hackerNews

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T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (github.com)

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The best things and stuff of 2013 (blog.fogus.me)

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A glimpse into a new programming language under development at Microsoft (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

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Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet (www.npr.org)

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How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries (aht.seriouseats.com)

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Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system (pdos.csail.mit.edu)

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Investment increases risk; first-time founders should almost never take funding (swombat.com)

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Analysis of SSD Reliability during power outages (lkcl.net)

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Linux developers stop distributing bzip2 compressed kernel sources (www.kernel.org)

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Why some people respond to stress by falling asleep (www.theatlantic.com)

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Great books about mathematics you should read. (wp.kjro.se)

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Learn to think big (www.gabrielweinberg.com)

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Reflected hidden faces in photographs revealed in pupil (www.kurzweilai.net)

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Glenn Greenwald keynote at Chaos Communication Congress [video] (www.youtube.com)

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TCP in 30 instructions (1993) (www.pdl.cmu.edu)

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N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules (www.nytimes.com)

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Trolling homework questions - sorting (codegolf.stackexchange.com)

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Zotonic - A High Performance Web Framework in Erlang (aosabook.org)

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How to Escape the Community-College Trap (www.theatlantic.com)

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YogaGlo defends its patent for filming yoga classes online (www.yogaglo.com)

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Freebsd Journal available in January 2014 (www.freebsdnews.net)

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Guide to Leaving your Mac (gigasquidsoftware.com)

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Glenn Greenwald keynote at Chaos Communication Congress [live video] (streaming.media.ccc.de)

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Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch (www.frontiersin.org)

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Learn Sanskrit Online (www.learnsanskrit.org)

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The CDC 6600 Architecture (ygdes.com)

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PostgreSQL indexing in Rails (rny.io)

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Activists crowdsource escape from North Korea (america.aljazeera.com)

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Running your JS code in Python (blog.sheetjs.com)

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How Spotify builds products (dl.dropboxusercontent.com)

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Ask HN: How would a new OS be different? (item?id=6973820)

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2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large (daringfireball.net)

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My Favorite jQuery Plugin Template (kolodny.github.io)

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How to be a hacker (www.theguardian.com)

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Shading a Bigger, Better Sequel: Techniques in Left 4 Dead 2 (www.valvesoftware.com)

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Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet (www.theatlantic.com)

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Poll: Are you looking for an exit, or building a lifestyle business? (item?id=6970735)

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Local State Is Poison (awelonblue.wordpress.com)

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Syntax control for the command line (github.com)

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Welcome to The Console Living Room (archive.org)

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Trapping A Transcendental - Finding numbers that aren't solutions to polynomials (www.penzba.co.uk)

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The Cap Trap (www.aaronkharris.com)

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Ask HN: Do you know anyone who left the tech world and found happiness? (item?id=6970914)

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Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack and run a startup? (item?id=6973596)

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We Pretend to Teach, They Pretend to Learn (online.wsj.com)

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Moguls Rent South Dakota Addresses to Dodge Taxes Forever (www.bloomberg.com)

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New Mac Pro teardown reveals replaceable Xeon CPU (arstechnica.com)

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Dyeing the cheese orange – Beware of benchmarks (www.onebigfluke.com)

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“Computer Chess” is the year’s best movie about technology (pando.com)

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The danger of "language" in programming (2009) (loup-vaillant.fr)

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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Paul Hofman on Paul Erdos [video] (vega.org.uk)

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New Mac Pro 2013 Teardown (blog.macsales.com)

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Some books with crunchy code (abecedarius.tumblr.com)

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Using CloudFlare to mix SPDY and domain sharding (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Pictures Of Apple's First Employees (www.sfgate.com)

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Are HN-submissions dominated by a small elite of users? (item?id=6972070)

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Can Machine Learning Fix a Broken Patent System? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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Ask HN: Plans for side projects in 2014? (item?id=6972499)

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The New Rules of College Sex (2011) (www.phillymag.com)

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Ask HN: MS Word alternatives for writing academic reports (item?id=6970723)

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Fabricated Story About Iron Maiden’s Love Of Music Pirates Became Internet Truth (techcrunch.com)

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iA makes patent threats (www.marco.org)

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Styling HTML elements based on locale (sergeylukin.com)

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Allegedly, this is a real-time map of the wind. It's accurate for me. (earth.nullschool.net)

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Why can't Google understand why I don't want to combine my Gmail and Youtube? (item?id=6971057)

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Internet Archive puts classic 70s and 80s games online (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Developer Competition is Heating Up (www.lob.com)

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5 years in prison for Egyptians who publish square massacre sign on social media (arabcrunch.com)

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Show HN: I created voice comments for Facebook. (chrome.google.com)

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Ask HN: How do you do your To-Do list? (item?id=6970934)

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Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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Ask HN: Do companies have better code than the open source community? (item?id=6972270)

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5 Rules for More Effective Presentations | Michael Hyatt (michaelhyatt.com)

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The universe as quantum computer (arxiv.org)

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Ask HN: What new skill do you want to learn in 2014? (item?id=6974043)

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Will aluminum Ford F-150 be a rolling beer can? (www.usatoday.com)

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FlatGuitars (flatguitars.com)

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Writer Pro: patently amateurish (medium.com)

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Best Linux Laptops (2013) (item?id=6973737)

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The first 3D printed organ - a liver - is expected in 2014 (www.computerworld.com)

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Quantas A380 Engine Failure: The story of an ops team pulling through a crisis (markmaunder.com)

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Ask HN: What startups do you expect to see grow in 2014? (item?id=6971609)

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Resting is part of working (helabs.com.br)

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Facebook 'dead and buried to teens' (www.theguardian.com)

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30C3: Streaming (streaming.media.ccc.de)

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Adding bash completion for your own tools (eli.thegreenplace.net)

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At 14, Girl is published in Jama Internal Medicine (www.philly.com)

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Implementing Minecraft in Mathematica (mathematica.stackexchange.com)

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Don't optimise JavaScript (gu.illau.me)

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Students put AccuWeather long-range forecasts to the test (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Should Your Salary Be Made Public? (www.entrepreneur.com)

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The Guide to Personal Productivity (pmarchive.com)

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Why I keep building (www.techendo.co)

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Creating an Image Browser app in RubyMotion and RubyMotionQuery (infinitered.com)

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Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet (www.theatlantic.com)

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Four Simple Reasons Smart People Shouldn't Believe in Races (www.psychologytoday.com)

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Measure the speed of light with a hot dog and your microwave (www.loopinsight.com)

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On interviewing front-end engineers (www.nczonline.net)

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Bitcoin Exchanges In India Shut Down After Regulator Warning (techcrunch.com)

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The First HD Video of Earth From Space That You Can Buy (www.theatlantic.com)

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An Online Wishing Well I threw together in 3 hours (http://www.onlinewishingwell.org)

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Is Evernote’s RESTless API Approach A Model For Other API Designs? (blog.programmableweb.com)

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iOS Defeats Android in Battle of Christmas Day Shopping (www.bloomberg.com)

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Cause of aging reversed in mice: Human trials may start next year (www.gizmag.com)

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Ask HN: What do you find most beneficial about blogging? (item?id=6973106)

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Ask HN: What are your tips for freelancers? (item?id=6973080)

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Asia’s Richest Man Invests In BitPay (techcrunch.com)

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Calculating Fibonacci Numbers, Quickly and Exactly (blog.richardkiss.com)

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Obama's NSA Phone Spying Reforms Might Make Things Worse (www.wired.com)

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Japan researcher builds device to transmit 'force' | The Star Online (www.thestar.com.my)

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Developer Competition is Heating Up (www.lob.com)

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Target Confirms Encrypted PIN Numbers Stolen In Data Breach (www.forbes.com)

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AT&T's predictions of 2014 in 1994 were surprisingly accruate (www.youtube.com)

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Internet Archive releases hundreds of classic game console ROMs (arstechnica.com)

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NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules (www.theguardian.com)

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Snapchat Downplays Phone Number Matching Hack (techcrunch.com)

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'Military-style' raid on california power station spooks U.S. (complex.foreignpolicy.com)

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Moguls Rent South Dakota Addresses to Dodge Taxes Forever (finance.yahoo.com)

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A captcha I can actually read (nlpcaptcha.in)

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ZenPayroll is hiring – join an early-stage team to solve high-impact problems (item?id=6972526)

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