hackerNews

1

Grasshopper 100m Lateral Divert Test (www.spacex.com)

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Ask PG: Why are submission titles manipulated without notification? (news.ycombinator.com)

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JavaScript right on the hardware (technical.io)

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40 Days Without Booze (jdmoyer.com)

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Autoworkers of Our Generation (blog.baugues.com)

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Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road (www.forbes.com)

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Encryption is less secure than we thought (www.mit.edu)

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F’d: How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane (medium.com)

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Google confirms Java and OpenSSL crypto PRNG on Android are broken. (android-developers.blogspot.com.au)

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From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months (medium.com)

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The anatomy of the perfect technical interview from a former Amazon VP (firstround.com)

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Show HN: TextIt – Visually build SMS applications anywhere in the world (http://textit.in)

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Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Steam-powered Blender (lists.blender.org)

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Go as an alternative to Node.js for Very Fast Servers (bbs.studygolang.com)

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Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless (www.hanselman.com)

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Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike? (www.pbs.org)

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What mercury being liquid at room temperature has to do with relativity (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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12

I rewrote my blog in Go (www.ironzebra.com)

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Metaprogramming – Julia Language (docs.julialang.org)

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Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Used to Mislead About Surveillance (www.eff.org)

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Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw used in Bitcoin heist (arstechnica.com)

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Now They Tell Us: The Story Of Japan's 'Lost Decades' Was Just One Big Hoax (www.forbes.com)

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Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists (www.npr.org)

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How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut (www.forbes.com)

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1825: London to Edinburgh in five exciting minutes, via Vacuum tube (www.theguardian.com)

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Breakthrough: Scientists have built a fully-functional mouse heart (io9.com)

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Cisco to cut 4,000 jobs (money.cnn.com)

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Sheryl Sandberg earns $100M, but won't pay interns (www.news.com.au)

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No, Google did not say that there is no privacy in Gmail (thenextweb.com)

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San Francisco split by Silicon Valley's wealth (www.latimes.com)

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SoundFocus (YC S13) Launches With an App for ‘20/20 Hearing’ (techcrunch.com)

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iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel (http://beta.icloud.com)

80 points first seen 2013081506 last seen 2013081600 76 comments

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40 maps that will help you make sense of the world (twistedsifter.com)

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Google research tool for computing vector representations of words. (code.google.com)

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ZFS Forensics – Recovering Files From a Destroyed Zpool (www.joyent.com)

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Humble Bundle releases EA/Origin bundle (www.humblebundle.com)

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We are just getting started (blog.app.net)

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Meteor 0.6.5: namespacing, modularity, new build system, source maps (www.meteor.com)

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Machine Learning Notes - Linear Regression (vilkeliskis.com)

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A Year and a Half With a Nissan Leaf (Part 2): The Summer Drive (sam-koblenski.blogspot.com)

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Pure Launches Sex-on-Demand App, #9 Among Fastest Growing Dating Startups (mattermark.com)

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Optimizing C++ Code: Dead Code Elimination (blogs.msdn.com)

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Google: Gmail users shouldn't expect email privacy (www.theguardian.com)

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Curated list for bootstrapping developers (adamghill.com)

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Ember.js 1.0 RC7 Released (emberjs.com)

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Peru Unveils Plan to Use Solar Panels to Provide Electricity to 2 Million People (www.laht.com)

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Plivo Launches Bring Your Own Carrier (plivo.com)

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Why Your Australian Startup Should Bank with NAB (blog.coinjar.io)

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Braintree Takes On Stripe, PayPal With Debut Of “Marketplace” (techcrunch.com)

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Identicons (github.com)

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Troubled Teens Make More Successful Entrepreneurs (blogs.wsj.com)

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Raspberry IO open sourced (www.caktusgroup.com)

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3 Lessons from My Almost Failed Launch (www.happybootstrapper.com)

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Microsoft's First Chip Brings Tank-Finding Design to Xbox (www.bloomberg.com)

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Android Is Not Better. Neither Is iOS. (batsov.com)

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Is there any such thing as 'road tax'? (UK: Cars vs Cyclists) (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Plivo Targets Big Enterprises With 'Bring Your Own Carrier' Cloud Telephony (www.forbes.com)

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A map of the languages of the USA (2011) (www.census.gov)

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Germany Fights Population Drop (www.nytimes.com)

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Why Steinway Is Likely to Be Sold to a Hedge Fund Manager (www.npr.org)

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SwiftKey’s Head Data Scientist on the Value of Common Crawl’s Open Data [video] (commoncrawl.org)

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What Do You Do With A Failed Product? (sachagreif.com)

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Ad-Free Social Platform App.net Raises Another $2.5M From Andreessen Horowitz (techcrunch.com)

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The next Silicon Valley is probably going to be Silicon Valley (www.cbinsights.com)

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Three of My Customers Have Cloned My Product (myles.io)

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A new perspective on Coffee and Tea: “Building” Coffee Match (coffeematchdotcom.wordpress.com)

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Google’s legal counsel says Gmail users have no expectation of privacy (www.techspot.com)

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The Humble Origin Bundle (www.humblebundle.com)

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Bill Gates still helping known patent trolls obtain more patents (arstechnica.com)

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Manning to speak at his sentencing hearing (hosted.ap.org)

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Vulnerability in ICMPv6 could allow Denial of Service (technet.microsoft.com)

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New York Times Web Site Returns After Hours Offline (www.nytimes.com)

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I’ll sell you a tile on my iPhone homescreen (medium.com)

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Now Supporting Microsoft Azure and SQL Server (chartio.com)

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Craigslist has cost U.S. newspapers $5 billion since 2000, researchers say (www.rawstory.com)

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Beware the self-taught know it all (blog.acthompson.net)

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Why would you want to own a car if you could avoid it? (jseliger.wordpress.com)

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Open source AngularJS directives for payments and Stripe (blog.backlift.com)

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Intelligence committee urged to explain if they withheld crucial NSA document (www.theguardian.com)

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FakeValley: 'The Onion' For Silicon Valley (http://fakevalley.com)

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Swartz was indeed persecuted, not prosecuted (blog.erratasec.com)

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Messaging as a Programming Model, Part 2 (eventuallyconsistent.net)

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Ubuntu Edge funding reaches $10M (www.indiegogo.com)

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E-mail alternative by Flickr co-founder Butterfield (slack.com)

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Why Search Is Hard (diegobasch.com)

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Valgrind Finds Thousands Of Potential Issues With Mesa [Phoronix] (www.phoronix.com)

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GoSquared Redesign (www.gosquared.com)

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Ashton Kutcher Reveals Real Name and Gives Great Speech on Opportunity [video] (cultivatedinfluence.net)

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Ask HN: Why aren't you working on a startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Design, Basecamp for iPhone, and Going Mobile at 37Signals (blog.hipmob.com)

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Literally everyone uses "literally" wrong, and that's okay. (medium.com)

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Show HN: Easy-to-use Gesture Recognizers for Leap Motion in Objective-C and C# (news.ycombinator.com)

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Spark - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell (github.com)

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Secret Ingredients to Building Airbnb’s International Payments Platform (nerds.airbnb.com)

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Ask HN: What's a better site for financial news and research? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Hacker 'shouts abuse' via Foscam baby monitoring camera (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Debug bar and profiling tool for PHP with support for popular projects (http://phpdebugbar.com)

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Help me HN: My startup after 10 days - Independent Music TV from Latin America (news.ycombinator.com)

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Hundreds of Protesters Killed in Latest "Mass Killing" in Egypt (www.nytimes.com)

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The New York Times Is Down And Reportedly Under Cyber Attack (www.businessinsider.com)

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Google scientist on how neural networks are improving everything (www.bizjournals.com)

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Study: Antisocial teens more likely to become entrepreneurs (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

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The Trouble With ‘Readability’ (akkartik.name)

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Economy Class Seating On A Pan Am 747 In The Late 1960's (imgur.com)

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Ask HN: So which email service does provides privacy? (news.ycombinator.com)

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0

Manning apologizes, said he ‘hurt the United States’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Researchers figure out how to hack tens of thousands of servers (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: VM Server options for BSD based operating systems (news.ycombinator.com)

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If you hate trying to get press, read this (ooomf.com)

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YouTube easter egg (news.ycombinator.com)

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The New York Times Website is Down (nytimes.com)

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#RatioMetrics: Moneyball for Digital Analytics via Atlantic Media (blog.parsely.com)

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Ask PG: Why did you stop making products? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Gmail Users Have No Reason To Expect Privacy (www.technostall.com)

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I’m afraid to write my first post on Medium (medium.com)

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KDE Software Compilation 4.11 Released (kde.org)

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The Freelancer’s Guide to Long-Term Contracts (theadmin.org)

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Ask HN: 1% equity vested over 4 years, is it okay for first employee? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Animated Gif Screencasts (www.userfox.com)

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The car sharing aspect of robocars isn't as exciting as people hope (ideas.4brad.com)

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How to choose a name for your startup (www.lauradhamilton.com)

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40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World (twistedsifter.com)

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0

Ask HN: How to disable the microphone on your Mac (news.ycombinator.com)

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Flickr Co-Founders Launch Slack, an email killer (www.fastcompany.com)

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Cisco set to open new accelerator focusing on ‘world-changing’ ideas (www.geektime.com)

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Tools should be simple (336699.org)

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How to Setup a Secure Private IRC Channel (botbot.me)

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Humble Origin Bundle (www.humblebundle.com)

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Scaling Apache Giraph to a trillion edges (www.facebook.com)

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How to Easily Create Charts of Github Issues (datahero.com)

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FM-2030 (en.wikipedia.org)

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Crops can be made self-fertilizing with nitrogen-fixing bacteria (www.treehugger.com)

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Bustle.com: the worst case of mansplaining…ever. (medium.com)

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Common Rails Errors and How to Fix Them (blog.airbrake.io)

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Ask HN: What is your greatest success story? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Some SecureRandom Thoughts (android-developers.blogspot.com)

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Bitcoin laws are coming: US Senate launches virty currency probe (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Engulf, an Ergonomic, Distributed Load Tester (www.speedawarenessmonth.com)

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Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet (www.wired.com)

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How does Facebook manage releases without downtime and poor UX? (www.quora.com)

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Locking Up Smartphones In Jail For Meetings (www.techiediy.com)

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No more +1s — Bitbucket Issues now has voting (blog.bitbucket.org)

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A bridge across the Irish Sea and four other amazing plans (www.bbc.co.uk)

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'open-source' first approach to feature development (www.codelearn.org)

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Google: Gmail users have "no legitimate expectation of privacy" (www.sfgate.com)

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Show HN: Stereoten - A social music player for iPhone (http://stereoten.com)

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GIFs of a Developer's Life (www.onemenny.com)

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What Build tool to use for a Polyglot Cross-Platform app? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Must Every Kids' Movie Reinforce the Cult of Self-Esteem? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Ask HN: Work samples from recruiter's candidates (news.ycombinator.com)

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GIFs of a Developer's Life (www.onemenny.com)

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Show HN: Analyze how performance impacts ROI (news.ycombinator.com)

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Can We Replace Passwords with Placewords? (codyromano.com)

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NY Times down due to alleged cyber attack (twitter.com)

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Productivity Tip: Turn off Mail Distractions on Your iPhone (blog.zeroinboxapp.com)