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Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. (www.bloomberg.com)

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Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video (arstechnica.com)

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Dont Worry Government, I Got This Porn Filter Sorted (sicksad.com)

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Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes (bzg.fr)

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Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance (www.nytimes.com)

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My hell as a 911 operator (www.nypost.com)

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Who Are We at War With? That’s Classified (www.propublica.org)

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Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet (www.google.com)

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Ask HN: HN Political News Overload? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy (antonyloewenstein.com)

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What is new in IPython 1.0 (ipython.org)

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Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have ‘Powerful and Invasive’ Search Tool (abcnews.go.com)

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The American-Western European Values Gap (www.pewglobal.org)

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Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Greenland’s ice sheets are disappearing faster than anyone predicted (www.rollingstone.com)

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Hyperloop lets you travel on a resonant acoustic wave? (conscienceofanentrepreneur.blogspot.com)

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The Haskell School of Music (www.cs.yale.edu)

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Root Shell on Google ChromeCast (blog.gtvhacker.com)

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GameBoy Programming Manual (www.scribd.com)

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In India, Prism-like Surveillance Slips Under the Radar (cis-india.org)

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"Australia Tax" is real: Infrastructure and Communications report (www.zdnet.com)

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Fuck the Super Game Boy: Introduction (2010) (loveconquersallgam.es)

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Honest In-App Purchases (david-smith.org)

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Google offering same-day delivery from retailers in the Bay Area (www.google.com)

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Building an internal combustion engine from store bought parts (howtolou.com)

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How Apple Gets At-Home Workers To Work (techcrunch.com)

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How We Increased Our Conversion Rate By 311% (blog.statuspage.io)

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

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Opponents of NSA surveillance emboldened by close House vote (thehill.com)

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Unblock Torrent Sites, Blocked Proxies, & Cameron’s Porn Filter With Immunicity (torrentfreak.com)

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A Simple, Comprehensive Overview of Javascript (betterexplained.com)

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CIS 194: Introduction to Haskell (Spring 2013) (www.cis.upenn.edu)

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New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970) (thestandardsmanual.com)

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Show HN: better software deployment with Git (github.com)

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A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (www.nybooks.com)

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Tagging in Rails 4 using PostgreSQL arrays (rny.io)

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Clay - A Generic Programming Language as fast as C (claylabs.com)

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The Structure of a Real Apology (spin.atomicobject.com)

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Prism: Create and explore personalized infographics of your SMS history (http://prismviz.com)

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Why Go Is An Excellent Modern Programming Language (engineeredweb.com)

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UK e-petition: Do Not Force ISP Filtering of Pornography and Other Content (epetitions.direct.gov.uk)

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Mathematics self-proves its own Consistency (contra Gödel et. al.) (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

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Introducing Cornucopia, the food printer (phys.org)

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A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA (www.nytimes.com)

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Senior VP Bob Mansfield removed from Apple's leadership page (www.apple.com)

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Kanban – The Secret Engineer Killer (blog.aha.io)

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Why Good Programmers are Lazy and Dumb [2005] (blogoscoped.com)

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First steps with HHVM and Vagrant (coderoncode.com)

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Whack: compile and run relocatable Linux programs (github.com)

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Google Chromecast review (techcrunch.com)

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How to Save Barnes & Noble (www.theamericanconservative.com)

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Buzz Aldrin: Discovering the moon (www.aljazeera.com)

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Angels Get Carry For Helping A Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates (techcrunch.com)

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Quora's "India Problem" (www.quora.com)

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Show HN: Disc, a code visualisation tool for your node/browserify projects (hughsk.github.io)

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Dark Snow Project (darksnowproject.org)

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German president says whistleblowers like Snowden merit respect (www.reuters.com)

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How do I deal with a difficult programmer joining an open source project? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee speaking at FOSDEM 2013 [video] (yourfreedombox.org)

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Show HN: a tool for inspecting HTTP callbacks in realtime (webhookinbox.com)

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India's Last Maharaja (online.wsj.com)

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Microsoft Wants Google to Censor Microsoft.com (torrentfreak.com)

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Wysihtml5 - A better approach to rich text editing (xing.github.io)

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"We can never make enough money..." (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Best Haskell projects and gists to learn from (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Gittle - Pythonic Git for Humans (github.com)

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Bootsrap 3 SASS/SCSS is here. (github.com)

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How Lorem Ipsum Makes Web Projects Fail (www.valuablecontent.co.uk)

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Tell HN: Google: "Keyword Tool will no longer be available" (news.ycombinator.com)

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AK-47 Underwater at 27,450 frames per second (www.youtube.com)

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How Superman Defeated the Ku Klux Klan (mentalfloss.com)

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SVGeneration – Generate high-quality SVG background images (http://www.svgeneration.com)

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Ask HN: How are venture capitalists compensated? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Building a Forum with Clojure, Datomic, Angular, and Ansible (www.flyingmachinestudios.com)

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Nedstarkism (webjac.com)

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Flynn - Docker based Opensource PaaS needs $5000 today (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google are using reCaptcha to read door numbers from their Street View data (imgur.com)

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Virgin Media store their passwords in plain text (twitter.com)

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USPTO's final (but not really final) rejection of Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent (www.fosspatents.com)

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Windows dynamically adds new root certificates without asking user (translate.google.com)

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Setting Up a New Pc With Chocolatey (richardtasker.co.uk)

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The Secret FISA Court Must Go (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Ask HN: How can I ensure my Ruby on Rails App will be scalable? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ubuntu Edge Chart (ubuntu-edge.info)

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AppleInsider: Samsung has not 'dethroned' Apple in profits (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Re: Civil Disobedience, Edward J. Snowden, and the Constitution (msnbcmedia.msn.com)

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A reading list on F# and other ML languages (fdatamining.blogspot.hk)

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Can Concentric Circles Save Subway Sanity in New York? (motherboard.vice.com)

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Letter to my MP about web censorship (www.brucelawson.co.uk)

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Hypothesis: The purpose of Google Chromecast is to gather data (www.kloustin.com)

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Show HN: I'm 15 and I Coded My First App (itunes.apple.com)

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The USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US (2006) (www.resilience.org)

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Look Before You Leap Motion (www.technologyreview.com)

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Get excited about garbage collection (www.youtube.com)

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Is GPL still relevant? (giovanni.bajo.it)

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Ask HN: How do you develop MVP if your main feature depends on an external API? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Internet hatred can destroy your soul and dreams (kotaku.com)

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Show HN: Live atmosphere data crowdsourced with Android (pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca)

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Nexus 7 (2013) - Mini Review (www.anandtech.com)

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Be a Caddy to the People Around You (medium.com)

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Ask HN: What is Hyperion "3-d dust continuum radiative transfer code"? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Experiments in Speed - 104 tooth bike chainring (video) (vimeo.com)

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Rails Riddles #1 - What's the correct callback? (mad.ly)

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Show HN: My weekend project - a baby naming app (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: ToS and Legal Liability (news.ycombinator.com)

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Firebase is hiring in SF. Help us change the way software is made (news.ycombinator.com)

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