hackerNews

1

Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished (m.washingtonpost.com)

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Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke (www.rollingstone.com)

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Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it (gist.github.com)

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RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed (jmarbach.com)

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The real use of money is to buy freedom (paraschopra.com)

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AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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4

How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates - then went and played for them (www.citeworld.com)

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Cameron's Internet filter goes far beyond porn - and that was always the plan (www.newstatesman.com)

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14

Californians: Ashamed of Senator Feinstein's lies on surveillance? Join Us. (https://shameonfeinstein.org)

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7

OpenEmu 1.0 Released (http://openemu.org)

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4

Code != computer science (www.ultrasaurus.com)

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4

The case against Kim Dotcom, finally revealed (arstechnica.com)

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Data looks better naked (darkhorseanalytics.com)

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12

An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA (www.f-secure.com)

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15

Interviewing as a Front-End Engineer in San Francisco (css-tricks.com)

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11

The Mathematical Hacker (www.evanmiller.org)

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5

Geohot presents an evasi0n7 writeup (geohot.com)

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5

Digital sound processing tutorial for the braindead (yehar.com)

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9

KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released (www.keepassx.org)

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6

Gmail - Find Emails That Never Got a Reply (jonathan-kim.com)

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9

The War on Terror's Jedi Mind Trick (m.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: My 10-year-old son has made a card game, which he is giving away (item?id=6955774)

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11

Implementing full text search on static sites with Bloom filters (www.stavros.io)

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PlainSite bans federal courts from accessing court data (www.plainsite.org)

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I used Firefox OS for 30 days and it made me want to quit phones (digitaltrends.com)

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14

Jack Dorsey Joins Disney’s Board Of Directors (techcrunch.com)

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Who posts on Hacker News? (www.kmjn.org)

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8

Unaccountable: Pentagon programs to modernize legacy accounting keep failing (www.reuters.com)

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9

FreeNAS 9.2 is out (www.freenas.org)

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5

Importance of minimalistic visualizations for analytics (d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net)

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10

Java SE 8 Proposed Final Draft Specification — Draft 1 (cr.openjdk.java.net)

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25

Every Space Mission Ever Flown On One Map (www.ritholtz.com)

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Former BP geologist: peak oil is here and it will 'break economies' (www.theguardian.com)

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19

Ditching Wordpress for Pelican (razius.com)

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20

How we misprice used cars (priceonomics.com)

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22

Comparing the Cost of Different Multiple-return Techniques in C (spin.atomicobject.com)

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10

Advanced Image Optimization Tricks (sixrevisions.com)

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The Black Car Company That People Love to Hate (nextcity.org)

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4

Counting Stars on GitHub (adereth.github.io)

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10

Computer Modern on the Web (checkmyworking.com)

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47

What I have learned running a software consultancy over the past two years (reefpoints.dockyard.com)

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13

Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple (threatpost.com)

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12

Top Science Longreads of 2013 (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)

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12

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.co.uk)

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29

The Great Big Porn Block is coming (www.sheeldz.co.uk)

61 points first seen 2013122400 last seen 2013122406 94 comments

19

Perl6: Unary Sort (perl6advent.wordpress.com)

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A Start-Up Moves Teachers Past Data Entry (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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8

Moonpig: a billing system that doesn't suck (blog.plover.com)

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7

A Python AI for two-player board games (zulko.github.io)

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Earthlings (www.unleashed.org.au)

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18

Mathematical Book Reviews (www.cs.umd.edu)

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12

Show HN: I started a repo for sharing algorithm implementations (github.com)

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Alan Turing pardoned [pdf] (cryptome.org)

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22

My take on RESTful authentication (facundoolano.wordpress.com)

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26

Angularjshub (www.angularjshub.com)

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24

Railgun: a fast strstr(3)-like function (www.sanmayce.com)

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Conservative groups spend up to $1B a year to fight action on climate change (www.theguardian.com)

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22

We Made Our Book Free – Here's What Happened (www.discovermeteor.com)

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17

Goal Setting vs. Time Boxing: Why One Sucks (www.davidjlin.com)

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20

Ashton Kutcher’s Inspiring Speech, Startup Version (blog.datafox.co)

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Bookkeeper: A double-entry bookkeeping system for Django (github.com)

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The World's First Digitally Signed International Agreement Between 2 Countries (www.theatlantic.com)

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30

In Tech Buying, U.S. Still Stuck in Last Century (www.nytimes.com)

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How Docker turned intricate Linux code into developer pixie dust (venturebeat.com)

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70

CoffeeStrap HN (boards.coffeestrap.com)

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21

Show HN: TipperCoin - Send Bitcoins over Twitter (www.tippercoin.com)

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25

Tim Draper Gives Details on Initiative to Split California into Six States (techcrunch.com)

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52

Best freelance tools of 2013 (http://2013freelancetools.com)

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31

Fibonacci Numbers in the Real World (lee-phillips.org)

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54

Secret Handshakes Greet Frat Brothers on Wall Street (www.bloomberg.com)

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38

Upgrading your ZTE Open to Firefox OS 1.1 (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Show HN: StreetEYE, all the top financial market news in one click (http://www.streeteye.com)

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RSA denies link with US spying agency (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Startups of 2014 (blog.betalist.com)

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Cobra 0.9.6 is released (cobra-language.com)

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Trading Volume Indicates $1M+ Revenue to BTC China in First Week With Fees (thegenesisblock.com)

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44

You Don’t Have the Right to Remain Silent (www.slate.com)

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47

Ask HN: is Perl making a comeback? (item?id=6954961)

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A TV Anchor Tries to Gift Bitcoin On Air, Is Immediately Robbed (gizmodo.com)

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30

Meet Piper: your first bitcoin paper wallet printer (www.techendo.co)

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Between 1977 and 2013, solar went from $76/watt to $0.75/watt (www.treehugger.com)

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Royal pardon for Alan Turing (www.independent.co.uk)

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I hired twice the people in half the time by changing my decision-making style (medium.com)

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10 Million Repositories (github.com)

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Distinguishing yield advances from yield plateaus in historical crop production (www.nature.com)

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Renowned rifle inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov dies at 94 (rt.com)

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Computerizing people may be next step in tech (www.news-herald.com)

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0

Getting a SIM card in India (dangoldin.com)

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Turing is being pardoned, which is short of being exonerated. (www.newstatesman.com)

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JWZ: Interface cruft versus my mom (2002) (www.jwz.org)

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Why is email broken? (item?id=6954003)

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Prolog of HTDP 2: Probably the best intro to programming you will ever read (www.ccs.neu.edu)

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Open Dylan 2013.2 Released (opendylan.org)

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65

Stolen credit cards and the Black Market: How the digital underground works (www.tripwire.com)

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Google's Schaft robot wins Darpa rescue challenge (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A New Chapter for BlackBerry Events - 2014 event cancelled (bizblog.blackberry.com)

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60

Ex-Google Ad Man Saves You From Ad Hell with "Disconnect2" browser plugin (www.wired.com)

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88

Make Something Other People Want (nancyhua.com)

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83

Updated Lampson's Hints for Computer Systems Design (www.allthingsdistributed.com)

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Concept train doesn't need to stop to pick up passengers (www.businessinsider.com)

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0

Apple Mac Pro review (2013) (www.theverge.com)

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0

Ask HN: Thinking of leaving open-source project (item?id=6955013)

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The surprising reason we have a 40-hour work week (thenextweb.com)

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Show HN: A simple extension to auto refresh HN via AJAX (blog.johnnygannon.net)

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How Sotomayor undermined Obama’s NSA (www.msnbc.com)

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Alan Turing granted Royal pardon by the Queen (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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AngularJS vs. Ember.js (robb.weblaws.org)

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Show HN: Benjamin, a bitcoin trading bot & analytics platform (item?id=6954927)

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I hired twice the people in half the time by changing my decision-making style (t.vun.gl)

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"Patent Pending?" iA's Militant Stance on Syntax Control in Writer Pro (www.theverge.com)

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The Granite Mountain Hotshots Yarnell Fire Investigation (www.gq.com)

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Host dynamic websites using your Dropbox account (http://www.yoozon.com)

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Apple Mac Pro review (2013): small, fast and in a league of its own (www.engadget.com)

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0

40 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in 2013 (www.critical-theory.com)

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This Is What It's Like To Be A Tech Geek ... In Prison (www.businessinsider.com)

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Russia's National Police singing Daft Punk's Get Lucky is hilarious (sploid.gizmodo.com)

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Show HN: Codeo - minimalistic code paste web-site (codeo.me)

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Regexp Groups "Overflow" in Firefox (homakov.blogspot.com)

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How these 50 famous websites looked in the past? (abhisays.com)

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The Year We Broke the Internet (www.esquire.com)

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Still Unconvinced, Home Buyer? Check Out the View From the Drone (www.nytimes.com)

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Trigger.io - mobile platform for web developers (trigger.io)

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Thorium put to use, kills a few more versions of Supersymmetry (arstechnica.com)

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How the AK-47 Rewrote the Rules of Modern Warfare (www.wired.com)

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How to Hack the Developer Console to be Needlessly Interactive (konklone.com)

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TV anchors’ bitcoin gift certificates stolen while on air (blogs.marketwatch.com)

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Prestigious speaker Mikko Hypponen cancels RSA talk to protest NSA deal (arstechnica.com)

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