hackerNews

2

Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (www.dkriesel.com)

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Please let me know if I should Stop developing apps for Google (groups.google.com)

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HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot (news.ycombinator.com)

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Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA (www.theguardian.com)

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Half of all Tor sites compromised, Freedom Hosting founder arrested (www.twitlonger.com)

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Tesla Nabs 8% of the U.S. Luxury Car Market (www.fool.com)

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Ask PG(/other mod) Why is everybody hellbanned? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Goldman Sachs sent a computer scientist to jail over 8MB of open source code (blog.garrytan.com)

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Give Manning and Snowden the Nobel Peace Prize (www.salon.com)

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Hands on with Bootstrap 3 - A landing page (www.williamghelfi.com)

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Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity (www.wired.com)

171 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080703 33 comments

5

Open letter to Sal Khan (christopherdanielson.wordpress.com)

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4

The Factoring Dead: Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse (www.slideshare.net)

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SQL Injection Galore (github.com)

150 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080703 86 comments

4

Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors (gigaom.com)

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3

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) (www.catonmat.net)

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Mozilla CTO: "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..." (twitter.com)

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2

A collection of small study projects which teach basic systems coding in Python (github.com)

132 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080700 12 comments

10

A Tipping Point Against The Copyright Monopoly Is A Lot Closer Than You Think (torrentfreak.com)

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4

Github needs a new button (joelg236.github.io)

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Dropbox Uploader: Bash script to upload, download, list, delete from Dropbox (github.com)

116 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080700 31 comments

13

Rally Against Surveillance today in San Francisco (1984day.com)

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13

Bruce Schneier: The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership (www.bloomberg.com)

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9

Intro to CoffeeScript (aseemk.com)

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12

Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software (newsroom.ucla.edu)

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7

Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central (www.nydailynews.com)

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10

Feedly Pro (cloud.feedly.com)

84 points first seen 2013080518 last seen 2013080700 66 comments

7

On Languages, VMs, Optimization, and the Way of the World (blog.headius.com)

82 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080706 29 comments

12

GitHub and my open source life (medium.com)

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5

Brief thoughts on Docker (gorsuch.github.io)

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7

Python 3.4.0 alpha 1 released (www.python.org)

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17

How Android knows it's on an expensive connection (www.lorier.net)

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Dbinbox – An inbox for your Dropbox (dbinbox.com)

76 points first seen 2013080518 last seen 2013080621 18 comments

6

How to support both Python 2 and 3 (ondrejcertik.blogspot.com)

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Distracting the NSA (www.chemie.fu-berlin.de)

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13

Hidden Services, Current Events, and Freedom Hosting (blog.torproject.org)

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20

Lld - the llvm linker (http://lld.llvm.org)

69 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080621 18 comments

11

Linux kernel 3.10 is going to be the next longterm release (www.kroah.com)

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18

Meet Paulo Machado, the man who has lived in hospital for 45 years (www.bbc.co.uk)

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8

Strict posix nonconformance (www.tedunangst.com)

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21

Wikipedia visual editor (blog.wikimedia.org)

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16

Removing background noise in Audacity by differencing stereo channels (weblogs.asp.net)

58 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080603 12 comments

10

*args and **kwargs in python explained (freepythontips.wordpress.com)

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23

7 Unlikely Recommendations for Startups & Entrepreneurs (moz.com)

56 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080621 23 comments

12

Building a Chording Keyboard: Progress So Far (blog.mattgauger.com)

54 points first seen 2013080512 last seen 2013080603 18 comments

10

The computer rig of the Philip Glass Ensemble (www.plogue.com)

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14

Angular-tips: Consuming services (angular-tips.com)

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OpenBR – An open face recognition/biometry library (openbiometrics.org)

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Simple technique puts graphene capacitors on par with lead-acid battery (arstechnica.com)

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14

An in-depth guide to Freedom Hosting, the engine of the Dark Net (www.dailydot.com)

49 points first seen 2013080518 last seen 2013080621 28 comments

12

Workers of Amazon Divergent (www.nytimes.com)

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26

Odd Odd Even Proof in Agda (brianmckenna.org)

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20

The Old Reader lives: Site will stay open thanks to an unnamed US company (thenextweb.com)

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16

Best Way to Really Understand the Racket Compilation and Execution Model? (lists.racket-lang.org)

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36

Ask PG: Should network effects be a turnoff? (news.ycombinator.com)

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17

jQuery Boilerplate (http://jqueryboilerplate.com)

37 points first seen 2013080512 last seen 2013080603 18 comments

11

Transfinite Cardinal Arithmetic with Wolfram Alpha (blog.wolframalpha.com)

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36

Developer demands “big contribution” from Microsoft before supporting WP8 and W8 (wmpoweruser.com)

35 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080606 21 comments

26

Alan Turing's Best Productivity Tricks (www.lifehacker.com.au)

35 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080612 23 comments

27

Sync org-mode file and trello (adumont.fr)

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23

Website Screenshot Of Every Two-letter Domain (linkpeek.com)

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It's the 21st century – why are we working so much? (www.theguardian.com)

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I need terrible female engineers (medium.com)

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38

Famed Trader Joe Lewis Backs Bitcoin (online.wsj.com)

26 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080600 14 comments

39

Show HN: Tube Map Live for iOS (itunes.apple.com)

22 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080512 4 comments

39

How We Found All Of Optimizley’s Clients (blog.nerdydata.com)

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62

Julian Assange announces WikiLeaks Party's federal election candidates (www.abc.net.au)

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32

Scrz - Manage your containers with style (scrz.io)

20 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080515 7 comments

32

Navigational Cell Systems Located in Human Brains (www.nytimes.com)

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49

Physicists Say That Teleportation is Unworkable (www.slate.com)

19 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080600 22 comments

39

LESS – The Dynamic Stylesheet (designmodo.com)

19 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080609 25 comments

68

Amish: The kindhearted people (www.thehindu.com)

18 points first seen 2013080512 last seen 2013080518 9 comments

76

Open thank you to open source (alphydan.svbtle.com)

16 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080506 6 comments

30

Turn Your Career into a Work of Art (blogs.hbr.org)

16 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080515 3 comments

50

Show HN: New Android app, paid and open source from the start (play.google.com)

14 points first seen 2013080500 last seen 2013080506 10 comments

0

Now set timer on Google.com (www.google.com)

14 points first seen 2013080500 last seen 2013080500 10 comments

51

Science Museum Blog: The Clock of the Long Now (blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk)

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29

Customizing Your Bash Prompt (blog.twistedcode.org)

12 points first seen 2013080500 last seen 2013080512 8 comments

74

€2.99 Kimsufi/OVH servers - Have you been able to order one? (news.ycombinator.com)

11 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080606 11 comments

0

Beehind the Curtain: Secrets of our Support Success (blog.beeminder.com)

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72

We're living '1984' today (edition.cnn.com)

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0

"Our Xerox scanner randomly adds penises to copied documents" (alexmuir.com)

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9

The idea maze (cdixon.org)

10 points first seen 2013080506 last seen 2019100512 2 comments

55

Get all Udacity courses content (www.udacity.com)

10 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080515 0 comments

81

Hash Language (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)

9 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080506 0 comments

78

The FBI Ran a Child Porn Site for Two Whole Weeks (gizmodo.com)

9 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080512 0 comments

57

Lld - The LLVM Linker (lld.llvm.org)

9 points first seen 2013080512 last seen 2013080518 0 comments

43

Mattermark Weekly #9 - All Eyes on Mobile (us7.campaign-archive1.com)

9 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080521 4 comments

62

Why aren't Tour de France riders going any faster? (bicycles.stackexchange.com)

9 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080521 2 comments

58

Hidden magnetic waves discovered in high-temperature superconductors (www.sciencedaily.com)

9 points first seen 2013080518 last seen 2013080600 0 comments

0

The Pirate Bay is down (thepiratebay.sx)

9 points first seen 2013080518 last seen 2013080518 2 comments

0

 in Your System Prompt (www.bbs-software.com)

8 points first seen 2013080500 last seen 2013080500 9 comments

76

Do you know of an alternative to gmail for business? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080512 5 comments

83

Potential security flaw in network (digitalocean.com) (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013080512 last seen 2013080515 2 comments

0

Wsend – The opposite of wget (wsend.net)

8 points first seen 2013080518 last seen 2013080518 3 comments

87

Apparently Undergraduate Finance Students Believe in ESP (www.motherjones.com)

8 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080606 0 comments

53

Accessible Web Forms (thombergs.wordpress.com)

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65

Six amicus briefs in Viacom appeal show the Hollywood angle to copyright (www.groklaw.net)

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85

Ask HN: What is your significant other like? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080512 4 comments

66

Efficiency Is Not Our Goal (medium.com)

7 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080518 4 comments

72

GNU bzr 2.6.0 (doc.bazaar.canonical.com)

6 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080506 0 comments

69

FBI "Otherwise Illegal Activity" report for 2011 (www.documentcloud.org)

6 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080515 0 comments

79

Non-invasive javascript guides (amail.io)

6 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080512 0 comments

80

Soviet synthesizer bridged occultism and electronic music (boingboing.net)

6 points first seen 2013080512 last seen 2013080515 0 comments

64

Sharing science is a crime (www.aljazeera.com)

6 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080518 0 comments

80

Ask HN: killer JS framework for RIA (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013080500 last seen 2013080503 7 comments

82

Ask HN: I'm having trouble finding the right mail hoster (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013080500 last seen 2013080503 10 comments

84

How scientists stopped light for a whole minute (www.gizmodo.com.au)

5 points first seen 2013080500 last seen 2013080503 0 comments

0

Microsoft cuts Surface Pro price by $100 following Surface RT reductions (www.theverge.com)

5 points first seen 2013080500 last seen 2013080500 0 comments

70

A Sea Change for the America’s Cup (www.nytimes.com)

5 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080506 0 comments

73

The Rate of Return to Lobbying (priceonomics.com)

5 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080506 0 comments

0

FBI allowed informants to commit 5,600 crimes (www.usatoday.com)

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83

JavaScript and Timing Attacks Used to Steal Browser Data (threatpost.com)

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0

Check Out This Crazy, Beautiful Australian Redesign Of Twitter (www.businessinsider.com)

5 points first seen 2013080506 last seen 2013080506 0 comments

81

Emacs tapas (www.emacstapas.com)

5 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080512 0 comments

84

Show HN: discover asteroids online (www.asterank.com)

5 points first seen 2013080512 last seen 2013080515 3 comments

0

Tell All: Forget 'SVBTLE' and 'Medium'. Here is a nice tumblr alternative. (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080503 2 comments

0

John Carmack: The Physics of Light and Rendering (Quakecon 2013) (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080503 0 comments

85

Migrating to a cheaper VPS (nicolasgoles.com)

4 points first seen 2013080506 last seen 2013080509 7 comments

90

Live streaming ATSC tuner - Chromecast (plus.google.com)

4 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080512 0 comments

0

The Pirate Bay is down (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080509 3 comments

0

Spotify vs Musicians: 10 things to read to better understand the debate (www.theguardian.com)

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67

The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership (mobile.bloomberg.com)

4 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013080518 0 comments

89

What are my options for email if I don't want to use GMail/Hotmail/Yahoo etc? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013080515 last seen 2013081703 9 comments

89

Veto of Apple Ruling Likely to Upend Big Patent Battles (online.wsj.com)

4 points first seen 2013080518 last seen 2013080521 3 comments

90

Beginners' guide to learning Ruby, Rails and related technologies (learn.rkcudjoe.com)

4 points first seen 2013080518 last seen 2013080521 0 comments

72

Fudging Up A Racket (hashcollision.org)

4 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080600 0 comments

0

The Mother of All Demos (en.wikipedia.org)

3 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080503 0 comments

0

Copious Data, the "Killer App" for Functional Programming (www.infoq.com)

3 points first seen 2013080503 last seen 2013080503 0 comments

0

She++: The Documentary (vimeo.com)

3 points first seen 2013080509 last seen 2013080509 0 comments

0

Brooks & Marcus on PBS: Getting Just About Everything Wrong on the Economy (www.cepr.net)

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0

Human error and games; Reducing, and taking advantage of, slips and lapses (gamasutra.com)

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0

Self esteem or other esteem? (www.psychologytoday.com)

3 points first seen 2013080518 last seen 2013080518 0 comments

90

9 Essential Tools that will Power your Startup to Success (www.johnlarkin.me)

3 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080600 0 comments

0

JVM Tuning for mere mortals (labs.sixdimensions.com)

3 points first seen 2013080521 last seen 2013080521 0 comments

0

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: socat (www.dest-unreach.org)

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36

BitNami (YC W13) is hiring developers and sysadmins (news.ycombinator.com)

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44

Ruby+Rail Hacker wanted to eat amazing food from across the country (news.ycombinator.com)

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