hackerNews

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New Zealand bans software patents (www.zdnet.com)

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Let me tell you about a game I made with the sole intention of watching it die (dominikjohann.tumblr.com)

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How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Docker: Git for deployment (blog.scoutapp.com)

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Shopify POS (www.shopify.com)

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Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco (www.bloomberg.com)

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Why am I being endorsed for skills and expertise I do not claim on my profile? (community.linkedin.com)

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The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (www.moserware.com)

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Rich Hickey: Design, Composition and Performance (www.infoq.com)

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Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders (secretgeek.net)

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For Sale: Soviet Military Ferrite Core Memory Stack Cube and Manual (www.ebay.com)

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Show HN: Highlighting Efforts of Creation from Hacker News (medium.com)

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What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games (www.jeffwofford.com)

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Google Hangouts goes HD (plus.google.com)

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Humble Comedy Bundle (www.humblebundle.com)

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An attempt to create the highest resolution real-time map of global temperature (blog.forecast.io)

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Building a Software Company in Rwanda - 3 Years Later (blog.textit.in)

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Show HN: UIBox – A Curated HTML, CSS, JS UI Component Library (http://www.uibox.in)

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DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit (translate.google.com)

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Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (blog.reverberate.org)

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Understanding FFT Algorithm with python. (jakevdp.github.io)

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Android’s Hugo Barra Departs Google for China’s Xiaomi (allthingsd.com)

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Tin Can: WebRTC that uses Persona to authenticate the callers to each other (tincan.im)

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CSS Sprites vs. Data URIs: Which is faster on mobile? (www.mobify.com)

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Marissa Mayer Has “Many Enemies” (www.slate.com)

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Emacs As Operating System (c2.com)

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Boarding Pass Redesign (medium.com)

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Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogo’s campaigns (medium.com)

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Linux Trojan “Hand of Thief” (blog.avast.com)

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Android's Hugo Barra leaves Google (plus.google.com)

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Electrons and Atoms (blog.samaltman.com)

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Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground (www.space.com)

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Show HN: Mobile feedback your users will love (http://audobox.com)

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Harvesting solar power in space and sending it back to Earth (scinotions.com)

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Bitcoin offers privacy as long as you don't cash out or spend it (www.itworld.com)

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Non-Indians have benefited most from patent regime in India (www.thehindu.com)

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Building our first app in Go (renderedtext.com)

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Fastest rotating man-made object created (phys.org)

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Qt 5.1.1 Released (blog.qt.digia.com)

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Web Scraping a Javascript Heavy Website: Keeping Things Simple (tubes.io)

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Nintendo 2DS (www.nintendo.com)

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Show HN: The Ludum Dare 27 Entries of HNers (news.ycombinator.com)

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Build, test and deploy a Go application to Heroku (blog.wercker.com)

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Do whatever makes you happy is a lie (medium.com)

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Thinking bigger: a free engineering school (blog.thecodepath.com)

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Exfiltrate Files with DNS Queries (16s.us)

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ASICMiner Blade Prices Reduced 65% After Shares Crash (thegenesisblock.com)

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Ask: Stigma of the unemployed - a better job title for a lifestyle entrepreneur? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The UC Berkeley Big Data AMP Camp, August 29-30 (ampcamp.berkeley.edu)

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Apple Reportedly Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim (techcrunch.com)

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The Selfies are Coming. The Selfies are Here (Part 2) (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Just got sued by patent troll – what should I do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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‘Natural Flavor’ Comes From A Beaver’s Butt (www.honeycolony.com)

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What is a magic number, and why is it bad? (stackoverflow.com)

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Poll: Would you vote online if you could? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Cargo Cults (42floors.com)

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Ask HN: Share your projects, and the stories behind them. (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to send a file using WebRTC (bloggeek.me)

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How GMail’s Tabbed Inbox Changes Startup’s Mobile Marketing Strategies (tomtunguz.com)

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History and evolution of venture capital (pandodaily.com)

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Equity crowdfunding is doomed as an asset class (acrowdedspace.com)

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$25M Round of Financing and 400% Growth for Couchbase (blog.couchbase.com)

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Version Control for Data (exversiondata.wordpress.com)

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Show HN: Turning a single video into an interactive pinboard. (http://www.vibou.com)

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Most dangerous code I've ever seen on Reddit (www.reddit.com)

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Https enabled by default for logged-in users on Wikimedia sites (blog.wikimedia.org)

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The Imperfect Craft (bitsplitting.org)

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Traction and Sustainable Growth – A How-to Guide for Startups (500.co)

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ES6 Generators Deliver Go Style Concurrency in JavaScript (swannodette.github.io)

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Show HN: Explore, Discuss and Buy Independent Music like never before (http://musicfellas.com)

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Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive (dougbelshaw.com)

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We Don’t Work For Free, A New Anthem for Interns (medium.com)

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How to Organize an Epic Startup Weekend (getexmo.tumblr.com)

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Has The Innovation Cup Run Dry? (cacm.acm.org)

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WebRTC and HD support coming to Hangouts (gigaom.com)

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Universities Go in Big for Big Data (blogs.wsj.com)

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Why aren’t there any technologists on the NSA review panel? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Now Weather - just released, visual weather app for iPhone (www.kickstandapps.com)

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Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner: Elon Musk, SpaceX (ecorner.stanford.edu)

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VLC 2.1.0 RC1 is out... (mailman.videolan.org)

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Sixpack: Language-Agnostic A/B Testing (sixpack.seatgeek.com)

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Ask HN: Someone just tried to break into my home. Security tech recommendations? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Miniature 'human brain' grown in lab (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Everything a Competent iOS 7 Developer Needs to Know [Graphic] (www.codefellows.org)

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Earth life 'may have come from Mars' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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NJ Court: Text Recipients Can Be Held Liable In Texting-And-Driving Accidents (newyork.cbslocal.com)

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Show HN: Phynix, a Physics Sandbox with Unix-like Commands (github.com)

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Scott Hassan on Willow Garage and the Future of Suitable Technologies (spectrum.ieee.org)

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How do you validate an idea before you build it? Sell it (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Am I good enough for a developer internship/job? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Greatest Job In Advertising (work4rich.com)

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Owner of America's 'dirtiest' hotel loses TripAdvisor lawsuit (www.reuters.com)

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Standing desks considered harmful (www.johndcook.com)

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Redesigning Instapaper on the Web (blog.instapaper.com)

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Show HN: Postcard - An Open Source Social Networking Platform for Website Owners (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Review my fast domain auction checking tool (news.ycombinator.com)

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Free Yahoo username wishlist becomes paid ($1.99) watchlist (watchlist.yahoo.com)

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The Day I Submitted 600 Gerrit Reviews (tech.gilt.com)

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My Grueling Day As An Amazon Mechanical Turk (www.kernelmag.com)

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Nintendo aims at young gamers with new handheld console (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book” (thoughtcatalog.com)

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Instapaper Redesign (www.instapaper.com)

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Ask HN: Do your grades really matter? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Study shows men just as likely to be depressed as women (www.latimes.com)

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Out-Tridging Tridge by improving rsync (www.anchor.com.au)

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What Microsoft and Google's YouTube row says about the future of web development (www.zdnet.com)

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How to Win at Conferences (refactorstud.io)

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Bottlenecks that hinder scalability (highscalability.com)

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The tuition is too damn high - Part 2 (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The decline of serial killers and rise of the sharing economy (www.theverge.com)

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Show HN: Tell companies what they should fix (www.unbreaknow.com)

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The Young Developer's Guide to Debugging JavaScript (open.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Differences between an academic and an intellectual (www.crosscurrents.org)

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Col. Chris Hadfield on being great (www.facebook.com)

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Creating Quality Content, Building a Community, and Making Money with Your Art (givegetwin.com)

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TigerJython: A Jython programming environment for beginners (www.aplu.ch)

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How to Work with Engineers: A Cheat Sheet for Designers (medium.com)

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Hippies and libertarians become unlikely allies in a war against solar power (qz.com)

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Ask HN: Pace of life post startup (news.ycombinator.com)

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The 4 Steps of Cloud Costs (blog.copper.io)

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Confession of a Java Anonymous – Ruby is so brittle, and I like it (blog.8thcolor.com)

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UK High Court to rule on whether Schedule 7 powers contravene human rights (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Bananas as you know them are going extinct (Panama Disease) (en.wikipedia.org)

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TBone.js - use graph theory to put ajax requests to sleep (www.appneta.com)