hackerNews

2

Linus on "acting professionally" (marc.info)

466 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071721 467 comments

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Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case (news.cnet.com)

462 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071809 82 comments

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Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF (www.eff.org)

422 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071803 71 comments

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The Case for Abolishing the DHS (www.businessweek.com)

300 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071800 72 comments

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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (bookofbadarguments.com)

296 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2017032809 96 comments

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Elon Musk to publish hyperloop design by August (twitter.com)

281 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071703 167 comments

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When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at their firms goes up (www4.gsb.columbia.edu)

278 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071700 232 comments

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GitHub's on your phone (github.com)

265 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071800 81 comments

6

Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups" (www.h-online.com)

245 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071800 109 comments

4

$99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android (arstechnica.com)

232 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071800 130 comments

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Useful Unix commands for data science (www.gregreda.com)

211 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071800 105 comments

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The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all' (www.guardian.co.uk)

154 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071700 60 comments

7

SculptGL - A WebGL sculpting app (stephaneginier.com)

154 points first seen 2013071618 last seen 2013071800 37 comments

8

Double Secret Surveillance (www.nytimes.com)

152 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071709 64 comments

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FB event to walk to NSA's Dagger Complex results in a visit by the German police (www.thelocal.de)

131 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071700 42 comments

21

DMT, the NeXT and the Soul of the Human/Machine (stone.com)

127 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071703 60 comments

7

Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor (www.wakati.me)

114 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071703 58 comments

10

Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon (hubblesite.org)

113 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071703 25 comments

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Namecheap now accepts Bitcoin with zero confirmations (community.namecheap.com)

113 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071703 58 comments

9

The Recomputation Manifesto (www.software.ac.uk)

106 points first seen 2013071618 last seen 2013071800 59 comments

14

Ben Horowitz: Capital market climate change (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

105 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071703 44 comments

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Apiary.io – REST tools for API documentation and testing (apiary.io)

95 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071612 19 comments

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Choosing an OSS license doesn’t need to be scary (choosealicense.com)

93 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071609 150 comments

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Quine Relay (github.com)

93 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2022052900 10 comments

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Why I won't speak at women-only events - Belinda Parmar (www.guardian.co.uk)

90 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071609 114 comments

12

Golang Diaries II (www.tbray.org)

90 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071715 44 comments

19

Windows 8.1 DPI Scaling Enhancements (blogs.windows.com)

86 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071703 52 comments

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European commission backs Merkel's call for tougher data protection laws (www.guardian.co.uk)

83 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071703 24 comments

9

Making a JIT interpreter with LuaJIT (rjpower.org)

80 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071703 0 comments

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Is Sugar Really Toxic? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

77 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071700 103 comments

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Show HN: PouchDB - The JavaScript database that Syncs (http://pouchdb.com)

76 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071609 40 comments

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Why mobile web is slow? (www.codenameone.com)

74 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071700 44 comments

12

GameBoy Advance emulator for iOS, no jailbreak required (github.com)

72 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071700 54 comments

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Richard Stallman: Snowden leak a chance for privacy [video] (rt.com)

72 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071612 9 comments

20

Fear and Loathing in Programming La La Land (2012) (erlang.org)

70 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071703 24 comments

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Automatic Summarization in Medium (medium.com)

70 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071721 26 comments

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Choosing an Open Source License (github.com)

68 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071618 6 comments

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Academic publishing as ruinous competition: Is there a way out? (33bits.org)

67 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071703 31 comments

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NSA-proof your email in two hours (sealedabstract.com)

66 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2016031509 0 comments

20

Anxiety: Nothing to Do but Embrace the Dread (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

66 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071721 45 comments

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Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption (1998) (people.csail.mit.edu)

65 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071700 45 comments

21

The Art of a Three Letter Domain Name (blog.lob.com)

59 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071900 46 comments

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SSH Brute Force – The 10 Year Old Attack That Still Persists (blog.sucuri.net)

56 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071618 62 comments

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Cache aware Matrix Multiplication - Naive isn't that bad (functionspace.org)

54 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071700 36 comments

32

Building an API with Go at Microco.sm (speakerdeck.com)

54 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071700 16 comments

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HBO Asks Google to Take Down “Infringing” VLC Media Player (torrentfreak.com)

52 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071700 15 comments

29

Let's Buy Hackaday (www.indiegogo.com)

50 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071621 42 comments

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ELIZA Talking – HTML5 Speech I/O Demo (www.masswerk.at)

50 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071721 13 comments

24

Anonymous Browser Fingerprinting in Practice (valve.github.io)

49 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071700 31 comments

21

Show HN: I made a simple persistent counting API (arbitrarycounter.com)

49 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071703 41 comments

14

Red Bull Gives You a Business Strategy (medium.com)

46 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071721 34 comments

6

Entropy Crushers (www.randsinrepose.com)

44 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013072221 25 comments

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A detective story's famous author is unmasked (www.nytimes.com)

43 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071700 22 comments

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Spotify responds to Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich criticism (www.musicweek.com)

40 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 46 comments

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Control your status page with Hubot (blog.statuspage.io)

40 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071703 5 comments

12

The cargo bike designed in a hippie commune (www.humansinvent.com)

39 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071703 44 comments

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The Pokemon Game You've Always Wanted, Made by Fans (www.indiedb.com)

38 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071706 31 comments

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Yes, Clinical Trials Work (simplystatistics.org)

37 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 20 comments

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Linus blasts again (lkml.org)

35 points first seen 2013071618 last seen 2013071618 28 comments

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A Momentous Shift for Sonic Levitation (news.sciencemag.org)

34 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071703 5 comments

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SkyDrive in Windows 8.1: Cloud storage the way it’s meant to be (arstechnica.com)

33 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071700 50 comments

61

Gmail push notification no longer works with Mail on new iOS devices (www.tuaw.com)

32 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 44 comments

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Reinventing the School (medium.com)

31 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 44 comments

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How aerial photographs tracked down Hitler's flying bombs (www.bbc.co.uk)

30 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071612 8 comments

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Apache Openoffice 4.0 RC Released (cwiki.apache.org)

30 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071703 16 comments

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6 tools to get started with responsive web design (usersnap.com)

28 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071703 10 comments

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The world Doug Engelbart was trying to create (blog.screenhero.com)

27 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071612 6 comments

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Show HN: My 1st mobile app- A parasitic,anonymous,remixable img app for android (news.ycombinator.com)

26 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071606 12 comments

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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (rt.com)

26 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071603 9 comments

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Complex networks in D (braingam.es)

26 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071703 7 comments

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WaterForward (https://waterforward.charitywater.org)

25 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071618 19 comments

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Searching for Dark Matter with Cloudant, part 1 (cloudant.com)

25 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071621 0 comments

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Logos with hidden meanings (stocklogos.com)

25 points first seen 2013071618 last seen 2013071700 8 comments

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Benchmarking Random Forest Classification (about.wise.io)

23 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071700 7 comments

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StructuredJS Demo (khan.github.io)

22 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071621 0 comments

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US Immigration recognizes League of Legends players as pro athletes (pandodaily.com)

21 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071603 7 comments

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New NIST/NSA Revelations (1993) (epic.org)

21 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071700 6 comments

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Michigan launches civic hackathon - Code Michigan (www.michigan.gov)

20 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071609 2 comments

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What if your gluten intolerance is all in your head? (www.newscientist.com)

19 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071618 0 comments

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Snowden says Israel, U.S. created Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran (www.haaretz.com)

18 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071612 17 comments

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Come to London (freyfogle.tumblr.com)

17 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 17 comments

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The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry (arstechnica.com)

17 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071612 2 comments

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Steve Blank: Your Computer May Already Be Hacked – NSA Inside? (www.forbes.com)

17 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071618 3 comments

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Smart Bedding – Never Make Your Bed Again (www.kickstarter.com)

16 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 20 comments

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Compiling λ (playingwithpointers.com)

16 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071700 0 comments

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Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-year-old (www.computerworld.com)

16 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071615 20 comments

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Female developers as a perk (lists.lrug.org)

16 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071703 20 comments

48

Write Markdown in any text field on the web (markdown-here.com)

14 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071621 0 comments

85

How I Hacked The Startup Launch Conference Circuit (onstartups.com)

14 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071706 0 comments

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Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? (#2, July Edition) (news.ycombinator.com)

13 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071609 5 comments

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On the Perils of Owning a Vanity Username (shahart.al)

13 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071606 9 comments

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ES6 Modules, Build Tools and Browser App Delivery (ryanflorence.com)

13 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071606 5 comments

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Ask HN: What SaaS products do you pay for personally? (news.ycombinator.com)

13 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013081703 17 comments

0

Show HN : Hackathons are dead. Introducing Code in the Dark. (www.rudebaguette.com)

12 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071621 4 comments

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Ask HN: a father called me asking how to get a job for his son who has aspergers (news.ycombinator.com)

11 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071706 10 comments

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VMware Sells Zimbra Amid Shift in Strategy (dealbook.nytimes.com)

10 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071609 2 comments

0

Show HN: Assistant.io - The easiest way to schedule meetings (http://assistant.io)

10 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071603 8 comments

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Don't let perks blind you from bad culture (ryanabbott.com)

10 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071612 2 comments

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Putin Blasts US for Intimidation in Snowden Asylum Saga (en.rian.ru)

10 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071606 0 comments

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The Unsettling Link Between Sprawl and Suicide (www.theatlanticcities.com)

10 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071621 0 comments

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How the NSA scandal hurts the economy (globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com)

10 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071618 3 comments

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The latest batch of companies announced for Mozilla's WebFWD accelerator (webfwd.tumblr.com)

10 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071700 0 comments

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NASA, Industry Test Additively Manufactured Rocket Engine Injector (www.nasa.gov)

9 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071609 2 comments

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Why isn't there a syncing filesystem that works like this? (call-waiting.livejournal.com)

9 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 3 comments

0

Utilite – a miniature ARM-based desktop computer starting at $99 (http://www.utilite-computer.com)

9 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071603 0 comments

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Using Information About Our Network to Remove Monitoring Noise (37signals.com)

9 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 0 comments

89

Ask HN: Would it be possible for the NSA to watch through our phone cameras? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071615 0 comments

83

What if Trayvon Martin was wearing Google Glasses? (medium.com)

8 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071603 6 comments

75

The Flight of an Open Source Project (bling.github.io)

8 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 2 comments

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What One 14-Year-Old is Doing This Summer (mplanner.co)

8 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071621 8 comments

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Hobbits’ Size Not Likely Linked to Growth Disorders (www.nytimes.com)

8 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071621 2 comments

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Verizon "femtocells" easily hacked for wiretapping (www.reuters.com)

7 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 0 comments

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Ask HN: What monitor do you use for coding? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 3 comments

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Ask HN: advice for working with a bad programmer (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071606 3 comments

67

Apple Pitches Ad-Skipping for New TV Service (jessicalessin.com)

7 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071615 0 comments

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YC startup Homejoy embarks on global mission to free people from housework (venturebeat.com)

7 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071618 0 comments

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New version of Transport Tycoon coming from Chris Sawyer (www.transporttycoon.com)

6 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

0

Sky service status page hacked? Showing some strange statuses... (servicestatus.sky.com)

6 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

82

Logging on Heroku (blog.heroku.com)

6 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071609 0 comments

79

Simple: One year with our customers (simple.com)

6 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071612 0 comments

83

Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside? (steveblank.com)

6 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071612 0 comments

0

Interview training videos for underserved people in tech (thetarah.com)

6 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071609 4 comments

72

AngularJS For Beginners (srikarg.github.io)

6 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071615 2 comments

72

Inspirational Interviews with Successful Entrepreneurs and CEOs (www.inspiredinsider.com)

6 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071621 0 comments

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GIS mapping data is public, California high court rules (www.rcfp.org)

6 points first seen 2013071618 last seen 2013071700 0 comments

0

Missing Google Alerts’ RSS feeds? Mention has you covered. (thenextweb.com)

6 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071621 0 comments

0

JQuery Special Events API (www.websanova.com)

5 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

0

Once more unto the breach (briankardell.wordpress.com)

5 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071603 0 comments

0

Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know (www.youtube.com)

5 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071603 0 comments

0

Does CloudFlare's Railgun really work? (Metrics) (blog.cloudflare.com)

5 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071612 0 comments

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Baidu To Acquire 100% of 91 Wireless for $1.9 Billion (thenextweb.com)

5 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071618 2 comments

88

Verbal Abuse on the Linux Mailing Lists (lkml.org)

5 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071618 5 comments

73

Corporate Customers Flock To Anti-Snooping App Silent Circle (www.forbes.com)

5 points first seen 2013071618 last seen 2013071621 0 comments

69

Intel Anti-Theft, A Big No-No (vis-ph.com)

5 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071703 0 comments

82

Microsoft slashes Surface RT price by 30% due to sluggish sales (www.extremetech.com)

5 points first seen 2013071621 last seen 2013071700 0 comments

0

How Hackers Tapped Into My Cellphone For Less Than $300 (www.npr.org)

4 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

0

Math Game : Zero String (www.pratikpoddarcse.blogspot.com)

4 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

0

The Worst Interaction Design Portfolio. Ever. (theworstportfolioever.com)

4 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

72

BootstrapMaster Demo (bootstrapmaster.com)

4 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 0 comments

0

Show HN: Verbal Commits - College Basketball Recruiting (http://www.verbalcommits.com)

4 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071603 0 comments

80

Why Barnes & Noble Is Good for Amazon (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 0 comments

0

Show HN: please.js - a PostMessage based communication library (engineering.wingify.com)

4 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071603 0 comments

0

The Easiest Way To Document Your Project (daux.io)

4 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071603 0 comments

0

Flexible and expressive unit tests with the builder pattern (www.kenneth-truyers.net)

4 points first seen 2013071606 last seen 2013071606 0 comments

87

Thermal immersion circulators are the microwave of the future (www.slate.com)

4 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071612 3 comments

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AT&T changes privacy policy to sell user data (www.att.com)

4 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071609 0 comments

0

Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator (2011) (spectrum.ieee.org)

4 points first seen 2013071609 last seen 2013071609 0 comments

83

Early Spatial Reasoning Predicts Later Creativity and Innovation (www.sciencedaily.com)

4 points first seen 2013071612 last seen 2013071615 0 comments

51

How a movie changed one man’s vision forever (www.bbc.com)

4 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013102400 0 comments

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How I back up my laptop (honza.ca)

4 points first seen 2013071615 last seen 2013071615 2 comments

0

Horse, drawn with just css... no, seriously. (codepen.io)

3 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 2 comments

0

Richard Stallman: Snowden & Assange besieged by empire but not defeated (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

0

Adder: Python with a Lisp (www.thibault.org)

3 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

0

Round 6 results - TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks (www.techempower.com)

3 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

0

Tiff - a visual typeface diff tool. (tiff.herokuapp.com)

3 points first seen 2013071600 last seen 2013071600 0 comments

85

Hello Tech World (techshakr.tumblr.com)

3 points first seen 2013071603 last seen 2013071606 0 comments

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How we built a pre-launch, customer-development pipeline for Copyin (peternixey.com)