hackerNews

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Lavabit abruptly shuts down (lavabit.com)

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Why I Changed My Mind On Weed (edition.cnn.com)

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Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users (identity.mozilla.com)

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Ubuntu Edge price dropped to $695 (www.indiegogo.com)

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Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox (www.jwz.org)

293 points first seen 2013080912 last seen 2013081206 146 comments

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Tell HN: I quit my job at a YC startup (madebyloren.com)

275 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013081200 188 comments

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Show HN: Run iOS apps in the browser (http://app.io)

247 points first seen 2013080921 last seen 2013081206 106 comments

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Free Schnail Mail for life (aralbalkan.com)

244 points first seen 2013080921 last seen 2013081100 81 comments

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Silent Circle shuts down email service (silentcircle.wordpress.com)

240 points first seen 2013080912 last seen 2013081100 71 comments

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Two Providers of Secure E-Mail Shut Down (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

233 points first seen 2013080918 last seen 2013081018 69 comments

4

GNU MediaGoblin-"a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud" (mediagoblin.org)

216 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013081006 66 comments

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Donate to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund (www.paypal.com)

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7

Hex, Lies and Startups (www.codingjohnson.com)

194 points first seen 2013080921 last seen 2013081206 139 comments

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Appbot Founder: "Apple, Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions" (stuartkhall.com)

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New Rust runtime turned on. What next? (mail.mozilla.org)

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Nathan Myhrvold’s Shell Company Forced To Settle Frivolous Lawsuit (www.marco.org)

167 points first seen 2013080906 last seen 2013081000 39 comments

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Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands? (www.bbc.co.uk)

157 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013081000 156 comments

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Kartlytics: Applying Big Data Analytics to Mario Kart (www.joyent.com)

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Amazon's profits (ben-evans.com)

147 points first seen 2013080909 last seen 2013081006 139 comments

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Enterprise Sales Tips for Hackers (brandonb.cc)

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Create font from your own handwriting (www.myscriptfont.com)

137 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2016061321 0 comments

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Unusual speed boost: size matters (www.webkit.org)

134 points first seen 2013080918 last seen 2013081109 71 comments

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The costly criminalisation of the mentally ill (www.economist.com)

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End to end encrypted email, based in Sweden (countermail.com)

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Listen to Wikipedia (listen.hatnote.com)

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Gödel, Turing and Cantor: The Math (skibinsky.com)

124 points first seen 2013080912 last seen 2013081106 24 comments

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Getting to Docker 1.0 (blog.docker.io)

122 points first seen 2013080906 last seen 2013081003 38 comments

4

Mailinator has a new design (mailinator.com)

122 points first seen 2013080918 last seen 2013081118 54 comments

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Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (2007) (www.wired.com)

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Show HN: how to build a procedural city in webgl (learningthreejs.com)

115 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013081012 19 comments

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Professor's apparent request to student for fake data published by mistake (blog.chembark.com)

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Python for Android (python-for-android.readthedocs.org)

104 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013081003 73 comments

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Exposing Patent Trolls (www.rackspace.com)

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NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access (preview.reuters.com)

98 points first seen 2013080912 last seen 2013081003 73 comments

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NYC has released data for every tax lot in the city. Here is my first look (andrewxhill.github.io)

96 points first seen 2013080918 last seen 2013081106 23 comments

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FBI Special Agent visit Thursday August 8th (www.noisebridge.net)

87 points first seen 2013080912 last seen 2013081000 32 comments

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The most interesting things I've learnt about learning (jchyip.blogspot.com)

86 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013081000 26 comments

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Google supports MariaDB (www.theregister.co.uk)

84 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013081000 30 comments

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Observations From a Tipless Restaurant, Part 5: Sex, Power and Tips (jayporter.com)

84 points first seen 2013080906 last seen 2013080921 33 comments

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PyPy.js Update: A Proof-of-Concept JIT (www.rfk.id.au)

84 points first seen 2013080918 last seen 2013081100 4 comments

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Costco CEO Craig Jelinek Leads the Cheapest, Happiest Company in the World (www.businessweek.com)

79 points first seen 2013080918 last seen 2013081100 43 comments

12

Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing (harpjs.com)

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DC, Maryland: Speed Camera Firms Move To Hide Evidence (www.thenewspaper.com)

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Let's map London Startups (roundabout.io)

66 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013081000 32 comments

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Watchsend (YC S13) records mobile screen interactions for user testing (techcrunch.com)

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Tesla Reports a Profit (Sorta) While Elon Musk Regrets Mentioning Hyperloop (www.wired.com)

53 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013080912 50 comments

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SideProjectors – Marketplace to buy and sell side projects (www.sideprojectors.com)

49 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013080921 23 comments

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Kickstarter in Canada (www.kickstarter.com)

49 points first seen 2013080906 last seen 2013082803 14 comments

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The myth of the "UX designer" (elliotnash.me)

48 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013080921 28 comments

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Arthur C. Clarke's vision of spacecraft communicating with lasers nears reality (www.nature.com)

48 points first seen 2013080921 last seen 2013081100 28 comments

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This weeks PHP Weekly. Hope you enjoy (phpweekly.com)

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Mormon Missions: Startup Accelerators? (founderdating.com)

47 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013080912 30 comments

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Youtube Easter Egg - One for the Geeks (news.ycombinator.com)

47 points first seen 2013080921 last seen 2013081006 25 comments

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In Tough Times, Abandon Your Employees (www.linkedin.com)

45 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013080906 53 comments

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On Hiring Developers: Flaws with Github & LinkedIn (github.com)

43 points first seen 2013080915 last seen 2013081000 39 comments

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Bluepass: an open trust no one password manager (fundraising) (bluepass.org)

42 points first seen 2013080921 last seen 2013081003 55 comments

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Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier (picnib.com)

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Warrant for the account of a Lavabit customer (ia600908.us.archive.org)

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Hayao Miyazaki upsets some fans and angers conservatives with his latest film (www.economist.com)

37 points first seen 2013080918 last seen 2013081000 20 comments

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Preventing negative app reviews when using iOS beta (www.sparsebundle.net)

36 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013080921 44 comments

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What would have happened to Tumblr without Yahoo? Trouble (gigaom.com)

35 points first seen 2013080918 last seen 2013081006 16 comments

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PyPy.js Update: A Proof-of-Concept JIT (www.rfk.id.au)

33 points first seen 2013080915 last seen 2013080915 0 comments

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How Much You Should Save for Retirement, Based on 139 Years of Data (lifehacker.com)

31 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013080903 46 comments

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Software Updates: Courgette (2009) (www.chromium.org)

28 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013080921 7 comments

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Report Lost or Found Dog and Print The pdf (www.dog-finder.org)

27 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013080909 22 comments

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More patents in the service of open source (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

27 points first seen 2013080909 last seen 2013081000 9 comments

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The Tragedy of Toms Shoes (thepublicqueue.com)

27 points first seen 2013080915 last seen 2013080921 36 comments

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Hacker News Web App for Mobile (http://hn.premii.com)

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Ask HN: do you trust your "secure email" now? (news.ycombinator.com)

25 points first seen 2013080921 last seen 2013081003 39 comments

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Gaunt - A beautiful, minimalist, versatile templating markup language. (tinysubversions.com)

23 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013080903 11 comments

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Show HN: Goldfish.io - Carfax for startups (https://goldfish.io)

22 points first seen 2013080915 last seen 2013081003 9 comments

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The SEC Shows Why Bitcoin Is Doomed (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ants are dumb; ant colonies are smart: First MMO for Glass gamifies the economy. (www.wired.co.uk)

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Objc.io issue #3: views, graphics stack internals, auto layout & more (www.objc.io)

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Delicious Menus With Hatchware and CouchApps on Cloudant (cloudant.com)

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Cost Analysis: Trubrain Proprietary Nootropic Blend vs. Generic Equivalent (johnback.us)

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HackNY Live Demo Stream (livestre.am)

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Boycotting a company? (plus.google.com)

14 points first seen 2013080912 last seen 2013080915 10 comments

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Patent Troll Dismisses Frivolous Lawsuit (toddmoore.com)

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A ‘Softwear’ Startup (techcrunch.com)

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Data binding and AJAX (Part 3 of AngularJS beginner to expert 7 steps series) (www.ng-newsletter.com)

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What Linux Distro is the best for a developer on a laptop? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The NSA Intends To Fire 90% Of Their System Administrators (www.businessinsider.com)

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IPython 1.0 released (github.com)

13 points first seen 2013080915 last seen 2013081000 0 comments

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Do you need a degree to be a coder? (techcitynews.com)

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Treat investors well when fundraising (josephwalla.com)

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Goiânia radiation accident (en.wikipedia.org)

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TypeRacer, my bootstrapped game, reaches 1 million users after 5 years (blog.typeracer.com)

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Bill Gates's barbed comments pop Google's broadband balloons (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Living With a Computer (1982) (www.theatlantic.com)

10 points first seen 2013080915 last seen 2014110618 0 comments

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Two Providers of Secure E-Mail Shut Down (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

10 points first seen 2013080918 last seen 2013080921 2 comments

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HybridCluster Allows Hosters to Differentiate (www.hybridcluster.com)

9 points first seen 2013080906 last seen 2013080912 5 comments

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Emergent Intelligence (chetansurpur.com)

9 points first seen 2013080906 last seen 2013080909 5 comments

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Elon Musk Just May Have To Develop an Electric Supersonic Jet (www.bloomberg.com)

9 points first seen 2013080909 last seen 2013080918 0 comments

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Does Entrepreneurial Experience Dim Future Job Prospects? (douglashannah.com)

9 points first seen 2013080909 last seen 2013080918 2 comments

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2013 ICFP Contest Problem (icfpc2013.cloudapp.net)

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Ask.fm advertisers to quit site in cyber bullying row (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Meet Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read (qz.com)

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Javascript is making all other languages irrelevant. You must master it now. (projectricochet.com)

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Dedicated Server vs. own server, suggestions? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013081003 22 comments

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How I am making $80/day selling products between Amazon & eBay... (thnkr.quora.com)

8 points first seen 2013080915 last seen 2013080915 0 comments

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The Toobin Principle (pressthink.org)

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[Show HN] Look Gmail! MetisMe makes it super easy to search & share attachments (www.metisme.com)

7 points first seen 2013080900 last seen 2013080900 2 comments

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Evergage, The Disrupt Finalist, Launches A B2B Service For Improving CTR (techcrunch.com)

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IRC is not dead (blog.crowdint.com)

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Cheap Countries to Live in While Building Your Startup (tech.co)

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A quickly hacked together map for crowdsourcing unsafe hosting countries (github.com)

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Silent Circle follows Lavabit in closing its encrypted email service (thenextweb.com)

7 points first seen 2013080915 last seen 2013081000 0 comments

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Game of Thrones piracy is "better than an Emmy" (mobile.theverge.com)

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IBM Scientists Show Blueprints for Brain-like Computing (www.technologyreview.com)

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Samsung's StackOverflow scam marks the evolution of Crowdturfing (sdt.bz)

6 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013080906 0 comments

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Using the Unix Chainsaw: Named Pipes and Process Substitution (vincebuffalo.org)

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How Software Companies Die (1997) (www.cs.cmu.edu)

6 points first seen 2013080912 last seen 2013080918 2 comments

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Ask HN: How to deal with inappropriate interview questions? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Reality of Android Tablet Usage: Browsing Share by Region (www.tech-thoughts.net)

6 points first seen 2013080921 last seen 2013081003 0 comments

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Monitoring your backup jobs with a dead man's switch (errplane.com)

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The perils of sitting down: Standing orders (www.economist.com)

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Lego Architecture Studio Now Available (www.archdaily.com)

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Hack Your SHIELD: Why We’re Releasing Open Source Software for SHIELD (blogs.nvidia.com)

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Why You Must Design for Irrational Customers (dennybritz.com)

5 points first seen 2013080903 last seen 2013080903 0 comments

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Ask HN: How to find problems worth solving? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Top Data Scientists Before there was Data Science (conductrics.com)

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Ultrasonic Networking via Web Audio (smus.com)

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Space station poised to launch open-source satellites (www.newscientist.com)

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A Save-the-World Field Trip for Moguls (www.nytimes.com)

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New Flavors of 'As-a-Service' (www.theenterprisecloudsite.com)

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Bank Chairman Comments on the Fine Print Case: Nobody Will Win Anything From Us (www.minyanville.com)

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Instrumenting jQuery errors in production (rollbar.com)

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Why You Really Need A Co-Founder (Or Two) (codepreneur.tumblr.com)

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Stripe Open Sources Abba, an A/B Testing Framework (March) (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Ask HN: Lisp programmers - do you experience occasional code blindness? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Public XMPP servers (list.jabber.at)

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Average home tops $1 million in Silicon Valley (www.mercurynews.com)

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Save Blink or die trying (github.com)

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Azure and salt (jlark20.wordpress.com)

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Marionette.js and backbone, a perfect match? (blog.netguru.co)

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I'm a craftsman (rrn.dk)

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"Her" - Upcoming Film About "A Man Falling in Love with Siri" (www.avclub.com)

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Big Data with MySQL and Hadoop at MySQL Connect 2013 (www.mysqlperformanceblog.com)

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Beyond the Task List (sam-koblenski.blogspot.com)

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Realtime CSS Animations Editor (vimeo.com)

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A villain’s guide to football (www.economist.com)

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A Material That Could Make Solar Power “Dirt Cheap” (www.technologyreview.com)

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Elon Musk has 'no plans' to actually build his Hyperloop design (www.theverge.com)

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How GM makes a car sound like what a car is supposed to sound like (medium.com)

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Solving the Puzzle of Scalable Log Processing (about.travis-ci.org)

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Show HN: TrueVault.io | A HIPPA compliant backend for your healthcare app (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: how to deal with the NSA situation if a Startup handles user's data? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple’s Operating System Guru Goes Back to His Roots (www.wired.com)

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AWS Web Identity Framework Playground (aws.typepad.com)

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Did Philip K. Dick disclose the real Matrix in 1977? (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Which framework should I use for a real-time modular dashboard? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tumblr Had $16.6 Million Left When Yahoo Bought It (allthingsd.com)