hackerNews

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Keep Your Identity Small (2009) (www.paulgraham.com)

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I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas (www.kickoffboost.com)

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Judge to serve 28 years after making $2 million sending black children to jail (rollingout.com)

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Cyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists (www.salon.com)

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Security advisory: BREACH and Django (www.djangoproject.com)

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My experience at a YC startup (techiedudeblog.tumblr.com)

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The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip (science.nasa.gov)

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Twitter’s New Two-Factor Solution Kicks SMS to the Curb (www.wired.com)

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A Tmux Crash Course (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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A major vulnerability has been discovered in Play's session handling. (www.playframework.com)

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iPhone logs my complete movement profile (iOS7 screenshots) (board.protecus.de)

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Amazon launches Amazon Art marketplace with over 40,000 works (www.amazon.com)

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Show HN: Python library to read and manage your Gmail (github.com)

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How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers (firstround.com)

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Why Nobody Should Use Rails (blog.bensigelman.org)

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SimpleLegal (YC S13) Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Learning (techcrunch.com)

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IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla (www.theregister.co.uk)

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If You Want to Raise Prices, Tell a Better Story (blogs.hbr.org)

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Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1 (blogs.msdn.com)

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We still don't really know how bicycles work ... (www.newstatesman.com)

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Deis: Open Source PaaS based on Docker, Chef, and Heroku Buildpacks (deis.io)

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How an accident revolutionized guitar sound (blogs.tennessean.com)

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All-You-Can-Fly Airline Plies the California Coast (www.nytimes.com)

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One Second on the Internet (onesecond.designly.com)

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Blink tag removed from Firefox (www.mozilla.org)

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Beginning Game Programming for Teens with Python (www.raywenderlich.com)

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MIT Researchers: Printable Keys Make Mechanical Locks Insecure (www.dailytech.com)

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Ways to make yourself happier (blog.bufferapp.com)

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Profiling Atherton (kentbrew.github.io)

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Soylent now accepting Bitcoin for preorders (blog.soylent.me)

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Firefox 23 is available (www.mozilla.org)

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Unsupervised joke generation from big data (www.acl2013.org)

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While We're Trying To Follow His Game Of Checkers, Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess (m.techcrunch.com)

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Dulwich, pure-Python Git implementation (github.com)

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Yahoo: Kicking off 30 days of change (yahoo.tumblr.com)

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Learn Datalog Today - An interactive Datomic query tutorial (www.learndatalogtoday.org)

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A fast and static web server for serving web apps (shortfin.io)

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Never Be a Customer's Doormat (www.inc.com)

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Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consortium (www.ibm.com)

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Marelle: logic-based devops with Prolog (larsyencken.github.io)

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Bangladesh government to seize control of Grameen Bank (m.us.wsj.com)

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Fractal Machine (blog.sciencevsmagic.net)

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Happy third birthday, Horse_ebooks (medium.com)

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Visualizing discussions on Reddit with a D3 network and Embedly (blog.embed.ly)

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Richard Stallman on SaaS and Snowden (gigaom.com)

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IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late August (www.forbes.com)

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OpenX.org compromised and downloads injected with a backdoor (blog.sucuri.net)

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Xerox responds to the recent character substitution issue (realbusinessatxerox.blogs.xerox.com)

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The New Innovation Battlegrounds Are City Hall And The State House (www.forbes.com)

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Samsung Starts Mass Producing Industry’s First 3D Vertical NAND Flash (www.samsung.com)

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US drug agency surveillance unit to be investigated by Department of Justice (www.theguardian.com)

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YC-Backed Glio Aims To Be The “Yelp of Brazil” And Beyond in Latin America (techcrunch.com)

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Specifications of the planned solar-powered Ubuntu laptop (solaptop.com)

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Project94 - allocation of unallocated 1-2 character .ORG domain names (http://www.project94.org)

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Stop Focusing on What You Don't Have (timcheadle.com)

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Show HN: I'm writing an ebook about adventure and giving it away for free. (http://www.adventureplaybook.com)

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AMA: Jesse Noller (community.rackspace.com)

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Bezos In 2012: People Won’t Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead (www.techcrunch.com)

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Snapnote.io - a tool for annotating and sharing images (http://snapnote.io)

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U.S. sues Bank of America over sale of $850M in mortgage-backed securities (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Amazon is working on displays that Apple and Samsung can’t match (qz.com)

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WebGL GPU Particles (soulwire.co.uk)

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Automatically inline Python function calls (tomforb.es)

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Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger (www.nbcnews.com)

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Yehuda Katz and Tilde.io (blog.nitrous.io)

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Targeted Advertising Considered Harmful (zgp.org)

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Show HN: Apps ranked by valuation (sensortower.com)

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Big Data Debate: HBase (www.informationweek.com)

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What's the story behind the names of CloudFlare's name servers? (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Bigshot: The Camera for Education. DIY Digital Camera Construction (www.bigshotcamera.com)

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Amber Alert: Californians confused, angry and startled (www.latimes.com)

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Users of hidden net advised to ditch Windows (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Yahoo Gets A New Logo (http://yahoo.com)

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Three Unexpected Responsibilities that Hit After VC Funding (spectra.io)

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What coding mnemonics do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Here’s What Happens Inside You When a Mosquito Bites (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)

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A mobile friendly Vim cheat sheet (rtorruellas.com)

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Prodigy Email Vulnerability Puts Millions of Accounts at Risk (www.tripwire.com)

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Asperger's Syndrome vs. World of Warcraft: How My Roommate Failed Out Of UCLA (medium.com)

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Cloud computing industry could lose up to $35bn on NSA disclosures (www.cloudpro.co.uk)

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Real-world comparison of Go, Ruby, Python, Clojure, ObjC + JSCocoa (gist.github.com)

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SnowShoe - Secure, intuitive, cost effective authentication for every device (beta.snowshoestamp.com)

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Where in the World is Edward Snowden Seeking Political Asylum? (www.edwardsnowdengame.com)

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Jackbot 9000: The robot that generates billion dollar startups (jackbot9000.com)

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Lawmakers Issued License Plates 'Invisible' To Traffic Cams (www.techdirt.com)

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Former NSA Chief on XKEYSCORE: It's Real, and It's Spectacular (www.slate.com)

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Ask HN: Unlimited vacation policy – does your company have it? How is it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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'Critical phase' for Iter fusion dream (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Keep your customers informed and aware (http://trakstat.us)

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Top Startups July 2013 (startupplays.com)

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Ruby blocks, procs, and lambdas (awaxman11.github.io)

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How to Run a Post-Mortem (With Humans, Not Robots) (www.slideshare.net)

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TodoMVC 1.2 released with apps for Polymer, Flight, React (tastejs.roon.io)

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Introducing Appidemia (appricot.co)

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Show HN: URX Turnpike enables deeplinking for iOS apps (urxtech.github.io)

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Login verification on Twitter for iPhone and Android (blog.twitter.com)

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Ask HN: What are the reasons not to go into computer science? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Elon Musk Can Build the Hyperloop for a Tenth the Cost of High-Speed Rail (motherboard.vice.com)

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Analysis of the Go runtime scheduler [pdf] (www.cs.columbia.edu)

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Power outages in San Francisco (www.pge.com)

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Deciphering Beanish - The Language from xkcd's Time (beanishlang.wordpress.com)

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Joybox 1.1.0 has been released (joybox.io)

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Chinese firm pays insider to steal source code (investigations.nbcnews.com)

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How To Find Every Single Vulnerable Website (blog.nerdydata.com)

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One-liner Instant Postgres for your development environment (denibertovic.com)

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Giant viruses open Pandora's box (www.nature.com)

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Why GMail doesn't have filter for unreplied mails? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Gamers Nearly Killed My Business (myles.io)

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Reddit myth busters (blog.reddit.com)

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MathCortex: nice online calculator for linear algebra (www.mathcortex.com)

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☺.com (xn--74h.com)

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Ask HN: Is it time for a career change? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Configuring Apache, Nginx, and OpenSSL for Forward Secrecy (blog.ivanristic.com)

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Create an Asteroids Game for iOS in 15 min. with Joybox 1.1.0 and RubyMotion (blog.rubymotion.com)

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Is Microsoft Challenging Google on HTTP 2.0 with WebSocket? (readwrite.com)

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Writing Bug-Free C Code (1995) (www.duckware.com)

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HTML5 And The Incredible Editable Web (www.kendoui.com)

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Escape Velocity at Stormpulse (wensing.tumblr.com)

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How did Ashton Kutcher prepare for his role as Steve Jobs in the new movie Jobs? (www.quora.com)

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Adelaide Lord Mayor launches free public WiFi for Adelaide CBD (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: How to Handle Failed Startup on Resume/Interviews? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bitcoin: Tax Evasion Currency (www.forbes.com)

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Microsoft Goes WYSIWYG To Broaden The Appeal Of Windows Phone 8 App Development (techcrunch.com)

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The Joy of Rails Books (joyofrails.com)

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Ask HN: Recommended Android phone for dev/testing (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Long it Takes to Learn a Dvorak Keyboard (lifebyexperimentation.com)

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I Am Canadian, A Reply to Bell’s Open Letter (benklass.wordpress.com)

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I'm creating a newbie guide/course on using Alibaba. Topics to Cover (news.ycombinator.com)

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Dolphin deaths higher than normal along U.S. East Coast beaches (www.reuters.com)

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D-Wave’s black box starts to open up (arstechnica.com)

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Non-Invasive Brain-to-Brain Interface: Link between Two Brains (www.plosone.org)

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Thank you Edward Snowden (cms.fightforthefuture.org)

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Drones to fly over parts of Onondaga, Madison and Oswego counties (www.syracuse.com)

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ASK HN: What's your setup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How to get a job at a Big Company? (news.ycombinator.com)

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International Journal of PoC || GTFO (paste.xinu.at)

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Confused Xerox copiers rewrite documents, expert finds (www.bbc.co.uk)

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What can you get away with stealing from hotels? (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Lensrentals Repair Data: 2012-2013 (www.lensrentals.com)

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No shooting at protest? Police may block mobile devices via Apple (rt.com)

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3D Point-and-Shoot Handheld Scanner (www.kickstarter.com)

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News Feed FYI: A Window Into News Feed (www.facebook.com)

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Replpad: a highly interactive coding experience (thlorenz.github.io)

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What You Can Learn From My Rookie Mistakes (www.linkedin.com)

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Show HN: Spacedeck Sandbox (spacedeck.com)

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A 21 Year-Old's Bit on Snapchat (medium.com)

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Ask HN: What's the future of frontend web development? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Best practices for DevOps pager/on-call schedule? (news.ycombinator.com)

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$watch how the $apply runs a $digest (angular-tips.com)

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Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a ‘Silicon Valley’ company (www.geekwire.com)

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Functional linked lists in Python (dbader.org)

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DIY Wood-Powered Motorcycle (translate.google.com)

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Common beginner Python errors (pythonforbiologists.com)

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Ask HN: Someone is trying to break into my Facebook account, what should I do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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ThreeNodes.js - vvvv in Javascript (idflood.github.io)

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Ask HN: Effective organization of settings in UX design (news.ycombinator.com)

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Rebuilding the world technology destroyed (stratechery.com)

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New app Clipp takes the nuisance out of bar tabs (www.shoestring.com.au)

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