hackerNews

1

Callbacks as our Generations' Go To Statement (tirania.org)

595 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013082003 274 comments

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Happy 20th birthday Debian (bits.debian.org)

504 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013082000 88 comments

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NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds (www.washingtonpost.com)

394 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2013081806 84 comments

2

“People simply empty out” (www.lettersofnote.com)

388 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2019081815 225 comments

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Things to commit before you quit your job (gist.github.com)

363 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2015082012 149 comments

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Introducing Stripe UK (stripe.com)

352 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081906 163 comments

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Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for legal reasons (www.451unavailable.org)

342 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081700 84 comments

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The limits of Google’s openness (blogs.technet.com)

277 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081700 285 comments

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Show HN: Virtual Machines in the Browser (blog.grunseid.com)

265 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081903 147 comments

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Obama said the NSA wasn’t “actually abusing” its powers. He was wrong (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Lavabit.com owner: 'I could be arrested' for resisting surveillance order (investigations.nbcnews.com)

225 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013081803 107 comments

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Firebase Leaves Beta Today (www.firebase.com)

220 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081809 44 comments

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Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com)

217 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2020042221 140 comments

8

Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons (www.infoq.com)

184 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013081906 109 comments

3

Web server in one line of bash (www.razvantudorica.com)

171 points first seen 2013081615 last seen 2013081809 63 comments

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Show HN: We structured and compared hospital chargemaster prices (pricemed.org)

165 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2013081900 47 comments

13

Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves' (www.bbc.co.uk)

158 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081803 70 comments

7

Introducing choir.io (corte.si)

144 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081806 37 comments

5

GitHub Major System Outage (status.github.com)

142 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2020071318 91 comments

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Programmer's Dilemma (medium.com)

124 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2013081803 102 comments

7

Human Body in a Vacuum (imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov)

122 points first seen 2013081615 last seen 2013081806 61 comments

12

RethinkDB 1.8: date support, querying nested objects, 8x disk usage improvements (rethinkdb.com)

118 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081706 50 comments

14

Destructuring Assignment in ECMAScript 6 (fitzgeraldnick.com)

116 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081706 56 comments

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Why does this Java program terminate despite appearing that it shouldn't? (stackoverflow.com)

113 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081700 118 comments

6

How to build a large Angular.js application (gocardless.com)

111 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013081706 52 comments

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Funniest reviews (www.amazon.com)

107 points first seen 2013081618 last seen 2013081703 34 comments

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It's the real thing (www.lettersofnote.com)

103 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081700 74 comments

13

Web censorship: UK Courts refuse to provide blocking documents (www.openrightsgroup.org)

102 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081700 23 comments

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The unbundling of Craiglist and reddit (alexshye.wordpress.com)

94 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081703 63 comments

7

GitHub realtime activity as soundscape (choir.io)

91 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081800 34 comments

0

The NSA is Commandeering the Internet (www.schneier.com)

90 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081600 21 comments

11

Datomic in the browser (ragnard.github.io)

88 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081703 12 comments

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QEMU 1.6.0 is now available (article.gmane.org)

84 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081709 17 comments

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

83 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081706 36 comments

16

The Kickstarter Culture Wars (www.time.com)

83 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081703 57 comments

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New Form of Carbon is Stronger Than Graphene and Diamond (www.technologyreview.com)

80 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081700 47 comments

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Beating the CAP Theorem Checklist (ferd.ca)

80 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081618 18 comments

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GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack (status.github.com)

78 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081609 100 comments

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Phantom Types in Rust (bluishcoder.co.nz)

71 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081700 18 comments

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Crowdery (YC S13) Provides A/B Testing for a Brand’s Physical Products (techcrunch.com)

69 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081703 6 comments

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Infinite Bang Bang !! (shadabahmed.com)

68 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013081806 47 comments

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Be a sociopath—or just act like one (www.economist.com)

65 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081609 77 comments

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A third of venture-backed IPOs between 2006 and 2012 had an immigrant founder (www.fastcompany.com)

64 points first seen 2013081618 last seen 2013081803 37 comments

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YC Alums Ink Release New iOS Layer That Allows Apps to Interact, Share Data (techcrunch.com)

62 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081700 31 comments

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Site Search Should Be Sexy: How Swiftype Raised $1.7M (www.forbes.com)

57 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081700 16 comments

13

All basic bitcoin actions available through SMS on Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

57 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081703 26 comments

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Peter Shih Complains About the Shithole City He's Forced to Make His Millions In (uptownalmanac.com)

54 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081703 23 comments

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Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app (again), for “manufactured” reasons (arstechnica.com)

53 points first seen 2013081615 last seen 2013081706 54 comments

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Webserver in bash (2007) (paulbuchheit.blogspot.ca)

52 points first seen 2013081618 last seen 2013081800 14 comments

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Two Ways to Get to a $100 Million Valuation (www.betakit.com)

51 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081703 23 comments

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iPad Text Editor with Python Embedded for Automation (editorial-app.com)

50 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081700 17 comments

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Synchronization in Java and Scala (www.takipiblog.com)

49 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081700 23 comments

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Show HN: Create unlimited one-off Invoices (Built with AngularJS) (metaware.github.io)

49 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081615 38 comments

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Why Some Startups Say the Cloud Is a Waste of Money (www.wired.com)

48 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081615 54 comments

21

Bletchley - A Collection of Practical Cryptanalysis Tools (code.google.com)

47 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081700 10 comments

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Disable Facebook Chat Seen Status - Chrome Extension (chrome.google.com)

47 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013081800 39 comments

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Why Aren't More Designers Starting Companies? (www.wired.com)

45 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081618 48 comments

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Bash Scripting: Why didn't I start this earlier? (burakkanber.com)

45 points first seen 2013081615 last seen 2013081706 16 comments

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The future of transport: No loopy idea (www.economist.com)

43 points first seen 2013081618 last seen 2013081721 14 comments

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Job Titles in the Web Industry (css-tricks.com)

40 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 59 comments

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Syrian Electronic Army hacks Washington Post Web site (www.washingtonpost.com)

39 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081615 43 comments

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CloudEmailApp completely rips off Mailgun (cloudemailapp.com)

39 points first seen 2013081615 last seen 2013081621 21 comments

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How to avoid the Emacs Pinky problem (ergoemacs.org)

39 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013081721 48 comments

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Practical threaded programming with Python (www.ibm.com)

38 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081700 15 comments

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What the Steve Jobs movie got right, and wrong (www.cnn.com)

37 points first seen 2013081618 last seen 2013081700 41 comments

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Should I put number combinations like 1111111 onto my lottery ticket? (math.stackexchange.com)

36 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081603 51 comments

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Announcing the Ink mobile framework (blog.inkmobility.com)

31 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081606 18 comments

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Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails (www.petekeen.net)

31 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 14 comments

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Facebook App Outage Postmortem (developers.facebook.com)

31 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081700 15 comments

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Time For A Special Prosecutor to Investigate NSA, DEA, IRS Abuses (www.forbes.com)

31 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081618 0 comments

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Chief Judge of FISC: Oversight limited, we must trust gov't to self-report (www.washingtonpost.com)

30 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2013081700 5 comments

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Smallest Federated Wiki Videos (wardcunningham.github.io)

28 points first seen 2013081618 last seen 2013081709 2 comments

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The Washington Post Web site was hacked today (www.washingtonpost.com)

24 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 17 comments

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Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails (www.petekeen.net)

23 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081609 2 comments

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XML Can Give the Same Performance as JSON (www.infoq.com)

21 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081600 24 comments

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New species is first carnivore found in the Americas in 35 years (arstechnica.com)

20 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2013081700 5 comments

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If I can't see your work - you're crap (www.codingjohnson.com)

19 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081606 14 comments

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How to Automate a Web Consulting Project from Start to Finish (zapier.com)

18 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081606 3 comments

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Why Female Soldiers Were Finally Added to Call of Duty's Multiplayer (kotaku.com)

18 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081606 24 comments

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A list of people killed while riding a bicycle in San Francisco (medium.com)

18 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081700 7 comments

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Balanced Certified Developer Program with API Xchange (blog.balancedpayments.com)

17 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081609 8 comments

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Ask HN: What are important topics for new programmers? (news.ycombinator.com)

17 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081612 12 comments

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Google blocks Microsoft's new YouTube Windows Phone app (www.theverge.com)

17 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081609 2 comments

81

HackerRank's security hackathon tonight at 7pm PT (www.hackerrank.com)

17 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081612 5 comments

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It is Now Less Risky to Download Pirated Ebooks Than to Purchase Them (torrentfreak.com)

16 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

0

Come learn more about Docker next week in NYC (www.meetup.com)

16 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081606 0 comments

0

A cheaper alternative to Soylent? (en.wikipedia.org)

15 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081600 27 comments

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Congress' Copyright Cowards: the Members Who Could Betray Internet Users (www.eff.org)

15 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081615 0 comments

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Ask HN: Alternate Careers for a Software developer (news.ycombinator.com)

14 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013082803 0 comments

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Building an Android To-Do List app using Parse (michaelevans.org)

14 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 3 comments

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Vehicular manslaughter charge upgraded to murder because of tweets (bigstory.ap.org)

14 points first seen 2013081618 last seen 2013081618 23 comments

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Pixel Art Tutorial (www.pixeljoint.com)

14 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013081703 0 comments

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Deploy your own mini-Heroku with Dokku (thechangelog.com)

13 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 3 comments

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Facebook Like Modal Library - Now supports mobile (github.com)

12 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 5 comments

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Learn web development - from novice to employable (http://howtocode.io)

12 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2015092206 0 comments

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IBM Buys Israel/US Cybersecurity Specialist Trusteer For $800M-$1B (techcrunch.com)

12 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081615 0 comments

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Introducing PagerDuty Webhooks: Better Alerting Through Extensibility (blog.pagerduty.com)

11 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081618 0 comments

0

A Look at Facebook's React (dailyjs.com)

10 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081606 0 comments

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The Dangers External Services Present To Your Website (blog.sucuri.net)

10 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081618 5 comments

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Why Google Yanked YouTube Access From Microsoft’s Windows Phone App (techcrunch.com)

10 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081609 5 comments

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Debian Linux Release (16.08.1993), tomorrow is the 20th birthday (groups.google.com)

9 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2013081621 0 comments

0

Yahoo brings back the Toolbar (us.toolbar.yahoo.com)

9 points first seen 2013081615 last seen 2013081615 9 comments

0

Martin Manley: My Life and Death (martinmanleylifeanddeath.com.nyud.net)

9 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013081621 3 comments

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FounderDating Success Story: Blujack (founderdating.com)

8 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

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Flat Developer Google Chrome Console Theme (github.com)

8 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081606 12 comments

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Want to Know Business? These Are the Only People You Need to Follow (www.wired.com)

8 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081606 0 comments

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JavaScript on hardware? This came out a year ago (www.youtube.com)

7 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081600 0 comments

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Introduction to Amortized Analysis (functionspace.org)

7 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081612 0 comments

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Modern password hashing in PHP (bitquark.co.uk)

7 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081606 0 comments

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The Seed Investment Patterns of Billion Dollar Startups (tomtunguz.com)

7 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081609 0 comments

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Facebook reportedly working on PayPal-like mobile payments system (venturebeat.com)

7 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081606 2 comments

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JavaScriptMVC's development process (www.bitovi.com)

7 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

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Taiwan bought Google ads to silence anti-nuclear activists (www.dailydot.com)

7 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081612 0 comments

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Dave Chappelle Returns to Standup with Stories to Tell (www.nytimes.com)

7 points first seen 2013081615 last seen 2013081703 0 comments

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GitHub Experiencing Another Big DDOS (status.github.com)

6 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 2 comments

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A Basic Example of an IoC Container (mat-mcloughlin.github.io)

6 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081606 0 comments

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"After Content Marketing" -- on the future of this racket... (www.newfangled.com)

6 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081615 3 comments

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NASA seeks 'Plan B' for planet-hunting probe Kepler (www.cnn.com)

6 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081618 0 comments

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Practical event-driven programming with Python and Twisted (iffycan.blogspot.com)

6 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081615 2 comments

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Why A/B Tests are a Complete Waste of Your Time (blog.clarity.fm)

5 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

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Facebook Testing Out PayPal Competitor to Simplify Mobile Checkout (allthingsd.com)

5 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

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Google Releases Android Patches After Bitcoin Theft (www.securityweek.com)

5 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081609 0 comments

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Choir.io for realtime Github events (choir.io)

5 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081609 0 comments

77

A dead simple approach to a Vagrant stack (github.com)

5 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081612 2 comments

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Intelligence Agencies Running Mass Number of Propaganda Accounts on Social Media (politicalblindspot.com)

5 points first seen 2013081609 last seen 2013081609 0 comments

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Free Flat UI Kit (designedthought.com)

5 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2013081612 3 comments

0

How Cheap a Product Can You Have And Still Have Salespeople? (saastr.com)

5 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2013081612 2 comments

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Copyright Troll Ran Pirate Bay Honeypot, Comcast Confirms (torrentfreak.com)

5 points first seen 2013081615 last seen 2013081615 0 comments

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Ask HN: [jpeg] What is this "law of the eight" ? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Criminals 3D-printing card-skimmers that fit into ATMs (www.itnews.com.au)

5 points first seen 2013081621 last seen 2013081700 0 comments

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Matz: I'm a Mormon, Ruby Author, and a World-changer (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081600 0 comments

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Scientists Achieve On-Demand Quantum Teleportation For The First Time (www.popsci.com)

4 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

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Ask HN: health insurance at small tech companies (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081606 0 comments

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Ask HN: What quote most inspires you? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081606 13 comments

0

Steve Jobs: One Last Thing (2011 PBS Documentary) (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2013081612 last seen 2013081612 0 comments

0

Ask HN: have you used 23andMe? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Government Now Admits There's an 'Area 51' (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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Lies, Damned Lies, And The NSA (techcrunch.com)

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The origin of the 8 hour work day and why we should rethink it (blog.bufferapp.com)

3 points first seen 2013081600 last seen 2013081600 0 comments

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IOS 7 Redesign (www.behance.net)

3 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

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New App Store guidelines (www.macrumors.com)

3 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

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Treode: Relational Model, Modern Interface (http://treode.com)

3 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

0

Moral Right To Share (www.techdirt.com)

3 points first seen 2013081603 last seen 2013081603 0 comments

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Ask HN: Made MVP at hackathon, validated idea, but no longer have developer. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Dropbox Alternative Lima Works With Chromecast, Breaks Into Kickstarter Top 10 (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2013081606 last seen 2013081609 0 comments

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Elites keep ruining America (www.salon.com)