hackerNews

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The Forbidden Island (www.neatorama.com)

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Trinity College experiment succeeds after 69 years (www.rte.ie)

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Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? (twitter.com)

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Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes (www.winehq.org)

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MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File (www.wired.com)

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‘America has no functioning democracy at this moment’ – Jimmy Carter on NSA (rt.com)

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VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced (thenextweb.com)

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American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (www.newyorker.com)

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Twilio is over billing and suspending accounts (status.twilio.com)

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Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow (http://www.notconstructive.com)

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The Rule of Three (www.codinghorror.com)

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The H is closing down (www.h-online.com)

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Snowden's Dead Man's Switch (www.schneier.com)

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The San Francisco Rent Explosion (priceonomics.com)

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Why I'm Returning Google Glass (www.internetevolution.com)

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TSA searching valet-parked cars (www.whec.com)

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Peek Inside Tesla's Robotic Factory [video] (www.wired.com)

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Physicists offer new theory on cancer (asunews.asu.edu)

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The PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft are sending Congress (venturebeat.com)

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Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy amid staggering debts (www.freep.com)

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Ask HN: How do you apply for a tech job? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Billing Incident Update (www.twilio.com)

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Elon Musk's mission to Mars (m.guardiannews.com)

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San Jose State suspends online courses (www.sfgate.com)

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The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Pricing for Conversion (500.co)

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10

Foundation 4.3: Paving the Road to 5 (zurb.com)

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Anonymous posts usernames and passwords of US Congress staffers (sebsauvage.net)

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Anonymous hacks FEMA (www.globalpost.com)

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8

FOIA Machine by The Center for Investigative Reporting (www.kickstarter.com)

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UK government invests in Sabre airbreathing rocket engine (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library (www.phoronix.com)

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VLC for iOS Now Available (itunes link) (itunes.apple.com)

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9

Why I banned a book: How censorship can impact a learning community (crln.acrl.org)

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Flask powered CMS - Quokka (www.quokkaproject.org)

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How we Went from Zero Audience to Over a Thousand Beta Signups (medium.com)

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What it's Really Like to Have a Photographic Memory (www.slate.com)

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19

JavaScript Isn't Scheme (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

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Divshot 1.0: Visual Front-End Development for Bootstrap and Beyond (blog.divshot.com)

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Panama detains former CIA station chief convicted in Milan kidnapping (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Microsoft reveals $900M write-down on Surface RT tablet (www.cbc.ca)

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Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behind bars (rt.com)

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What Is 10 Trillion Times More Powerful Than A Heartbeat? (www.npr.org)

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19

Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy (firstround.com)

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Microsoft Research turns Kinect into sign language reader (blogs.technet.com)

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OVH CEO forbids publishing patches to keep his developers (twitter.com)

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Erlang/OTP R16B01 has been released (www.erlang.org)

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Reverse-engineering the flag circuits in the 8085 processor (www.righto.com)

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Study Finds Spatial Skill Is Early Sign of Creativity (www.nytimes.com)

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Why Doesn't Skype Include Stronger Protections Against Eavesdropping? (www.eff.org)

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How A Tesla Is Made (devour.com)

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Docker 0.5: external volumes, advanced networking, self-hosted registry (blog.docker.io)

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Dear Mr. Watterson (www.dearmrwatterson.com)

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The Lost Art of Pickpocketing (2011) (www.slate.com)

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Heathrow fire on Boeing Dreamliner 'started in battery component' (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Jaron Lanier: We're Being Enslaved by Free Information (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Drug Shortages are Killing People (marginalrevolution.com)

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Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8 (wj32.org)

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Google Off 5%: Q2 Misses as ‘Cost-Per-Click’ Falls 6% (blogs.barrons.com)

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Show HN: BitJoy (bitjoy.org)

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Elysium’s Director Thinks His Hellish Paradise Is Our Future (www.wired.com)

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Why I Still Use a Dumb Phone (greatist.com)

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FanHero (YC S13) Helps YouTubers Sell Branded Merch To Their Fans (techcrunch.com)

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Ouya console review: "Pass on it" (gdgt.com)

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Lessons From a 125y Old Business: Insights from Outside the Startup Bubble (usersnap.com)

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Peru To Power 2 Million Of Its Poorest — By Solar Energy (planetsave.com)

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Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems (nautil.us)

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Show HN: An API to extract texts from images and PDF files (http://www.stamplin.com)

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5 Coding Hacks to Reduce GC Overhead (www.takipiblog.com)

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Poll HN: POP or IMAP? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone use Search HN before submitting articles to prevent duplicates? (www.hnsearch.com)

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Why 1 && 2 == 2 (blog.chewxy.com)

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Jerry Brown vetoes privacy bill for California (rt.com)

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How to go from zero to revenue in under five weeks without building a product (notes.casualcorp.com)

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How to succeed with your IT department (marcusblankenship.com)

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McDonalds’ suggested budget for employees shows how impossible it is to get by (www.deathandtaxesmag.com)

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How Watching 'Unbundled' ESPN and AMC Could Cost More Than Your Whole Cable Bill (m.theatlantic.com)

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How to Prep if Your Startup Gets on TV (www.thedailymuse.com)

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N.S.A. Imposes Rules to Protect Secret Data Stored on Its Networks (www.nytimes.com)

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Explaining Loom (blog.loom.com)

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The Internet Sector calls for Greater Transparency in Requests for User Data (blog.mozilla.org)

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USSR Believed a Top Secret Room was at center of Pentagon - was a hot dog stand (www.defense.gov)

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Build custom directives with AngularJS (www.ng-newsletter.com)

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Honda builds a 130 mph lawn mower (www.foxnews.com)

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Successful People create Religions (blog.samaltman.com)

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Persona: A login that matches your site (identity.mozilla.com)

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Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Stormpath + Apache Shiro (stormpath.com)

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On Severance (rrwhite.com)

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I Always Respond To and Thank Recuiters (joerussbowman.tumblr.com)

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Business Tactics They Don’t Teach in School (life-longlearner.com)

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"Press Tour" Now Means WSJ to AMA (withouttheirpermission.com)

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Big banks stage mega-cyberattack drill (money.cnn.com)

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Analyze your customers and API data in R through the Canopy Labs Console (insights.canopylabs.com)

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The hunt for illegal egg collectors (www.newyorker.com)

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The State of Wyoming Has Two Escalators (www.theatlantic.com)

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Worry Less. Do More. Be Fearless (blog.jdconley.com)

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New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data (www.nytimes.com)

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Music lovers, here is an invite to join our streaming curation platform (whyd.com)

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Joel Spolsky shares some of Stack Exchange's secret sauce (businessofsoftware.org)

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Original plans for BART in 1956 (Picture) (sfist.com)

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Hash based Signatures (www.imperialviolet.org)

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Zero Downtime Application Updates with Ansible (programming.oreilly.com)

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Microsoft took a $900 million hit on Surface RT this quarter (www.theverge.com)

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Tell HN: I'm giving away hackerbooks.com (domain name + source code) (news.ycombinator.com)

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BlackBerry 10 sends passwords in clear text (translate.google.com)

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Effortless Two-Factor Authentication in Rails (blog.heapsource.com)

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Is web scraping illegal? Depends on what the meaning of the word is is. (www.distilnetworks.com)

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Detroit Houses for Sale (www.zillow.com)

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The Essence of Founding a Company Is This (matthewpaulmoore.com)

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Here’s what it feels like to be sued by a patent troll (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: When teaching myself, how can I learn to engineer instead of just code? (news.ycombinator.com)

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ThreeAudio.js – HTML5 Audio API (github.com)

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Typer.js (cosmos.layervault.com)

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What Philz Coffee Can Teach Us About Product Design (medium.com)

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Orbs CCG (YC S13) Takes to Kickstarter to Reinvent Magic: the Gathering (techcrunch.com)

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Slackware Turns 20 (ostatic.com)

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Research on Azure WebSite security: Process Execution and Folder Browsing (blog.diniscruz.com)

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Should VC-backed founders go hungry with tiny salaries? (www.forbes.com)

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I’ll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze (thenewinquiry.com)

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Prismatic’s New iPhone App Released (blog.getprismatic.com)

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Ask HN: Would you use a native X windows server for Android? (news.ycombinator.com)

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OpenVPN: Simple Overview (n0where.net)

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0

Feinstein just sent an email response and lists two prevented terrorist attacks (news.ycombinator.com)

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Half of Indians have no toilet. (www.guardian.co.uk)

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What is in a name? (lthbl.com)

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81

Show HN: Realtime Bitcoin Data, BitJoy (bitjoy.org)

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Java Reflection API affected by a known 10+ years old attack (www.securityfocus.com)

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Detroit files largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history (www.detroitnews.com)

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Ask HN: How do I delete my Account, Comments, Submissions? (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

ConceptNet 5 - lots of things computers should know about the world (conceptnet5.media.mit.edu)

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3D print of baby's face while it's still in the womb (www.3ders.org)

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NSA warned to reign in surveillance (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Interview with Aubrey de Grey (www.lef.org)

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Samsung announces 3,000MB/s enterprise SSD (www.engadget.com)

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Neo4j 1.9.2 now available (databasefriends.blogspot.com)

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Windows Monopoly is Getting Destroyed (www.businessinsider.com)

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Sparkfun According to Pete – Microelectronics explained (www.youtube.com)

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Typical date night.. (www.stanleycolors.com)

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Detroit Files for Chapter 9 Bankruptcy (online.wsj.com)

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Grid for iOS reimagines Excel, but ditches the formulas (www.theverge.com)

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MariaDB 5.5.32 Now Available (blog.mariadb.org)

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LivingSocial closes its New York office space and its local events division (thenextweb.com)

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Bug in OS X/BSD split command (arademaker.github.io)

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Salespeople: Do Your Fucking Research (dustinwalper.tumblr.com)

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Offer HN: I'll build your iPhone App idea For $200 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: BitJoy (bitjoy.org)

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GitHub Is an Exceptionally Free Place for Open-Source Software (www.technologyreview.com)

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Hash based signatures (www.imperialviolet.org)

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Wikileaks accused Bradley Manning loses challenge to most serious charge (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Django Round-Up podcast (lincolnloop.com)

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Ask HN: Any development teams in need of free ops help? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How do you create a 100th Monkey software development culture? (highscalability.com)

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SnapChat being used for insider trading? (news.ycombinator.com)

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FOIA Machine: Automate your FOIAs (www.kickstarter.com)

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0

On Patent Trolls, Parallel Iron, Hadoop And Innovation (www.rackspace.com)

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Working with Shadow DOM (blog.teamtreehouse.com)

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Ask HN: What is necessary for a launch? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What Happens When a Country Abolishes its Army? (www.attendly.com)

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Ask HN: What weekend Project to show off ability to develop in other languages? (news.ycombinator.com)

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GOOG and MSFT After Close (www.nanex.net)

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Coercive Pay-to-Play Techniques in Games (www.lostgarden.com)

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Jony Ive on Design (www.youtube.com)

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Show HN: Using http://gitignore.io [video] (vimeo.com)

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Full Stack Rails Engineers for Virool (YC S12) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Market Leader (news.ycombinator.com)

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