hackerNews

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Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' (www.theguardian.com)

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Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second (techcrunch.com)

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NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference (www.forbes.com)

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The entire US Code is now online in XML (uscodebeta.house.gov)

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Ask HN: I might be going to prison soon, how to save my one-man SaaS startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How 'One Weird Trick' Conquered The Internet (www.slate.com)

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The Door To The FISA Court Doesn't Even Have A Sign On It (konklone.com)

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Why I Left Medium (kennethreitz.org)

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Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1980s? Blame copyright (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains (github.com)

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Starbucks’ WiFi goes Google (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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Twelve Go Best Practices (talks.golang.org)

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The Belt CPU Architecture (ootbcomp.com)

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Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199 (www.computerworld.com)

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Give Snowden his due: He made a surveillance debate possible (www.latimes.com)

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Basics Of Function Pointers In C (denniskubes.com)

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Wraith – A screenshot comparison tool from the BBC (github.com)

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Authy: Faster Two-Factor Authentication (www.authy.com)

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How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition (blog.togo.io)

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Activision Blizzard goes indie after CEO Kotick buys back the company (massively.joystiq.com)

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Two years later, Senator’s criticism of NSA spying sinks in (arstechnica.com)

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Leaked transcript of censored Bret Victor talk (alarmingdevelopment.org)

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How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish (www.theatlantic.com)

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"Accidentally" Freelance (notes.unwieldy.net)

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1984 Day - Rally Against Surveillance (1984Day.com)

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Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better than face-to-face (www.mediadesk.uzh.ch)

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Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices (sethrobertson.github.io)

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Report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years (www.cnn.com)

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RethinkDB: new documentation site, cookbook with examples, practical guides (rethinkdb.com)

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From PhD to Data Scientist: Tips for Making the Transition (insightdatascience.com)

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Servers of Hacker News (ls.pwd.io)

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NSA Response to XKEYSCORE allegations (www.nsa.gov)

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Sublime Text pacakges (sublimepackages.com)

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Show HN: Bitcast.io – A marketplace for web development tutorials (www.bitcast.io)

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US must tell defendants when spying is used to build case against them (arstechnica.com)

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HackRF, an open source SDR platform (www.kickstarter.com)

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Zynga sues sex app maker over Bang With Friends name (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: For the boaters among us, my small company made an iOS app (www.tryskipper.com)

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Perl - the Detroit of scripting languages (speakerdeck.com)

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I got access to all of BitTorrent Inc's source code and sensitive documents (forum.ragezone.com)

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Why are most browsers developed in C++? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

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Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode (www.phoronix.com)

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Javascript Constructors and Prototypes (tobyho.com)

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Airports are less fearing change than trying to maintain their funding system (priceonomics.com)

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Show HN: Minisync gives your web app its own relational backend-as-a-service (blog.tutorspree.com)

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Got an account on a site like Github? Hackers may know your e-mail address (arstechnica.com)

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Why current social technologies might be keeping us from truly connecting (medium.com)

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Binaural beats (en.wikipedia.org)

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White House unable to confirm if Congress briefed on NSA spy program (www.theguardian.com)

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How to interpret complex C/C++ declarations (2004) (www.codeproject.com)

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From iPhone to iPad (jackg.org)

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Vintageous: Vim emulation for Sublime Text 3 (guillermooo.bitbucket.org)

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Docker Hack Day Highlights (blog.runkite.com)

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Show HN: Collaborative Time Capsules (https://www.getforword.com)

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Why Travis Kalanick is going to be a Transportation Rockefeller (jasonevanish.com)

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

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Wire Transfers Now Supported (blog.dwolla.com)

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The HN Digest trial (hndigest.wordpress.com)

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Tindie Launches Open Designs and Kickbacks for Open Source Hardware (blog.tindie.com)

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My son won’t get fair trial in US – Snowden’s father (rt.com)

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XKeyscore - full presentation (www.theguardian.com)

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NSA Project X-Keyscore Collects Nearly Everything You Do On The Internet (techcrunch.com)

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The Legend of The Oregon Trail (mentalfloss.com)

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Kickstarter Should Do More to Protect Backers (www.inc.com)

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Ask HN:Where are 'Who is hiring?' and 'SEEKING freelancer?' threads for Aug2013 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Mobile friendly property listing to Rightmove (UK) (http://wigwamm.com)

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Banks forgot to renew domain registrations, knocking services offline (www.computerworlduk.com)

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Black Holes + Wormholes = Quantum Answers (www.npr.org)

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Django adopts a Code of Conduct (www.djangoproject.com)

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Coinbase launches redesign (coinbase.com)

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IPhone is King of Speed - SnappyCam unlocks 20 pictures/sec at 8 Mpx (www.snappylabs.com)

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Ask HN: How many companies have started from a Show HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Best New Features in Bootstrap 3.0 (antjanus.com)

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The App Store Problem Is Not Price (www.marco.org)

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The theory guy never wins (vladmkrtumyan.blogspot.com)

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Beyond Kickstarter: Game devs who crowdfunded on their own (gamasutra.com)

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Shuttle for Ubuntu (ashisha.github.io)

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Mozilla donated $25,000 to JS-Git (www.bountysource.com)

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Dear Google: Don't be AT&T (act.freepress.net)

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Fitting the Facts to the Narrative (daringfireball.net)

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Ask HN: What's happening to the "Learn X the Hard Way" series? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Dropbox to open Austin office (www.dropbox.com)

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U.S. Outlines N.S.A.’s Culling of Data for All Domestic Calls (www.nytimes.com)

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My e-mail to Congressman Mike Rogers about XKeyscore (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Best 100 Free SEO Tools & Resources Online (moz.com)

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Huge Global Coalition Stands Against Unchecked Surveillance (www.eff.org)

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Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: Materialized views (michael.otacoo.com)

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Getting users for the first time, ever. (news.ycombinator.com)

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EFF and others launch site to fight patent trolls (www.eff.org)

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LambdaNative is a cross-platform development environment written in Scheme. (github.com)

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Show HN: Blog Idea Generator (titletool.contentforest.com)

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SAIC job posting for 'XKEYSCORE Systems Engineer' (jobs.saic.com)

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New Uber.com homepage (www.uber.com)

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Messages in public SSH RSA keys (thialfihar.org)

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Coinbase launched a new design (blog.coinbase.com)

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The Life of Dustin Curtis (dcurt.is)

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VideoCore IV Programmers Manual (Raspberry Pi) (github.com)

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How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say (www.slate.com)

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Show HN: Stuck in a Dilemma? Say hello to Milemma (http://www.milemma.com)

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Monad.java (gist.github.com)

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Introducing Embedded Posts - Facebook (newsroom.fb.com)

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Stop the NSA from snooping on your Google Drive (www.syncdocs.com)

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Git Workflows (www.atlassian.com)

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Facebook - Secure Browsing by Default (www.facebook.com)

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GUI Kits for Building Websites and Mobile Apps (sourcecanvas.com)

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The Intel Labs Haskell Research Compiler (www.leafpetersen.com)

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Ask HN: What "groupware" solution for a startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Will You Hire Me? I Have Not Used Your Product. (medium.com)

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Show HN: I Made this learning urinal simulator (http://www.urinalman.com)

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C.J. Date's SQL and Relational Theory Master Class (shop.oreilly.com)

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The Hipster Logo Design Guide (hipsterlogo.com)

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Ask HN: I'm in a difficult situation, and I would like to work for you (news.ycombinator.com)

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Photons May Emit Faster-Than-Light Particles, Physicists Suggest (www.livescience.com)

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Gmail + Plus + Dot = Countless Aliases of Your Gmail Address (saynt2day.blogspot.ru)

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Dear Recruiter (tracks.ranea.org)

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Georgia Tech uncovers iOS security weaknesses (phys.org)

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Max Levchin Wants Us To Mine Hurricanes For Energy (techcrunch.com)

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The UPS Store Makes 3D Printing Accessible to Start-Ups (www.reuters.com)

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August 4th Rallies Protest Unconstitutional Surveillance (www.eff.org)

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Ask HN: I’ve burnt out at a megacorp and don’t know what to do next (news.ycombinator.com)

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What's the point of a 1,000-year jail sentence? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How a security expert/hacker foiled heroin frame case (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better than face-to-face (www.kurzweilai.net)

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SQL Injection Cheat Sheet (ferruh.mavituna.com)

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'UFO' in Shanghai found to be cake deliverer (www.soshiok.com)