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CSS Absolute Centering (codepen.io)

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Lavabit's founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It' (www.forbes.com)

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ElementaryOs Luna released (elementaryos.org)

354 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081303 279 comments

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Show HN: TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python (textblob.readthedocs.org)

293 points first seen 2013081109 last seen 2013081318 45 comments

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Vim 7.4 is released (www.vim.org)

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This Is How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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Video: You broke the Internet. We're making ourselves a GNU one. (gnunet.org)

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mpv - up-to-date and modern continuation of MPlayer, forked from mplayer2 (mpv.io)

188 points first seen 2013081121 last seen 2013081318 80 comments

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PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library (www.python.org)

177 points first seen 2013081118 last seen 2013081303 83 comments

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Why founders fail: the product CEO paradox (techcrunch.com)

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What makes Lua tick? (lua-users.org)

148 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081300 106 comments

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Emacs bites: learn Emacs and Lisp with a simple, bite sized screencasts (www.emacsbites.com)

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The free Web program that got Bradley Manning convicted of computer fraud (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Homes for Hackers gets a visit from the FBI (www.banterant.com)

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How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company (www.newyorker.com)

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Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship (torrentfreak.com)

112 points first seen 2013081100 last seen 2013081215 41 comments

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Englishman builds bike capable of 80mph on flat surfaces [video] (www.theguardian.com)

99 points first seen 2013081115 last seen 2013081300 57 comments

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Math Advance Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years (www.technologyreview.com)

98 points first seen 2013081103 last seen 2013081215 79 comments

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Bootstrap-switch (www.bootstrap-switch.org)

95 points first seen 2013081109 last seen 2013081221 45 comments

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The Factoring Cryptopocalypse (www.daemonology.net)

92 points first seen 2013081109 last seen 2013081221 24 comments

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Show HN: Kraken.io - first professional image optimization service (https://kraken.io)

87 points first seen 2013081121 last seen 2013081300 59 comments

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How Bad is DOM Interaction Really? (andyshora.com)

85 points first seen 2013081106 last seen 2013081209 32 comments

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Rails 4 startup template (github.com)

84 points first seen 2013081115 last seen 2013081300 42 comments

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Super Mario Melodies (2011) (www.losdoggies.com)

80 points first seen 2013081106 last seen 2013081215 9 comments

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Why isn't there a Kickstarter for killing patents? (galenward.com)

79 points first seen 2013081106 last seen 2013081215 65 comments

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E-mail's Big Privacy Problem: Q&A With Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann (www.forbes.com)

74 points first seen 2013081109 last seen 2013081218 48 comments

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How and why writing crypto is hard (www.acooke.org)

66 points first seen 2013081118 last seen 2013081300 25 comments

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Agda by Example: λ-calculus (mazzo.li)

66 points first seen 2013081121 last seen 2013081300 6 comments

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The Animals are Also Getting Fat (marginalrevolution.com)

64 points first seen 2013081103 last seen 2013081206 37 comments

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A self-published riff on Hamlet broke every Kickstarter record. (www.slate.com)

60 points first seen 2013081115 last seen 2013081221 15 comments

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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance A Barrier To Entrepreneurship? (2010) (www.rand.org)

59 points first seen 2013081103 last seen 2013081115 75 comments

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A much-maligned engine of innovation (www.ft.com)

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Smartphone-monitoring bins in London track places of work, past behavior (arstechnica.com)

53 points first seen 2013081121 last seen 2013081203 19 comments

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Palo Alto bans vehicle dwelling (www.paloaltoonline.com)

52 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081115 66 comments

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How Much Do Average Apps Make On Each Platform? (www.forbes.com)

52 points first seen 2013081115 last seen 2013081221 22 comments

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A Sense of Power Can Do a Number on Your Brain (www.npr.org)

51 points first seen 2013081100 last seen 2013081112 58 comments

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The Flattening of Ebook Sales (www.roughtype.com)

49 points first seen 2013081115 last seen 2013081206 48 comments

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Dear Google: Please fork WebKit [2010] (my.opera.com)

47 points first seen 2013081103 last seen 2013081203 14 comments

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Racket v5.3.6 released (blog.racket-lang.org)

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Crypto experts blast German e-mail providers’ “secure data storage” claim (arstechnica.com)

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Help Thy Neighbor and Go Straight to Prison (www.nytimes.com)

42 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081115 27 comments

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Show HN: Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe on Angular and Firebase (mck-.github.io)

41 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081212 18 comments

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How online ratings affect your judgment (web.mit.edu)

38 points first seen 2013081115 last seen 2013081212 13 comments

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MIT student applies predictive modeling to improve emergency-room wait times (web.mit.edu)

31 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081209 18 comments

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Is democracy overrated? (www.bbc.co.uk)

31 points first seen 2013081121 last seen 2013081121 56 comments

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Those Mac Pros are going to be expensive (www.marco.org)

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What advice would you give your 16 year old self? (news.ycombinator.com)

24 points first seen 2013081115 last seen 2013082315 75 comments

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Why choosing Carnegie Mellon over Harvard? (www.pixelstech.cn)

23 points first seen 2013081103 last seen 2013081112 21 comments

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Customer Discovery Hacks: You’ve Been Miyagi'ed (ekoester.com)

21 points first seen 2013081106 last seen 2013081203 2 comments

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The Polyglot Programmer (www.agilefrog.se)

21 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081206 37 comments

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Show HN: Content underload (delight.so)

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How much of your database is actually in your RAM? (fulmicoton.com)

14 points first seen 2013081109 last seen 2013081200 0 comments

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Obama’s former adviser ridicules statement that NSA doesn’t spy on Americans (rt.com)

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My interesting experience with the TSA (madebyloren.com)

13 points first seen 2013081109 last seen 2013081112 14 comments

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Replacing the input reader in cmd.exe (h4ck3r.net)

13 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081200 0 comments

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Werner Herzog Directs Heartbreaking Anti-Texting and Driving Documentary (adage.com)

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Did Google just kill PR agencies? (www.zdnet.com)

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How Junk Food Can End Obesity (www.theatlantic.com)

9 points first seen 2013081118 last seen 2013081203 0 comments

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Git: Using Different User Emails For Different Repositories (orrsella.com)

8 points first seen 2013081103 last seen 2013081109 2 comments

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Awesome CSS3 only animated atom logo (codepen.io)

8 points first seen 2013081109 last seen 2013081109 0 comments

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Tsuru - open source platform as a service (www.tsuru.io)

8 points first seen 2013081121 last seen 2013081206 2 comments

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Jerry's Map (2012) (uppercasemagazine.com)

7 points first seen 2013081118 last seen 2013081200 0 comments

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Ask HN: Key employee probably going to prison. How do we best tell investors? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013081118 last seen 2013081118 7 comments

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3D Platformer on top of Erlang Game Engine (www.indiegogo.com)

6 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081118 0 comments

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De-Anonymizing alt.anonymous.messages (ritter.vg)

6 points first seen 2013081115 last seen 2013081121 0 comments

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The Rise of Microsatellites (www.nytimes.com)

6 points first seen 2013081118 last seen 2013081200 0 comments

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Show HN: ezsend.it, the quickest way to buy & print a stamp or shipping label (http://ezsend.it?what=hnlaunch&from=hn)

5 points first seen 2013081100 last seen 2013081106 2 comments

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When product management rules are broken – A day in the life of a startup (blog.chargebee.com)

5 points first seen 2013081106 last seen 2013081112 6 comments

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Synthetic Biology and 3D Printing (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2013081112 last seen 2013081118 2 comments

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Ask HN: Advice on secure email system (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013081118 last seen 2013081121 4 comments

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No, you’re not entitled to your opinion (theconversation.com)

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Insider's View Of The Administration's Response To NSA Surveillance Leaks (www.techdirt.com)

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Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library (www.python.org)

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Why are glasses so expensive? | 60 Minutes (www.youtube.com)

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Farming machinery’s next big move? Stop getting bigger (www.iijiij.com)

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Do Millennials Really Want Cars? (business.time.com)

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Show HN: Cat pictures as communication medium (in-browser steganography) (w-labs.at)

3 points first seen 2013081100 last seen 2013081100 2 comments

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A Move Away from SQL Server - No Longer Buying Aircraft Carriers (datachomp.com)