hackerNews

1

A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95 (www.thisiscolossal.com)

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The slippery slope (www.90percentofeverything.com)

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Defund the NSA (DefundTheNSA.com)

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Practical Typography (http://practicaltypography.com)

448 points first seen 2013072418 last seen 2013072703 159 comments

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The sad story of Facebook Platform (pandodaily.com)

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How Emacs changed my life (www.slideshare.net)

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How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Open Rates (blog.mailchimp.com)

268 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072600 212 comments

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Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites (travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com)

265 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072600 33 comments

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Sneak peek of Macaw – a code-savvy web design tool [video] (macaw.co)

211 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072600 70 comments

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The unprofitable SaaS business model trap (blog.asmartbear.com)

210 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072600 97 comments

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No filter: the meanest thing Paul Graham said to a startup (brandonb.cc)

205 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072506 105 comments

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Life in the Boy's Dorm: My Career at Sun Microsystems (consultingadultblog.blogspot.co.uk)

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House forces vote on amendment that would limit NSA bulk surveillance (www.guardian.co.uk)

196 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072506 32 comments

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Cameron ‘Porn’ Advisor’s website ‘hacked’ – Threatens/Libels Blogger (www.ministryoftruth.me.uk)

177 points first seen 2013072421 last seen 2013072509 137 comments

21

Impressions of Go (blog.bensigelman.org)

171 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072418 243 comments

4

Little Lisp interpreter (www.hackerschool.com)

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Security Researchers tell court: We do what Andrew Auernheimer did. (www.groklaw.net)

148 points first seen 2013072412 last seen 2013072600 108 comments

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Ubuntu Edge funding level over time (movebits.net)

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Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone? (www.economist.com)

142 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072503 179 comments

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Is This The Future of The Airline Website? (www.f-i.com)

138 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072503 104 comments

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Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) (wenshanren.org)

128 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072600 81 comments

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C.S. on the cheap (blog.fogus.me)

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PyPy.js: First Steps (www.rfk.id.au)

122 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072503 48 comments

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$99 Parallella supercomputing boards start shipping (www.parityportal.com)

113 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072515 56 comments

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Licensing in a Post Copyright World (lucumr.pocoo.org)

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Jimmy Wales: This is super cool. "I started to learn python..." (twitter.com)

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7

Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell—online beta (chimera.labs.oreilly.com)

91 points first seen 2013072418 last seen 2013072600 6 comments

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Court: Chevron can subpeona Americans' email data in Ecuador case (www.motherjones.com)

89 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072409 24 comments

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Show HN: HN Special — A visual theme and extension for Hacker News (gabrielecirulli.github.io)

80 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072500 70 comments

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Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized (halftone.co)

77 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072503 33 comments

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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails (www.propublica.org)

77 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072421 41 comments

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The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator (www.hercules-390.eu)

74 points first seen 2013072415 last seen 2020052306 30 comments

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Post mortem of Twilio billing incident (www.twilio.com)

73 points first seen 2013072415 last seen 2013072518 31 comments

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Iran Removed From All Major Travel Sites (www.airliners.net)

72 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072406 73 comments

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Facebook wins right to police “face-” trademark prefix (ttabvue.uspto.gov)

69 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072418 85 comments

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If x is a fraction, x^x and x^x^x are irrational. But can x^x^x^x be rational? (math.stackexchange.com)

64 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072500 42 comments

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Solar panels help keep buildings cool, reducing A/C needs (www.treehugger.com)

63 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072500 41 comments

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SEC Charges Texas Man With Running Bitcoin-Denominated Ponzi Scheme (www.sec.gov)

63 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072500 56 comments

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Mozilla’s WebGL2: an experimental WebGL implementation based on OpenGL ES 3.0 (wiki.mozilla.org)

59 points first seen 2013072421 last seen 2013072521 30 comments

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New in RubyMotion: Blocks Rewrite, Retain Cycle Detection, Better Crash Reports (blog.rubymotion.com)

58 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072500 21 comments

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What If You Could See WiFi? (www.mydeals.com)

57 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072403 32 comments

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Snowden may be granted entry to Russia Wednesday (rt.com)

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Why Package Signing is not the Holy Grail (caremad.io)

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What Readers Found in Facebook’s ‘Other’ Folder (mobile.nytimes.com)

54 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072500 35 comments

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ASUS PQ321Q UltraHD Review: Living with a 31.5-inch 4K Display (www.anandtech.com)

53 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072500 38 comments

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Cryptographically Secure Bloom Filters (www.tdp.cat)

53 points first seen 2013072412 last seen 2013072503 17 comments

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Texas man charged with running $60M Bitcoin Ponzi scheme (venturebeat.com)

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Show HN: I built color search for iTunes (colorhits.com)

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Show HN: My First iPhone Game – can you beat it? (www.mgw.us)

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Super-cheap online master’s degree could change American higher education (www.slate.com)

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What happens when people in Pakistan start taking MIT classes (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Unexpectedly High Cost of a Bad Hire (www.linkedin.com)

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Show HN: An NSFW Tumblr Search (http://pornblur.com)

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Integrated command line math (danielcorin.github.io)

38 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072500 28 comments

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Announcing Wolfram Community (blog.wolframalpha.com)

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Things People Believe About Computers (www.terminally-incoherent.com)

36 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072403 49 comments

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Why Twitter Parody Accounts Should Stay Anonymous (www.newyorker.com)

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What Wi-Fi Would Look Like if We Could See It (motherboard.vice.com)

35 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072400 18 comments

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Benchmarking level generation: Go, Rust, Haskell and D. (togototo.wordpress.com)

34 points first seen 2013072418 last seen 2013072421 47 comments

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CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History (queue.acm.org)

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Certainly, identi.ca/status.net going away must be important? (www.h-online.com)

31 points first seen 2013072412 last seen 2013072500 6 comments

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Ways to Get Funding for Your Startup (www.thedailymuse.com)

29 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072403 5 comments

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How to price your product offerings - Tricks Built Into Balthazar's Menu (nymag.com)

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Story Behind “The Secret History of Silicon Valley” Part IV (2009) (steveblank.com)

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Detroit: Why Don't We Own This? (whydontweownthis.com)

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Leaving Google (for now) (www.danshapiro.com)

24 points first seen 2013072415 last seen 2013072421 3 comments

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Siri in a Teddy (www.kickstarter.com)

21 points first seen 2013072421 last seen 2013072500 36 comments

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Ben Golub joins dotCloud as CEO (blog.dotcloud.com)

20 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072415 4 comments

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Business Messaging platform Hall raises 5.5 million in funding (techcrunch.com)

20 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072406 0 comments

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Japan, Refutation of Neoliberalism (2005) (www.paecon.net)

20 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072412 6 comments

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Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire Sourcefire Inc. (www.cisco.com)

19 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072409 8 comments

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There’s nothing like a tidy codebase (www.altdevblogaday.com)

19 points first seen 2013072418 last seen 2013072500 0 comments

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UK team designs human mission to Mars (www.bbc.co.uk)

19 points first seen 2013072421 last seen 2013072503 15 comments

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Full MongoDB database dump of the Blippex search engine (blippex.github.io)

18 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072403 12 comments

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Ask HN: Developer laptop under $1500? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Learn programming in 12 Weeks from my couch? Legit? (www.makersacademy.com)

17 points first seen 2013072421 last seen 2013072500 14 comments

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Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers (backbeam.io)

16 points first seen 2013072421 last seen 2013072500 19 comments

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Big Data Analysis Adds to Guest Worker Debate (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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10 reasons why you should organize a FedEx day (www.theenterprisearchitect.eu)

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Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History (www.theatlantic.com)

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Julian Assange to host live Q&A on Google Hangout (oursay.org)

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The Definitive Guide to GitHub Pages (www.thinkful.com)

13 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072415 0 comments

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Ask HN: How Would You Teach Kids Computer Science and Engineering Full Time? (news.ycombinator.com)

13 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072406 16 comments

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Machine Learning for Poets (blog.siftscience.com)

13 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072406 2 comments

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Show HN: I built an app to manage your meds (www.nightingaleapp.com)

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For men, “leaning out” just isn’t an option (pandodaily.com)

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Ask HN: Developing Web Apps around SQL tables that have millions of rows (news.ycombinator.com)

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In Search of Simplicity — Improving Wunderlist’s sync (www.6wunderkinder.com)

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Searching for Dark Matter with Cloudant: Part 2 (cloudant.com)

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Dronestagram - Highlighting the very best in aerial drone photography (www.dronestagr.am)

9 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072403 4 comments

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British Monarchy in the age of the Internet panopticon (www.antipope.org)

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The financial reality of being a tenured professor (triproftri.wordpress.com)

9 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072412 3 comments

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Ask HN: Most comfortable keyboard? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What We Learned from Tony Hsieh, Downtown Project, and VegasTechFund (blog.speakeasy.is)

8 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072403 5 comments

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Mobile Cloud Platform to bring rain to Burning Man (www.kickstarter.com)

8 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072406 2 comments

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Cisco buys Sourcefire for $2.7 billion (www.scmagazine.com.au)

8 points first seen 2013072418 last seen 2013072500 4 comments

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Ask HN: What was OSS like before Github? (news.ycombinator.com)

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America’s star system (www.newyorker.com)

7 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072415 0 comments

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JekyllThemes: a directory of the best-looking themes for Jekyll blogs (github.com)

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Stuck (ninjasandrobots.com)

6 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072409 0 comments

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Docker and the Future of the PaaS Layer (blog.appfog.com)

6 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072415 3 comments

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Atlas Beta - The new learning environment from O’Reilly (chimera.labs.oreilly.com)

6 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072415 0 comments

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Native vs. HTML5: looked at objectively, the debate is over (thinkmobile.appcelerator.com)

5 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072400 0 comments

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Pre-order your Parallella supercomputer board (shop.adapteva.com)

5 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072403 0 comments

88

After CodeAcademy, Do This (www.codetuts.co)

5 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072406 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Is there a Hispanic/Latin girls that code site/organization? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072406 0 comments

0

Last Call Bus Club (www.indiegogo.com)

5 points first seen 2013072406 last seen 2013072406 0 comments

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Introduction to visualizing networks (www.jessefagan.com)

5 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072415 0 comments

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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results (www.apple.com)

5 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072409 0 comments

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A simple document datastore using Redis (github.com)

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NSA says it can’t search its own e-mails (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072412 0 comments

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Police Have Said Some Weird Stuff About The Michael Hasting's Car Crash (www.businessinsider.com)

5 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072409 0 comments

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Radian = AngularJS + D3 + open source (openbrainsrc.github.io)

5 points first seen 2013072412 last seen 2013072415 0 comments

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We need help: New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013072412 last seen 2013072412 0 comments

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Show HN: StackIgnite - a real-time cost and instance monitor for AWS (andrei.oprisan.com)

5 points first seen 2013072412 last seen 2013072415 0 comments

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Best open-source visualization frameworks? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013072418 last seen 2013072421 2 comments

0

Ask HN: What is your Node.js & MongoDB development setup & procedures? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013072421 last seen 2013072421 0 comments

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Show HN: jsFiddle++, a better jsFiddle (jsfpp.tomodo.me)

4 points first seen 2013072400 last seen 2013072400 5 comments

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Ding Dong (techcrunch.com)

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Leap motion: prototyping the future (machine-theory.com)

4 points first seen 2013072403 last seen 2013072403 0 comments

0

Flipboard Magazines On The Web (flipboard.com)

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This YouTube channel has become a dark mystery we have only 67 days to solve (www.dailydot.com)

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A fast Go library for exponential moving averages (vividcortex.com)

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Why Google Reader Died (www.buzzfeed.com)

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Heisenbug (en.wikipedia.org)

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The creator of USB hasn’t stopped inventing: conversation with with Ajay Bhatt (spectrum.ieee.org)

4 points first seen 2013072409 last seen 2013072412 0 comments

0

The Pixel Painter. 10 hours a day drawing with Microsoft Paint. Amazing. (vimeo.com)

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Intel teases a new Haswell processor for thin, potentially fanless tablets (www.theverge.com)

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New Zealand: Up to 85 cases of illegal spying uncovered (www.nzherald.co.nz)

4 points first seen 2013072412 last seen 2013072415 2 comments

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Kamcord (YC S12) - Networking and early traction (www.youtube.com)

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German playwright Rolf Hochhuth asks Merkel to give Snowden asylum (www.independent.co.uk)

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Kisume.js: reliable `window` access for userscripting (github.com)

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Ubuntu forums hacked; 1.82M logins, email addresses stolen (www.zdnet.com)

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Advantages of web applications over desktop applications (stackoverflow.com)

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Greece Reinstates Forced HIV Testing | HIVPlusMag.com (www.hivplusmag.com)

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Ask HN: A way to change username on HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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BlockPRISM.org Facebook Encryption for Everybody (http://www.blockprism.org)

4 points first seen 2013072421 last seen 2013072421 2 comments

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Parallela $99 18-core single-board computer now available for pre-order (shop.adapteva.com)

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Sandman: A Boilerplate-free Python REST API for Existing Databases (www.jeffknupp.com)

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The CIA Wants To Control The Weather Through 'Geoengineering' (finance.yahoo.com)

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Good products have features, Great products have stories. (medium.com)

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Making an App Promo Video on a Budget (blog.hopefullyuseful.com)

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Offer HN: I'm stuck in Europe & offering PSD coding & WordPress integration (news.ycombinator.com)

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How To Use Personalization To Increase Customer Happiness (www.evergage.com)

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Instagram and self-esteem (www.slate.com)

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Interactive Baseball Visualiztion - Season in Review from Teehan+Lax (labs.teehanlax.com)