hackerNews

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Defeated (orenhazi.com)

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901614 – Adopt Tor as a feature in Firefox (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

302 points first seen 2013082618 last seen 2013082803 113 comments

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Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet (www.motherjones.com)

298 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082803 99 comments

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I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet. (www.nytimes.com)

281 points first seen 2013082612 last seen 2013082803 239 comments

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Nimrod: C + Macros + GC (nimrod-code.org)

202 points first seen 2013082606 last seen 2013082800 109 comments

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JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator (parall.ax)

176 points first seen 2013082606 last seen 2013082800 66 comments

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How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater (www.nytimes.com)

166 points first seen 2013082612 last seen 2013082800 183 comments

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On the Cleverness of Compilers (alexey.radul.name)

160 points first seen 2013082600 last seen 2013082721 54 comments

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CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (www.foreignpolicy.com)

142 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082703 84 comments

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Hong Kong’s Massive High-Rise Neighborhoods (www.wired.com)

134 points first seen 2013082618 last seen 2013082821 76 comments

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On Lisp (www.paulgraham.com)

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Numbeo - comparison of cost of living around the world (www.numbeo.com)

104 points first seen 2013082618 last seen 2013082800 39 comments

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'StarCraft' Gameplay Boosts Mental Flexibility, Says Study (blogs.wsj.com)

102 points first seen 2013082618 last seen 2013082800 84 comments

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Show HN: I designed a language for code golf, compiling to Common Lisp (http://www.rhoscript.com)

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Algorithms, Part I: Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick (www.coursera.org)

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It's not about the star, stupid (use-the-index-luke.com)

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If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple (stratechery.com)

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U.S. spy agency bugged U.N. headquarters: Germany's Spiegel (www.reuters.com)

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Use Node.js to Extract Data from the Web for Fun and Profit (www.storminthecastle.com)

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The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities (nymag.com)

73 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082706 14 comments

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The Hackathon Experience Is a Hack (www.tomordonez.com)

72 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082800 58 comments

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JIT SIMD non-backtracking regexp engine vs GNU grep, v8, and re2 (coreperf.com)

72 points first seen 2013082621 last seen 2013082800 18 comments

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The Maginot Line (techcrunch.com)

69 points first seen 2013082612 last seen 2013082703 30 comments

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Use two-factor authentication for Persona with your own domain (www.stavros.io)

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The Free Network Foundation (thefnf.org)

63 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082721 4 comments

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Google updates Play policies to require games use its in-app billing service (thenextweb.com)

61 points first seen 2013082600 last seen 2013082700 43 comments

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Help I'm Too Smart For My Job (www.linkedin.com)

58 points first seen 2013082606 last seen 2013082615 29 comments

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War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist (www.nytimes.com)

58 points first seen 2013082621 last seen 2013082721 16 comments

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SteveB’s Retirement Announcement (hal2020.com)

57 points first seen 2013082606 last seen 2013082618 69 comments

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Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed (allthingsd.com)

56 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082703 53 comments

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Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock (thenextweb.com)

56 points first seen 2013082621 last seen 2013082703 74 comments

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Google blocks Chromecast app that let you stream your own videos (www.theverge.com)

51 points first seen 2013082606 last seen 2013082621 39 comments

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Readers offer tales of Silicon Valley's ageism (www.sfgate.com)

51 points first seen 2013082606 last seen 2013082609 62 comments

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Microsoft’s Next Era (techcrunch.com)

51 points first seen 2013082618 last seen 2013082721 10 comments

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Yahoo board strife as Dan Loeb splits from board (www.nypost.com)

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AWS Elastic Block Store issues in one AZ in us-east-1 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Desperate CA city looks to use 'eminent domain' to seize loans (www.startribune.com)

48 points first seen 2013082609 last seen 2013082615 69 comments

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My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a privileged app (jeena.net)

48 points first seen 2013082612 last seen 2013082703 39 comments

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AWS Server Issues Take Down Instagram, Vine, Airbnb And IFTTT (techcrunch.com)

48 points first seen 2013082612 last seen 2013082703 27 comments

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WebM for Internet Explorer (tools.google.com)

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Obama wants all the info in your Smart Phone without a Warrant (www.juancole.com)

45 points first seen 2013082600 last seen 2013082606 32 comments

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I am selling social interaction (iamsellingsocialinteraction.com)

45 points first seen 2013082606 last seen 2013082615 19 comments

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Borges never wrote a work of fiction longer than fourteen pages (www.newyorker.com)

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Plain Text Doesn’t Exist: Unicode and encodings demystified (10kloc.wordpress.com)

45 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082712 38 comments

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Ask HN: Why aren't there HTTP style standards for invoicing things? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Anatomy of a hack: even your 'complicated' password is easy to crack (www.wired.co.uk)

43 points first seen 2013082612 last seen 2013082621 54 comments

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What is irony? With examples (www.dailywritingtips.com)

43 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082703 43 comments

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NASA to test laser communications link with new lunar mission (www.itworld.com)

40 points first seen 2013082612 last seen 2013082703 8 comments

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Show HN: Contacts finds email addresses to help with blogger outreach (contactsanalytics.com)

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Ask HN: What will entertain us in 20 years from now? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Facebook is looking for an ARM SoC server hardware engineer (www.facebook.com)

34 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082706 25 comments

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Converting an existing Backbone.js project to Require.js (ozkatz.github.io)

32 points first seen 2013082603 last seen 2013082700 30 comments

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A/B Testing Duration Data (www.evanmiller.org)

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Ask HN: where to go for max profit? (high coder salary, low cost of living) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Abandoned McDonald's Holds Glimpse of Life on Moon (video) (www.businessweek.com)

28 points first seen 2013082603 last seen 2013082612 8 comments

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UI Anti Pattern: Website Loading Bars (medium.com)

28 points first seen 2013082606 last seen 2013082609 43 comments

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Nginx, the popular open-source Web server, goes commercial (www.zdnet.com)

25 points first seen 2013082609 last seen 2013082700 0 comments

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Will we ever want to have sex with robots? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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More Salinger Books Are Coming (www.nytimes.com)

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Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet (www.dailydot.com)

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Once you hear the jackboots, it’s too late. (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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R vs Python Speed Comparison for Bootstrapping (climateecology.wordpress.com)

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On Apple’s A7 Processor (stevecheney.com)

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First they came for the communists ... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Peru's archaeologists turn to drones to help protect and explore ancient ruins (www.theguardian.com)

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Airlines offer no-crying sections (www.marketwatch.com)

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NSA having flashbacks to Watergate era (www.mcclatchydc.com)

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Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states (bigstory.ap.org)

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

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Mike Monteiro | Fuck You. Pay Me. (2011)(video lecture) (vimeo.com)

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Apple released a new ad for Mac Pro (mashable.com)

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Webalchemy - realtime, Pythonic web framework (github.com)

10 points first seen 2013082618 last seen 2013082621 0 comments

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Amanda Ripley’s ‘Smartest Kids in the World’ (www.nytimes.com)

10 points first seen 2013082618 last seen 2013082618 0 comments

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Looking for Brooklyn based programmers to volunteer in low income schools (news.ycombinator.com)

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Under the hood - how Git works (slidetocode.com)

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12 Historic Photographs That Were Manipulated (twistedsifter.com)

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How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Traces - A mobile blogging app for your iPhone. By two biotech grads (itunes.apple.com)

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This Satellite Could Be Beaming Solar Power Down from Space by 2025 (motherboard.vice.com)

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Note to media: Get used to calling Manning “she” (qz.com)

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Show HN: Don't get slashdotted when your link hits the HN front page (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Is HN implementing a new comment ranking system? (news.ycombinator.com)

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EC2, RDS, and Elastic Load Balancing issues (status.aws.amazon.com)

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A Blogger Mocks the Denizens of Silicon Valley (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Why I'll Use an Educational Drip Campaign as My Next MVP (dennybritz.com)

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Burning Man becomes a hot spot for tech titans (www.sfgate.com)

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A Blogger Mocks the Denizens of Silicon Valley (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Bank of America adds someone to my account (news.ycombinator.com)

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Jessica McKellar: Becoming a Better Hacker [video] (vimeo.com)

5 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082615 0 comments

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HSA targets native parallel execution in Java VMs by 2015 (www.techcentral.ie)

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Ask HN: What copyright should I assume for HN comments? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What do you use for(as) your typography base? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Dispatch From The Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google (techcrunch.com)

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Why Steve Ballmer Failed (www.theatlantic.com)

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If I taught full stack RoR dev in SF for $30/2 hours would you come? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Semantic sanitation (en.wikipedia.org)

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Battling Superstition, Indian Pays With His Life (www.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2013082612 last seen 2013082612 0 comments

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Semantic Web Journal article on DBpedia (www.snee.com)

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Simply plan your next day. That’s how I finished my app (medium.com)

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How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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"The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong" (blog.jooq.org)

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Startup Canva kicking Photoshop from the top spot (www.shoestring.com.au)

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Firebase is hiring core devs. Help us reinvent the database (news.ycombinator.com)

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Protect Grannies via Front-End Development (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2013082615 last seen 2013082700 0 comments

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Poll Everywhere looking for an awesome DevOps engineer (pollev.recruiterbox.com)

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