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Hacker News Folks Get Long Overdue Thanks (linuxlock.blogspot.sg)

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Existential Depression in Gifted Children (www.davidsongifted.org)

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The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements (www.theatlantic.com)

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iPhone 6: An edgy concept (www.behance.net)

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Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone (gist.github.com)

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My Summer Reading List (www.thegatesnotes.com)

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CSS Zen Garden relaunched (www.csszengarden.com)

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Welcome to the ‘Sharing Economy’ (www.nytimes.com)

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Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think? (regex101.com)

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When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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How Forensic Linguistics Outed J.K. Rowling (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)

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DNS: The Good Parts (www.petekeen.net)

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Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free (mathoverflow.net)

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Bash Configurations Demystified (dghubble.com)

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Appeals court rules journalists can’t keep their sources secret (rt.com)

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100 Ideas for Computing (github.com)

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Apple Acquires Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur's Startup HopStop (www.cp-africa.com)

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Aireal: Interactive Tactile Experiences in Free Air (www.disneyresearch.com)

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Why Canada Has No Big Tech Companies (blog.contentdj.com)

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Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (vimeo.com)

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The Locust Economy (www.ribbonfarm.com)

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Beyond grep: ack, a code search tool for programmers (beyondgrep.com)

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MPAA Demands Source Code of isoHunt’s “Failing” Piracy Filter (torrentfreak.com)

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A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold (www.nytimes.com)

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NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials reveal (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Plug anti-PRISM solution raises half a million dollars in 9 days on Kickstarter (press.meetplug.com)

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Malcolm Gladwell's Reponse to the Culturalism Post (askakorean.blogspot.com)

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Ubuntu forums hacked (ubuntuforums.org)

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Alan Turing to be Pardoned - bill introduced in the House of Lords (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Reading the Ruby Source to Understand Rails Idiosyncrasies (pivotallabs.com)

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Bill Gates on the future of education and programming (gigaom.com)

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Show HN: Marketplace to sell and buy side projects (news.ycombinator.com)

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The curious case of the fall in crime (www.economist.com)

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Google login now requires Google+ Account (news.ycombinator.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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NFC Ring (www.kickstarter.com)

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How to Farm Insects at Home (modernfarmer.com)

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Detroit Is Going Bankrupt, But Its Tech Community Is Going Strong (m.fastcompany.com)

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"Why do all of your websites look the same?" (acesubido.com)

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Which Universities Produce the Most Successful Startup Founders? (minimaxir.com)

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What is a 'Hacker'? (ben.balter.com)

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DeviceJS is Javascript for the Physical World (devicejs.org)

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Apollo 11 launchpad base video, 500 fps (petapixel.com)

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A novel material with world record breaking surface area and water adsorption (www.alphagalileo.org)

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Microsoft Is Getting Rich on Android (www.fool.com)

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The Man and the Lion Puzzle: Pursuit and Evasion Game Theory (mindyourdecisions.com)

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Death in China Stirs Anger Over Urban Rule Enforcers (www.nytimes.com)

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systemd's syslogd replacement supports JSON output (www.freedesktop.org)

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Show HN: Thinkerous - Collaborative ideation and think tank (www.thinkero.us)

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Frayed Prospects, Despite a Degree (www.nytimes.com)

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Serial Port Scans Find 100,000+ Hackable Devices, Traffic Lights, Fuel Pumps (www.forbes.com)

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Is There Anything Good About Men? (denisdutton.com)

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Contad: SVG + CSS3 craziness (www.freeger.com)

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Reactive Extensions for Ruby (Rxrb.codeplex.com)

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Neutrino shape-shift points to new physics (www.newscientist.com)

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Processing large files, line by line (fastml.com)

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Wappalyzer uncovers the technologies used on websites (wappalyzer.com)

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Intel Linux Developer Asks Torvalds To Stop Verbal Abuse (efytimes.com)

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One square meter rental house in Berlin (www.airbnb.com)

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This week in press freedoms and privacy rights (www.guardian.co.uk)

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MIT Trying To Block The Release Of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File (www.techdirt.com)

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In 20 Years, We’re All Going To Realize This Apple Ad Is Nuts (m.fastcodesign.com)

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Ubuntu Forums Hacked (ubuntuforums.org)

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Project management practices for startups (www.collade.com)

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Woman falls to her death from Six Flags Texas rollercoaster (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People (2012) (www.jamesaltucher.com)

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I Guess The Twitter Doesn't Fall Far From The Twit (b0ing.me)

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Introducing HybridKit for iOS (usepropeller.com)

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The Story Behind Football's Innovative Yellow First Down Line (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)

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Web Scraping as a Service (http://tubes.io)

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Show HN: My first Chrome extension (TabZolo.co) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Perl startups - Nestoria (blogs.perl.org)

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Not just Detroit: Actuarial delusion creates phantom retirement funds (news.ycombinator.com)

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ZhongGuanCun: The next silicon valley (steveblank.com)

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Ask HN: good idea to create api for detecting porn? (news.ycombinator.com)

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First Ubuntu phone pics surface (imgur.com)

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I'm seeing other people's photos in my Dropbox account on the iOS Mobile App (news.ycombinator.com)

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Get Mars Weather Data With PHP (www.danielbough.com)

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Preview: Bottle.py 0.12 (blog.bottlepy.org)

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Secret court lets NSA extend its trawl of Verizon customers' phone records (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Detroit Bankruptcy: What Congress must do to prevent future disasters (www.slate.com)

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Open Source vs. Proprietary Software: There is No Clear Winner (www.cmswire.com)

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The TodoMVC Project on Rails 4 (www.mattdeleon.net)

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Bill Gates Q&A at Microsoft Research Summit (Video) (research.microsoft.com)

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New Windows 8 ads in unknown Asian langauge (mashable.com)

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The Apple Online Store is down too (store.apple.com)

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Get Back from SF after Caltrain Stops Running (www.indiegogo.com)

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Google is developing a Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android called Chromoting (thenextweb.com)

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Ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden: What Edward Snowden did (www.cnn.com)

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Last Member of 65,000 Year Tribe Dies (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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China’s Black Market City (reason.com)

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Will the real Berlin please stand-up? State of the tech ecosystem - good & bad (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Why can't we get search results for our bookmarks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Existential Depression in Gifted Children (theunboundedspirit.com)

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The Uncanny Valley of a Functional Organization (stratechery.com)

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