefox (addons.mozilla.org)

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CppCMS – High Performance C++ Web Framework (cppcms.com)

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« Ce n’est pas illégal, c’est a-légal » – mass surveillance disclosed in France (serendipity.ruwenzori.net)

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Politician: Call Snowden to Germany as witness (www.thelocal.de)

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KORE — A fast SPDY capable webserver for web development in C (kore.io)

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Japan: Living in an Internet Cafe (pulitzercenter.org)

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The programming languages behind "the mother of all demos" (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

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ClojureScript: 4 Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't (jasonrudolph.com)

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US sends pre-emptive warrant to Ireland to stop Snowden flight refuelling there (www.irishtimes.com)

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Using D3.js to Brute Force the Pirate Puzzle (azundo.github.io)

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Wt, C++ Web Toolkit (www.webtoolkit.eu)

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How to Opt Out of AT&T's Plan to Sell Data About You and Your Smartphone Use (www.forbes.com)

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Who Makes Below Minimum Wage in the Mechanical Turk Sweatshop? (priceonomics.com)

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Here’s who spent their Fourth of July protesting the NSA (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Oracle changes Berkeley DB license under developers (meshedinsights.com)

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Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project) (countryaday.org)

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Why a more transparent NSA would be good for Barack Obama (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer's Biggest Hit (www.businessweek.com)

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How to build a model to distinguish tweets about Apple (Inc.) from apple (fruit) (stackoverflow.com)

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Why are underground parking garages hot? (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

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Why Green Architecture Hardly Ever Deserves the Name (www.archdaily.com)

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Bypassing 2 Factor Authentication for Dropbox (www.qcert.org)

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The Mother of All Demos (en.wikipedia.org)

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Working for free and what it taught me (codeofrob.com)

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Jay-Z Is Watching, and He Knows Your Friends (www.nytimes.com)

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Minimal ECG using an Arduino and Xoscillo (codinglab.blogspot.be)

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Study: 6% of adults on Internet use Reddit (www.cnn.com)

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Programming Trends on StackOverflow (www.dodgycoder.net)

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Applying Dan Ariely's TED talk to software development (softwareleadweekly.com)

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Battery technology: A pile of wood (www.economist.com)

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Oxford has a bell that's been ringing for 173 years (io9.com)

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Apple's security strategy: make it invisible (www.macworld.com)

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Technology Workers Are Young (Really Young) (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Latest Vision for Las Vegas - A Downtown Vibe (www.nytimes.com)

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NSA data volumes in terms of STASI filing cabinets (translate.google.com)

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Just a new name: Germany does Not move away form data retention at all (translate.google.com)

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Come on Amazon, give ELB some love (coderwall.com)

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Infographic: NSA/PRISM data volumes in terms of STASI filing cabinets (translate.google.com)

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Show HN: Haquery – jQuery for Haskell (github.com)

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P2P-assisted Web music streaming with WebRTC and Play Framework (Scala) (http://ztream.atamborrino.cloudbees.net)

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Show HN: A site using zero images – any feedback on the UI? (www.tyresum.co.uk)

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Would it be evil to build a functional brain inside a computer? (io9.com)

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Ultra-high resolution 3D scan of the entire human brain (io9.com)

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Recreating a distributed web with Chicago Boss (timmcnamara.co.nz)

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Venezuela Offers Asylum to Snowden (www.nytimes.com)

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Microsoft's developer crusade (www.zdnet.com)

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Yahoo-acquired Astrid "winding down" (techcrunch.com)

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Bitsy: Technical co-founders seek entrepreneur competition (win.bitsy.io)

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Nevada cops sued over forced occupation of private homes (rt.com)

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Is cryptography engineering or science? (www.schneier.com)

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A New Cyber Concern: Hack Attacks on Medical Devices (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Elon Musk tweeted new Grasshopper test (www.youtube.com)

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Mysterious radio flashes may be from stars collapsing into black holes (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Flying Passenger (blog.phusion.nl)

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Why I’m hiring graduates with thirds this year (www.spectator.co.uk)

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Protests against the NSA spring up across U.S. (www.cnn.com)

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'Asian flush' red flag for risk of cancer (www.nbcnews.com)

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Iceland Parliament Declines Snowden Citizenship Vote (worldnews.nbcnews.com)

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Nicaragua willing to give Snowden asylum (www.google.com)

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SpaceX Grasshopper 325m Test (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Read my gratitude. (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA recruitment drive goes horribly wrong (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Valley veteran Jeffrey McManus passes away suddenly (pandodaily.com)

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Phalcon PHP - A high-performance PHP framework implemented as a C extension (http://phalconphp.com)

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Facebook suspended a prominent citizen journalist community page in Turkey (news.ycombinator.com)

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Lightweight PostgreSQL deployments with Docker (www.slideshare.net)

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Awesome GIFs of Scientific Demonstrations (www.mymodernmet.com)

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Sugar Coma (www.slate.com)

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Ask HN:Where can I find free web hosting for developers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Detainee at Guantanamo Bay accuses US military guards of sexual assault (www.aljazeera.com)

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Plant communications: Beans’ talk (via fungi) (www.economist.com)

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Photos of Diet Wiegman's Mind-Blowing Shadow Sculptures (petapixel.com)

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[Show HN] responsive.io - responsive images as a service (beta) (www.responsive.io)

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Show HN: What does it feel like to be one of 7 billion? (built with D3) (blog.vctr.me)

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The State of Rust 0.7 (cmr.github.io)

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Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3 (article.gmane.org)

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The inventor of the mouse has died – why his invention took 30 years to catch on (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Feinstein’s Support for N.S.A. Defies Liberal Critics and Repute (www.nytimes.com)

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A "Third Way" in Entrepreneurship (tomvladeck.com)

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Fourth of July Illegal Search at Checkpoint (www.youtube.com)

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SpaceX Grasshopper - latest test, 325m (www.youtube.com)

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New Lisp-like language Harlan takes aim at the GPU and supercomputer speeds (www.fastcolabs.com)

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High Performance Ruby (speakerdeck.com)

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Tesla fan petition to White House reaches 100,000 signatures (www.latimes.com)

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A series of ClojureScript experiments with core.async (github.com)

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When in startup hell, keep walking (www.davidblerner.com)

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SoftBank’s $21.6 Billion Bid for Sprint Approved by U.S. (www.bloomberg.com)

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Want to kill health insurers? This start-up is teaching hospitals how. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Pilot SSH: connect to and manage remote servers from iOS/Android (lifehacker.com)

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Mystery radio bursts from outside the Milky Way may help locate missing baryons (www.nature.com)

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Vim as a Python IDE (unlogic.co.uk)

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The Cortex: a 3D exoskeletal cast for broken bones (jakevilldesign.dunked.com)

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Signs you're veering from good REST API design (blog.apiaxle.com)

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European states were told Snowden was on Morales plane, says Spain (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Examples of startups focused on AI? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Quake for Oculus Rift (phoboslab.org)

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Iceland parliament declines Snowden citizenship vote (www.reuters.com)

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"Dropbox for VPN" (https://www.zerotier.com)

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Happy 1st Birthday BootstrapCDN (blog.netdna.com)

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The problem with the IRS and open source: logic, not discrimination (blog.cashmusic.org)

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The Fake Twitter Follower Experiment: How I Gained 150K Followers in 1 Month (www.techvibes.com)

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How to bypass two-factor authentication in Dropbox (www.fixedbyvonnie.com)

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Remembering a Friend – Jeffrey McManus (www.twilio.com)

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Astrid service is winding down after Yahoo acquisition (blog.astrid.com)

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Node.js can replace wordpress? (www.js2node.com)

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Technology Workers Are Young (Really Young) (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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GUI Text Editor In Python (thelivingpearl.com)

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Show HN: My P2P rental site StreetLend is innovating in social trust (blog.streetlend.com)

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Quantum Computing, what it is, how it works [video] (www.exponentialtimes.net)

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Ask HN: What potential innovation would occur with Gigabit internet? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Node Man's Land (blog.lakenen.com)

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Protesters stage Restore the Fourth rallies across US (www.guardian.co.uk)

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How Clutter Affects Your Brain (lifehacker.com)

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Ways to do Content Marketing (www.slideshare.net)