hackerNews

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Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked - 4.6 million users affected (http://www.snapchatdb.info)

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I fought my ISP's bad behavior and won (erichelgeson.github.io)

377 points first seen 2014010109 last seen 2014010309 102 comments

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Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and 0 revenue (www.sergioschuler.com)

361 points first seen 2014010100 last seen 2014010400 159 comments

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What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014 (web.law.duke.edu)

349 points first seen 2014010103 last seen 2014010303 157 comments

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Court Rules No Suspicion Needed for Laptop Searches at Border (www.aclu.org)

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What Snowden really revealed (www.aljazeera.com)

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Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow (michael.richter.name)

222 points first seen 2014010103 last seen 2014010212 226 comments

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The RIAA forced me to shut down a successful website/apps I built in high school (blog.appgrounds.com)

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Why I'm Interested in Bitcoin (cdixon.org)

177 points first seen 2014010106 last seen 2014010303 167 comments

4

The Mac Pro Review (anandtech.com)

172 points first seen 2014010109 last seen 2014010300 153 comments

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Watch pg write an essay in real time (code.stypi.com)

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All Things Digital shutting down (allthingsd.com)

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Show HN: Our little bootstrapped startup is powering CNN's ticker for NYE (item?id=6993981)

134 points first seen 2014010115 last seen 2014010212 41 comments

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Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown (www.ifixit.com)

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U.S. to China: We Hacked Your Internet Gear We Told You Not to Hack (www.wired.com)

123 points first seen 2014010100 last seen 2014010203 62 comments

4

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science Since 1996 (jeffhuang.com)

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The Best of Python in 2013 (pypix.com)

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Ask HN: Making extra income with books (item?id=6990470)

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Python 2.x vs 3.x use survey (www.surveymonkey.com)

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I, Health Insurer (charlespetzold.com)

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Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top (techcrunch.com)

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2013: A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year for the Tech Industry (www.theatlantic.com)

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6

Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging tool (twister.net.co)

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Redesigned Window Stops Sound But Not Air (www.technologyreview.com)

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BSDNT - a BSD licensed bignum library v1.0 (github.com)

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‘JFK Customs destroyed 11 of my instruments’ (www.artsjournal.com)

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Moore's Law appears to be coming to an end (www.economist.com)

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Tell HN: Happy New Year (item?id=6994217)

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Bodily maps of emotions (www.pnas.org)

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The spiral of learning (sdqali.in)

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Ask HN: What are your 2014 Predictions? (item?id=6994370)

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2-Stage Light Gas Gun (www.chrisfenton.com)

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2013: A Linux Christmas (www.zdnet.com)

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Programming Interview Question: Eight Queens (jetheis.com)

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Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone Backdoors (techcrunch.com)

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From Erratic to Effective: The Story Behind the Zapier Blog in 2013 (zapier.com)

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Scoble says Google Glass is doomed (plus.google.com)

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Poor Man's Scientific Method (250bpm.com)

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Pollution Rising, Chinese Fear for Soil and Food (www.nytimes.com)

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My competitor made my app promo video for free (plumshell.com)

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Cryptocat Considered Harmful: The Root Cause (datavibe.net)

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The Online Education Revolution Drifts Off Course (www.npr.org)

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Introducing the FreeBSD Test Suite (julipedia.meroh.net)

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Ask HN: How do you focus? (item?id=6993626)

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Are The Techno Riche Really Ruining San Francisco? Yes, Says Rebecca Solnit (www.businessweek.com)

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Meta-programming JavaScript Using Proxies (www.dzautner.com)

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Snapchat Checker (robbiet.us)

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Microsoft joins FIDO group to replace passwords with public key cryptography (arstechnica.com)

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CMS trends for 2014 (despreneur.com)

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The rise of robots and the future of jobs (timharford.com)

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My thoughts on SF after living here for six months (dzoba.com)

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The Curious Case Of The Chromebook: Is It Really A Hit? (www.forbes.com)

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Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (www.neocomputer.org)

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AI takes on humans to create video game (www.newscientist.com)

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Lost Images Come To Life A Century After Antarctic Expedition (www.npr.org)

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Bitcoin Is a High-Tech Dinosaur Soon to Be Extinct (www.bloomberg.com)

28 points first seen 2014010112 last seen 2014010112 44 comments

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Tips for Getting Started With AWS (jamescarl.us)

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Bump and Flock discontinued (blog.bu.mp)

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Genetics prof: Why I won’t waste my money on a DNA test in 2014 (www.venturebeat.com)

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Show HN: My year in side projects (www.ianww.com)

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20

Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter - Issue 59 (www.dashingd3js.com)

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O'Reilly - Top 2013 ebooks and videos for 50% off (shop.oreilly.com)

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Why It's Nearly Impossible to Castrate a Hippo (inkfish.fieldofscience.com)

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IOS 8 Concept for Interactive Notifications (www.ihash.eu)

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Ask HN: Share a learning & a happy moment from your startup in 2013 (item?id=6990154)

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Zerigo terminates annual plans mid-way to jack rates 19x (item?id=6991692)

13 points first seen 2014010106 last seen 2014010112 15 comments

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Tips on finding a Marketer for your Startup (lukethomas.com)

13 points first seen 2014010106 last seen 2014010106 0 comments

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Stop Chopping Yourself to Pieces (blog.asmartbear.com)

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5 Years of SaaS Growth: Every Month, Exact Numbers (unicornfree.com)

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Blueprint for Building Habit-Forming Products is #15 on Amazon's new free books (www.nirandfar.com)

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Triple-threat method sparks hope for fusion (www.nature.com)

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Steam coming from Fukushima Unit 3 reactor building (enenews.com)

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EdX on the Raspberry Pi – A Portable Classroom (engineering.edx.org)

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What I can learn in 10 minutes that would be useful for the rest of my life? (www.quora.com)

10 points first seen 2014010106 last seen 2014010109 2 comments

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Time Travel (swannodette.github.io)

10 points first seen 2014010112 last seen 2014010200 0 comments

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My Favorite Cocoa Programming Blogs (oleb.net)

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Happy New Year Hackers (item?id=6993682)

9 points first seen 2014010112 last seen 2014010118 3 comments

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Simulating and rendering 262,144 particles with GLSL. (hughsk.github.io)

9 points first seen 2014010115 last seen 2014010118 0 comments

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Happy New 2014 Year (item?id=6990142)

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They shoot porn stars, don't they? (susannahbreslin.net)

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Show HN: Late night hack to send out New Years tweet (newyearstweet.lonnylot.com)

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Dell, Cisco 'Deeply Concerned' Over NSA Backdoor Exploit Allegations (www.crn.com)

6 points first seen 2014010100 last seen 2014010100 3 comments

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Stop Telling Women They Just Need to Know How to Code (femgineer.com)

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Show HN: Using RAMBOOT to build a diskless home router OS (ramboot.org)

6 points first seen 2014010106 last seen 2014010112 0 comments

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Removed from catalog: Fallout 1, 2, & Tactics (www.gog.com)

6 points first seen 2014010106 last seen 2014010112 3 comments

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SQL: Select only rows with Max Value on a Column (stackoverflow.com)

6 points first seen 2014010109 last seen 2014010115 2 comments

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Is Tokaido dead? (item?id=6993226)

6 points first seen 2014010109 last seen 2014010112 2 comments

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Packaging a Flask web app (www.plankandwhittle.com)

6 points first seen 2014010112 last seen 2014010121 0 comments

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Ask HN: What would it take for you to switch to Python 3? (item?id=6993561)

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NSA's Propagandist For CBS Officially Takes Counterterrorism Job (www.techdirt.com)

6 points first seen 2014010112 last seen 2014010112 0 comments

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Evans, et al. v. Linden Research, Inc., et al. (www.secondlifesettlement.com)

6 points first seen 2014010121 last seen 2014010203 0 comments

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Keeping your email address private (help.github.com)

5 points first seen 2014010100 last seen 2014010106 4 comments

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Which are the best osdev tutorials? (item?id=6991904)

5 points first seen 2014010106 last seen 2014010109 3 comments

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Revenue Growth 20x in 2013 (customer.io)

5 points first seen 2014010109 last seen 2014010115 0 comments

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Reverse engineering Xcode with dtrace (chen.do)

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A 16-year-old's Plea to be Taken Seriously as a Developer (medium.com)

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Minsk Family of Computers (www.computer-museum.ru)

5 points first seen 2014010112 last seen 2014010121 0 comments

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Record-Setting Holiday Season for Amazon Prime (phx.corporate-ir.net)

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Chromebooks Outsold Macbooks in the US by a Factor of Five in 2013 (qz.com)

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HP Announces Another 5,000 Layoffs, For A Total Of 34,000 (www.businessinsider.com)

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How can I verify whether my new laptop has been tampered? (item?id=6990589)

4 points first seen 2014010103 last seen 2014010103 2 comments

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NSA:TOR (cryptome.org)

4 points first seen 2014010103 last seen 2014010103 0 comments

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How we do mobile engineering at Venmo (chris.cm)

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Ask PG: How to Download My Data from HN? (item?id=6991226)

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Would You Shoot Your Neighbor’s Drone? (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Elsevier increases takedown notices against academic institutions and websites (www.abajournal.com)

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The NSA and the Corrosion of Silicon Valley (allthingsd.com)

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Be Ambitious (brandonhilkert.com)

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Google Expected to Partner With Audi to Put Android in New Cars (abcnews.go.com)

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Procedural Content Generation for Games: A Survey (www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl)

3 points first seen 2014010103 last seen 2014010103 0 comments

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The Genesis of Doge: Wow (www.theverge.com)

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Noam Chomsky: The Richest Countries Are Racing Us Towards Disaster (www.alternet.org)

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Introducing Forward Secrecy and Authenticated Encryption Ciphers (github.com)

3 points first seen 2014010106 last seen 2014010109 0 comments

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Ask HN: What MOOC in 2014 do you recommend? (item?id=6991910)

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Do Fields Medal Winners Slack Off? (priceonomics.com)

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Image stabilization applied to utensils for people with Parkinson's (vimeo.com)

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Hackers knock League of Legends offline (www.bbc.co.uk)

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President Obama claims the NSA has never abused its authority. That's false (www.theguardian.com)

3 points first seen 2014010109 last seen 2014010109 0 comments

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Re: About Python 3 (nuitka.net)

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The Complete List of Everything Banned by Mayor Michael Bloomberg (gizmodo.com)

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Why you shouldn't spend money on a genetic test currently (venturebeat.com)

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A discussion: Anti-Object-Oriented (mumble.net)

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MATE – Characteristics of an Iconic Entrepreneur (williampeng.com)

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APIs are eating software (blog.garrytan.com)

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The Key Rules Behind Every Great Startup Idea (www.businessinsider.com)

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The Other Side of Being a Young Developer (jalcine.me)

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Android Hacker? Come reshape agriculture with FarmLogs. (item?id=6990634)

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