hackerNews

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Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos (www.washingtonpost.com)

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U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans (www.chicagotribune.com)

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Taken (www.newyorker.com)

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DEA Mines "National Security" Data To Spy On Americans, Now Concealing Program (news.yahoo.com)

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Torsploit takedown: analysis, reverse engineering, forensic (www.cryptocloud.org)

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Why I'll be a solo founder next time (dennybritz.com)

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7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional Support With Listeners (techcrunch.com)

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Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef (www.theguardian.com)

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Jeff Bezos on Post purchase (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Beg HN: Please only report serious GitHub outages (1h+) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Introduction to Recommender Systems (www.coursera.org)

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Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly (techcrunch.com)

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SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Crossbar Resistive RAM stores a terabyte on a chip (venturebeat.com)

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Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

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Scala on LLVM (greedy.github.io)

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Wild Ideas (hanson.gmu.edu)

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Fast android emulator using Virtualbox (www.infinum.co)

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Scala vs. Go TCP Benchmark (eng.42go.com)

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Kivo (YC S13) Uses Git to Make Collaborating on Documents Easier (techcrunch.com)

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Standford CS229 Machine Learning Course Materials (cs229.stanford.edu)

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I launched my weekend project 7 months ago on HN, here's CameraLends today (www.cameralends.com)

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Why You Don't A/B Test, and How You Can Start This August (training.kalzumeus.com)

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Michael Hastings - 911 callers and new video confirm large explosions (www.sandiego6.com)

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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (2012) (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: Distributed Homomorphic Encryption Adder (Weekend Project) (9ac345a5509a.github.io)

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You Can Now Send Micro-Transactions With Zero Fees On Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

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One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startup While Learning To Code (techcrunch.com)

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Hugo: A Fast And Flexible Static Site Generator Built In GoLang (spf13.com)

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“A book is a sneeze” (www.lettersofnote.com)

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Chromecast Teardown (www.ifixit.com)

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Car Hacking Whitepaper and tools released (blog.ioactive.com)

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An Awkward Conversation (www.codingjohnson.com)

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Freenet Project's Statement on the recent Freedom Hosting bust (freenetproject.org)

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Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency' (preview.reuters.com)

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The curse of a new building by Steve Blank (blogs.wsj.com)

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LLVM Tutorial (llvm.org)

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Some AngularJS pitfalls (branchandbound.net)

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Zeiss f/0.7: You Can Now Rent Two of the Largest Aperture Lenses Ever Made (petapixel.com)

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OMGPOP Team Tried To Buy Back Its Site, But Zynga Killed It Instead (techcrunch.com)

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Declassified: The US Government’s Quantum Internet (www.theconnectivist.com)

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Ancient languages: Perl (sites.google.com)

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The myth of America's missing software engineers (management.fortune.cnn.com)

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Sum of 1 to 1000000000 in different programming languages (stackoverflow.com)

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Swiftype: The Biggest Search Engine You’ve Never Heard Of (mixergy.com)

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The stealthy industrial revolution already underway in open source hardware (www.crashdev.com)

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Chrome's insane password security strategy (blog.elliottkember.com)

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How tech’s young millionaires spend their money (business.financialpost.com)

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Digital physics (en.wikipedia.org)

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Dealing with Android fragmentation - experiences from our startup (blog.instabridge.com)

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Flat design and improperly rescaled design: main threats to tablet usability (www.nngroup.com)

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Why I Quit Microsoft To Join A 5-Person Start Up In Toronto (2012) (jaclynkonzelmann.tumblr.com)

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LinuxMint 15 delivers smooth alternative to Ubuntu (www.networkworld.com)

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Apple Updates Developers with New Status Message - August 5, 2013 (devimages.apple.com)

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Moto X review (www.engadget.com)

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Patio11 on his 362 day work year & what he does in his break (businessofsoftware.org)

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Perry Fellwock (wikileaks.org)

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Create Your Own Programming Language (http://createyourproglang.com?hn=1)

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Show HN: Track customer happiness across all aspects of your business (http://temper.io)

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Linus Torvalds - C++ is a horrible language (thread.gmane.org)

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Implementing "Prism Break" (eschnou.com)

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Obscure kernel settings to increase performance of Linux TCP servers (tldp.org)

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Video meetings in the browser made simple using WebRTC and AngularJS (comoyo.github.io)

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ORMs vs SQL: The JPA Story (www.cforcoding.com)

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Of Course I’d Love To Work For Free (nathanieltapley.com)

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[Show HN] I wrote Getting Started with ownCloud (www.owncloudbook.com)

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Stop writing Regular Expressions. Express them with Verbal Expressions. (thechangelog.com)

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Today is a Fibonacci day: 5th day of 8th month of 13th year of 21st century (news.ycombinator.com)

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An Alternative to Required API Keys (www.jamesward.com)

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How dangerous is America? (www.bostonglobe.com)

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Lame Axe "get.a.girlfriend" ad implemented in various languages (gist.github.com)

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German FIS hands over data to NSA, except emails ending with .de (translate.google.com)

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Summon the NSA (summonthensa.com)

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Welcome to The Mind-Trap: 35 Most Photorealistic 3D Renderings (www.cgtrader.com)

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Tor is dead (translate.google.com)

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Luxury toilet users warned of hardware flaw (www.bbc.co.uk)

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My Reaction: Three Cheers for Jeff Bezos (editors.talkingpointsmemo.com)

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Appear.in - WebRTC Video Conferencing (https://appear.in)

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How to marry someone hotter than you, Timing is everything. (bluntmonkey.wordpress.com)

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FlightCar Starts Hassle Free, Guaranteed Pay P2P Monthly Program (techcrunch.com)

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NS_ENUM & NS_OPTIONS (nshipster.com)

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Ask HN: What web services should exist that haven't been developed yet? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Indian IT firm accused of discrimination against “stupid Americans” (arstechnica.com)

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Stop writing Regular Expressions. Express them with Verbal Expressions. (github.com)

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Researchers say Tor-targeted malware phoned home to NSA (arstechnica.com)

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Linkedin Recommendations Are Junk (moniker.net)

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Scala Tour (www.scala-tour.com)

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How Will Jeff Bezos Run the Washington Post? Here's a Clue (www.linkedin.com)

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Imposter Syndrome (blog.munroegroupsolutions.com)

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PEAP-MS-CHAPv2 Authentication Could Allow Information Disclosure, Windows Phone (technet.microsoft.com)

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Show HN: Angular hovercard directive - my first directive (www.brianpark.ca)

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Show HN: Conceptual rebrand of Google's 'Squared' education initiative (jackwmorgan.com)

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Starting a War on Hacker News (myles.io)

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Ask HN: What is the best way to introduce your startup to the world? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Easy Sales Toolkit (populr.me)

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Fixing toxic behavior in online communities (www.somebits.com)

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U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans (www.reuters.com)

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jQuery Miller Columns (github.com)

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Salvattore, a jQuery Masonry alternative with CSS-driven configuration (salvattore.com)

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Hacking attack on Tor allegedly linked to SAIC and NSA (darkernet.in)

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Ask HN: SSH is still safe, after NSA? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bitcoin Web Hosting (bitcoinwebhosting.net)

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Apple's Narrative Problem (medium.com)

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Firefeed - An open source Twitter clone built with Firebase (firefeed.io)

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Flocking Simulation in three.js (ekelleyv.github.io)

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Show HN: Execute a shell command each time a given file or directory changes (github.com)

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Getting started with Twilio on Google App Engine for PHP (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)

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Zynga announces closure of OMGPop.com, four OMGPop Facebook games (www.insidesocialgames.com)

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USB Power Adapter Takeback Program (thefrustum.com)

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Working with Vagrant, Chef and XDebug (www.czettner.com)

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PRISM could cost US cloud computing industry $22-$35 billion over 3 years (www2.itif.org)

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Four Lessons Learned Using AngularJS with Ruby on Rails (gaslight.co)

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A chunk of the “deep web” went down over the weekend; Tor users should be wary (gigaom.com)

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Cultured Beef financed by a.o. Sergey Brin (culturedbeef.net)

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Detangling Business Logic in Rails Apps with pure ruby Events and Observers (building.wanelo.com)

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Apple trade ban reversal in US questioned by South Korea (www.theguardian.com)

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Former Mozilla CEO to head security-software maker AVG (news.cnet.com)

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Develop modern Web Apps with Dart (www.netmagazine.com)

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Show HN: I want to give people surprisingly awesome book recommendations (authoralcove.com)

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Ink-free printers create photos and labels, run Android (linuxgizmos.com)

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Planning to launch a startup? Launch your kindergarten startup first. (pandodaily.com)

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German minister proposes banning companies that participate in US spying (www.spiegel.de)

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Ask HN: What are the best tactics to drive inbound leads to your site? (news.ycombinator.com)

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TIOBE Programming Community Index for August 2013 (www.tiobe.com)

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Ask HN: Is the word "Computer" outdated? (news.ycombinator.com)

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US embassy closures used to bolster case for NSA surveillance programs (www.theguardian.com)

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Hackers Expose Security Holes That Allow 'Free Rides for Life' (mashable.com)

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World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Most of the Olive Oil We Use is Fake (alexrenton.com)