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0 to 60 in One Second: Fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML (acko.net)

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We're only being dishonest to get your attention. Join us! (news.ycombinator.com)

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Calibre version 1.0 released after 7 years of development (calibre-ebook.com)

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Linux 3.9 introduced a new way of writing socket servers (freeprogrammersblog.vhex.net)

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NSA hacked into UN communications, leaked documents show (gigaom.com)

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How Paypal and Reddit faked their way into traction (medium.com)

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Dear Prime Minister Cameron – from editors of four Nordic newspapers (www.aftenposten.no)

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“A guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world” (en.wikipedia.org)

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Loneliness Is Deadly (www.slate.com)

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Showing stored passwords Re: Tweet about Passwords from Tim Berners-Lee (lists.w3.org)

170 points first seen 2013082506 last seen 2013082700 125 comments

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GitLab 6.0 Released (blog.gitlab.org)

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List of freely available programming books (stackoverflow.com)

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Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua (terralang.org)

140 points first seen 2013082503 last seen 2015120218 39 comments

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San Francisco in State of Emergency (www.npr.org)

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Reddit has the killer social network feature - Anonymity (garthontech.blogspot.ca)

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Operating System Development Series (www.brokenthorn.com)

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This is what happens when a designer gets unpaid (www.nycfreshmarket.com)

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How Not to Sell Bitcoin on eBay for 300% Profit (whatilearnedtoday.jameslarisch.com)

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Servo - parallel browser engine in rust by mozilla (github.com)

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PureDarwin - Community project to make Darwin more usable (www.puredarwin.org)

117 points first seen 2013082521 last seen 2022070306 26 comments

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Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography (www.businessinsider.com)

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Giant Robotic Mining Trucks in the Australian Desert (medium.com)

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Why Y Combinator won't be killing Hollywood. (charliecurran.com)

110 points first seen 2013082503 last seen 2013082621 85 comments

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Show HN: AdminJS, the Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework (http://adminjs.com)

108 points first seen 2013082512 last seen 2013082700 26 comments

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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business (techcrunch.com)

96 points first seen 2013082509 last seen 2013082803 36 comments

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Rust on Arduino Due (github.com)

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Computer can read letters directly from the brain (www.ru.nl)

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Police Crack Down on Burning Man in Unprecedented Show of Force (intellihub.com)

90 points first seen 2013082503 last seen 2013082600 23 comments

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Install Ubuntu On Your Chromebook (greenido.wordpress.com)

87 points first seen 2013082521 last seen 2013082703 46 comments

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The $80 web development workstation (skofo.github.io)

83 points first seen 2013082512 last seen 2013082518 141 comments

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OpenGL 101: Matrices – projection, view, model (solarianprogrammer.com)

79 points first seen 2013082503 last seen 2013082618 17 comments

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Math without beauty or truth. (noahpinionblog.blogspot.com.au)

71 points first seen 2013082500 last seen 2013082612 31 comments

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The demise of the DSLR (blog.mingthein.com)

68 points first seen 2013082506 last seen 2013082518 93 comments

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NASA, ESA capture comet collision with Sun (www.theweathernetwork.com)

68 points first seen 2013082506 last seen 2013082615 26 comments

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Tiny video cameras protect cops, suspects (www.sfgate.com)

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NSA spied on UN, breaking active agreements (www.spiegel.de)

60 points first seen 2013082518 last seen 2013082600 19 comments

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Open Letter to Calendar Developers about HTTP (lists.w3.org)

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Obama, Surveillance, and the Legacy of the March on Washington (www.newyorker.com)

53 points first seen 2013082506 last seen 2013082518 4 comments

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NSA admits rare willful surveillance violations (news.yahoo.com)

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Windows 8.1 quietly gets released to manufacturers (guru8.net)

52 points first seen 2013082521 last seen 2013082618 46 comments

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Gif Dance Party (http://gifdanceparty.com)

42 points first seen 2013082515 last seen 2013082515 15 comments

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Proof School (www.proofschool.org)

40 points first seen 2013082518 last seen 2013082618 31 comments

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Nsync - A command-line tool for NSA’s free backup services (iopanic.com)

28 points first seen 2013082503 last seen 2013082503 9 comments

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An algorithm that can spot and kill Twitterbots before they start spamming (gigaom.com)

27 points first seen 2013082503 last seen 2013082603 12 comments

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You Can't Fix People (blackhole12.blogspot.com)

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Snowden suspected of bypassing electronic logs (hosted.ap.org)

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Designing APIs for Asynchrony (blog.izs.me)

21 points first seen 2013082506 last seen 2013082603 6 comments

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Jobs, robots, capitalism, inequality and you (techcrunch.com)

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Lean Advertising and the Age of Disruption (www.andrewcoyle.com)

20 points first seen 2013082506 last seen 2013082600 6 comments

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Marissa Mayer teaching at Stanford University (www.youtube.com)

20 points first seen 2013082515 last seen 2013082515 16 comments

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Why is YAGNI a good rule? (lionelbarrow.com)

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[Show HN] I build ownCloud ready image for RaspberryPi based on Raspbian (www.owncloudbook.com)

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Snowden suspected of bypassing electronic logs (hosted.ap.org)

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How We Killed Privacy -- in 4 Easy Steps (www.foreignpolicy.com)

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Surveillance and the state: this way the debate goes on (www.theguardian.com)

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Burning Man Airport FAQ (www.burningman.com)

11 points first seen 2013082512 last seen 2013082518 6 comments

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Effects of caffeine on persuasion and attitude change (2006) (www.erowid.org)

8 points first seen 2013082518 last seen 2013082600 0 comments

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How America is Dumbing Down the Next Generation (2012) (www.thefiscaltimes.com)

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The Real Reason College Costs So Much (online.wsj.com)

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Ask HN: What are some underrated startups we will hear about in 2013/2014? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA analysts 'wilfully violated' surveillance systems, agency admits (www.theguardian.com)

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Erlang, the unintentional Neural Network Programming Language [video] (vimeo.com)

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Keep Your Unsolicited Redesign to Yourself (www.erickarjaluoto.com)

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For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word – Statistics (2009) (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Email that keeps parents in the loop (http://www.hastwoparents.com)

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How the NSA could stop sucking and be awesome instead (teddziuba.com)

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I Forgot My Phone (www.youtube.com)

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Database migration is as important as having a VCS (ananth.quora.com)

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The Vision for $3.4 Billion Uber Is Much More Than Just a Car Service (www.slate.com)

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Real-time thoughts on the husband and wife startup. (medium.com)

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Steve Ballmer, Meet Ibn Khaldun (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)

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If you get a useful bug report, say thank you (johanneshoff.com)

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Snowden tricked NSA - and they don't know how he did it (rt.com)

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Simon Marlow on lightweight threads vs. events (stackoverflow.com)

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Ask HN: Selling your contract work (news.ycombinator.com)

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Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers (www.youtube.com)

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Monsters from the Id: The Making of Doom (www.gamasutra.com)

3 points first seen 2013082500 last seen 2013082500 0 comments

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Kouio RSS: A Progress Update (kouio.com)

3 points first seen 2013082500 last seen 2013082500 2 comments

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Ask HN: How does Google and Facebook do friend recommendations? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2013082503 last seen 2013082503 10 comments

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More web scraping with Python (www.gregreda.com)

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FB is the Only Other Platform Used by 20% of College Students. Join Us! (news.ycombinator.com)

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