hackerNews

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The Drone that Killed my Grandson (www.nytimes.com)

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Effeckt.css (h5bp.github.io)

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Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud (code.google.com)

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Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies? (flavorwire.com)

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The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker (https://flynn.io?hn)

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Stunned by Go (how-bazaar.blogspot.co.nz)

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Poll: How old are you? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA (rt.com)

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Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking (www.aclu.org)

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Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago (www.mentalfloss.com)

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How things get done (blog.samaltman.com)

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All three major Russian carriers dump iPhone (www.rethink-wireless.com)

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Hyperloop: riding sound’s density peak to exploit the drag equation? (charlesalexander2013.wordpress.com)

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Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info (sheldonbrown.com)

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Who Says C is Simple? (www.cs.berkeley.edu)

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Show HN: I'm a single founder. Please review my bootstrapped startup (http://www.distelli.com)

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Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger (www.righto.com)

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The Real Value of Stock Options (benjyboxer.com)

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Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore (www.backwardcompatible.net)

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The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator (scruss.com)

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Xamarin raises $16 million to help you go mobile (blog.xamarin.com)

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Apportable (YC W11) raises $2M led by Google Ventures for Objective-C on Android (blogs.wsj.com)

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Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t (www.wbur.org)

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Global Rich List (www.globalrichlist.com)

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Ask pg: why have hellbans become so widespread on HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Into the Wormhole: An afternoon with Eve Online's least understood demographic (www.techhive.com)

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Why JavaScript web applications should embrace traditional URLs (9elements.com)

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Kalzumeus Podcast 5: Quitting Consulting Via Productization (www.kalzumeus.com)

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Police May Know Exactly Where You Were Last Tuesday (www.npr.org)

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The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding (www.helpscout.net)

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New online master's degree to train the data scientists of tomorrow (www.ischool.berkeley.edu)

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A personal statistics dashboard and API (http://api.chocol.it)

72 points first seen 2013071803 last seen 2013071900 53 comments

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Form letter response for engineering recruiting emails (bryanduxbury.com)

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BitTorrent Sync comes to Android (play.google.com)

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Edit Wars Reveal The Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia (www.technologyreview.com)

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Network Solutions' DNS is down (http://www.networksolutions.com)

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The only thing that matters (2007) (pmarchive.com)

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RSS mistakes: let's not make them again (blog.superfeedr.com)

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The Docker Book (http://www.dockerbook.com)

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Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Command Line (www.hanselman.com)

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RealCrowd (YC S13) Rides The Crowdfunding Wave For Real Estate Investments (techcrunch.com)

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Time to First Tweet (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Top Genetic Findings of 2012 (blog.23andme.com)

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Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding (www.nature.com)

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Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands (news.cnet.com)

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Meldium (YC W13) nets $1M to make sense out of password management (gigaom.com)

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On Being Black in China (www.theatlantic.com)

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Goodyear bids goodbye to blimps, says hello to zeppelins (news.cnet.com)

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Show HN: Angles.js - Chart.js charts in Angular (github.com)

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One Laptop Per Child launches XO tablet via Walmart (www.zdnet.com)

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GCHQ use of Prism was legal say MPs (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Organizing large Clojure apps (www.infoq.com)

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Show HN: HireMyFriend - Get your friends to help you find a new job (http://hiremyfriend.io)

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How War in Syria Turned Ordinary Engineers Into Deadly Weapons Inventors (www.wired.com)

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Bitcoin Transactions Rise As Economic Unrest Hits Argentina (techcrunch.com)

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Does technology destroy more jobs than it creates? (www.technologyreview.com)

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Show HN: GoInstant - A full dev stack for building real-time collaborative apps (http://goinstant.com)

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NASA Develops Novel Carbon Nanotube Growth Through Science Exchange (YC S11) (blog.scienceexchange.com)

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New Android eyewear butts heads with Google Glass (linuxgizmos.com)

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Tim Ferriss Needs A Startup To Invest In (www.fourhourworkweek.com)

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Lennart Poettering wants to remove syslogd; use systemd journal instead (thread.gmane.org)

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Infinit is a new simple file sharing app for OSX, using P2P (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft calls for transparency over security requests (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Profits from student loans are ‘obscene’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Google Glass Pwned By Lowly QR Code (securitywatch.pcmag.com)

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Startup Culture is Not About Ping-Pong Tables (blog.mojotech.com)

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Computing Fibonacci in RethinkDB (rethinkdb.com)

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Simulating a Slow Internet Connection (ankursethi.in)

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Prosecutor From Hell: Angela Corey... (nationalreview.com)

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Mobile fraud detection in iOS 7 (blog.siftscience.com)

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Flipping Assumptions with 'Programmer Anarchy' (michaelfeathers.typepad.com)

22 points first seen 2013071809 last seen 2013071821 3 comments

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Ask HN: Recommendations for mobile analytics product at scale? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Rhyming with NLP and Shakespeare (garysieling.com)

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API Request Analytics: Better, Faster, More Insightful (blog.parse.com)

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Show HN: I'm a solo founder and I need testers for my routing/place finding app (testflightapp.com)

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Hunger Games: Game theory programming competition (brilliant.org)

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Responsive JavaScript: Load what you need, when you need it. (pothibo.com)

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Modern cargo ships slow to the speed of the sailing clippers (www.guardian.co.uk)

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NJ Congressman Rush Holt Is Attempting To Repeal Patriot And FISA Amendments Act (www.techdirt.com)

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Meet HireMyFriend, a new product from Makeshift (medium.com)

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An introduction to deep code-walking macros with Clojure (blog.fogus.me)

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8 things forgotten on our SaaS launch (follower.io)

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Ask HN: Would I be of value to a startup... remotely? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Reminding Starbucks that Beautiful Code Should Make Beautiful Language (aarondinin.com)

10 points first seen 2013071803 last seen 2013071806 38 comments

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Dating a developer (datingadeveloper.tumblr.com)

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Raising Money From Top Tier VC Firms Means Less Than You Think (alexstechthoughts.com)

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React v0.4 released (facebook.github.io)

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Former Top NSA Lawyer Blames Civil Libertarians For 9/11 (www.techdirt.com)

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Show HN: MongoDB + GraphViz = mongo-graph (github.com)

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Python Lambdas Explained [video] (www.neckbeardrepublic.com)

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Jimmy Carter says America has no functioning democracy (www.spiegel.de)

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At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles (www.businessweek.com)

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Smartphones To Replace Your Car Dashboard (www.techiediy.com)

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BlackBerry Q10 stores your unencrypted email password on its own servers (frank.geekheim.de)

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FoundationDB marries NoSQL & SQL with Akiban acquisition (venturebeat.com)

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Shrinking the address bar width in browsers (smotko.si)

8 points first seen 2013071803 last seen 2013071803 5 comments

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GoInstant - Build awesome real-time, multi-user applications (goinstant.com)

8 points first seen 2013071806 last seen 2013071806 0 comments

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Metric Time (blog.yef.im)

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Colorado Town Mulls Letting Residents Shoot Down Drones (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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Regex crossword (regexcrossword.com)

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Blessed - a curses-like widget library for node.js (blog.nodejitsu.com)

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Make C look Good (github.com)

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A proper JavaScript templating engine with a sane syntax (github.com)

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12 Factor model for architecting SaaS applications (http://www.12factor.net)

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EFF: Technology to Protect Against Mass Surveillance (Part 1) (www.eff.org)

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WebRTC coming to Chrome for Android (arstechnica.com)

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The first Go program (blog.golang.org)

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Ultimate recruitment perk: Life extension (www.zdnet.com)

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NeDB: A lightweight Javascript database (blog.mongodb.org)

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Yahoo Acquires Admovate (yahoo.tumblr.com)

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You Won't Believe How Much Netflix Crops Your Movies (gizmodo.com)

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Vert.x 2.0 is released (vertxproject.wordpress.com)

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Porting Udacity CS253 to Go part3 (www.sanarias.com)

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Help, 23 hours left for Kenya to get it's first planetarium (startsomegood.com)

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Driving somewhere? There's a gov't record of that (news.yahoo.com)

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How-to get the latest PostgreSQL version installed on Debian – the proper way (martin.wojtczyk.de)

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Ten Years of Slackware (July 2003) (lwn.net)

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Stupid Things People Care Way Too Much About (markmanson.net)

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Alternatives to using Google (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Cipherscan: simple SSL discovery (github.com)

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My first week as a disruptive tech startup (www.shoestring.com.au)

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No year before 1973 was as hot as 1973. (twitter.com)

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BlackBerry 10 sends passwords to RIM, in clear-text (translate.google.com)

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Xamarin Raises $16M Series B Round (techcrunch.com)

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Apple’s Move Into TV Relies on Cooperation With Industry Leaders (www.nytimes.com)

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Linus Torvalds Defends His God-Given Right to Offend You (www.wired.com)

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UK has a 'digital skills gap' says technology firms (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Bootstrapping to an A round isn’t all roses (jordancooper.wordpress.com)