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What would you like to see most in minix? (1991) (groups.google.com)

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The Best Map Ever Made of America's Racial Segregation (www.wired.com)

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Matt Damon: Edward Snowden did a great thing (news.cnet.com)

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SQLite 3.8.0 Release with next-generation query planner (www.sqlite.org)

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What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate (And How it Benefits You) (lifehacker.com)

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Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth (www.inc.com)

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The one HR benefit every startup should add (42floors.com)

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Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pageviews A Month (highscalability.com)

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The flawed psychology of government mass surveillance (www.theguardian.com)

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The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy (2012) (io9.com)

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John Carmack: Thoughts on Haskell (functionaltalks.org)

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Show HN: Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python (github.com)

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“Politics and the English Language,” By George Orwell (alexgolec.github.io)

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Stripe starts Germany beta (stripe.com)

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Did The TSA & JetBlue Deny Travel For Looking Muslim During Ramadan? Nope (boardingarea.com)

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Why do RET instructions have a REPZ prepended on x86? (repzret.org)

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Chromecast update breaks AllCast (plus.google.com)

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Confessions of a failed indie developer (www.altdevblogaday.com)

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Tutor reveals the Ivy-admissions madness of rich penthouse parents (www.nypost.com)

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Recycling memory buffers in Go (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Lord Blair: we need laws to stop 'principled' leaking of state secrets (www.theguardian.com)

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Process your first $1,000,000 of Bitcoin payments for free with Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

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Macaw | The code-savvy web design tool. (macaw.co)

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A Startup Reading List (simplifilm.com)

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Detained in the US for “Visiting Thailand Too Much” | Richard Barrow in Thailand (www.richardbarrow.com)

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How we use NodeJS and Redis to drive tens of millions of realtime events daily (moot.it)

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Google.ps DNS hacked (google.ps)

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How Stripe does engineering interviews (www.quora.com)

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Parallax.js (wagerfield.github.io)

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Want to Win a Political Debate? Try Making a Weaker Argument (www.psmag.com)

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Tesla outsells Porsche, Jaguar, others in California (www.usatoday.com)

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This Open Source Twitter Replacement Is Absolutely Brilliant (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Facebook friends could change your credit score (money.cnn.com)

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Noodlejs - Node.js web scraper (noodlejs.com)

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Show HN: Popped At, my many, many weekends realtime photo project (www.popped.at)

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Reuters swaps story about NSA hacking the UN for NSA fluff piece. (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution (www.acquia.com)

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Dishwasher Cooking: Make Your Dinner While Cleaning The Plates (www.npr.org)

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Spain begins disciplinary proceedings against site for violating Cookie Law (translate.google.com)

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Wikileaks reveals Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian consulted with Stratfor (search.wikileaks.org)

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OSTree – Robust OS upgrades for Linux (blog.verbum.org)

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Hacked Feature Phones Could Topple 2G Cell Networks (www.technologyreview.com)

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Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile (techcrunch.com)

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Protecting Against Leakers (www.schneier.com)

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GNOME Developers Hate the Mouse, Remove Middle-Click Paste (news.softpedia.com)

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Be careful when going client-only (Firebase) (robinverton.de)

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Fortune.js - RESTful, HATEOAS APIs made easy (http://fortunejs.com)

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The story of a little DNS easter egg (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Visualized Heartbeat Can Trigger ‘Out-of-Body Experience’ (www.psychologicalscience.org)

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Diaspora* celebrates one year as a community project (blog.diasporafoundation.org)

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Our Design Guidelines for Teaching Programming Talkthroughs (cs-blog.khanacademy.org)

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Excel can't save to paths over 218 characters (support.microsoft.com)

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Hobbit Risks:"The Hobbit" from an Insurance Point of View (www.allianz.com)

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Open Sourcers Pitch Secure Email in Dark Age of PRISM (www.wired.com)

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Apngasm Wants To Promote Animated PNGs As An Alternative To GIFs (techcrunch.com)

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Facebook will shut down its physical gifts service this week (www.fastcompany.com)

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Mapping Arms Data – the trade in small arms and their ammunition, 1992-2011 (balder.prio.no)

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Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords (arstechnica.com)

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Qt 4.7 ported to AmigaOS 4 (amigax1000.blogspot.com.au)

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GNOME Disabling Middle Click Paste (git.gnome.org)

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Microsoft’s best hope after Ballmer? A break up (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature (venturebeat.com)

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How many keystrokes do you have left? (www.keysleft.com)

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Jail Becomes Home for Husband Stuck With Lifetime Alimony (www.bloomberg.com)

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Designed by Doofuses in California (www.slate.com)

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The Banned #Hashtags of Instagram (thedatapack.com)

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Show HN: Help test out swarm robot control (swarmcontrol.herokuapp.com)

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How Hackers from Close.io Built a Sales Platform with Seamless Voice Integration (plivo.com)

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If you’re not rich, your bank probably wants you to overdraft (rippedenvelope.com)

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Guns don’t kill people, video games kill people (www.penny-arcade.com)

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CodePath launches free Android/iOS evening bootcamps in SF (blog.thecodepath.com)

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Guido van Rossum Answers Your Questions (developers.slashdot.org)

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The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act (www.schneier.com)

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Show HN: TextBlob API Demo delivered inside docker (textblob-api-1743413701.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com)

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Rocket man (queensu.ca)

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PLTTS got redesigned - Find your perfect color palette (c.vslck.im)

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The Product Manager Handbook (thepmhandbook.com)

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Preface to the new edition of The Design of Everyday Things (www.jnd.org)

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Open Secret About Google’s Surveillance Case No Longer Secret (blogs.wsj.com)

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NSA leaks: David Cameron's response is intimidation, says world press body (www.theguardian.com)

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iOS7 marks the best time to get started in app development (www.codefellows.org)

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Hyperboria, a global meshnet built on cjdns (hyperboria.net)

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Comparing Windows and Linux Stability (www.johndcook.com)

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St. Petersburg paradox (en.wikipedia.org)

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America is no-vacation nation (www.salon.com)

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/. Guido van Rossum Answers Your Questions (developers.slashdot.org)

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Feedly dominating the post-Reader world (gigaom.com)

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Bill Watterson- A Cartoonist's Advice (zenpencils.com)

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The Definitive Guide to Growth Hacking (30,000 Word Guide) (share.growthhacker.tv)

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Bountyhunting at Conviro - An early stage product development experiment (conviro.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: Any one else think it's a strange time to be a computer scientist? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Kickstarter is coming to Australia and New Zealand (www.kickstarter.com)

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A Beginner's Guide to Computer Science (www.jamesmaa.com)

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Did you know Twitter shadows every click you make? (www.alexanderhanff.com)

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Why Tilting Just a Smidge from Self-Service Can Grow Your Revenue 30x (saastr.com)

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How might the feds have snooped on Lavabit? (arstechnica.com)

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XBox One details in pictures (semiaccurate.com)

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Ask HN: Who's doing cutting-edge front-end development these days? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Government forgets to redact Google's name (www.techdirt.com)

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Add Support for 80+ Filetypes to your iPhone (http://www.doctapeviewer.com)

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Ask HN: How do you 'Music' (discovery, acquisition, consumption, ...)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Is anyone missing Google Reader (news.ycombinator.com)

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Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN (www.spiegel.de)

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This Game Sold 144 Copies and Was Pirated 50,000 Times (kotaku.com)

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Ask HN: What do you while the automated tests are running? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How To Remember Every Day Of Your Life (thecontinentalsuper.wordpress.com)

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Mandatory encryption *is* theater (lists.w3.org)

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Web scraping with CasperJS (www.andykelk.net)

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Everything that’s wrong with Microsoft, as told by veterans (qz.com)

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Google Palestine got Hacked (www.google.ps)

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How Snowden did it (investigations.nbcnews.com)

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Feedly Pro Reopens, Adds Pocket Integration, Makes HTTPS Free (cloud.feedly.com)

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Ask HN: Where to find customer service folks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Definitive Guide to Growth Hacking (www.quicksprout.com)

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Ask HN: I want to take a no-tech retreat for 6 months straight. Where? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Immortality Financiers: The Billionaires Who Want to Live Forever (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Show HN: statistic.li - dead simple real-time site statistics (statistic.li)

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Email Response From Steve Jobs (www.smh.com.au)

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How Wireless Carriers Make You Trash Your Phone Before It's Really Broken (www.motherjones.com)

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After Groklaw shutdown: MyKolab as Lavabit alternative, now offering Lite option (kolabsys.com)

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The Synchronizes-With Relation (preshing.com)

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On Hiring (mattspitz.me)

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Steve Ballmer and the innovators curse (www.asymco.com)

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Canva Launches A Graphic Design Platform Anyone Can Use (techcrunch.com)

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Online random forest in C++, uses the GPU with OpenCL. (github.com)

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2 Reasons 2023 is Optimistic for Autonomous Cars: Public Policy and Economics (www.davidlitwak.com)

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Performance analysis of Twitter Bootstrap over the last 2 years (blog.nparashuram.com)

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Twitter word cloud with R (lc0.github.io)

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Atlantis, the new virtual drug marketplace (www.highexistence.com)

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The entrepreneur whiz kid myth (money.cnn.com)

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Facebook Market Value Tops $100 Billion Amid Mobile Push (www.bloomberg.com)

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A documentation generator for Python code (replaces epydoc) (github.com)

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Plan weekly. Review daily. (blog.weekdone.com)

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I/O Stack Optimization for Smartphones (www.usenix.org)

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The man who 'got it' too much (www.kernelmag.com)

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Ask HN: Statistics on startups that lose a co-founder early? (news.ycombinator.com)

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ZenPayroll (YC W12) is hiring software engineers to help make delightful payroll (news.ycombinator.com)

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Thalmic (YC W13) is hiring a Product Manager on the MYO team (thalmic.bamboohr.com)

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BloomThat (YC S13) Is Hiring (news.ycombinator.com)

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Hardware (Electrical/Optical) Engineers wanted (SpaceGlasses) YC S13 (news.ycombinator.com)

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MobileWorks is hiring a star account manager (news.ycombinator.com)

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inDinero is hiring another Web Developer (news.ycombinator.com)

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