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I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb (needwant.com)

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My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love (twicsy.tumblr.com)

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Learn CSS Layout (learnlayout.com)

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My Hardest Bug Ever (gamasutra.com)

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NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you (www.theguardian.com)

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Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu" (plus.google.com)

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University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School (www.businessweek.com)

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Can a certain Ed Snowden be targeted using the Adobe breach? (7habitsofhighlyeffectivehackers.blogspot.com)

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013) (item?id=6653437)

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Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework (moot.it)

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Rails 4.0.1 has been released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

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Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time (news.nationalgeographic.com)

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Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t (robohub.org)

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25 years ago this week, the Morris Worm brought the Internet to its knees (www.washingtonpost.com)

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OpenBSD 5.4 Released (www.openbsd.org)

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Bill Gates says putting worldwide Internet access before malaria is 'a joke' (www.ft.com)

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Introducing ART – A new Android runtime being introduced experimentally in 4.4 (source.android.com)

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Linkedin's Response to My "Phishing with Intro" Post (jordan-wright.github.io)

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Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players (http://robotgame.org)

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Ask PG: is HN experiencing server problems? (item?id=6654789)

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Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16 (http://www.thehealthsherpa.com)

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Show HN: I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust (http://mywanderlust.co)

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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013) (item?id=6653426)

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How to build an Anti Aircraft Missile: Bayes’ Theorem and the Kalman Filter (georgemdallas.wordpress.com)

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Responsive HTML Emails: a Different Strategy (blog.fogcreek.com)

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Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal (www.kickstarter.com)

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Codecademy (YC S11) on Colbert Report (www.colbertnation.com)

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The BadBIOS Analysis is Wrong (www.rootwyrm.com)

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Nokia Becomes The Fourth Largest Smartphone Brand in USA in Q3 2013 (www.counterpointresearch.com)

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Homeless turn overnight bus route into Hotel 22 (www.mercurynews.com)

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"BadBIOS" features explained (blog.erratasec.com)

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A simple no-brainer approach to patent trolls (blog.42floors.com)

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An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) (www.eecs.berkeley.edu)

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Ask HN: What do you think of job hopping? (item?id=6654211)

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Autodesk's Idea to Knit the Hyperloop Out of Carbon Fiber (www.businessweek.com)

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Why don't electric fish shock themselves? (physics.stackexchange.com)

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Why does Sweden have so many billionaires? (www.slate.com)

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Mysterious Google barge is a massive showroom, “party deck” (arstechnica.com)

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Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffPost for Bad Journalism (www.slate.com)

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KitKat’s primary interface is Google Search (arstechnica.com)

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iOS 7 and the Iconography of ‘Alien’ (design.iconfactory.com)

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How I became gaming's most popular and anonymous photographer (gamasutra.com)

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Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Firmware Update Improves Battery Life (www.anandtech.com)

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Those Comics in Your Basement? Probably Worthless (finance.yahoo.com)

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DOOM 3 BFG Technical Note [pdf] (fabiensanglard.net)

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Yet Another Android Master Key Bug (www.saurik.com)

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Dark wallet will make bitcoin accessible for all — except the feds (motherboard.vice.com)

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Skunk Works Reveals SR-71 Successor Plan (www.aviationweek.com)

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Discovering Senior Developers from Source Code History (www.garysieling.com)

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Twitter Helps Revive a Seedy San Francisco Neighborhood (www.nytimes.com)

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Tmuxp, a novel approach to manage tmux (http://tmuxp.readthedocs.org)

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A ridiculous Common Core test for first graders (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Mechanical Turk is Insecure (medium.com)

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The Zen Programmer (www.zenprogrammer.org)

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Investors think Snapchat is worth $4 billion. That’s insane. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Meet BackboneORM (Browser / Node.js) (vidigami.github.io)

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Show HN: Free video game trading, a year after I launched it (http://www.vgfive.com)

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Rockstar, Patent-Holding Firm Partially Owned by Apple & Microsoft, Sues Google (daringfireball.net)

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HaaS (Hugs as a Service) (www.nowcheerup.me)

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Show HN: Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js (github.com)

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The Rise of Invisible Work (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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GrantTree state of the union: 3x growth, £1m turnover reached, lessons learnt (blog.granttree.co.uk)

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Only 6 people managed to enroll in an insurance plan on Day 1 of Healthcare.gov (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Traceroute in 15 lines of code using Scapy (jvns.ca)

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Facebook has just invited me to interview and now I’m pissed off (dw.svbtle.com)

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Show HN: Netflix Showdown - because I can't decide what to watch (chrome ext) (http://netflix.tinj.com)

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Will Meteor kill Rails? Don't know, but Passenger open sources Meteor support (blog.phusion.nl)

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Show HN: Our pivot that nudges you to try new offline things. No lame coupons (www.UpOut.com)

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Pass the Rap Genius Tech Interview, Get $1,000 Cash (news.rapgenius.com)

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Coderwall (YC W12) launches Assembly (venturebeat.com)

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Manhole cover thought to be propelled into space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Thorium-Fueled Automobile Engine Needs Refueling Once a Century (www.industrytap.com)

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Shooting at LAX: TSA agent, alleged gunman wounded [video] (www.latimes.com)

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Foundbite: Launching and Scaling with Cloudant and Windows Azure (cloudant.com)

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Snowden papers unmask co-operation of European spy agencies (www.theguardian.com)

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Open Source Point of Sale (moron4hire.tumblr.com)

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Getting Physical - Seagate Kinetic Drive Hardware (swiftstack.com)

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Suspect shot, in custody at LAX after TSA agent fired upon (www.cnn.com)

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How we use gevent to go fast (engineering.pinterest.com)

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If you're using Google's unofficial finance "api", they just shut it down (item?id=6654382)

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They Don't Want You.To (FSF Europe campaign) (theydontwantyou.to)

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Ask HN: How do you get noticed and invited for Job interviews (item?id=6656691)

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Using Elance Made Me Want to Learn How to Develop iOS Apps Myself (coveredincode.com)

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I got fired ("let go", "laid off") for the 2nd time this year. How do I recover? (item?id=6657516)

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Show HN: travel.meteor.com: clone of mywanderlust in Meteor (item?id=6657849)

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How Silicon Valley can kill your startup (venturebeat.com)

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MapBox redesign (https://www.mapbox.com)

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Brazil and Germany draft anti-spy resolution at UN (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Crazy Secrets of Internet Cam Girls (NSFW) (gizmodo.com)

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Docker: 93% of the total contributors belong to the community (blog.docker.io)

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Ask HN: Do you read a newspaper? (item?id=6654786)

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Parajet SkyRunner - The Practical Road Legal Flying Car (www.fly-skyrunner.com)

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Bill Gates says putting Internet access before malaria research is 'a joke' (www.theverge.com)

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Show HN: WebLoop – PhantomJS for Go – Render static HTML of dynamic apps (sourcegraph.com)

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Fadecandy: Easier, Tastier, and More Creative LED Art (scanlime.org)

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Donate your skills to enhance human rights (item?id=6652981)

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Ask HN: Developers - what about a job ad makes you want to apply? (item?id=6654745)

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Introducing Coursera Learning Hubs (blog.coursera.org)

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Brightcove Founder Raises $9 Million to Take Bitcoin Mainstream (mashable.com)

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Sitting straight 'bad for backs' (news.bbc.co.uk)

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Is sending money as the subject of a mail, a really good idea? (item?id=6658376)

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Ask HN: Books to read for noob to advance level in Javascript? (item?id=6658267)

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The Unreasonable Fundamental Incertitudes Behind Bitcoin Mining (arxiv.org)

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Why numbering should start at zero (www.cs.utexas.edu)

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GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance (www.theguardian.com)

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Secrets of the world's happiest cities (www.theguardian.com)

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Yahoo Pipes (pipes.yahoo.com)

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List of Blogs & Resources on Ghost - Blogging Platform? (item?id=6653160)

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Apollo 13's Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a real problem (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Ink File Picker Database Compromised (blog.inkmobility.com)

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Hosting for the Programmable Web (www.bitballoon.com)

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Jay Leno is 3D printing replacement car parts over 100 years old (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Ask HN: Payment processing system that available to startups from Turkey? (item?id=6655220)

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Do Things That Don't Scale: An Uncover Example (spencerfry.com)

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Internet Explorer continues to grow, and Mavericks already on 11 percent of Macs (arstechnica.com)

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Happy 25th anniversary of the Morris Worm (www.washingtonpost.com)

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How Nokia Flexes Microsoft's Muscle to Lure Reluctant App Developers (www.businessweek.com)

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Review: Tesla Model S (arstechnica.com)

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When Did Two-Strapping Get Cooler Than One-Strapping? (www.slate.com)

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Darpa developing implant to monitor brain in real time (news.cnet.com)

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Show HN: Salsa subscription service (item?id=6657900)

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The US needs to retire daylight savings and use only two timezones (qz.com)

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Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies (www.nytimes.com)

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Synaptic transistor learns while it computes (www.seas.harvard.edu)

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Check to see if you're in the Adobe user data leak (adobe.cynic.al)

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NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained (www.theguardian.com)

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The Most Important Feature In KitKat No One is Talking About (tomtunguz.com)

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Snowden Appeals to US for Clemency (www.nytimes.com)

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How to Self-Publish a Bestseller: Publishing 3.0 (www.jamesaltucher.com)

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VC Chamath Palihapitiya Says He Has Cracked the Code for Making Startups Grow (allthingsd.com)

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Ask HN:Can I incorporate my web startup in the US? (item?id=6656775)

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A Modest Proposal: Dueling 3D Printer Board Game (www.azarask.in)

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Thermonuclear War (www.appleoutsider.com)

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Huge Martian Landforms' Detail Revealed By European Probe [video] (www.space.com)

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Big History Project launches (www.bighistoryproject.com)

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The artist who makes pictures with a typewriter (www.bbc.co.uk)

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T.S.A. Officer Is Killed at Los Angeles Airport (www.nytimes.com)

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Heap (YC W13) is building a new approach to analytics: just capture everything. (heapanalytics.com)

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HelloSign (YC W11) is hiring full-stack web developers (item?id=6654990)

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Help us fight online fraud with machine learning. Sift Science is hiring. (item?id=6658410)

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