hackerNews

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Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy (edu.mkrecny.com)

428 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072718 235 comments

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Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go (talks.golang.org)

404 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013073000 115 comments

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UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal (torrentfreak.com)

336 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072815 166 comments

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Bootstrap 3 RC1 (twitter.github.io)

293 points first seen 2013072718 last seen 2013073000 128 comments

2

Free email address validation API for web forms (blog.mailgun.com)

232 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072921 128 comments

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Hacker Barnaby Jack has died (www.reuters.com)

224 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072909 82 comments

12

How to kill an unresponsive SSH session (www.laszlo.nu)

200 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072906 104 comments

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The Top 4 Reasons Why 'Passive Income' Is A Dangerous Fantasy (2011) (www.forbes.com)

200 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072921 163 comments

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Hacker Barnaby Jack has died (www.reuters.com)

191 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072712 65 comments

3

How to build a simple REST API using only Nginx and PostgreSQL (rny.io)

181 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072909 72 comments

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Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars (www.guardian.co.uk)

165 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072912 86 comments

6

Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer (justin.abrah.ms)

162 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072909 75 comments

6

ChessBoardJS (chessboardjs.com)

148 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072906 67 comments

11

Zero Tolerance Policies Put Students In The Hands Of Bad Cops (www.techdirt.com)

141 points first seen 2013072715 last seen 2013072815 66 comments

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Russia won’t hand over Snowden to US – Kremlin (rt.com)

132 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072721 64 comments

25

Haskell for Web Developers (www.stephendiehl.com)

121 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072721 153 comments

6

Court grants Chevron access to 9 years of email data of activists & critics (dg5vd3ocj3r4t.cloudfront.net)

114 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072821 26 comments

14

Saurik posts new Android Bug Superior to Master Key (www.saurik.com)

107 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072900 21 comments

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Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash (www.wired.com)

106 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072803 42 comments

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Spy agencies ban Lenovo PCs on security grounds (www.afr.com)

104 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072903 79 comments

7

Edward Tufte (www.ft.com)

104 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072903 39 comments

4

High school programming taught in Haskell in argentina (sawafaso.blogspot.com.ar)

104 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072909 44 comments

13

They Know Much More Than You Think (www.nybooks.com)

101 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072903 27 comments

11

How to slaughter a patent troll in 5 steps (pandodaily.com)

101 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072906 38 comments

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Legal Weed is Hurting San Francisco's Hippies (priceonomics.com)

100 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072718 138 comments

15

My RabbitMQ setup for notifications (andreim.net)

100 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072900 17 comments

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Show HN: Easy-to-configure Web Server in Go (github.com)

96 points first seen 2013072721 last seen 2013072912 55 comments

7

The Hardest Logic Puzzles (www.conceptispuzzles.com)

96 points first seen 2013072721 last seen 2013072909 54 comments

9

Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language (abandonmatlab.wordpress.com)

94 points first seen 2013072715 last seen 2013072812 99 comments

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This $200 3D printed bot can crack your phone's PIN in 20 hours (www.3ders.org)

91 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072821 78 comments

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The White House should end the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records (www.washingtonpost.com)

89 points first seen 2013072718 last seen 2013072818 11 comments

8

Sellbox – sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal (sellboxhq.com)

88 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072900 51 comments

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Superbrothers - Sword & Sworcery: 1.5 million sold, sales statistics released (www.capybaragames.com)

87 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072900 39 comments

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Kindergarten coders can program before they can read (www.newscientist.com)

80 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072900 34 comments

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Signs You’re in a Dead-End Job (www.thedailymuse.com)

76 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072803 64 comments

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Did Frank Lloyd Wright create America's greatest office? (news.cnet.com)

74 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072821 41 comments

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Node v0.10.14 (Stable) (blog.nodejs.org)

73 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072815 31 comments

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Golang Resources (github.com)

67 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072803 6 comments

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Distributed Actors in Java and Clojure (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

64 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072809 12 comments

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Apple’s Developer Center Is Back After Over a Week Offline (techcrunch.com)

64 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072900 38 comments

17

Hidden “App Ops” Feature in Android 4.3 Lets You Disable Permissions From Apps (www.droid-life.com)

61 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072803 61 comments

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How to Tell If You're In a Dead End Job (and What You Can Do About It) (lifehacker.com)

58 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072703 42 comments

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New edX courses (www.edx.org)

58 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072818 13 comments

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Visualizing Years of Traffic Collisions in NYC: Crashmapper (blog.accursedware.com)

57 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072803 21 comments

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DoorDash (YC S13) Delivers Food Quickly In South Bay, Hopes To Expand Beyond Food (techcrunch.com)

57 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072818 45 comments

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Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech (news.rapgenius.com)

57 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072821 30 comments

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Why we'll use Google Universal Analytics over Mixpanel and KISSMetrics (blog.fleex.tv)

51 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072803 25 comments

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Properly configure Google Apps' Gmail and get rid of "via". (www.stavros.io)

47 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072800 23 comments

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FSF launches fundraiser for Replicant (a fully free Android version) (www.fsf.org)

47 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072809 0 comments

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Netflix Responds to Crop Controversy (www.avsforum.com)

42 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072803 21 comments

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The biggest thing nature did to fight climate change is no longer working (qz.com)

40 points first seen 2013072721 last seen 2013072803 52 comments

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Things that broke with the Opera 15 release due to the switch to Blink/Chromium (gist.github.com)

37 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072721 9 comments

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Google Authenticator is not iOS 7 compatible, will erase your tokens (code.google.com)

37 points first seen 2013072718 last seen 2013072803 27 comments

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Queues.io - all queueing libs in one place (queues.io)

36 points first seen 2013072721 last seen 2013072900 24 comments

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Why Smokers Still Smoke (www.nytimes.com)

35 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072715 54 comments

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C++ Library for Linear Algebra on Supercomputers (http://libelemental.org)

33 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072803 37 comments

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REVEALED: Hungry termites nibbling at Oracle's foundation (www.theregister.co.uk)

33 points first seen 2013072715 last seen 2013072809 20 comments

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Zenefits (YC W13) – Payroll, Benefits and HR for Startups Lands $2.1M (techcrunch.com)

32 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072800 12 comments

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Multi-purpose wings allow flying robot to walk across rough terrain (robohub.org)

29 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072800 13 comments

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US Attorney General Holder: We Won't Torture or Kill Snowden (www.newyorker.com)

29 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072712 51 comments

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The perils of online college learning (www.latimes.com)

29 points first seen 2013072715 last seen 2013072815 22 comments

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Show HN : My Anti-Boredom App Project (alexiscreuzot.com)

26 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072706 26 comments

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Apple's office near MIT is building a speech-tech team, in Nuance's back yard (www.xconomy.com)

25 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072721 5 comments

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Ask HN: Mobile app devs making $1,000+/month on your app(s), how did you do it? (news.ycombinator.com)

24 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072718 0 comments

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Rust: low-level programming without the segfaults (speakerdeck.com)

23 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072721 2 comments

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How to hack a Rails app using its secret_token (robertheaton.com)

22 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072709 11 comments

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ICFP Programming Contest 2013 — FYI: preregistration required (research.microsoft.com)

21 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072706 6 comments

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Report Invalid Whois Contact Information to ICANN? (www.elliotsblog.com)

20 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072800 21 comments

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RubyWarrior re-imagined as a canvas web game (www.bloc.io)

18 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072709 5 comments

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Yet Another Process Library for Java (YAPLJ) (zeroturnaround.com)

17 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072703 2 comments

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RailsBridge Boston welcomes 64 women into Boston Ruby community [video] (www.railsbridgeboston.org)

15 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072712 2 comments

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Create your own Ad Network with InfluAds (influads.com)

14 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 4 comments

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The OS X window manager for hackers (github.com)

13 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072709 5 comments

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Phishing 2.0 – Credit Card Redirection on Compromised E-commerce Sites (blog.sucuri.net)

12 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072712 0 comments

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Robin Hood Hashing should be your default Hash Table implementation (sebastiansylvan.com)

12 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2014040803 0 comments

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Harvesting The Biosphere: Book Review (www.thegatesnotes.com)

12 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072721 3 comments

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Bootstrap 3 RC1 (blog.getbootstrap.com)

12 points first seen 2013072721 last seen 2013072803 0 comments

86

Request HN: An open source list of disallowed usernames (news.ycombinator.com)

11 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072706 11 comments

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The Heroku API was down (status.heroku.com)

11 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072718 11 comments

82

Ask HN: Solo Founder SaaS or App Success Stories? (news.ycombinator.com)

11 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072709 11 comments

60

How America's Top Tech Companies Created the Surveillance State (www.nationaljournal.com)

11 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072718 0 comments

60

Ask HN: Can we stop linking to subscriber only content? (news.ycombinator.com)

11 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072718 14 comments

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Show HN: Tracqlist - The desire way to listen to music on Youtube (http://tracqlist.com)

10 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 4 comments

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Long-Term Revenue Growth Is Harder Than Short-Term Revenue Growth (training.kalzumeus.com)

10 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072718 0 comments

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Ask HN: Freelancers, what health insurance do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072709 6 comments

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Show HN: Find out how many emails you send/receive (joymetrics.com)

10 points first seen 2013072715 last seen 2013072800 5 comments

0

Growth Hacking Apps: One Indie Developer’s Success Story (blog.tapstream.com)

9 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

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Groupcache (memcached replacement in Go) (github.com)

9 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072718 2 comments

0

Is the Future of Food in Tokyo? (blogs.wsj.com)

8 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 3 comments

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George Dyson: NSA & The Decision Problem (www.edge.org)

8 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

76

A Comparison Between Perl and Haskell (ocharles.org.uk)

7 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz annotates his own novel on Rap Genius (gigaom.com)

7 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 4 comments

81

Avoid the Series A Crunch by customerstrapping your company (pandodaily.com)

7 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072715 0 comments

82

Intrusion Detection: How do you find the Needle in a haystack? (analyticsmadeskeezy.com)

6 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072703 0 comments

80

Ask HN: Why isn't Scala as popular on HN front page as Haskell / Go? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072706 10 comments

85

Treehouse for iPad Makes Learning to Code on the Go Simple (lifehacker.com)

6 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072706 2 comments

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Navy looking for "expertise, capabilities...experience in...cardiac pacemakers" (www.fbo.gov)

6 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072715 0 comments

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Chromecast Teardown (www.ifixit.com)

6 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072718 0 comments

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Bootstrap 3 RC1 (getbootstrap.com)

6 points first seen 2013072721 last seen 2013072803 0 comments

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Pentagon to deploy huge blimps over Washington, DC for 360-degree surveillance (rt.com)

5 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 2 comments

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My first app: wat2do, a daily map of events in SF (http://www.sfwat2do.com)

5 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013091413 3 comments

0

Google Cancels Netflix Deal for Chromecast (daringfireball.net)

5 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072703 4 comments

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"Live Reload"-like feature with a single line of javascript (vjk2005.tumblr.com)

5 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072712 2 comments

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The Lapeyre Automatic Shrimp Peeling Machine, 1979 [pdf] (www.asme.org)

5 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072712 0 comments

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Why I Like Elixir (and Other Go Programmers Might Too) (blog.mattyw.net)

5 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072718 0 comments

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Man gets ransomware pop-up, goes to cops, gets arrested on child porn charges (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2013072715 last seen 2013072721 0 comments

88

Techno Gender Assumptions (blog.baugues.com)

5 points first seen 2013072721 last seen 2013072800 0 comments

0

Never go to Thailand (vimeo.com)

5 points first seen 2013072721 last seen 2013072721 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Smaller(ish) Project Idea's (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 0 comments

82

Top security & crypto papers from the last 5 years (saweis.net)

4 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

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Elite hacker Barnaby Jack dies ahead of Black Hat event (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

0

Don't be an idiot Listen to your customers. (blog.drumbi.com)

4 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

81

The Internet: Looking Forward by Vint Cerf, Google (www.cisco.com)

4 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072709 0 comments

0

The Pros and Cons of Iterative Development (spencerfry.com)

4 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

89

An Open Letter to LinkedIn (theblacksheepagency.com)

4 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072709 0 comments

0

PHP for Pirates — Interactive Debugging in PHP (presentate.com)

4 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

0

U.S. assures Russia Snowden won't be executed or tortured (www.reuters.com)

4 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 2 comments

89

Blood pressure drugs may help Alzheimer’s, study suggests (www.cnbc.com)

4 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072712 0 comments

0

Spain Levies Consumption Tax on Sunlight (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.fi)

4 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072709 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Any Startups in Portland? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013072709 last seen 2013072709 3 comments

0

Building a staging environment on Heroku (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

4 points first seen 2013072712 last seen 2013072712 0 comments

0

Hearing brainwaves - epilepsy EEG sonified (sydney.edu.au)

4 points first seen 2013072715 last seen 2013072715 0 comments

0

NOVA: A Functional Language for Data Parallelism (research.nvidia.com)

4 points first seen 2013072715 last seen 2013072715 0 comments

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Successful executives and the four-hour sleep myth (www.bbc.com)

4 points first seen 2013072718 last seen 2013072800 0 comments

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Show HN: ICEcoder v3.0 released (browser code editor) (http://icecoder.net?v3.0)

4 points first seen 2013072721 last seen 2013072800 0 comments

0

The NSA's New Spy Facilities are 7 Times Bigger Than the Pentagon (www.defenseone.com)

3 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Writing my first app (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 9 comments

0

Hate porn, sure, but be wary of banning it (www.guardian.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 0 comments

0

What is your Data Science Technology Stack? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 0 comments

0

A Quick Introduction to HHVM (coderoncode.com)

3 points first seen 2013072700 last seen 2013072700 0 comments

0

U.S. Tells Russia It Won’t Torture or Kill Snowden (www.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072703 2 comments

0

Size Matters: why universal 'mobile-first' is a bad strategy (medium.com)

3 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072703 4 comments

0

Hacker dies days before he was to reveal how to remotely kill pacemaker patients (rt.com)

3 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072703 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What are inspirational money making web apps made by hackers? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013072703 last seen 2013072703 0 comments

0

Calca - a new Markdown text editor/calculator (http://www.calca.io)

3 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

0

Show HN: Get an SMS when the Apple Developer Center comes back (http://dev-center-notifier.herokuapp.com)

3 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 2 comments

0

System Administrator Appreciation Day Picnic in South Park (sysadmin.eventbrite.com)

3 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

0

Tell HN: Happy National SysAdmin Appreciation Day (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013072706 last seen 2013072706 0 comments

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San Diego Hacker News Meetup 44 Tonight (Fri 7/27) (anyvite.com)