hackerNews

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“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book” (www.salon.com)

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Game Programming Patterns (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)

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"Nothing like this will be built again" (www.antipope.org)

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Final Term - Terminal Emulator (finalterm.org)

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Stay-at-home dad (www.facebook.com)

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Snowden releases information about Australian Intelligence gathering programs (www.theage.com.au)

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Armchair air crash investigator (momav.me)

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Snowden Interview with Jacob Applebaum (cryptome.org)

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Ellsberg: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A thorough PGP tutorial (futureboy.us)

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Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity? (news.ycombinator.com)

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WeAreData - London (wearedata.watchdogs.com)

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How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how (medium.com)

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Video shows plane's moment of impact at SFO (edition.cnn.com)

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How upgrading to Google Apps for Business killed my company's email (floriancornu.blogspot.com)

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Paul Dirac's handwritten notes for his PhD, the first ever on quantum mechanics (academia.edu)

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The Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts is 95% (www.pbs.org)

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Privacy Group to Ask Supreme Court to Stop N.S.A.’s Phone Spying Program (www.nytimes.com)

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Don't talk to the police (Video) (www.youtube.com)

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Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air [pdf] (homes.cs.washington.edu)

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Let's Play Ancient Greek Geometry (blog.sciencevsmagic.net)

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Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower's Law Firm (thecable.foreignpolicy.com)

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EJDB: Embedded JSON Database for C/C++, .Net, NodeJS, Python, Lua, Java, Ruby (ejdb.org)

112 points first seen 2013070812 last seen 2013071000 55 comments

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Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001) (cacr.uwaterloo.ca)

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Use your browser as Notepad (www.fizerkhan.com)

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Basic income vs. Capitalism (stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)

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Show HN: vim-airline (github.com)

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Photographer.io is now open source (blog.photographer.io)

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How to design a multi-user ajax web application to be concurrently safe (stackoverflow.com)

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"Just open-source it" is not realistic (rachelbythebay.com)

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The Top Free-to-Play Monetization Tricks (www.gamasutra.com)

68 points first seen 2013070818 last seen 2013070921 39 comments

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Show HN: 7min Workout with Rdio (http://7min.io)

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What I learned in 7 years, 5 apartments, and 9 roommates (www.brickunderground.com)

67 points first seen 2013070809 last seen 2013070903 27 comments

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Ask HN: Why don't companies open-source the source-code of their old products? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Thorough analysis of CVE-2013-0809 - Java integer overflow (axtaxt.wordpress.com)

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Flattr adds support for funding in Bitcoin (thenextweb.com)

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Trying to find people in Chicago for a meshnet (karmanebula.com)

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What it is like to be a Muslim woman, and why we know what freedom is (aveilandadarkplace.wordpress.com)

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Linus Torvalds has been a visual basic fan - (a post from yr. 2006) (www.codinghorror.com)

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Hacking For Good (rix.si)

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Terrorists vs. Bathtubs (www.onthemedia.org)

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A Test to Measure How Rational You Really Are (ieet.org)

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How clothes should fit (howclothesshouldfit.com)

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Ask HN: What makes you go for it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Kapi: Silex-based PHP micro-framework (github.com)

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Apple Has Nothing To Say (adcontrarian.blogspot.com)

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Things You Should Shout at Brilliant Web Developers (blog.jonathanmarkwell.com)

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I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts (plus.google.com)

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UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine (unqlite.org)

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White House gives Homeland Security control of communications in emergencies (rt.com)

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Oregon Proposes Investment Model For Student Loans (techcrunch.com)

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Ember.js Persistence Foundation (epf.io)

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Mesh network before/after Hurricane Sandy in Red Hook, Brooklyn (Case Study PDF) (tidepools.co)

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Solar powered plane lands at JFK, completing cross-country flight (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Solicitation for US Propaganda Disruption Ideas (cryptome.org)

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29-Year-Old Gets $15 Million to Decipher Song Lyrics (finance.yahoo.com)

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Odin.js - Node.js Game Engine (lonewolfgames.github.io)

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Google's internal spy system was Chinese hacker target (2010) (www.zdnet.com)

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Show HN: Generate perfect semantic HTML (begriffs.github.io)

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Rejected names for the original Xbox (www.edge-online.com)

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Life is not a conveyor belt (alexwarren.co.uk)

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Required Reading for Product Designers (robertlenne.com)

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How clutter affects you and what you can do about it (ooomf.com)

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The 'cyber-attack' threat to London's Olympic ceremony (www.bbc.co.uk)

16 points first seen 2013070821 last seen 2013070906 33 comments

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Roswell incident Google game (http://www.google.com.au)

14 points first seen 2013070812 last seen 2013070821 7 comments

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Web interface design in the browser (http://uidojo.com)

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D3 for html (macwright.org)

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Bitbucket Migration - Bit's Quest (bitbucket.org)

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Crowdfunding In America: End of The Peer Show (www.economist.com)

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

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Bash Configurations Demystified for Linux and OS X (dghubble.org)

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Has the Smartphone Boom Peaked? (www.forbes.com)

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Stop writing meaningful things on Facebook (medium.com)

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Using a hosts file to make the internet not suck as much (someonewhocares.org)

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Ask HN: Any cool tutorials you can recommend? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bit's Quest: Using javascript to control a robot (game) (bitbucket.org)

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Lake Vostok buried under two miles of ice found to teem with life (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Hangovers Cost the Economy $224 Billion Says CDC (reason.com)

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Coinbase you're so fucked (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How do you manage a relationship when obsessed with your work (or play)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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US attempts to block Edward Snowden are 'bolstering' case for asylum (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Don't Ask Users to Bring the Beer (medium.com)

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Ask HN: What should I do with a product that I built but could not market? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Cross-browser stylesheet creation and rule creation/deletion (IE6 compatible) (github.com)

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Brewing a Bitcoin Wallet: A Bitcoin Wallet on your Mac with one command. (dghubble.org)

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Philip Greenspun: My visual approach, and Asiana’s (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

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Why “we only spy on foreigners” doesn’t work any more for the NSA (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Your Cardio Routine Is Making You Fat (health.yahoo.net)

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Singapore Inquest Rules American Killed Himself (www.nytimes.com)

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Documents: Sweden wiretapping Russia for the NSA (falkvinge.net)

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Resources for new Go programmers (dave.cheney.net)

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Snowden’s contribution (medium.com)

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Metro rips out Phantom Planter’s flowers at Dupont Circle station (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Delayed IPOs (sub.garrytan.com)

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KAPI: PHP Silex based simple helper to generate RESTful APIs and applications. (github.com)

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Hack4ac - Text-mining and analyzing author contributions in PLOS articles (www.writelatex.com)

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Ask HN: why are there so many posts about American politics recently (news.ycombinator.com)

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Words that trigger DHS surveillance (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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The Secret Science Behind Big Data And Word Of Mouth (techcrunch.com)

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Turn a Kindle into a Weather Display (2012) (www.shatteredhaven.com)

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Boosted Boards Technical Progress Part I: Electronics (boostedboards.posthaven.com)

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Pilot was attempting his first Boeing 777 landing at San Francisco (www.foxnews.com)

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How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear - Slashdot (slashdot.org)

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