hackerNews

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Hyperloop | SpaceX [Placeholder up, no details yet] (www.spacex.com)

2548 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013082000 953 comments

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Hyperloop Alpha [pdf] (www.spacex.com)

483 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081600 191 comments

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Using voice to code, and code faster than average programer (ergoemacs.org)

389 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081600 124 comments

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Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators (www.forbes.com)

303 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081500 185 comments

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You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up (www.groovypost.com)

253 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081500 177 comments

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SDL 2.0.0 is out after many years in development (lists.libsdl.org)

249 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081503 61 comments

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Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Servers” (www.eff.org)

214 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081318 213 comments

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Investor Herd Dynamics (paulgraham.com)

208 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081500 52 comments

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Do things, write about it (mdswanson.com)

206 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081318 85 comments

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Bottle light inventor proud to be poor (www.bbc.co.uk)

195 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081500 80 comments

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Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App (kvz.io)

190 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081500 120 comments

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Elixir Design Goals (elixir-lang.org)

188 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2016122609 38 comments

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The big ugly affiliate scam (venturebeat.com)

181 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081406 114 comments

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The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet (www.theatlantic.com)

177 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081312 194 comments

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Hyperloop Update: Elon Musk Will Start Developing It Himself (www.forbes.com)

172 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081500 54 comments

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Kickstart the GNUstep Project (www.kickstarter.com)

168 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081500 83 comments

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No Way NSA (nowaynsa.com)

160 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081406 35 comments

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PS1 generator (xta.github.io)

159 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081406 28 comments

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Turning the Apple //e into a lisp machine, part 1 (blog.nullspace.io)

158 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081403 61 comments

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Git commit allegedly from Satoshi embedded inside a Bitcoin transaction (blockchain.info)

153 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081500 66 comments

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Public speaking for introverts (danshipper.com)

138 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081403 50 comments

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Babylon.js: JS framework for building 3D games with HTML5 and WebGL (blogs.msdn.com)

138 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081403 68 comments

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How to get meetings with people too busy to see you (steveblank.com)

137 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081403 31 comments

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When Einstein Met Tagore (www.brainpickings.org)

132 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081403 27 comments

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LavaBit's Architecture (2009) (possibility.com)

127 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081403 56 comments

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Go 1.1.2 has been released (code.google.com)

126 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081406 8 comments

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How Athletes Get Great (www.outsideonline.com)

119 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081421 29 comments

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CIA Director Brennan Confirmed as Reporter Michael Hastings Next Target (www.sandiego6.com)

117 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081318 31 comments

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First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released (www.wired.com)

115 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081500 15 comments

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BlackBerry puts itself up for sale (theglobeandmail.com)

105 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081318 108 comments

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DIY Cellphone (web.media.mit.edu)

98 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013120100 23 comments

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PingFS (www.shysecurity.com)

95 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081406 16 comments

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frak: Transform collections of strings into regular expressions (github.com)

92 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081406 37 comments

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No HTML needed (kojika17.com)

91 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081318 43 comments

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London calls halt to smartphone tracking bins (www.bbc.co.uk)

89 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081318 38 comments

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Show HN: Need a name for your startup? Try my new domain search tool. (shortdomainsearch.net)

88 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081406 56 comments

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πfs - the data-free filesystem (github.com)

88 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2021093015 21 comments

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Windows 8.1 Bing passes local PC searches to advertisers (www.computerworld.com)

87 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081318 41 comments

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Messaging as a programming model (eventuallyconsistent.net)

85 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081403 21 comments

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Cap'n Proto v0.2: Compiler rewritten from Haskell to C++11 (kentonv.github.io)

80 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081403 44 comments

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Rust's new documentation generator: 95% done (mail.mozilla.org)

74 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081318 28 comments

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Android is better (paulstamatiou.com)

71 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081312 37 comments

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Stop Thinking That Tech Hacks Are the Solution to Our Surveillance Woes (www.wired.com)

70 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081312 40 comments

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Elon Musk to outline 'Hyperloop' idea (www.bbc.co.uk)

68 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081306 40 comments

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Perl 5.18.1. Yes, it's alive (www.nntp.perl.org)

65 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081406 53 comments

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Casetext (YC S13): New Angle on Legal Research With Wikipedia-Style Annotations (techcrunch.com)

62 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081318 23 comments

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Introducing Daala part 3: Time/Frequency Resolution Switching (people.xiph.org)

57 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081403 2 comments

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Hyperloop: Why can't we believe in the big ideas? (news.cnet.com)

57 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081403 58 comments

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Hackermeter (YC S13) Wants To Kill Your Résumé And Replace It With A High Score (techcrunch.com)

53 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081318 56 comments

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Why Tipping Should (And May) Be Made Illegal (jayporter.com)

51 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081312 81 comments

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U.S. Expats Balk at Tax Law: American Citizen Renunciations Are Soaring (online.wsj.com)

51 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081318 42 comments

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Bridging Economics and Data Science (medium.com)

49 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081403 23 comments

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ZTE Will Soon Start Sales of Firefox OS Phones on eBay (blog.mozilla.org)

47 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081318 14 comments

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Experiment: To work primarily on an iPad for a week (blog.inkmobility.com)

45 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081318 57 comments

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Hyper Social is Dying (medium.com)

40 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081309 56 comments

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Teaching Programming the Way It Works Outside the Classroom (cacm.acm.org)

40 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081318 16 comments

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Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brain (www.uofmhealth.org)

31 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081403 20 comments

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The Anti-Human Consequences of Static Typing (jeapostrophe.github.io)

30 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 50 comments

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Implementing Twilio with a State Machine (engineering.coachup.com)

27 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081318 9 comments

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Intel's 12-Core Xeon With 30 MB Of L3: The New Mac Pro's CPU? (www.tomshardware.com)

27 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081403 33 comments

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Nokia Map Project Sheds Light on Belarus’s Roads (www.nytimes.com)

26 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081318 8 comments

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ClojureScript Core.async Dots Game (rigsomelight.com)

25 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 2 comments

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Cutting the GitHub Pages Gem (github.com)

24 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081306 4 comments

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Innovation Lessons from Amazon’s Shareholder Letters (timkastelle.org)

23 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081315 0 comments

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Show HN: Coffitivity for iOS and OS X (coffitivity.com)

20 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 17 comments

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Firefox OS sandboxing support (hg.mozilla.org)

20 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081318 6 comments

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Shopify Announces Payments (www.shopify.com)

19 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081315 2 comments

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George Orwell’s Letter on Why He Wrote ‘1984’ (www.thedailybeast.com)

19 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2017033012 2 comments

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Don't Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else's Basket (chadfowler.com)

17 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081403 0 comments

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Regulator Examines Bitcoin Practices (online.wsj.com)

16 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081318 4 comments

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CoreBitcoin - Bitcoin library for Objective-C (github.com)

15 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 2 comments

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How Mattermark Ranks 10 Frequently Hyped Consumer Startups (mattermark.com)

15 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081312 3 comments

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Simpleflake - Distributed ID generation for the lazy (engineering.custommade.com)

14 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081303 11 comments

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Ask HN: which jobs are accessible to very introverted devs? (news.ycombinator.com)

14 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081303 17 comments

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Appurify announces cisimple acq & 10x rev growth (www.marketwatch.com)

13 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 2 comments

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Free Online Guide for Apache Wicket framework (wicketguide.comsysto.com)

12 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081306 2 comments

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No Sign of the FCC’s Mobile Broadband Test App (consumersresearch.org)

12 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081318 3 comments

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Scientists create “impossible material”—dubbed Upsalite—by accident (arstechnica.com)

11 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081312 0 comments

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Why California Can't Be Home to the Hyperloop (www.entrepreneur.com)

11 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081318 6 comments

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Why My Company Will Fail (medium.com)

10 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 0 comments

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Show HN: Barley - A web content editor for developers, now public. (http://getbarley.com)

10 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 6 comments

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JavaScript can double your codebase so make sure you need it first (mat-mcloughlin.github.io)

10 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 2 comments

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Ask PG: will disabling upvotes on the front page reduce hype stories? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 4 comments

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How Uber Went from Just Another Startup to a Big #*$&ing Deal (onboardly.com)

9 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 3 comments

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When Lawyers Cut Their Clients Out of the Deal (www.nytimes.com)

9 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081315 0 comments

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Show HN: Medium.js: A tiny JS library for making content-editable beautiful (jakiestfu.github.io)

9 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 0 comments

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Ask HN: Do I need to go to college? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 31 comments

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Eric Holder Owes the American People an Apology (www.bloomberg.com)

9 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Larry Ellison Says We Already Know What Apple Without Jobs Will Look Like (allthingsd.com)

9 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081315 7 comments

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Sony's 'lens cameras' (www.engadget.com)

9 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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The Hacker News Generation (Afraid of Hard Work) (simpleprogrammer.com)

8 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 11 comments

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Truck driver has GPS jammer, accidentally jams Newark airport (news.cnet.com)

8 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081312 3 comments

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Can a Software Developer be a Successful Entrepreneur? (adeelraza.co)

8 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 0 comments

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Curing Dopamine Addiction To Stay More Productive (medium.com)

8 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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AOL boss fires worker in front of 1,000 (www.cnn.com)

8 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081318 3 comments

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PHP PDO: A How To (codular.com)

7 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081300 3 comments

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Ask HN: Where can I find freelance work? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 0 comments

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Microsoft Stores To Sell MakerBot 3D-Printers (www.psfk.com)

7 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081315 0 comments

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Finding a Great Company (blog.stackoverflow.com)

7 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081309 0 comments

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Near-death experiences: Electrical surge in dying brain (www.bbc.co.uk)

7 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Disconnect, The Anti-Ad Tracking Startup, Now Has A Privacy App For Children (techcrunch.com)

6 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 0 comments

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James Clapper Gets To Set Up Obama's 'Independent' Review Over NSA Surveillance (www.techdirt.com)

6 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081312 0 comments

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New iOS control: Pull-to-sort control for UITableViews (rme-ideas.com)

6 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Why Are Swimsuits So Expensive? (www.slate.com)

6 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081318 3 comments

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Shopify launches 'Shopify Payments' (techcrunch.com)

5 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081300 0 comments

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First-Hand: Early Digital Art At Bell Telephone Laboratories (www.ieeeghn.org)

5 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081306 0 comments

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Checking out pull requests (github.com)

5 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 0 comments

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The Cost Of Creating A New Drug Now $5 Billion, Pushing Big Pharma To Change (www.forbes.com)

5 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 0 comments

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Live coverage of Elon Musk's Hyperloop announcement (live.theverge.com)

5 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 0 comments

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Code to Joy: The School for Poetic Computation Opens (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

5 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081315 0 comments

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Open Content, An Idea Whose Time Has Come (blogs.getty.edu)

5 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081312 0 comments

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Strange gmail bug: I'm sharing an email address with a stranger (techbynumber.com)

5 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081309 2 comments

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BART’s Tax Shelters (darwinbondgraham.wordpress.com)

5 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081315 2 comments

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21M Americans don't own a cellphone—and getting by just fine (online.wsj.com)

5 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081315 0 comments

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Guns Fired Underwater (www.engineering.com)

5 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Ask HN: Rally against the high speed rail plans in CA? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081315 2 comments

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... just write *what* down? (exegetotrope.blogspot.com)

5 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Don't Comment Your Code - Write Better Code (sam-koblenski.blogspot.com)

4 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081300 0 comments

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From Jefferies to Wanelo: My 2.5-Year "Job Search" (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081300 0 comments

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Cloudbase.io for the enterprise (cloudbase.io)

4 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081300 2 comments

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Bloomberg: The Hidden Technology Giant (blog.etanzapinsky.com)

4 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 0 comments

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WebrtcH4cKS: ~ WebRTC MUST implement DTLS-SRTP but… MUST Not implement SDES? (webrtchacks.com)

4 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081306 0 comments

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Designers Are More Desirable Than Engineers (blog.coffeeme.in)

4 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 4 comments

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Edward Snowden's Dad, Lon Fires Back At Obama (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 0 comments

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Show HN: My New App for Building a Roadmap (www.aha.io)

4 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081309 2 comments

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Sharing Simulations on Rescale (blog.rescale.com)

4 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081312 0 comments

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Show HN: Relaunching of the Distil Networks website (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081309 0 comments

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Is Chicago where startups needing Series B funds come to die? (www.builtinchicago.org)

4 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081312 0 comments

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Bir Tawil (en.wikipedia.org)

4 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081312 0 comments

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Explaining The Hyperloop, In Basic Terms (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081315 0 comments

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Malware attack on multiple websites (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081315 2 comments

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GNU Libc 2.18 (lists.gnu.org)

4 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Smoke pot and test well as a kid? You’re more likely to be an entrepreneur. (www.washingtonpost.com)

4 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Is it time for a new social contract between employers and employees? (www.jakeludington.com)

4 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Testicle-eating fish on the loose in Sweden prompts warning to keep trunks on (metro.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081300 0 comments

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XKCD Meteor Showers Guide (www.explainxkcd.com)

3 points first seen 2013081300 last seen 2013081300 0 comments

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David Siegel: The Web is Ruined and I Ruined it (1997) (www.xml.com)

3 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 0 comments

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Running Linux on a Windows PC: Your getting started guide (www.itworld.com)

3 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 0 comments

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Elon Musk will unveil Hyperloop alpha design at 1:30 PDT (twitter.com)

3 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 0 comments

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PirateBrowser - No more censorship (http://piratebrowser.com)

3 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 0 comments

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Ask HN: Is our criticism of surveillance not a bit hypocritical? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081303 4 comments

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Brains Of Dying Rats Yield Clues About Near-Death Experiences (www.npr.org)

3 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 0 comments

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Unlocked $80 Firefox OS phone to hit eBay soon (linuxgizmos.com)

3 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 0 comments

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Chrome bug reveals your passwords (articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

3 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 0 comments

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Counting Presidential Signatures In U.S. Law With Python (garysieling.com)

3 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081309 0 comments

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The comments are for my readers not for myself (idiallo.com)

3 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 0 comments

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It's All Just Systems Design (hackdesign.org)

3 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How/where should I host my personal site? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 8 comments

0

System operations over seven centuries (martin.kleppmann.com)

3 points first seen 2013081306 last seen 2013081306 0 comments

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Request HN: Tell us what to build. Or hire us. (Group of Stanford Students) (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081309 2 comments

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ET3 Hyperloop - Video Concept (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081309 0 comments

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Sizing Fluid Image Containers with a Little CSS Padding Hack (andyshora.com)

3 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081309 0 comments

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Sony's rumored 'Lens G' turns any phone into a point-and-shoot camera (www.theverge.com)

3 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081312 0 comments

0

Security rewards at Google: Two Million Dollars Later (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)

3 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081312 0 comments

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Hyperloop (Web HTML/CSS version; no pdf) [mobile & tablet ready] (hyperloop.la)

3 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

0

Show HN: New app for Product and Engineering Harmony (http://www.aha.io)

3 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081315 3 comments

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Ubuntu's desktop "on its own will die" (arstechnica.com)

3 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081315 0 comments

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FriendCode + GitHub : Using FriendCode as a code editor for GitHub (blog.friendco.de)

3 points first seen 2013081315 last seen 2013081315 0 comments

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Hyperloop | Blog | Tesla Motors (www.teslamotors.com)

3 points first seen 2013081318 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Airware (YC W13) is opening a San Francisco development office (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2013081303 last seen 2013081312 0 comments

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ZenPayroll (YC W12) is hiring Rails engineers to help make delightful payroll (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2013081309 last seen 2013081318 0 comments

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Growth-focused Product Manager - HelloSign (YC W11) (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2013081312 last seen 2013081318 0 comments