hackerNews

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I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on (www.theguardian.com)

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We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It (www.wired.com)

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On Hacking MicroSD Cards (www.bunniestudios.com)

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DigitalOcean leaks customer data between VMs (github.com)

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Ask HN: How to increase self-discipline as an self-employed person? (item?id=6979277)

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Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (stackoverflow.com)

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Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises N.S.A. Toolbox (spiegel.de)

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The most Kafkaesque paragraph from today’s NSA ruling (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Girls Who Code (www.avc.com)

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Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails (www.online.citibank.co.in)

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Uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the first world war (www.economist.com)

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Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.1 (tmm1.net)

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How I published a fake paper, and why it is the fault of our education system (smritiweb.com)

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React's Diff Algorithm (calendar.perfplanet.com)

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Why MacPaint's Original Canvas was 416 Pixels Wide (www.looksgoodworkswell.com)

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Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959) (www.zyvex.com)

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Filthy Lucre (m.vice.com)

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OpenSkyscraper – an open-source clone (in progress) of SimTower (github.com)

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What’s New In Emacs 24.4 (www.masteringemacs.org)

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Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser? (https://panopticlick.eff.org)

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An Illustrated History of objc_msgSend (sealiesoftware.com)

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Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80% (www.quantcast.com)

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Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit (www.spiegel.de)

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Snowden’s biggest revelation: We don’t know what power is, nor do we care (pando.com)

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Why is Machine Learning the Most Popular Course at Stanford? (www.forbes.com)

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Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List (www.openculture.com)

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British government porn filters block EFF, Linux, Amnesty and more (www.tgdaily.com)

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What’s Wrong with Git? A Conceptual Design Analysis (people.csail.mit.edu)

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Ask PG/HN: Recommended reading on the history of technology (item?id=6979671)

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Apple Puts Carl Icahn's $150 Billion Buyback Proposal To Shareholders (www.forbes.com)

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France’s Hollande Gets Court Approval for 75% Millionaire Tax (www.bloomberg.com)

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The state of the Rust Runtime (docs.google.com)

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Surface Music Kit features (www.microsoft.com)

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Encryption enthusiast deciphers ‘Unsolvable’ WWI Encryption Code (nocamels.com)

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Ask HN: How did you launch your product? (item?id=6980554)

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Paul Graham & Sexism: Just One More Distraction From Real Work (nibletz.com)

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More details on Microsoft's new M# language (www.zdnet.com)

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9 Hole Code Golf Challenge (codegolf.stackexchange.com)

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Daily Routines of Famous Writers (www.brainpickings.org)

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An Ubernerd Weighs In (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Toyota Manufacturing Principles (josephmcohen.com)

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Rap Genius And The Problem With The Venture Capital Fueled Growth Hack (www.forbes.com)

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Hinged dissection (en.wikipedia.org)

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Electric cars may hold solution for power storage (www.latimes.com)

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Chromebooks accounted for 21 percent of all notebook sales in US (www.npd.com)

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Bitcoin solved a major technical problem, but not an economic one (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Regularizing neural networks with dropout and with DropConnect (fastml.com)

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The Decline of IE and Firefox (blog.diffen.com)

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Common charger for all mobile phones on the way in Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)

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The purpose of .PHONY in a Makefile (stackoverflow.com)

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Do You Have Your Paul Graham Pitchfork Out? (medium.com)

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Quit putting down Google: "The myth of the overqualified worker" (hbr.org)

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Everyone Can Learn Angel Investing Using Kiva (adammcnamara.com)

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Why most economists' predictions are wrong (1998) (web.archive.org)

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A case for writing unit tests for your blog posts (tosbourn.com)

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The restaurant that serves up rejected food [video] (www.bbc.co.uk)

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India’s Efforts to Aid Poor Worry Drug Makers (www.nytimes.com)

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New Coinbase Wallet, and Coinbase Merchant App Released For Android (blog.coinbase.com)

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The Pancake Problem. (www.math.uiuc.edu)

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"Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is free for the next 3 days (www.amazon.com)

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Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox (www.spiegel.de)

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Shave with Olive Oil to Save Money and Get Smoother Skin (www.chrisinch.com)

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Ask HN: What is something you believe that nearly no one agrees with you on? (item?id=6981824)

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Create your own social media buttons with an unified design (http://getshar.es#meteor.js)

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Pagd - a highly pluggable static site generator (github.com)

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How a simple Node.js project turned into Iron Scheduler (blog.iron.io)

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Don't say "Would You Rather" (blog.yourather.com)

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NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: How do you market a Chrome extension? (item?id=6982760)

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How can Rails react to the rise of the JavaScript applications? (andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com)

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What to tell noobs who want to "learn coding"? (item?id=6982446)

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Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox (spon.de)

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Secrets of the Caltech Cannon Heist Revealed (alum.mit.edu)

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Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language for data science? (item?id=6980260)

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Citizen driven website in Argentina reports when the lights go out (acanohayluz.com.ar)

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Python parallelism in one line - A Better Model for Day to Day Threading Tasks (medium.com)

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Catalog Reveals NSA Has Back Doors for Numerous Devices - SPIEGEL ONLINE (www.spiegel.de)

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Using Nix while doing development (sandervanderburg.blogspot.com.es)

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Ask HN: Is it time to start writing passwords down again? (item?id=6979841)

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Everyone Who Believes In Bitcoin Should Try To Answer This Question (www.businessinsider.com)

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Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit (www.spiegel.de)

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NSA 'hacking unit' infiltrates computers around the world (www.theguardian.com)

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A.D.H.D. Experts Re-evaluate Study’s Zeal for Drugs (www.nytimes.com)

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Quitting everything to go to Nepal was the best thing I’ve done. (medium.com)

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2013 - A Terrible Year for the Tech Industry (www.theatlantic.com)

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Urthecast and Skybox: Commercial views of Earth from orbit (www.slate.com)

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Ask HN: Why is Target storing PIN numbers? (item?id=6979798)

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Ask HN: How much money is enough? (item?id=6982105)

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Japan's homeless recruited for Fukushima clean-up (www.reuters.com)

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Design and development standards to align and guide your web project (github.com)

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Stambovsky v. Ackley: sellers must disclose hauntedness of house to buyer (en.wikipedia.org)

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Push to talk in messaging apps is a massive startup and content opportunity (medium.com)

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Hacker took over BBC server, tried to 'sell' access on Christmas Day (www.reuters.com)

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TAO: the NSA's hacker plumber-wunderkinds (boingboing.net)

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NSA Spying on Europe-Asia Undersea Telecom Cables (www.securityweek.com)

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A discussion on SD card security, reliability and hackability (techcrunch.com)

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Best PHP Frameworks for 2014 (www.sitepoint.com)

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10 Web design trends you can expect to see in 2014 (thenextweb.com)

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On Biological Sex Differences (jaymans.wordpress.com)

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Google, Apple Forge Auto Ties (online.wsj.com)

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Ask HN:What are your thoughts on Dogecoin? (item?id=6982413)

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Computer simulation of an entire single-celled organism (github.com)

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Tell HN: How A Car Works earned $2,400 in 2013 (www.howacarworks.com)

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I’m 22 years old and what is this. (medium.com)

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NSA does surveillance on Santa letters (www.duffelblog.com)

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What if letters could move? JS type path animation. (http://www.anitype.com)

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Imperative Reasoning Is Hard (liamoc.net)

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Dijkstra's opinion on the interplay between science and industry [PDF] (www.cs.utexas.edu)

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The Launch Weeks Ahead at Parabolic Arc (www.parabolicarc.com)

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It’s Not “Too Late” for Female Hackers (medium.com)

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All Systems Are Insecure Until Proven Otherwise: Bruce Schneier (motherboard.vice.com)

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Free of Gene Patents, Personalized Medicine Enters New Era (www.pbs.org)

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BBC server taken over by Russian hacker at Christmas (www.theguardian.com)

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No neutral ground in a burning world (www.youtube.com)

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Fucking Tides, How Do They Work? (mrgris.com)

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Libdrc - use the WiiU gamepad with other devices (http://libdrc.org)

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