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Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize (www.popularmechanics.com)

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How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google (blog.samwhited.com)

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Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income (simulacrum.cc)

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Do the right thing, wait to get fired (brendansterne.com)

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Estonia just opensourced their e-voting system, piloted in 2005 (news.err.ee)

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Microsoft reveals major reorganization (www.microsoft.com)

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The Crystal Programming Language (crystal-lang.org)

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Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’ (rt.com)

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Navigating the Postmodern Python World (www.stephendiehl.com)

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Why is nobody using SSL client certificates? (pilif.github.io)

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Anonymous Person Posts $500,000 Bond To Free Texas Teen (www.npr.org)

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Shuttle - A simple SSH shortcut menu for OS X (fitztrev.github.io)

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Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Plug: the brain of your devices (meetplug.com)

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Philosophy and "for" loops — more from Go and Rust (lwn.net)

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LINQ Ruined My Favorite Interview Question (scottchamberlin.tumblr.com)

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Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper (reviews.cnet.com)

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The worm that regrows its head, and memories, when decapitated (theweek.com)

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Hey programmers, we need to talk (sealedabstract.com)

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Comprehend (YC W11) Raises $8.4M Led by Sequoia to Lower Clinical Trial Costs (blogs.wsj.com)

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Snowden to meet with human rights groups in Moscow (english.ruvr.ru)

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GitHub Flow in the Browser (github.com)

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Verizon backs Ubuntu smartphone (www.zdnet.com)

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Crowd steps up to fund 'NSA-proof' app (stream.aljazeera.com)

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Snowden's letter to human rights activists made public. (english.ruvr.ru)

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Leading Australian Telco storing data on behalf of US government (www.smh.com.au)

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HN on StoryLine (historic news browser) (www.storyline.im)

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Secure Ideas will not be presenting at DEF CON this year (blog.secureideas.com)

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Are mobile web apps really slow? (danbricklin.com)

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IFTTT goes Mobile (blog.ifttt.com)

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Instant Bitcoin Purchases at Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

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ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades, Studies Find (wsj.com)

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PyPy 2.1 beta released (with ARM JIT) (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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Why I don't touch crypto (pilif.github.io)

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How to get a job when you have no connections (www.karenx.com)

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Kremlin security agencies buying typewriters "to avoid leaks" (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The CIA and a secret vacuum cleaner (m.apnews.com)

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Show HN: We built an easy way to create online guides and tutorials (stps.co)

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Firefox OS Simulator 4.0 released (hacks.mozilla.org)

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PyPy: Software Transactional Memory lisp experiments (morepypy.blogspot.jp)

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Any.do Cal (www.any.do)

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Report Indicates More Extensive Cooperation by Microsoft on Surveillance (www.nytimes.com)

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NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet (www.nasa.gov)

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Congratulations to the Meteor Summer Hackathon 2013 teams (www.meteor.com)

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A quick look at Dropbox’s new Datastore API (xamar.in)

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High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook (idleprocess.wordpress.com)

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Google To Spend $500 Million To Market Moto X Phone (www.forbes.com)

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HTTP Client Performance – IO (blogs.atlassian.com)

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Latest Shipment of Avalon ASICs Could Increase Network Hashrate By 500% (thegenesisblock.com)

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If OpenStack has won, then cloud computing has lost (ibuildthecloud.tumblr.com)

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Becoming a Freelancer Again (www.sparklewise.com)

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Why Productive People Get Up Insanely Early (www.fastcompany.com)

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The Pixar Theory (jonnegroni.com)

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Is Russia interrogating Snowden? (world.time.com)

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Show HN: Clara.io, next-gen web-based 3D creation tool. (exocortex.com)

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Feedback for newly launched Lumi (lumi.do)

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BlackBerry gives Indian spooks BBM and BIS access (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Mixpanel launches Data Driven Conference 2013 (mixpanel.com)

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An easy way for NYC renters to schedule apartment showings (www.nakedapartments.com)

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A search engine built by the crowd (blog.archify.com)

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Silicon Valley's Anti-unionism and Class Warfare (nymag.com)

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Why your next project should be public domain (nightweb.net)

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Pebble + PagerDuty = PebbleDuty (blog.pagerduty.com)

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Golf in China Is Younger Than Tiger Woods, but Growing Up Fast (www.nytimes.com)

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Building static sites with Middleman (12devs.co.uk)

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Modest Debut of Atlas May Foreshadow Age of ‘Robo Sapiens’ (www.nytimes.com)

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'Virtual Lolita' Aims to Trap Chatroom Paedophiles (www.bbc.co.uk)

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40 Days of Dating (fortydaysofdating.com)

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Show HN: Emulos records how people use your app (http://www.emulos.com)

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Website not converting... any ideas? (www.balsamicsauce.com)

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Ask HN: If you were starting your career today, which language would you learn? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Form validation in AngularJS (www.ng-newsletter.com)

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Using weather as a trading signal (www.quantopian.com)

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Show HN: My First Web App (www.onionornot.com)

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How Did Dropbox Scale To 175M Users? A Former Engineer Details The Early Days (techcrunch.com)

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What making partner means at a startup (firstround.com)

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Developing Software on Time: The Developer (mustw.in)

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NSA Blackmailing Obama? | Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice (www.youtube.com)

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What the government pays to snoop on you (www.usatoday.com)

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This Gaming Startup Has 100 Interns Building Apps This Summer (www.forbes.com)

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Stop Paying For SSL Certificates You Don't Need (www.tinfoilsecurity.com)

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Spooked by NSA, Russia reverts to paper documents (www.usatoday.com)

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Show HN: I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi (madebynathan.com)

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Millionaire's Math (foreverjobless.com)

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Ask HN: What do you do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Year Ago ... I started creating something, it'll never be 'complete' (michaelwright.me)

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Why I’m Deleting 600,000 user accounts (www.sellingly.com)

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Impeach Obama for NSA Spying Program? (www.youtube.com)

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The lost art of sticking to it (www.micaelwidell.com)

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What am I missing in the Snowden affair? (www.aljazeera.com)

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This is Nokia's Lumia 1020, a 41-megapixel Windows Phone camera (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: Advice on Business Cards (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Where should Edward Snowden go? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Microsoft violated your trust and privacy, says newly leaked NSA documentation (haverzine.com)

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A Crowdfunding Campaign to Set Smartphones Free From Cellular Networks (www.technologyreview.com)

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Fu.gg - safe for work urls (http://fu.gg)

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Meet Lumi, the no-effort content discovery engine from the founders of Last.fm (thenextweb.com)

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Writing Programs Using Regular Language (web.mit.edu)

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Study confirms link between omega-3 and increased prostate cancer risk (www.eurekalert.org)

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Ingenious Evil.js (rawgithub.com)

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Alien planet's color detected for the first time (www.nbcnews.com)

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Oracle JDK 7u40 EA hardfloat available (www.raspberrypi.org)

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Reducers explained through Python (adambard.com)

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Restore the 4th - San Francisco - Come plan an August 4th rally (www.facebook.com)

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Why Your Kids Shouldn't Go to Harvard (even if they could get in) (www.martynemko.com)

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Australian Telco storing data on behalf of US government (www.theage.com.au)

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A Dangerous Change To Google Maps (shkspr.mobi)

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The economics of awful blockbuster movies (qz.com)

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Scaling Your Database via InnoDB Table Compression (37signals.com)

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On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

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Andreessen Says Foreign Web Companies Could Take Advantage of Prism Fallout (jessicalessin.com)

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How can I use encryption with Gmail? (superuser.com)

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Kremlin's response to Snowden's revelations: switch to typewriters (www.foxnews.com)

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Gistbox - The Beautiful Way to Organize Code Snippets (www.gistboxapp.com)

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HTTP/2 Missing the Mark (cdent.tiddlyspace.com)

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WebApps written in QML: Not far from Reality anymore (akreuzkamp.de)

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Inoreader Android Alpha (www.inoreader.com)

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Rich Hickey and core.async - Podcast (thinkrelevance.com)

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Fact: Madlibs Increase Conversion Rates (and I have proof) (blog.sweetiq.com)

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Asiana 214: Training with passengers in the back? (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

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Bill introduced to bring back Glass-Steagall (www.businessinsider.com)

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Statement from Microsoft About Response to Government Demands for Customer Data (www.microsoft.com)

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Einstein Answers a Little Girl’s Question about Science vs. Religion (www.brainpickings.org)

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Inside GitHub #1: Freedom (www.youtube.com)

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Getting More - What You Should Know About Negotiating Start-up Job Offers (www.thedailymuse.com)

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YABBAS - Yet Another Bare Bones Arduino (www.instructables.com)

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Case study: why affiliate links don't work well on mobile. (www.affiliatehelp.info)

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PyPy 2.1 beta (morepypy.blogspot.co.uk)

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Ask HN: What's on your key chain? (news.ycombinator.com)

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About multithreaded Java programming (www.ibm.com)

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The hot new technology in Big Data is decades old: SQL (arstechnica.com)

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4 Ways You're Lying to Yourself About Being Productive (www.thedailymuse.com)

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In Defense of Coders (blog.ledwards.com)

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What’s in a Good Commit? (www.jacopretorius.net)

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OLPC XO Tablet may hit Walmart shelves July 16 (linuxgizmos.com)

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My First Firefox OS App hits the Firefox Marketplace (ruk.ca)

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Platform economics in a nutshell (yaronschoen.com)

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My experiences with Django and Python 3 (pydanny.com)

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Transforming Our Company (www.microsoft.com)

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Geolibertarianism: a system to supply an unconditional basic income (zachaysan.tumblr.com)

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My Javascript Queue Object (codereview.stackexchange.com)

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Ask HN: Notifying users about hellbanning (news.ycombinator.com)

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Agile Designers: The Best Design Resources in One Place (agiledesigners.com)

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Astronomers identify blue planet where it rains glass (www.abc.net.au)

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Spreadsheet formulas that build interactive Web Applications (emailapp.cellmaster.com.au)

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How much water can you sell? (37signals.com)

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Ask HN: Making money is really hard. Help (news.ycombinator.com)

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Science Exchange (YC S11) looking for a SASSy Front-end Engineer, come say hi (www.scienceexchange.com)

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Watsi is looking for a front-end developer to travel with us to Nepal (blog.watsi.org)

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Engineers needed to fight online fraud with data. Join us (news.ycombinator.com)

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Graphic Designer for Virool (YC S12) (news.ycombinator.com)

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