hackerNews

1

What I Didn't Say (paulgraham.com)

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About Python 3 (alexgaynor.net)

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The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone (www.forbes.com)

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A Short Story for Engineers (cs.txstate.edu)

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30C3 Recordings (media.ccc.de)

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I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote (github.com)

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Simon Peyton Jones: Idea - Write paper - Do research (research.microsoft.com)

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I flew on a plane without going through security. It was amazing and no one died (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Don't want your laptop tampered with? Just add glitter nail polish (www.wired.com)

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3

The Disinformation (uncrunched.com)

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Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm only 15 (http://www.aeipsapps.tumblr.com)

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ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation (www.jsonline.com)

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Two years after quitting my job: 2013 in review (nathanbarry.com)

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Don’t drown in email! How to use Gmail more efficiently. (klinger.io)

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Questions I'm asking in technical interviews (jvns.ca)

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Show HN: I made 22 apps/games this year mostly by myself. Here they are. (davesapien.com)

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Peter Thiel’s Graph of the Year (m.washingtonpost.com)

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SQLAlchemy 0.9.0 Released (www.sqlalchemy.org)

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On The Information and How We Operate (jessicalessin.com)

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Whistleblower Edward Snowden is tech person of year (www.usatoday.com)

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Steam Removes Game 'Order Of War: Challenge' From User Libraries (www.forbes.com)

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Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks (www.bbc.co.uk)

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I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass (www.wired.com)

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We plan on not breaking code after Rust 1.0, except for gated features. (mail.mozilla.org)

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Apple fined for price fixing (mobile.itnews.com.au)

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Silicon Valley Hustle: Former Motionloft CEO Accused Of Defrauding Investors (techcrunch.com)

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Aleks Bromfield talks about the error model of Microsofts new language (plus.google.com)

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MailChimp Annual Report (mailchimp.com)

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What's wrong with in-browser cryptography? (tonyarcieri.com)

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Google, prevent the NSA's abuse of Google Analytics (smerity.com)

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An Interview with Paul Graham: Hackers & Painters 10 Years Later (blog.onemonthrails.com)

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Life’s Work: Salman Khan (hbr.org)

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Scientists Petition U.S. Congress for Return to the Moon (news.yahoo.com)

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WiTrack (witrack.csail.mit.edu)

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Why Microsoft's "Scroogled" Campaign Is Childish (itechtriad.com)

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The TSP Isn't NP Complete (www.ibm.com)

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Whether to delegate (www.johndcook.com)

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ARIN allocated free IPv4 addresses almost exhausted (lists.si6networks.com)

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DigitalHax – Allows you to recover data from "Destroyed" Digital Ocean VM (github.com)

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Transparency Regarding Data Security (www.digitalocean.com)

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30C3 Keynote with Glenn Greenwald (media.ccc.de)

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Haiku meets 9th processor (www.haiku-os.org)

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On Defensive, JPMorgan Hired China’s Elite (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Dogecoin Paper Wallet (dogecoinpaperwallet.net)

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ReconnectingWebSocket (github.com)

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Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X (github.com)

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Joseph Stiglitz on the Value of Trust (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Thoughts on Google Glass (daringfireball.net)

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Don’t Follow These 5 Dangerous Embedded C Coding Standard Rules (2011) (embeddedgurus.com)

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Bitcoin Big Hit with Developers: Predicting the future with Github (blog.bitcoinpulse.com)

34 points first seen 2013123106 last seen 2014010100 9 comments

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How do I find the longest palindrome in a string? (codegolf.stackexchange.com)

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Twister: p2p micro-blogging with accounts on the blockchain and messages in DHT (http://twister.net.co)

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Cruncher: An implementation of Bret Victor's Scrubbing Calculator (github.com)

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Programming Language Analysis (ec2-54-224-80-201.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8888)

25 points first seen 2013123100 last seen 2013123121 14 comments

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Inefficiency Yields Opportunity (codingvc.com)

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Netflix’s new plan: save a buck with SD-only streaming (arstechnica.com)

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Interviewing a front-end developer (blog.sourcing.io)

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'If I Need ID to Buy Cough Syrup, Why Shouldn't I Need ID to Vote?' (www.theatlantic.com)

21 points first seen 2013123109 last seen 2013123109 62 comments

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Show HN: embedcurl.com - Pretty curl commands for your web site or blog (item?id=6987724)

21 points first seen 2013123112 last seen 2013123112 4 comments

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Ask HN: What are you using Go for? (item?id=6985225)

20 points first seen 2013123103 last seen 2014010909 37 comments

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Free, un-copyrighted NDA and employment contracts (blog.papertrailapp.com)

20 points first seen 2013123109 last seen 2013123112 0 comments

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NVidia hobbles WebGL performance on laptops (www.scirra.com)

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The Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2013 (firstround.com)

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Cocaine Is Evil (www.slate.com)

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Show HN: Customizable themes for iOS (www.apptemplatez.com)

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I Had My DNA Picture Taken, With Varying Results (www.nytimes.com)

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Favorite Hacks of 2013 (www.facebook.com)

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Ask HN: How to deal with an abusive co-worker? (item?id=6987805)

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Show HN: Musi (itunes.apple.com)

12 points first seen 2013123112 last seen 2013123112 10 comments

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Calling All Wantrepreneurs (blog.ramen.is)

11 points first seen 2013123109 last seen 2013123112 21 comments

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Indian Railway has implemented the world's dumbest captcha (item?id=6985586)

10 points first seen 2013123106 last seen 2013123109 14 comments

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Why Hong Kong’s Private Tutors Are Millionaire Idols (world.time.com)

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We need to talk about TED (www.theguardian.com)

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I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass (www.wired.com)

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Zappos turning into a "Holacracy": no job titles + no managers. (qz.com)

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Obama can’t prove NSA call records prevented a terrorist attack (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013? (item?id=6987934)

8 points first seen 2013123112 last seen 2013123115 6 comments

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Ask HN: What did you make this year? (item?id=6988413)

8 points first seen 2013123115 last seen 2013123118 14 comments

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American Style start-ups take root in India (dealbook.nytimes.com)

8 points first seen 2013123118 last seen 2014010100 0 comments

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YouTube Started Deleting Egypt’s Husni Mubarak Era Torture Videos, But Why? (arabcrunch.com)

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New in RubyMotion: Device Crash Reports, Pretty Vendor Build Output, Proc#weak (blog.rubymotion.com)

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Your Developer Toolbox (cultureofdevelopment.com)

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The NSA's Spy Catalog (Interactive Graphic) (www.spiegel.de)

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How Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Body (www.theatlantic.com)

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Ask HN: How many still use torrents to download Movies instead of using Netflix? (item?id=6984222)

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Ask HN: How do you generate fake data? (item?id=6985040)

6 points first seen 2013123103 last seen 2014011003 9 comments

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Facebook and Twitter Share buttons are currently broken (blog.urx.com)

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Google's Eric Schmidt: Mobile has officially won – and now it gets interesting (www.geekwire.com)

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Microsoft Was Right To Worry That Govt Snooping Constituted A ‘Advanced Threat’ (techcrunch.com)

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“It’s Complicated” with Paul Graham (medium.com)

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Ask HN: What has been surprisingly effective in improving your business? (item?id=6983987)

5 points first seen 2013123100 last seen 2013123100 3 comments

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The island at the end of the earth (www.bbc.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2013123100 last seen 2013123100 0 comments

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Symolics Genera Lisp Environment (lispm.dyndns.org)

5 points first seen 2013123106 last seen 2013123112 0 comments

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Debian: Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion (lists.debian.org)

5 points first seen 2013123106 last seen 2013123109 0 comments

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Three Battle Tested Ways to Install PostgreSQL (www.codefellows.org)

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Etcd 0.2.0 released – new API, built-in leader election module, many fixes (github.com)

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Haskell and GHC: Too big to fail? (ezyang.tumblr.com)

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Passenger date header was incorrectly formatted as week-based year (github.com)

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NSA’s ANT Division Catalog of Exploits (leaksource.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: Is it possible to create a new license that prohibits government usage? (item?id=6986454)

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Learn Python by visualizing code execution (pythontutor.com)

5 points first seen 2013123121 last seen 2014010100 0 comments

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Ask HN: How do you wake up? (item?id=6985212)

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Tell HN: How old were you when you realized you wanted to work with technology? (item?id=6984929)

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Show HN: (pre-beta SaaS) "Get organized, get Headspace" (item?id=6984724)

4 points first seen 2013123103 last seen 2013123103 3 comments

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How to start unit testing in a testless environment? (item?id=6987248)

4 points first seen 2013123109 last seen 2013123112 3 comments

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Show HN: ImageJS (github.com)

4 points first seen 2013123109 last seen 2013123112 0 comments

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Cuckoo Filter: Better than Bloom [pdf] (www.cs.cmu.edu)

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Simple 2013 (www.simple.com)

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Why NSA spied on inexplicably unencrypted Windows crash reports (arstechnica.com)

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Uruguay may have started a marijuana legalization storm in Latin America (qz.com)

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Dendrocnide moroides (en.wikipedia.org)

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Django only has 1 woman contributor (item?id=6989378)

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Ask HN: Who is building something new in Python 3? (item?id=6989389)

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"Why I Have Become Pessimistic About Indian IT" - Vivek Wadhwa (www.linkedin.com)

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How D-Wave Could Make Or Break Quantum Computing (readwrite.com)

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Why Willpower Doesn't Work (get.minimumviablefitness.com)