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Founders' Accents (paulgraham.com)
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Show HN: 30-second Slideshows for Hackers (jdan.github.io)
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No-fly list ruling in Portland comes close to declaring it unconstitutional (www.oregonlive.com)
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Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People (darkpatterns.org)
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Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can you help me recover it?" (www.dumpert.nl)
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Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests (www.theguardian.com)
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How Poverty Taxes the Brain (www.theatlanticcities.com)
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More on the NSA Commandeering the Internet (www.schneier.com)
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Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35 (files.righto.com)
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Simpson's paradox in d3 & why Berkeley isn't sexist (vudlab.com)
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It's a Dumbphone, But It's the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy (www.wired.com)
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IsTumblrDown hit with a Cease & Desist (istumblrdown.com)
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Go Ahead, Mess With Texas Instruments (www.theatlantic.com)
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Mac OS X Sudo Password Bypass (packetstormsecurity.com)
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CIA is largest US spy agency, according to black budget leaked by Edward Snowden (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me (www.sayafter.me)
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The SCUMM Diary: Stories behind one of the greatest game engines ever made (www.gamasutra.com)
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Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor (gingkoapp.com)
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Visualizations that make no sense (wtfviz.net)
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Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music [Retry] (musicfellas.com)
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The STEM Crisis is a Myth (spectrum.ieee.org)
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The 17 Designs That Bell Almost Used for the Layout of Telephone Buttons (www.theatlantic.com)
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What's new with eInk (reviews.cnet.com)
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Craig Zucker: What Happens When a Man Takes on the Feds (online.wsj.com)
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Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance (www.wired.com)
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Syria’s largest city just dropped off the Internet (www.washingtonpost.com)
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F*ck in Linux Kernel (pastie.org)
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It's not the $7, but the principle (antti.vilpponen.net)
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Why I'm not going to sign an NDA (medium.com)
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SF Muni LED Sign at Home with Raspberry Pi (coldattic.info)
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New Google Play policy requires opt-in dialog to show ads (developer.android.com)
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Dean Karnazes: the man who can run for ever (www.theguardian.com)
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“Nobody expects privacy online”: Wrong. (medium.com)
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The Haxl Project at Facebook [PDF Slides] (github.com)
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Jeff Atwood's Code Keyboard Review (xahlee.info)
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Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries [pdf] (www.ohmygodel.com)
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Non-Von Neumann Supercomputer in an FPGA (www.chrisfenton.com)
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Tales of an Ex–Microsoft Manager (www.slate.com)
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Great Technical Talks (blog.testdouble.com)
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How Two Newspaper Reporters Helped Free an Innocent Man (www.theatlantic.com)
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James Burke predicted the future in 1973. Now he does it again (audioboo.fm)
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How the Dropbox Datastore API Handles Conflicts – Part Two (www.dropbox.com)
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A vote for Bill Gates as interim Microsoft CEO (news.cnet.com)
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Questhub - share your quests. (questhub.io)
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O'Reilly: 50% All eBooks - Back to School Sale (shop.oreilly.com)
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The Face Scan Arrives (www.nytimes.com)
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Tomorrow's Ember 1.0 Release: 5 Things Every Dev Needs to Know (www.codefellows.org)
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The NSA has its own team of elite hackers (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Numenta open-sourced their Cortical Learning Algorithm (numenta.org)
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Tech Book Face Off: The Pragmatic Programmer Vs. Code Complete (sam-koblenski.blogspot.com)
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Anatomy Tragedy (www.texasobserver.org)
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Make $377,000 trading Apple in one day? (finance.fortune.cnn.com)
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Pressy: the one-button Android controller (www.engadget.com)
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False Sharing (mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com)
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Inline CSS fonts (blog.glebm.com)
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Discover the Ladder Paradox, relativity's greatest thought experiment (io9.com)
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Inside Microsoft's Stack Rank System (www.slate.com)
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Germany Seizes Children in Homeschool Raid (hslda.org)
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Updates on twin prime polymath project (terrytao.wordpress.com)
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How Meetup Could 10X their Mobile Traffic (www.growhack.com)
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Why I Quit My Job To Go Full Time On My Startup Weekend Venture (toddgoldberg.com)
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China’s Tencent is giving away 10TB worth of free cloud storage (thenextweb.com)
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Feds Plow $10 Billion into Crypto Cracking Program (arstechnica.com)
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I'm an Entrepreneur, Now Give Me a Job (medium.com)
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Make $377,000 trading Apple in one day (finance.fortune.cnn.com)
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[JSW] The Road to Ember.js 1.0: Final Release This Weekend? (github.com)
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Bullshit Interviewers (coderwall.com)
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Why Tesla is focused on oil-rich Norway as it expands beyond the US (qz.com)
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Ask PG: Do you still own books? (news.ycombinator.com)
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We hid the 'demo' button. Our signups quadrupled. (teslachat.tumblr.com)
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Free professional voice overs for entrepreneurs with strong accents (blog.voicebunny.com)
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What Founders Need To Know About Accredited Crowdfunding (wefunder.com)
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The SCUMM Diary: Stories behind one of the greatest game engines ever made (www.gamasutra.com)
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The Free JavaScript campaign (www.fsf.org)
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No Time for Coffee? Spray Caffeine On Your Skin (www.fastcompany.com)
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Fun Way To Recruit Google Employees (www.virool.com)
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Hands-On With Chromecast: Second Screen Still Act One, Scene One (insights.wired.com)
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Microsoft’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard (www.marco.org)
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Show HN: Radiotron – Turn a radio personality into your marketer (http://radiotron.herokuapp.com)
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Why aren't rings 1 and 2 used? (yarchive.net)
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U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show (m.washingtonpost.com)
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Angular.js, Ember.js, and Backbone.js Compared (news.ycombinator.com)
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HTML only needs two verbs; throw away the REST (www.onebigfluke.com)
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India will reportedly ban use of US e-mail services (www.zdnet.com)
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RT.com partially banned by Reddit (rt.com)
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100 top CS students flock to SF for hacker Olympics (venturebeat.com)
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UK Government accesses files from TrueCrypt encrypted HD seized from Miranda (www.reuters.com)
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Show HN: Graphical HN (news.ycombinator.com)
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Google goes back to the future with SQL F1 database (www.theregister.co.uk)
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AngularJS Video Tutorial: Animating the Angular Way (egghead.io)
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Pressy - the Almighty Android Button (www.kickstarter.com)
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The Broken Windows Theory of App Stores (www.hanselman.com)
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British Police continue to probe data seized from Miranda (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Slumlord hosting with Docker (developer.rackspace.com)
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Human Brains Connect Via Internet (www.npr.org)
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Show HN: Go Leaderboard – A library written in Go using Redis (dayvson.github.io)
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Ask HN: why are Bitcoin trading fees so high? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t (tomslee.net)
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Custom Elements - A Web Components Gallery for Modern Web Apps (http://customelements.io)
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Show HN: Piano University (news.ycombinator.com)
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Startup - Bill Watterson, a cartoonist's advice (www.zenpencils.com)
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Surprising Things About America, According To An Indian International Student (www.businessinsider.com)
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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (bookofbadarguments.com)
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Show HN: GitRap, abusing Git (github.com)
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Converting your JS presentation deck to PDF (mikemaccana.com)
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Mailelf - simple encrypted email for everyone (www.kickstarter.com)
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Ford Electrified Vehicle Hackathon (techshop.ws)
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Mega game assets pack, pay with a tweet (scoreoid.net)
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System Level Memory Allocation in Linux (techtalk.intersec.com)
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Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America (www.washingtonpost.com)
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AngularFire - A real-time backend for AngularJS from Firebase (angularfire.com)
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The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back (medium.com)
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Hammer.js: A javascript library for multi-touch gestures (eightmedia.github.io)
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Ex-Googler Gives the World a Better Bitcoin (www.wired.com)
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How Do People Die? (www.theguardian.com)
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Your Facebook profile picture may be going into a facial-recognition database (www.thestar.com)
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Ask HN: Interesting ideas for a weekend project? (news.ycombinator.com)
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How Google can avoid becoming the next Microsoft (qz.com)
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Why Declarative Programming Matters (ahrussell.com)
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Federal judge in Portland gives partial win to people challenging no-fly list (www.oregonlive.com)
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Budgeting your life of books (techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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Microsoft and Google to sue government over transparency (www.zdnet.com)
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Solar Backpacks (tespack.com)
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Show HN: Real-time Q&A Built with Firebase (firesideqa.com)
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Most apps - opeContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1n source - are built with reusable code… natural to connect them. (dthin.gs)
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Ask HN: What's the difference between a cool research project and a startup? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Life On Earth Started On Mars, Say Scientists (uk.news.yahoo.com)
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Join Ink's iOS engineering team (YC S12) (www.inkmobility.com)
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PagerDuty seeks a Senior JavaScript/CoffeeScript Engineer (www.jobscore.com)
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