hackerNews

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Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go (github.com)

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Tox: secure messaging for everyone (tox.im)

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Identical Droplets in the DigitalOcean: Regenerate your Ubuntu SSH Host Keys now (missingm.co)

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US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to zoom' patent (www.pcworld.com)

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Bitcoin ruled illegal in Thailand (bitcoin.co.th)

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Someone blocks all GPS signals at the London Stock Exchange for 10 minutes a day (www.economist.com)

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Why I willingly handed over my credit card and PIN to a fraudster (www.newstatesman.com)

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Disney's new image algorithm turns 2D photos into a 3D model (www.3ders.org)

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Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week (www.collisiondetection.net)

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Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat (seriouspony.com)

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Flynn 101% Funded (flynn.io)

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Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht (blog.chron.com)

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A back-projection algorithm to extract 3D volume from shadows (jack.minardi.org)

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Desperate times call for desperate measures (blog.theoldreader.com)

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Mail from the (Velvet) Cybercrime Underground (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Phil Fish and the Internet’s war against creatives (www.penny-arcade.com)

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Telco Astroturfing Tries To Bring Down Reviews Of Susan Crawford's Book (www.techdirt.com)

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Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions (valerieaurora.org)

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"Instead of cures for cancer we got Angry Birds" (peternixey.com)

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IPv6 Statistics from Google (www.google.com)

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InK - Interface Kit (ink.sapo.pt)

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SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks (www.brentozar.com)

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Straws And Cups That Detect Date Rape Drugs (www.wgbhnews.org)

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Microsoft Accuses Microsoft of Copyright Infringement (www.pcworld.com)

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The Slingatron: Building a Railroad to Space (www.kickstarter.com)

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Taleb: Skin in the Game as a Required Heuristic for Acting Under Uncertainty (papers.ssrn.com)

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Android vs. iOS: Comparing the Development Process of the GQueues Mobile Apps (blog.gqueues.com)

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What does it mean for light to be stopped or stored? (www.askamathematician.com)

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Down with lifehacking (www.slate.com)

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Tor use is now forbidden on Kimsufi's OVH (forum.ovh.com)

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Data Structures using C++ (www-scf.usc.edu)

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Meetup Golf - a game I play to keep myself from networking wrong (blog.ledwards.com)

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First Open Source Airplane Could Cost Just $15,000 (www.wired.com)

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When Lousy Code Strikes, Google Dispatches Its Elite ‘Gopher Team’ (www.wired.com)

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Bootstrap 3 (http://getbootstrap.com)

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HTTP/2.0 Initial Draft Released (apiux.com)

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On why removing features makes people unhappy (GNOME) (www.dgsiegel.net)

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Scraping web sites which dynamically load data (like Twitter) (blog.databigbang.com)

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Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences (lists.w3.org)

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OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t (spectrum.ieee.org)

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GitHub was experiencing a DDoS (status.github.com)

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How we're changing Georgia Tech, forever (chintanparikh.github.io)

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What git branching models actually work? (stackoverflow.com)

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SIP Trunking to Replace My Landline Phone Using Plivo (plivo.com)

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Announcing Trigger.io v2.0 (trigger.io)

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UCLA scientists double efficiency of novel solar cell (phys.org)

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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior [pdf] (www.pnas.org)

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35h work week fading as the average full-time work week in France nears 40h (www.rudebaguette.com)

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SpaceX processing units, radiation-tolerant by design (2012) (www.aviationweek.com)

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Why 99.997% Of Entrepreneurs May Want To Postpone Or Avoid VC (www.forbes.com)

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Stripe Shop (shop.stripe.com)

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HackMIT - Hackathon for students from any school, Oct 4-6 (www.hackmit.org)

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Test-driven design (startuplab.googleventures.com)

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Show HN: Nobody wants to listen to my problems so I made this (http://www.blabdash.com)

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DataRank (YC S13) Helps Brands Uncover Valuable Business Insights (mashable.com)

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Crushing the Impostor Syndrome (www.cyclonelife.net)

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Hacker School/App Academy/ect. worth it? (MBA builds app in less than 2 months) (medium.com)

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Why Are Google Employees So Disloyal? (www.bloomberg.com)

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Inside Dropbox’s Urbanized San Francisco Offices (officesnapshots.com)

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Ask HN: I can't think straight, my life is in limbo, and I want to end it now (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bradley Manning verdict to be announced Tuesday (www.sltrib.com)

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Be The Obnoxious Needy Jr Programmer (www.scottkle.in)

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JavaScript 'wake' event (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Streak (YC S11) Brings Mass Customized Emails to Gmail (blog.streak.com)

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Why you shouldn't use closures for module privacy in JS (sidekicksrc.com)

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Tuples in JavaScript (oli.me.uk)

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MakeGamesWithUs gives young developers a home (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

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Octopart API integration via DataNitro (octopart.com)

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Life Of A Stranger Who Stole My Phone (lifeofastrangerwhostolemyphone.tumblr.com)

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Communicating like a pro during an outage – learning from Twilio (blog.statuspage.io)

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The Popularity of Four Lisp Dialects on Github (wenshanren.org)

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Open Pixel-art Platformer (github.com)

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Dropbox’s San Francisco Office (www.nextventured.com)

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Ask HN: how do you motivate yourself (news.ycombinator.com)

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Living Surveillance Free for a Day (nymag.com)

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Startup Exchange at Georgia Tech (http://startupexchange.gatech.edu)

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How Big Data Is Taking Teachers Out of the Lecturing Business (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Show HN: hulk, an in-browser JSON editor (github.com)

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Show HN: Empress - Blogging with Ember.js and Github (github.com)

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What is the concept underlying image processing? (functionspace.org)

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Flynn (open source PaaS) 90% funded, only a day left... (news.ycombinator.com)

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Goldman Sachs Aluminum Moving Scheme Has Allegedly Cost US Consumers $5 Billion (www.businessinsider.com)

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Developer Excuses (developerexcuses.com)

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What's next for Flynn (flynn.io)

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Patent War Adds Front in U.S. (online.wsj.com)

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The Old Reader RSS app closes registration after months of 'hell' (theverge.com)

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Ask HN: someone I care for is thinking of ending his life. I can't reach him. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Things we do that don’t scale but help us succeed (blog.close.io)

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Protos Eyewear: 3D Printed Eyewear Tailored to Fit You (crowdfunding.protoseyewear.com)

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Car key immobiliser hack revelations blocked by UK court (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Steve Blank: Building Great Founding Teams (steveblank.com)

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Massachusetts enacts sales tax on 'pre-written' software (sdt.bz)

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"Hi, my name's Sketchfab, and I casually just did Z-brush for your browserz" (labs.sketchfab.com)

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I’m 14, My Kickstarter is About to be Funded, and my Open Source Plan (mplanner.co)

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Animated line drawing using SVG (jakearchibald.com)

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Why Startups are Going Back to Sending Physical Mail (blog.lob.com)

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Digital dating: Young, single and nearby (www.economist.com)

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A blog about Python (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: PythonHackers.com Valid idea? (http://pythonhackers.com)

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Can someone explain Gödel's incompleteness theorems in layman terms? (math.stackexchange.com)

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Developing native C++ OpenGL apps for Ouya with Visual Studio (visualgdb.com)

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Why Labor Unions And Silicon Valley Aren’t Friends, In 2 Charts (techcrunch.com)

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L20n - Localization by Mozilla (l20n.org)

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Google Chromecast's secret weapon: piracy (www.newstatesman.com)

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Major opinion shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA surveillance and privacy. (www.guardian.co.uk)

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GPS data are vital—but the signal is surprisingly easy to disrupt (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: Hacker News Dashboard (hckrnews.com data + kibana3 + qbox.io + appfog) (hnk.aws.af.cm)

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Zynga Sheds Three Top Execs As Its New CEO Shakes Up The Troubled Gaming Firm (techcrunch.com)

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Getting 60FPS using Chrome devtools (engineering.wingify.com)

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Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week (boingboing.net)

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NeoCities web sites now support custom domain names (neocities.org)

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Linode now offers managed service (www.linode.com)

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A budding bike business – then Google called (www.miamiherald.com)

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Big data, metadata, and traffic analysis: What the NSA is really doing (www.itworld.com)

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What awesome idea did you have that never went anywhere? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Old Reader migrating limited accounts to private site. (blog.theoldreader.com)

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ShipBuilder (shipbuilder.io)

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Why Nate Silver Spurned the Times: Numbers Win (techonomy.com)

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Ask HN: What can I do with vast amounts of text? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Agile: The Once and Future Methodology (blog.smartbear.com)

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The obvious Python parser (blog.nullspace.io)

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XKCD 1190 ("Time") has finished (forums.xkcd.com)

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Building a Hand-Tracking Robotic Arm Part 2: Software Implementation (yujiangtham.com)

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Ask HN: is it legal to price discriminate based on Geo-IP (news.ycombinator.com)

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Airbnb is engineering itself into a data-driven company (gigaom.com)

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Command Line Bitcoin Transactions (blog.richardkiss.com)

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The Most Important Managerial Skill, Battle-Picking (pandodaily.com)

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Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software (phys.org)

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Glucose Is Not Willpower Fuel (www.psychologytoday.com)

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New algorithm solves major problem with homomorphic encryption (phys.org)

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What It's Like To Drop 150,000 Feet Straight Down[use headphones] (www.youtube.com)

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Clean Code Cheat Sheet (www.planetgeek.ch)

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UIkit: A lightweight and modular front-end framework (http://getuikit.com)

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Ask HN: Why signup rate is so low? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A mechanical CPU from 1830 (www.ted.com)

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Twitter predicted to become a big TV screen (www.kurzweilai.net)

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Playing with groupcache (www.capotej.com)

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Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht (blog.chron.com)