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Startup lessons (www.defmacro.org)

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This coupon code is a slap in the face (justinjackson.ca)

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Wireless devices go battery-free with new communication technique (www.washington.edu)

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Google Treks (www.google.com)

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The Future of Programming in Node.js (groups.google.com)

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Google Open-Sources Gumbo: C Library for Parsing HTML5 (github.com)

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After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky (thecable.foreignpolicy.com)

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Lavabit Founder Says He Had ‘Obligation’ to Shut Service (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Q & A: Edward Snowden speaks to Peter Maass (www.nytimes.com)

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How phone batteries measure the weather (opensignal.com)

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Firefox now only has one HTML parser (blog.mozilla.org)

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WebGL to add 3D hover effects to your website (glecollinet.github.io)

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Hacking the OS X Kernel for Fun and Profiles (research.swtch.com)

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HTML(.js) - Befriend the DOM (nbubna.github.io)

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A skeptical response to Musk's hyperloop (pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com)

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What I learned from others' shell scripts (www.fizerkhan.com)

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Google Maps easter egg: Street View inside the TARDIS (maps.google.com)

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DOJ Elevated Its Charges Against Swartz Because Internet Rallied on His Behalf (pjmedia.com)

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I Am Being Watched (amsiegel.com)

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Searching a Sorted Matrix Faster (twistedoakstudios.com)

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New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25 (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM? (unix.stackexchange.com)

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AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television (qz.com)

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We Give a F*** How the Site Loads (dt.deviantart.com)

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AnsibleWorks Raises $6M (techcrunch.com)

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Fitbit Raises $43 Million (techcrunch.com)

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GNU Parallel – The command line power tool (www.slideshare.net)

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Push Notifications to Mobile Devices Using Amazon SNS (aws.typepad.com)

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Bootstrap 3 RC2 (blog.getbootstrap.com)

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How to Write the Shit Out of Something (www.erickarjaluoto.com)

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A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus (commoncrawl.org)

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Explore what is Trending on GitHub (github.com)

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Everything you need to know about startup stock options (medium.com)

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London Underground Visualized (brunoimbrizi.com)

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How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets (www.nytimes.com)

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A Visit to Disney’s Magic Kingdom (blog.wolfram.com)

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Star Wars Weather Forecast (www.tomscott.com)

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How to Raise Money as a First Time Founder (wadefoster.net)

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AngularJS 1.2.0-rc1 released (blog.angularjs.org)

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Pentagon Now Sees Big Data as 'National Security Threat' (killerapps.foreignpolicy.com)

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Proven practices for more effective, efficient peer code review (www.ibm.com)

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White House denies intel chief will lead NSA surveillance review (thehill.com)

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Elm 0.9 - New type checker, much better error messages (elm-lang.org)

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Prediction 1957: Pneumatic Tube Roadways (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Google Blindness (www.marco.org)

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Bitcoin Block Time Halved To Five Minutes Amid Exponential Network Growth (thegenesisblock.com)

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My account's Facebook applications have been disabled with no explanation (stackoverflow.com)

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Gophercloud: A Multi-cloud Software Development Kit for Go (developer.rackspace.com)

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Windows Store dev account: getting rid of it is as hard as signing up (weblogs.asp.net)

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Just type `whois Microsoft.com` in your shell (news.ycombinator.com)

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Here is a puzzle entitled "lowercase" (lowercase.billyjanitsch.com)

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All those people with cheap Android smartphones have finally started buying apps (qz.com)

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Trello now supports card creation via email (blog.trello.com)

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Icahn Enterprises Issues Statement Regarding Twitter Account of Chairman (www.ielp.com)

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In Memoriam: Lavabit Architecture - Creating a Scalable Email Service (highscalability.com)

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Google filing says Gmail users have no expectation of privacy (news.cnet.com)

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GoComm (YC S13) Takes On Yammer Mobile For Task Management, Event Coordination (techcrunch.com)

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Single Tweet Sends Apple Shares Soaring (www.wired.com)

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Poll: What OS do you currently use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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False premises common in anti-A/B-testing arguments (medium.com)

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Wordpress Censors Student at Behest of Anti Gay Group using DMCA (www.theguardian.com)

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Startups are Hard (robertsaric.com)

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If you lost your wallet at Outside Lands, your information is now public (plusbryan.com)

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Show HN: Redistats - Web stats using Redis (redistats.com)

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Denser, Faster Memory Challenges Both DRAM and Flash (www.technologyreview.com)

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KYou, a new open source solution to know yourself better (frankrousseau.github.io)

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Simple-check: QuickCheck for Clojure (github.com)

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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Apologizes For Firing Employee (Memo) (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN to review: app to save files from web directly to your Dropbox (boxmydownloads.com)

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Error handling in node.js+express done right (www.itamarweiss.com)

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North Korea 'makes home-grown' Arirang smartphone (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The $12.5 Billion Tweet (www.ted.me)

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Ask HN: I can't seem to finish anything. Can I get some advice? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google: Gmail users ‘have no legitimate expectation of privacy’ (rt.com)

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Ask HN: Where to find Programming Challenges for sharpening Algorithmic Skills? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Building Software in Public (robsobers.com)

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What Will the Federal Government do with Hyperloop? (consumersresearch.org)

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N.S.A. Leaks Make Plan for Cyberdefense Unlikely (www.nytimes.com)

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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Is a Political Manifesto, Not Just a Tech Trick (nymag.com)

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Google open-sources standalone HTML5 parsing library (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

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Red Tape: a Clojure library for working with user-submitted forms (sjl.bitbucket.org)

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Security releases issued (www.djangoproject.com)

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AOL’s Armstrong Apologizes to Staff for Firing of Employee (www.nytimes.com)

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The (un)usual suspects – global fraud by country (blog.siftscience.com)

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Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software (readwrite.com)

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Drift compatibility in co-founders (founderdating.com)

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Stanford, Harvard and UC Berkeley Lead in Churning out Entrepreneurs (info.crunchbase.com)

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SpaceX Grasshopper completes highest leap to date (www.spacex.com)

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Lavabit founder, under gag order, speaks out about shut-down decision (arstechnica.com)

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Encrypted email isn’t secure, but here are some Lavabit alternatives (www.extremetech.com)

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Improved support for high-resolution displays with the srcset image attribute (www.webkit.org)

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Meat addiction is destroying the planet, but we can fix it (www.theverge.com)

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Pipes and Filters (petersobot.com)

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Ask HN: Switching Jobs (news.ycombinator.com)

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Discovery in the Data Lab (www.thoughtworks.com)

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Google offering grants to women to attend tech conferences. (www.google.com)

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Occupy Bank Cards: Building A Fairer Bank (www.thenation.com)

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Wireless devices go battery-free with new communication technique (www.nanowerk.com)

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Blank business cards (thestartuptoolkit.com)

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The Case for a New Lower-Cost iPhone (daringfireball.net)

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Python Datetimes and Zones Made Easy (delorean.readthedocs.org)

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Twenty hurt at LG event as promotional stunt goes wrong (www.bbc.co.uk)

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President Obama's "independent" NSA reform panel will be led by head of NSA (rt.com)

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Ask HN: Best Health Insurance option for founders before you get funding (news.ycombinator.com)

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What if IBM has a clue? (redmonk.com)

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Google's Definition of 'Literally' (www.google.com)

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Prank Startup Pitch To A Real Investor (VIDEO) (www.youtube.com)

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Cold Calling Is Dead, Thanks To LinkedIn (www.forbes.com)

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Security rewards at Google: Two MEEELLION Dollars Later (blog.chromium.org)

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Why did BlackBerry crumble? (www.theguardian.com)

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Congress starts investigating Bitcoin (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Automation of Customer Setup with Zapier & IFTTT (www.hitreach.co.uk)

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Larry Ellison: The NSA's Snooping Is 'Essential' For U.S. Security (www.businessinsider.com)

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Microsoft unveils svelte new Win 8 keyboard and mouse (news.cnet.com)

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Facebook Apps Disabled (developers.facebook.com)

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The design of Google's software-defined WAN and home-made switches (cseweb.ucsd.edu)

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Setting Up Sidekiq with Cron Jobs (ruthienachmany.github.io)

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Sharks and underwater cables (report from 1987) (www.nytimes.com)

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Swiftly, a new service from 99designs (swiftly.com)

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Why I’m Not Coding Yet — Medium (medium.com)

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Why Elon Musk's 'hyperloop' transport won't work (www.usatoday.com)

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Keen On… Why Saudi Arabia Might Be The Next Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)

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Hyperloop doc should have been shared as a Tree. (gingkoapp.com)

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N.S.A. Leaks Make Plan for Cyberdefense Unlikely (mobile.nytimes.com)

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LibreOffice Development Howto (www.lanedo.com)

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Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard For Business (www.microsoft.com)

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iOS 7 Redesign Concept (www.behance.net)

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Ray Kurzweil: The h+ Interview (hplusmagazine.com)

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The Internet, day one. (www.craiglockwood.co.uk)

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Google: Gmail Users Have No Reason to Expect Privacy (gizmodo.com)

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Ask HN: Options to work in the US if you're a foreigner (news.ycombinator.com)

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An Interview With Craigslist's Notorious Google Glass Hater (sfist.com)

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Why Recent Grads Are Swarming Startups (www.forbes.com)

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Sosh Nabs $10.1M Series B (techcrunch.com)

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SaaS: Killer of the Traditional IT Department (www.wired.com)

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0

Why do airport shops ask to see your boarding pass? (www.bigdatarepublic.com)

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Medium.js: Make contenteditable beautiful (github.com)

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DARPA, IBM Neurosynaptic Chip and Programming Language Mimic the Brain (singularityhub.com)

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Larry Ellison: Google's Larry Page acted 'evil' (news.cnet.com)

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Our brains process social rank in a 'dedicated' way (marojejian.tumblr.com)

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China set to pass U.S. as top oil importer (money.cnn.com)

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Google Maps Easter Egg: Inside the Tardis (www.google.com)

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"Your" Cloud Data Is Not Yours, Take 2 (blog.peterdonis.com)

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SpaceX Grasshopper Divert (13 Aug 2013) (www.youtube.com)

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0

How to Data (Science): Mapping SF Restaurant Inspection Scores (blog.zipfianacademy.com)

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Ask HN: Subscription-billing management service for startups? (news.ycombinator.com)

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DEF CON: The Documentary is on YouTube (www.youtube.com)

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Play your own game (delightedapp.com)