hackerNews

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Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic (www.wired.com)

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Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall (spritesmods.com)

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Two Stories of Passive Income Excess (x.myles.io)

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NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst (www.pbs.org)

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FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software (news.cnet.com)

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How to Design Programs, Second Edition (www.ccs.neu.edu)

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What a 600,000 megapixels wide picture looks like (www.oddly-even.com)

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TimelineJS: build visually-rich interactive timelines (timeline.verite.co)

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Web Tracing Framework by Google (google.github.io)

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After NSA's XKeyscore, Wikipedia Switches to HTTPS (www.fastcompany.com)

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Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers (no OCR involved) (www.dkriesel.com)

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Black Hat: Don't Plug Your Phone into a Charger You Don't Own (securitywatch.pcmag.com)

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Here’s what real reform of the NSA looks like (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" from Senate computer (en.wikipedia.org)

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Inside Caracas' Tower of David, the World's Tallest Slum (motherboard.vice.com)

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100,000 DOM Updates (swannodette.github.io)

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Carmack: Armadillo Aerospace in “hibernation mode” (www.newspacejournal.com)

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CoreOS Vagrant Images (coreos.com)

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Comments in JSON? What dark magic is this? (fadefade.com)

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Dwarf Fortress in 2013 (gamasutra.com)

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$57 WiFi spy boxes made with Raspberry Pi (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Finn - The mount for every smartphone and bicycle (getfinn.com)

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Hacker News in the Terminal (andrewvos.com)

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Ubuntu Edge will miss $32M crowdfunding target (www.theguardian.com)

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Functional Programming with Python (kachayev.github.io)

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Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic (www.cbc.ca)

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Germany ends spy pact with US and UK after Snowden (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Security disclosure about a bluetooth toilet (www.trustwave.com)

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Running Rails? Defend yourself against BREACH (blog.meldium.com)

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Mean Stack (mean.io)

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How to read a patent in 60 seconds (www.danshapiro.com)

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Germany nixes surveillance pact with US, Britain (news.yahoo.com)

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Hacking Team Caught Taking Over Decoy Water Plant (www.technologyreview.com)

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Why Mark Shuttleworth is important to desktop Linux (fossforce.com)

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Show HN: FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml (github.com)

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The State Machines of Core.Async (hueypetersen.com)

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Massachusetts Introduces Software Service Tax (www.masslive.com)

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The network of mathematics (plus.google.com)

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Bitfury 400 GH/s Bitcoin Mining Rig Hits US Shores (thegenesisblock.com)

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Hackers to NSA chief: Read the Constitution (news.cnet.com)

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T-Mobile backs Ubuntu smartphone (www.zdnet.com)

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Yahoo acquires Rockmelt (blog.rockmelt.com)

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Show HN: Rails Performance Help – Tracer Bullets (ninjasandrobots.com)

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Expert Says NSA Have Backdoors Built Into Intel And AMD Processors (www.eteknix.com)

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Yahoo Has Acquired Rockmelt, Apps To Shut Down On August 31st (techcrunch.com)

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Build a Blog Engine in Go (0value.com)

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LinkedIn rejects engineering ads with female images, bans account (www.toptal.com)

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Russia's Massive Android Malware Industry Revealed (securitywatch.pcmag.com)

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Americans Thought They Smelled Fine Until Marketers Convinced Them Otherwise (priceonomics.com)

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How the Pentagon's payroll quagmire traps America's soldiers (www.reuters.com)

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What’s Asseta, A Used Equipment Marketplace, Doing In Y Combinator? (YC S13) (techcrunch.com)

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Mod_python development resumes after a 5 year pause (grisha.org)

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Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? (www.vanityfair.com)

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Show HN: Journal Your Life as Data with Thyself.io (thyself.io)

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DOJ Calls for Apple to End Book Deals, Link to Rival Bookstores (allthingsd.com)

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The co-founder of PayPal wants to put a baby in you (qz.com)

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How to take on a large Django project (gun.io)

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Organically Increase Your Followers With the Twitter API and a Little Python (blog.jmoz.co.uk)

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IOS productivity app market on the cusp of change? (blog.inkmobility.com)

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Work for Pie is Shutting Down (blog.workforpie.com)

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You’re Procrastinating Without Even Realizing It (codepreneur.tumblr.com)

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Find your lost phone with Android Device Manager (officialandroid.blogspot.com)

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Rocket: A hybrid approach to real-time cloud applications (http://rocket.github.io)

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Self hosted social sharing count server - Much faster than third party widgets (github.com)

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Swedish man drugged into confessing declared innocent (www.theguardian.com)

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7 Reasons Why WordPress Made PHP Popular, not PHP Frameworks (www.phpclasses.org)

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Docker lightning talks (hack day #6) (www.docker.io)

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Court bans computer scientist from publishing crypto paper (www.theguardian.com)

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Floomatic: A Headless Floobits Client (news.floobits.com)

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Frosted Glass Effects — Why I switched to Android after all these years (blog.agoeldi.com)

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Senators spar over definition of ‘journalist’ in seeking to protect them (www.mcclatchydc.com)

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We Can All Resume Googling Backpacks And Pressure Cookers (www.outsidethebeltway.com)

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OpenGlass: Testing Google Glass with Visually Impaired Users (9to5google.com)

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New Project Will Let You Scan 3D Objects Using Your Browser (techcrunch.com)

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Is your B2B startup New Enterprise or Old Enterprise? (brandonb.cc)

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What Would Paul Graham Think, About Poker (bryank.im)

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40 maps they didn't teach you at school (but should have) (www.boredpanda.com)

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Rockmelt Stats In the Months Before They Were Acquired by Yahoo (mattermark.com)

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Ask HN: Why is .NET often avoided in the startup world? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A simple way to simulate Apple iOS7 iBeacon feature with two iOS6 devices (blog.estimote.com)

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Uber + Boatbound are teaming up for an on-demand commute by boat Monday Aug 5th (boatbound.co)

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Geeks.com Ordering Is Being Turned Off... (www.geeks.com)

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Telecom giants give GCHQ unlimited access to networks, develop own spyware (rt.com)

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NSA paid $152M to GCHQ to access US citizen data it couldn't collect itself (arstechnica.com)

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Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? (m.vanityfair.com)

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Ask HN: How many open tabs do you have and when does it become a problem? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Math Advances Raise the Prospect of an Internet Security Collapse (www.technologyreview.com)

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Make. Publish. Share. - 3 Minute Screencasts (quickcast.io)

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Co-founder of Wordpress would rewrite it today in Go (www.reddit.com)

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Google's AdBlockPlus deal will save them nearly $1bn per year (blog.pagefair.com)

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Kickstarter Project Canceled After Dude Spends All the Money (www.edge-runner.com)

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A Cheap Spying Tool With a High Creepy Factor (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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The 60 Foot Long Jet Powered Animal You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (deepseanews.com)

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20 CEOs in one company (softwaremill.com)

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Halliburton's meta-patent to help patent trolls (www.google.com)

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The dying art of computer viruses (grahamcluley.com)

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Edward Snowden: The 45th President of the United States of America (http://edward-snowden-45th-president-of-the-united-states.com)

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How to retire at 30 on $1 million (2010) (ryanwaggoner.com)

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Ask HN: Good coding music? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Computer for the 21st Century (1991) (www.ubiq.com)

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FBI Can Remotely Activate Android Smartphone And Laptop Mics (techcrunch.com)

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How EverTrue Hired Their First H-1B Visa Employee (venturefizz.com)

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Google Analytics Launches Real Time API In Beta (analytics.blogspot.com.es)

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Building cloud images with Ansible? Potential. (lesterwade.wordpress.com)

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Take a screenshot every minute and see how you're spending your day (github.com)

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Docker at MailGun (www.youtube.com)

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We fell into the Startup Trap. Here's how we got out (waffle.io)

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A Response to Ethical Foodies From a ‘Factory Farmer’ (www.american.com)

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Apple faces 5-year ban for e-book price rigging conspiracy (www.nbcnews.com)

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Was Barnaby Jack killed after discovering how to murder anyone with a pacemaker? (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Qaeda Intercepts Prompt U.S. Terror Warning (www.nytimes.com)

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Declare Detroit a Free City (mises.org)

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FBI turning to private sector to hack phones, exploit unknown security holes (www.engadget.com)

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Susan Cain on the Power of Introverts, Live-Illustrated by Molly Crabapple (www.brainpickings.org)

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Think web browsing has hit a wall? Futureful’s approach proves otherwise (gigaom.com)

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BlueHost, HostGator and HostMonster down (news.ycombinator.com)

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BlueHost, HostGator and HostMonster down (mashable.com)

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OFF Pocket: a privacy accessory for mobile phones (www.kickstarter.com)

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50% off One Month Rails, plus ask the founder questions, live for 8h (thedealbooster.com)

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2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart (torrentfreak.com)

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Daniel Ellsberg Speaking At San Francisco Anti-Surveillance Rally This Sunday (www.facebook.com)

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The Serengeti Lion (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)

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Should i blog about web2py? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What would you do with the domain topthat.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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Kuyruk: Alternative to Celery (kuyruk.readthedocs.org)

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Announcing iFirefeed, An iOS Twitter clone, built on Firebase (www.firebase.com)

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Instead Of Whining About A Tech Talent Shortage, Do Something About It (www.businessinsider.com)

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Bank of America cuts check for couple in mistaken foreclosure case (2011) (www.naplesnews.com)

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One reason airline food is so bad? Your own tastebuds (www.nbcnews.com)

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When a Chrome Bug Kills Your Product (farmdawgnation.com)

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How HG Wells created hobby war gaming (www.bbc.co.uk)

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CBS blackout on TWC: Now Blocking Web Content (www.theverge.com)

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Show HN: Blog Exchange – Sell Or Promote Articles To Earn Money (bx.freshte.ch)

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The Ecuadorian Library: Or Three Years After 'The Blast Shack' by Bruce Sterling (medium.com)

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LiveScript 1.2.0 released Get to know LiveScript before it's cool. ;) (livescript.net)

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Ask HN: Cutting the cord, what's the best Internet only option in SF? (news.ycombinator.com)

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All BlueHost hosted sites are down, including Bluehost.com (twitter.com)

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Can a Playground Be Too Safe? (www.nytimes.com)

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Why so many programming languages to write essentially the same programs? (www.reddit.com)

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John Carmack on Haskell and Lisp (video) (www.twitch.tv)

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Show HN: Skim - A New Type of Messaging App (useskim.com)

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Why Would You Ever Pass a Container By Value? (www.drdobbs.com)

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Rocket: a hybrid approach to real-time cloud applications (rocket.github.io)

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Show HN: Why outdoor advertising is broken and our MVP (ejrcomms.tumblr.com)

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Ikea's New Catalog Magically Transforms Into Furniture (www.fastcodesign.com)

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This 21-year-old is turning trash into cash (upstart.bizjournals.com)

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Ask HN: Which toys best teach kids scientific discovery and critical thinking? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Simple Goods + Zapier & MySQL (blog.simplegoods.co)

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An update on our Bug Bounty Program (www.facebook.com)

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Is Yahoo buying failed startups because it's the only way it can get good devs? (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: What conferences are you attending this winter? (news.ycombinator.com)

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CSRF attacks: A minimalist method for protection used by ifixit.com (itbrokeand.ifixit.com)

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Postal Service Confirms Photographing All U.S. Mail (www.nytimes.com)

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Outmap: a collaborative geodata platform I couldn't release (werd.io)

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OrderAhead seeks Account Execs to Launch New Markets (news.ycombinator.com)

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