hackerNews

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Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead (qz.com)

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Stack (www.mugiyamamoto.com)

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Rotating Images (datagenetics.com)

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Show HN: noteZilla - Interactive sheet music (http://notezilla.io)

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Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal (www.rollingstone.com)

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Kal – a clean JavaScript alternative without callbacks (rzimmerman.github.io)

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The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery (www.ifweassume.com)

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Hacker sends this through the mail to record a video of the process (hackaday.com)

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fish shell (fishshell.com)

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Orbital Mechanics (www.braeunig.us)

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Collection of UI components by Mozilla (mozilla.github.io)

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Getty Just Made 4,600 Images Public Domain (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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Edward Snowden and Gen Y: a sign of leaks to come? (www.antipope.org)

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Pineapple – Web tutorials, tools, and resources that don't suck (pineapple.io)

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Docker interactive tutorial (blog.docker.io)

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Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits (blog.mailgun.com)

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Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files (www.facebook.com)

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Samsung's exFAT Linux driver officially released as GPL (sfconservancy.org)

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I asked the NSA for its file on me, and here's what I got back (www.dailydot.com)

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The True Size of Africa - Misleading Maps (www.collective-evolution.com)

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Callbacks are Pretty Okay (andrewkelley.me)

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They're Using it at Coffee Shops (usingitatcoffeeshops.tumblr.com)

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Introducing FuzzDB | Mozilla Security Blog (blog.mozilla.org)

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The creation of Missile Command and the haunting of its creator, Dave Theurer (www.polygon.com)

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Funniest reviews (www.amazon.com)

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The 1975 Buffett memo that saved the Washington Post's pension (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

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ZTE Open, Firefox OS phone is available on ebay. (www.ebay.com)

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NSA revelations of privacy breaches 'tip of the iceberg' according to Senators (www.theguardian.com)

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Like Snake? Like VIM? Check out this game that was built in less than a day (www.vimsnake.com)

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Google is Down (www.google.com)

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Area 51 'declassified' in U-2 spy plane history (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Warren Buffett, age 44, explains the futility of playing the market (qz.com)

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B+ Trees and why I love them, part 1 (ayende.com)

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ICANN bans dotless domains (www.icann.org)

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Magic Does Exist With “Uber-For-Flowers” Startup Bloomthat (YC S13) (techcrunch.com)

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Amulyte (YC S13) is Building a Better Lifeline For Seniors on the Move (techcrunch.com)

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A Guide to the Web's Growing Set of Free Image Collections (www.theatlantic.com)

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ZMap: Internet scanner maps all of IPv4 in 45 minutes (zmap.io)

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How we raised a $1.1M seed round without customers, revenue or even a product. (john-sheehan.com)

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Poll: do you live in the country you were born in? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic. (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Toutpost (YC S13) Wants To Turn Online Debates Into Shopping Advice (techcrunch.com)

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BioWare writer quits after death threats to family (metro.co.uk)

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FundersClub Ditches Dumb Money By Going Invite-Only (techcrunch.com)

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Tools used by influential developers and designers (medium.com)

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Get things done by procrastinating - DOinstead (doinstead.com)

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Gmail Overhaul Has Marketers Saying 'Ack' (online.wsj.com)

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Trsst: Proposed distributed secure blog platform for the open web (www.kickstarter.com)

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JavaScript Strategies at Microsoft with Scott Hanselman (JSJ) (javascriptjabber.com)

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ReQL: hassle-free JSON processing (rethinkdb.com)

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Don't be a front rudder (www.dgsiegel.net)

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Google outage reportedly caused big drop in global traffic (news.cnet.com)

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Question To Ask When You Meet Fellow Bootstrappers (www.it-engelhardt.de)

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Amazon packaging feedback cross-site scripting vulnerability (bitquark.co.uk)

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Blend.io: A Peek Into The Future Of Music Project Collaboration? (www.djtechtools.com)

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Coinbase (YC S12) Adds SMS Commands So You Can Send BTC Via QR On The Q.T. (techcrunch.com)

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iOS 7 Wireframe Kit (blakeperdue.com)

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Vim Revisited (2011) (mislav.uniqpath.com)

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Open source cloud platform from Yandex (support for Docker is announced) (github.com)

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Memory Leak (and Growth) Flame Graphs (dtrace.org)

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TCP is UNreliable (www.cliffc.org)

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A green threading library with true concurrency for Python (github.com)

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Invite HN: Phileas & Fogg, the globetrotting startup (phileasandfogg.com)

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Show HN: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling (www.bespeak.io)

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Google's downtime caused a 40% drop in global traffic (engineering.gosquared.com)

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How to Drop Out of Design School and Not Become a Worthless Hipster (medium.com)

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PaaS: Present and Future (blog.docker.io)

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After Two Decades of Programming, I Use Rails (www.toptal.com)

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The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen (www.eff.org)

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Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service (www.techdirt.com)

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A new Svbtle layout (svbtle.com)

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Getting started with Scientific Programming (functionspace.org)

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A look inside the (massive) MakeGamesWithUs summer intern program (pandodaily.com)

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Command Line Bliss with Docopt (deis.io)

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Curiosity Makes The Entrepreneur (scoutzie.com)

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CasperJS in your browser (http://www.casperide.io)

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Ask PG: Please fix flagging. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Testers and Developers: Bitter Enemies or Secret Lovers? (blog.smartbear.com)

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Show HN: Tor Search - A search engine for Tor (kbhpodhnfxl3clb4.onion.to)

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Plague of game dev harassment erodes industry, spurs support groups (www.polygon.com)

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Google engineers insist 20% time is not dead—it’s just 120% time (qz.com)

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The Marine’s Secret Weapon: Coffee (atwar.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Sitting at computers all day is killing us. This video could help save your life (www.slate.com)

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How do I gauge interest in my startup concept? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I tried to delete a Skype account (m.imgur.com)

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Free this weekend - Growth Hacking Guide (www.amazon.com)

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Jed Shaw claims revoking GPL is possible, demands fork relicense as BSD (github.com)

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The algebra of Unix command substitution (bosker.wordpress.com)

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N.S.A. Calls Violations of Privacy ‘Minuscule’ (www.nytimes.com)

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Executive Order 12333 — US intelligence activities: Collection Techniques (www.archives.gov)

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Missile Command: Pause a YouTube Video and type 1980 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Dell Posts Staggering 72% Decline in Quarterly Earnings (www.dailytech.com)

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"We're building a domestic army" -Marine Corps Colonel speaks out (www.youtube.com)

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24 hours with an Electric BMW through BMW's Zipcar competitor in the Bay Area (benguild.com)

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Samsung Properly Open-Sources exFAT File-System (www.phoronix.com)

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What's happening in Go tip (honnef.co)

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NSA Spying: The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen (www.eff.org)

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CouchDB's Board Report (August 2013) (blogs.apache.org)

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Why a New Golden Age for UI Design Is Around the Corner (www.wired.com)

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Jobs movie review roundup: Critics unimpressed (crave.cnet.co.uk)

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You pulled an 'all-nighter' because you are an idiot - Curtis McHale (curtismchale.ca)

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Reditr - The best way to browse Reddit (http://reditr.com?src=hn)

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New Tweets per second record, and how (blog.twitter.com)

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Ask HN: I just bought hackableproblems.com – Help me decide what to do with it (news.ycombinator.com)

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99devs - Where Developers Meet Entrepreneurs (99devs.com)

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Play Missile Command on any YouTube video page by typing "1980" (www.youtube.com)

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Show HN: Extended Progressbars for Bootstrap 3 (rc2) (minddust.github.io)

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PyCon, RubyConf, UseR ... why no C conference? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Inside Google’s culture of relentless self-surveying (qz.com)

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Ask HN: Which coding guidelines do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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JQuery.pep.js - kinetic drag for mobile and desktop (pep.briangonzalez.org)

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Hacker and non-hacker partnership scenario. Would you? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Entrepreneurship: The Ultimate White Privilege? (www.theatlantic.com)

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SilkRoad Closes $16 Million in Growth Financing Led by Foundation Capital (www.silkroad.com)

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Node.js v0.10.16 (blog.nodejs.org)

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What I've Learned Since Releasing Uncover (With Numbers) (spencerfry.com)

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Wyden, Udall on NSA Collection Compliance Violations (www.wyden.senate.gov)

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Quantify: dimensioned values in JavaScript (github.com)

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DIY Open-Source Cellphone (blog.arduino.cc)

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Comparing U.S. & World Covers for TIME Magazine (www.dailykos.com)

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We’re on the cusp of deep learning for the masses. You can thank Google later (gigaom.com)

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Product Management at Contactually (blog.contactually.com)

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Apocalypse 5: Pattern Matching (www.perl6.org)

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Life is Fragile; Don't Postpone It (sulia.com)

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PlanGrid is looking for dev-ops and Android engineers in San Francisco (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mattermark (YC S12) is Hiring Research Analysts to Quantify Venture Capital (news.ycombinator.com)

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Hack Growth At Virool (YC S12) (news.ycombinator.com)

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