hackerNews

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months (www.microsoft.com)

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Schema migrations finally merged into Django master (github.com)

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Just Delete Me (robblewis.me)

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Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now? (thestringer.com.au)

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The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline (www.slate.com)

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The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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C++ and the Culture of Complexity (blog.greaterthanzero.com)

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OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor (blog.openstreetmap.org)

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Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (blogs.hbr.org)

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Yeoman 1.0 Released (yeoman.io)

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Obama pick for NSA review panel wanted paid, pro-government shills in chat rooms (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Offshore company steals a startup's identity, Apple ignores it. (www.flipagr.am)

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Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom (www.scientificamerican.com)

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New Zealand appears to have used NSA spy network to target Kim Dotcom (arstechnica.com)

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How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers (www.fastcolabs.com)

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1,600 Year Old Goblet Shows Romans Used Nanotechnology. (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django) (www.bountysource.com)

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Docker 0.6: Events API, registry improvements, expert mode, security updates. (blog.docker.io)

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Prototype Hardware from Lockheed Martin Surveillance Project (www.ebay.com)

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Uber for Everything (diegobasch.com)

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Compiling to Lua (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Make No Promises (swannodette.github.io)

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59% of the 'Tuna' Americans Eat Is Not Tuna (www.theatlantic.com)

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No More Notification Ads and Icon Ads in Android Apps (googlesystem.blogspot.com)

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Additional $2.1M Seized from Mt. Gox Accounts – Now Over $5M Total (thegenesisblock.com)

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Tesla is unable to sell its vehicles directly to the public in Texas (www.teslamotors.com)

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An IBM XT with 4.77MHz can display color video (www.oldskool.org)

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ModMyPi: how one student turned over £867,000 selling Raspberry Pi cases (www.wired.co.uk)

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X.Org Foundation Loses Its 501(c)(3) Status (www.phoronix.com)

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Parallel Roguelike Lev-Gen Benchmarks: Rust, Go, D, Scala and Nimrod (togototo.wordpress.com)

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NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies (www.theguardian.com)

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NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests (blogs.wsj.com)

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How the NSA spied on Americans before the Internet (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A Steve Jobs email exchange that captures Apple’s strategy (qz.com)

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The Most Awesome Animation About Quantum Computers You Will Ever See (quantumfrontiers.com)

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In many ways PHP is just now starting to come into its own. (gist.github.com)

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Tesla California sales beat Chrysler, Volvo, Cadillac, other big names (arstechnica.com)

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The Erdős-Rényi Random Graph (jeremykun.com)

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Luma (YC W12) acquired by Facebook and integrated into Instagram video (luma.io)

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The Universal Rules of Civilized Discourse (blog.discourse.org)

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How a Programmer Can Discover an Asteroid (www.ianww.com)

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Your Future iPhone May Be Stuffed With Wax (www.wired.com)

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Ballmer forced out after $900M Surface RT debacle (www.computerworld.com)

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How to shoot yourself in the foot in any programming language (www.fullduplex.org)

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The Believer (2009) (www.gq.com)

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Store screenshots of your web app in Git! (blog.glebm.com)

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The banks’ secret endgame (www.gregpalast.com)

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Microsoft needs a CEO who probably doesn't exist (arstechnica.com)

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I wasted four years of my life – don't make the same mistake (www.theguardian.com)

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NSA Analysts Intentionally Abused Spying Powers Multiple Times (www.bloomberg.com)

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Bible contradictions visualized (www.bibviz.com)

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GitHub is not your new résumé (www.brandonmwest.com)

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For Privacy and Security, Use Public Keys Everywhere (cacm.acm.org)

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Value of Windowing is Questioned (1984) (www.nytimes.com)

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Apple’s App Store Rankings Algorithm Changed (techcrunch.com)

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You're Smart. So What?: Examining the Importance of Soft Skills (blog.chrisdrane.com)

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Xerox: First Wave Of Scanning Software Patches Ready (realbusinessatxerox.blogs.xerox.com)

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What Medium Is (dashes.com)

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Yahoo acquires IQ Engines to join Flickr team (www.iqengines.com)

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Ballmer's Exit Adds $18 Billion To Microsoft's Value (techcrunch.com)

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NSA domestic spying: Mathematicians should speak out (www.slate.com)

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NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests (blogs.wsj.com)

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Why the Internet Archive sucks and what we can do about it (www.andrewcoyle.com)

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Copygram offers up a new, more beautiful way to browse Instagram on the Web (thenextweb.com)

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How To Screw Up Two-Factor Auth (blog.meldium.com)

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Guardian partners with New York Times over Snowden GCHQ files (www.theguardian.com)

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Imagine there's no Army (2010) (www.diplomatmagazine.co.uk)

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What Is Medium? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Steve Ballmer is Going to Frickin' Retire From Microsoft (minimsft.blogspot.com)

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Breaking Things (medium.com)

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WellsFargo ATM redesigned by IDEO (www.ideo.com)

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New Mailgun Events API, detailed email tracking and search (blog.mailgun.com)

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Show HN: Justapor - Explore the world through beautiful photos. (http://justapor.com)

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Google Designing Its Own Self-Driving Car, Considers ‘Robo Taxi’ (jessicalessin.com)

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Steve Ballmer to Retire (www.businessinsider.com)

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Github, Object of Nerd Love, Makes Play for Non-Programmers (www.theatlantic.com)

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Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Announcing Yeoman 1.0 (yeoman.io)

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What Internet.org's Promo Video Cut From the Kennedy Speech It Quotes (www.theatlantic.com)

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Ballmer sells windows1.0 (www.youtube.com)

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Microsoft's Ballmer on his biggest regret, the next CEO and more (www.zdnet.com)

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How to pair socks from a pile efficiently? (stackoverflow.com)

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The Pyramid of Code Quality (blog.jonabrams.com)

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Deleting a Skype account (twitter.com)

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UK government now leaking documents about itself (www.theguardian.com)

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You didn’t make the Harlem Shake go viral—corporations did (qz.com)

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Show HN: Free DynDNS alternative for cypherpunks (onetimedns.net)

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The one tool I wish I had in PHP (www.carlalexander.ca)

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Analysis of Emacs keys pressed (chrisdone.com)

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What percentage of your traffic is from screen readers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Pretty Printer for Go. o.O (andrewvos.com)

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Ask HN: What Vim plugins do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Guardian Partners with NYT on Snowden Files Due to British 'Pressure' (www.securityweek.com)

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Ask HN: Uber for Everything - who wants to join our beta testing in SF Bay Area? (news.ycombinator.com)

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At least half of all Bitcoin transactions are for online gambling (lsvp.com)

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In the hardware messaging war, Ouya's playing the wrong notes (www.gamasutra.com)

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Why Steve Balmer failed (www.newyorker.com)

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Flask Landing Page (github.com)

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Google Chromecast Review (www.hanselman.com)

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E-fossils: Virtual versions of museum's fossil treasure showcased in 3D (www.newscientist.com)

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Here's Steve Ballmer's full goodbye letter to Microsoft (www.theverge.com)

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Five reasons why Ballmer needed to go (www.zdnet.com)

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Hacking an NFL Survivor Pool (www.klittlepage.com)

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What would Martin Gardner Tweet? (www.cseblog.com)