hackerNews

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Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It (phoboslab.org)

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The Quest to Build a Truly Free Version of Android (www.wired.com)

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Smart Air (smartairfilters.com)

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Git 2.0 changes push default to ‘simple’ (blog.nicoschuele.com)

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Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264 (xiphmont.livejournal.com)

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The Logic of “Stupid” Poor People (tressiemc.com)

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Django plugins you shouldn't start without (blog.hndigest.com)

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Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens (m.theatlanticcities.com)

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Smooth Online Signatures, Open Source (blog.ezliu.com)

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Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups (techcrunch.com)

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An analysis of the C#/.NET platform (pauloortins.com)

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Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (orangetide.com)

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Thorax: An opinionated, battle-tested, Backbone and Handlebars framework (thoraxjs.org)

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OpenPGP Best Practices (we.riseup.net)

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NSA Fallout Thwarts AT&T (online.wsj.com)

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Google Taking Aim at Device Modders in Android 4.4 KitKat (www.xda-developers.com)

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Guido van Rossum, John Resig, DHH, and Pamela Fox are Judges on CreateHS (www.createhs.com)

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The Devil's Dictionary of Programming (programmingisterrible.com)

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The Writings of Leslie Lamport (research.microsoft.com)

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How did ancient Greek music sound? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Getting paid to work on open source full-time? (item?id=6660923)

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UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'espionage' and 'terrorism' (www.reuters.com)

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Microsoft to can Skype API, third party products will stop working (www.networkworld.com)

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No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A. (www.nytimes.com)

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Evidence that dendrites actively process information in the brain (www.kurzweilai.net)

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The Parable of Mustache.js (writing.jan.io)

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Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible: Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It (www.theatlantic.com)

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I Quit Hacker News (2010) (mattmaroon.com)

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Ask HN: Your best passive income sources? (item?id=6661536)

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How to Get an A- in Organic Chemistry (www.nytimes.com)

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Contrasting Backbone and Angular (victorsavkin.com)

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[Useful Trick] Bypass Quora signup wall by appending "?share=1" on URL (item?id=6658995)

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Grasp: Structural Search and Replace for JavaScript (http://graspjs.com)

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The Man Who Became a Billionaire Through His Fight to the Death With Barbie (www.forbes.com)

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Media got it wrong: HealthCare.gov failed despite agile practices (gcn.com)

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How General Motors Was Really Saved (www.forbes.com)

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Why most published scientific research is probably false [video] (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: An open-source mobile RPG engine in CoffeeScript (pents90.github.io)

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What is the best office design you have seen? (item?id=6660729)

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An analysis of the Adobe password dump (pv.tl)

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The U.S. Needs a Constitution – Here's How to Write It (www.theatlantic.com)

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Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (2011) (stackoverflow.com)

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Rot8000 – Rot13 for the Unicode generation (http://rot8000.com)

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My first buffer overflow exploit: pretty easy (jvns.ca)

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Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (2001) (www.joelonsoftware.com)

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Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result? (stackoverflow.com)

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A Visit to the Only American Mine for Rare Earth Metals (www.theatlantic.com)

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Touch Board: Interactivity Everywhere (www.kickstarter.com)

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Show HN: League Warrior (leaguewarrior.com)

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Ask HN: Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written? (item?id=6659231)

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Ask HN: how do cold calls/emails work for you? (item?id=6662695)

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Bribe developers to fix bugs (bribe.io)

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Show HN: Updating archive of HN's /newest, with pre-rendering of the URLs (http://hnflood.com)

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MongoDB basics - practice challenges (www.talentbuddy.co)

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Show HN: Ubiq - Extend your app across multiple devices (goubiq.com)

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How China Profits from Our Junk (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: Commit to open source and get Bitcoin tips (tip4commit.com)

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HN & Comments (I was wrong) (item?id=6661851)

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Generating Functions and Fibonacci Numbers (www.austinrochford.com)

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Leaked documents point to cooperative European surveillance program (www.csmonitor.com)

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Things the Google Play Store Should Add, Change (aschuenemann.com)

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Google Nexus 4 withdrawn from sale (play.google.com)

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Loggo - Production ready logging for Go (how-bazaar.blogspot.co.nz)

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AR Wear - A clothing line offering wearable protection for when things go wrong. (vimeo.com)

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Ask HN: Did HN's SSL certificate just change? (item?id=6662436)

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Europe's spies work together on mass surveillance: Guardian (www.reuters.com)

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My employees reviewed me, and I kind of suck (medium.com)

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What's the worst part about working at Google? (www.quora.com)

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UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'espionage' and 'terrorism' (www.reuters.com)

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Programmable capacitor (www.kickstarter.com)

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RIAA and BPI Use “Pirated” Code on Their Websites (torrentfreak.com)

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How the world’s populations are changing, in one map (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Creating a simple and fast packet sniffer in C++ (average-coder.blogspot.com)

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A particle accelerator on your fingertip (www.thehindu.com)

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What Is Node currently $0 on Amazon (www.amazon.com)

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Show HN: A news search engine – need feedback (http://www.readrz.com)

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Show HN: A note, task, and password organizer app for Mac (https://bluenote.io)

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What's the worst part about working at Google? (www.quora.com)

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Text-only UIs (medium.com)

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Sprint backlog prioritization can be a hindrance (danielwertheim.se)

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Living in a Surveillance State: Mikko Hypponen at TEDxBrussels (www.youtube.com)

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Cool Unix Hacks For Fun and Productivity (nathanleclaire.com)

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Formula for entrepreneurial success (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Which companies have 4-day workweeks? (item?id=6657728)

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Unknown or expired link. (item?id=6661919)

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Payments by Apple is Coming (medium.com)

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Freemium Hardware Is Coming (www.hackthings.com)

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Dear Google, What’s Wrong With You? (techcrunch.com)

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The risk of putting all our knowledge in the hands of machines (www.theatlantic.com)

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Historian claims Irish famine was genocide. Denied visa to the US. (www.irishcentral.com)

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Tip4Commit — Contribute to Twitter-bootstrap-rails (tip4commit.com)

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Quantum information and the Brain [video] (videolectures.net)

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Looking for cofounders (item?id=6661962)

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LAX shooting comes amid mounting aversion to the TSA (www.latimes.com)

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Why First-Born Kids Do Better in School (www.slate.com)

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Form Validation and Processing in Go (www.alexedwards.net)

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What planning tool did you use for writing business plan for your startup? (item?id=6659312)

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Commuting's Hidden Cost (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Spy Scandal Hurts AT&T Plans For Europe (gigaom.com)

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Anonymous Ads – Ads that respect your privacy (a-ads.com)

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The Age of Context and the API Economy (www.3scale.net)

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Fake social media ID duped security-aware IT guys (www.itworld.com)

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I've found a bug in GCC 4.6.3 (default in Ubuntu LTS) or my code is wrong (item?id=6661222)

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Ask HN: How do you backup 200TB across 15 servers onto a single 50TB server? (item?id=6661194)

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How to pick your first research project (33bits.org)

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Dark Mail as Next-Generation Email to Stop Spying (blog.grobox.de)

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Poll HN: What kind of websites do you prefer - Fixed or Fluid width? (item?id=6659984)

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Ask HN: Where do you find/filter/read the latest research publications? (item?id=6659974)

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How to be a wolf. (medium.com)

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Deserting the Digital Utopia (crimethinc.com)

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Diversity of thought and tech conferences (code.joejag.com)

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A Tale of Two Drugs: Why New Drugs Are So Expensive (www.technologyreview.com)

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Students Recreate 17th Century London in 3D for Video Game (mashable.com)

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Making AngularJS Windows 8 apps that use WinJS UI controls (github.com)

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The S stands for Simple (wanderingbarque.com)

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The Pills of Last Resort (www.nytimes.com)

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Books Recommendations for Programming Excellence (www.hilarymason.com)

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Show HN: Make your own gif mashups. All client-side, hosted on S3 (http://www.gifglue.com)

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Surprising Variation Among Genomes of Individual Neurons from Same Brain (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Why freelancers should be picky and be paid what they’re worth (thenextweb.com)

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Plastic surgery for Bitcoin in Miami (bitcoin-square.com)

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Ask HN: approaches to performance review for tech companies? (item?id=6659683)

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Just Don't Stop (leftnode.com)

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Finding Life After Academia — and Not Feeling Bad About It (www.nytimes.com)

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Vube? ~14.5MM uniques in USA? #71 site in the world? Stats manipulation? (item?id=6662365)

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Here’s The First Instagram Ad (instagram.com)

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On Risk (www.jonhmchan.com)

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