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Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping (www.theguardian.com)

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NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars (ricostacruz.com)

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Don't reinvent the scrollbar (bbrks.me)

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Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks (www.fourhourworkweek.com)

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Mailpile – taking e-mail back (www.indiegogo.com)

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Hy - dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python (docs.hylang.org)

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The Wretched Google Interview Experience (symbo1ics.com)

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UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives (pressfreedomfoundation.org)

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An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js (blog.modulus.io)

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Ungit - Git ui that makes you understand git (github.com)

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Sovereign – Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own personal cloud (github.com)

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Helpouts by Google (helpouts.google.com)

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Coroutines in one page of C (www.embeddedrelated.com)

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German gov warns, WIN 8 is a security risk because of Trusted Computing (www.zeit.de)

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Average Income per Programming Language (bpodgursky.wordpress.com)

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Beware of geeks bearing gifts (aralbalkan.com)

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I just want to say "fuck everything", hold up my hands and walk away. (werd.io)

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I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck (pastie.org)

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Obama still want the SOPA provision making unlicensed streaming a felony (m.washingtonpost.com)

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Amazing Correlation Between Google +1s and Higher Search Rankings (moz.com)

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Crosswords don’t make you clever (www.economist.com)

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Medium Sucks (www.codingjohnson.com)

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Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1 (techcrunch.com)

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EVA 23: Exploring the frontier (blogs.esa.int)

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The Great App.net Mistake (www.wired.com)

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How big is wikipedia? (en.wikipedia.org)

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Amazon Ramps Up $13.9 Billion Warehouse Building Spree (www.bloomberg.com)

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Julia introspects: see the AST, LLVM IR, and native assembly for any function (blog.leahhanson.us)

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Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 2 (techcrunch.com)

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What to Expect When Being Featured on Google Play (ryanharter.com)

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New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach (online.wsj.com)

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The NSA, Germany, and journalism (buzzmachine.com)

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Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 3 (techcrunch.com)

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Sandman: A Boilerplate-free Python REST API for Existing Databases (www.jeffknupp.com)

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Graphene transistor clocked at 427 GHz [pdf] (www.pnas.org)

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Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access (www.nytimes.com)

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New Zealand's GCSB spying bill becomes law (www.3news.co.nz)

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Greenwald's partner in legal challenge over seized data (m.bbc.co.uk)

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Clojure-scheme: Compiling Clojure to Native Code via Scheme [InfoQ] (www.infoq.com)

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US and UK at odds over security tactics (www.theguardian.com)

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UK defends Miranda airport detention (www.bbc.co.uk)

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29% of the Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (pubs.acs.org)

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Apple acknowledges Ibrahim Balic for discovering security flaw in dev center (support.apple.com)

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Startups That Started As Blogs (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Are You A Bad Developer If You Don't Take On Side Projects? (www.forbes.com)

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League of Legends compromised; North American accounts and transactions accessed (beta.na.leagueoflegends.com)

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Glimmerglass Intercepts Undersea Cable Traffic for Spy Agencies? (corpwatch.org)

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Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts (www.davidpashley.com)

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Fraudsters target "wire payment switch" at banks to steal millions (www.scmagazine.com)

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WikiLeaks candidate quits upcoming Australian elections (www.abc.net.au)

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Automatically Encrypting all Incoming Email (grepular.com)

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Subscribe to The Guardian (subscribe.theguardian.com)

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Jolla’s first batch of Sailfish smartphones is fully booked (thenextweb.com)

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Airline classes as wealth redistribution (www.spectator.co.uk)

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Bugsnag API Launch (blog.bugsnag.com)

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Help HN: Dear Apple, why do you sell products in India? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Default American Workplace is Fundamentally Flawed (blangslet.com)

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22% of European citizens do not use the internet (appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu)

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Let’s stop the NSA before it destroys the cloud industry (venturebeat.com)

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NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files (www.theguardian.com)

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Intern dies after ‘working until 6am for three days’ at Merrill Lynch (metro.co.uk)

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Code For India - The Global tech industry gives back (codeforindia.org)

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Show HN: Rustic Citrus (http://www.rusticcitrus.com)

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Mattermark Index: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Companies (mattermark.com)

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Gym workouts and sunbathing do more for your brain than crosswords and Mozart (qz.com)

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Tumult Hype 2 and Hype Reflect for iOS – for Creating HTML5 Content (blog.tumult.com)

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Hidden HN Pages (news.ycombinator.com)

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Services (Part 6 of AngularJS from beginner to expert in 7 steps series) (www.ng-newsletter.com)

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NodeJS Starter – Simple project setup using best practices and modules (github.com)

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Metrecal: The Original Soylent (1960s) (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Best in User Onboarding (www.growhack.com)

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The look of music (news.harvard.edu)

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Ask HN: What is the most annoying part about finding a new job in tech? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Statements in the Leaked Climate Report (m.motherjones.com)

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Nexus Phones Are "Ringers" (ben-evans.com)

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YC S13 Top beautiful websites (scoutzie.com)

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Developers and Depression (steelcityruby.confbots.com)

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Google Says 20% Time is Alive and Well (qz.com)

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Spaceglasses: Hacking Reality with Javascript (www.spaceglasses.com)

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Dear HN: Please Fucking Hire Me To Do Anything (i.imgur.com)

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12 Year Old Boy Programs Robots (VIDEO) (www.youtube.com)

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Now Is The Time For All Good Nerds To Come To The Aid Of The Internet (techcrunch.com)

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Should have hired a tech co-founder (medium.com)

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Taobao’s Online Education Market Launched (technode.com)

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The next moves in the developing Spooks v. News Cold War (www.antipope.org)

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Show HN: TextTeaser – An automatic summarization app and API (www.textteaser.com)

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Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare's Legally Imposed Deadlines (www.forbes.com)

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Show HN: Earport - Listen to music together (http://earport.fm)

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Powow AS acquires Gitorious AS (blog.gitorious.org)

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FoundationDB 1.0 (foundationdb.com)

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Small Firm Creates A 3D-Printed Scale Model Of The Hyperloop (techcrunch.com)

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Fukushima nuclear pollution more concentrated as it approaches U.S. West Coast (enenews.com)

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When Apps Modify Behavior (massivegreatness.com)

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Ungit - a new UI approach for newbies learning git. (www.youtube.com)

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PM 'told Heywood to warn Guardian' (www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk)

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Ask HN: How do I convey a price increase to users of my web app? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Edward Snowden’s Real Impact (www.newyorker.com)

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Man who hacked Zuckerberg's Facebook account gets cash reward (www.cnbc.com)

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The U.S. Behaves Nothing Like a Democracy (www.alternet.org)

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End to End Encryption in JS Web Apps (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Hackers Raise White Hat Money for Khalil Shreateh (www.dailydot.com)

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The Rove App Is An Easy Way To Remember Everywhere You’ve Been (techcrunch.com)

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How to Discover Your Child’s Inner Genius (medium.com)

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Elena Kagan Admits Supreme Court Justices Haven’t Figured Out Email Yet (www.slate.com)

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State Attorney General settlement orders company to stop ‘patent trolling’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Food API (trackingdiet.com)

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New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach (online.wsj.com)

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Red line in Syria has been crossed. Gas attack kills hundreds. (www.reddit.com)

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How to Save the Troubled Graphene Transistor (www.technologyreview.com)

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Controversial GCSB law passes by two votes (www.stuff.co.nz)

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Developers and Depression (vimeo.com)

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The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship (www.inc.com)

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Prosody 0.9.0 released (blog.prosody.im)

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Don’t Get Bored at Demo Day: Demo Day Bingo S13 (www.thedailymuse.com)

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US gov’t: Snowden also took secret docs while working at Dell in April 2012 (arstechnica.com)

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Firefox takes top marks in browser stability tests (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Coroner, family link Michael Hastings to drug use at time of death (www.latimes.com)

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Portraits taken in front of a leaf blower (www.tadaocern.com)

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Autopsy found traces of drugs after Hastings death (www.sfgate.com)

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New release of our Rails VPS chef recipes: user per app deployment (blog.firmhouse.com)

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Simplified Multiple Provider Authorization (www.infoq.com)

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Node.js: the good, the bad, the ugly - why the hell would you use it? (www.toptal.com)

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Android is Linux (www.osnews.com)

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NASA wants to print a spacecraft, but first it’s printing the electronics (gigaom.com)

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The Great App.net Mistake (www.wired.com)

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Al Jazeera launches US television news service (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Groklaw closes, PJ willing to let someone else pick it up (www.zdnet.com)

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Open SBC runs Linux on Altera ARM+FPGA SoC (linuxgizmos.com)

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The Perils of Shiny New Objects (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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What's the craziest thing in your field that you suspect is true? (www.reddit.com)

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Bradley Manning and the Two Americas (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Hacker News for Computer Engineering? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Best Mind-Maps Apps Tool and Resources for Education (www.tabletsforschools.co.uk)

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Predictors of suicidal behaviour found in blood (www.nature.com)

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Ask PG: How would you react if the NSA asked you to open up your HN database? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Great software is an act of empathy (lloydtabb.svbtle.com)

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Mastering the Craft (teddziuba.com)

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How Divshot is built on the Chromebook Pixel (blog.nitrous.io)

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The Tesla Model S Is So Safe It Broke the Crash-Testing Gear (www.wired.com)