hackerNews

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If you move your mouse continually the query may not fail. Do not stop moving... (support.microsoft.com)

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Anatomy of a cheap USB-to-Ethernet adapter (projectgus.com)

263 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010800 69 comments

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Why we have to boycott RSA (blog.erratasec.com)

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Rap Genius is Back on Google (news.rapgenius.com)

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Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs (techcrunch.com)

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NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress (www.theguardian.com)

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How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples (www.slate.com)

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Why You Should Probably Stop Using Antibacterial Soap (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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The problem is with the product (daringfireball.net)

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Five Paragraph Essays (blog.42floors.com)

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An 8086 PC emulator in 4043 bytes (ioccc.org)

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What "viable search engine competition" really looks like (blog.nullspace.io)

115 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010718 96 comments

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We need viable search engine competition, now. (peebs.org)

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Python 3.3: Trust Me, It's Better Than Python 2.7 (2013) (speakerdeck.com)

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Sen. Rand Paul says he's suing over NSA policies (bigstory.ap.org)

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Snopes.com: Fukushima Emergency (www.snopes.com)

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How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre (www.huffingtonpost.ca)

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OwnCloud 6 (owncloud.org)

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Idaho to take back control of privately run state prison (www.theguardian.com)

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New York State Is Set to Loosen Marijuana Laws (www.nytimes.com)

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Want Perfect Pitch? You Might Be Able To Pop A Pill For That (www.npr.org)

78 points first seen 2014010515 last seen 2014010718 46 comments

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4 paths to being a kernel hacker (jvns.ca)

75 points first seen 2014010515 last seen 2014010718 17 comments

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Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (ritdml.rit.edu)

73 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010715 45 comments

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Ocean Radiation and the Fukushima Disaster (deepseanews.com)

73 points first seen 2014010506 last seen 2014010715 30 comments

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Web standards killed the HTML star (jeffcroft.com)

68 points first seen 2014010509 last seen 2014010715 45 comments

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Arabic Natural Language Processing (nlp.stanford.edu)

68 points first seen 2014010518 last seen 2014010609 23 comments

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Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty (www.washingtonpost.com)

67 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010521 88 comments

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Life After Amazon (publishersweekly.com)

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Crowdsourced list of the best cross-platform note taking apps. (www.slant.co)

62 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010603 57 comments

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An open letter to hobbyists by Bill Gates (1976) (cryptnet.net)

53 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010715 41 comments

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The Mathematics of Gamification (engineering.foursquare.com)

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Lehmer sieve (en.wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Is "Gödel, Escher, Bach" still worth reading? (item?id=7014299)

46 points first seen 2014010515 last seen 2014011103 45 comments

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Ask HN: When is it too old to be an intern? (item?id=7011219)

45 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010515 29 comments

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The Rich Country Trap (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

45 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010609 21 comments

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Zynga Links Up With Bitpay For A Bitcoin Payment Test In Web Games (techcrunch.com)

44 points first seen 2014010500 last seen 2014010603 10 comments

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Headless Hypervisor for OSX is Almost Here (continuousdelivery.uglyduckling.nl)

44 points first seen 2014010521 last seen 2014010606 20 comments

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Do Women Only Initiatives Really Help Women? (nibletz.com)

43 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010503 36 comments

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Google acquiring Timely maker Bitspin (www.bitspin.ch)

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Elite Hacker Barnaby Jack 'overdosed on drugs' (www.bbc.co.uk)

42 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010503 41 comments

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ISO C++ 2D API (tirania.org)

42 points first seen 2014010506 last seen 2014010521 37 comments

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Show HN: A website aiming to fix homelessness in SF (item?id=7012059)

41 points first seen 2014010506 last seen 2014010906 66 comments

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ConvNetJS: Deep Learning in your browser (cs.stanford.edu)

38 points first seen 2014010521 last seen 2015072709 0 comments

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A data pipeline built with capnproto-rust and ZeroMQ (dwrensha.github.io)

35 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010603 3 comments

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How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free (www.theatlantic.com)

33 points first seen 2014010509 last seen 2014010509 28 comments

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HealthCare.gov: It almost worked (www.re-cycledair.com)

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Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote? (item?id=7011121)

31 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010503 46 comments

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How to Hide your Email Address on Web Pages (www.labnol.org)

28 points first seen 2014010506 last seen 2014010600 27 comments

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An Organic Approach to City Design (grasp.dk)

28 points first seen 2014010506 last seen 2014010603 4 comments

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Why good governments should embrace open data (gigaom.com)

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Jeff Bezos evacuated off Galapagos for kidney stones (www.cnn.com)

22 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010600 11 comments

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'Carmack Lines': Playing with Javascript (csbrooks6.github.io)

21 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010515 17 comments

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On Practical Qt Security (daniel.molkentin.net)

20 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010518 5 comments

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Poll: How many programming languages do you command fluently? (item?id=7011934)

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Show HN: An IRC channel to help people find jobs (item?id=7012980)

18 points first seen 2014010509 last seen 2014010515 3 comments

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Larry and Sergey won't respect you in the morning (2006) (ycombinator.com)

18 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010603 8 comments

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Classic games re-imagined in 3D (www.redbull.com)

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What's blocking Bertha: a long steel pipe (blogs.seattletimes.com)

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Lolmythesis is the greatest and saddest thing ever (www.critical-theory.com)

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Show HN: Simple Race Registration (Haskell, PostgreSQL, JS) (https://racemetric.com)

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Sen. Ron Paul sues Obama Administration over NSA data collection (bigstory.ap.org)

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First Stanford code poetry slam reveals the literary side of computer code (news.stanford.edu)

12 points first seen 2014010518 last seen 2014010600 2 comments

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Ask HN: What is your favorite Linux distro and why? (item?id=7015251)

12 points first seen 2014010521 last seen 2014010521 16 comments

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US $ Crypto Currency by Federal Reserve (nerdspace.co)

11 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010503 17 comments

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Social Design of P90X (skibinsky.com)

11 points first seen 2014010509 last seen 2014010521 2 comments

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Ask HN: Have you had any success with African developers? (item?id=7012508)

10 points first seen 2014010506 last seen 2014010509 7 comments

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Mac Pro Teardown 2: Teardown Harder (ifixit.org)

10 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010512 11 comments

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Habit Squares: a CI for daily habits (blog.lazerwalker.com)

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This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief (www.salon.com)

9 points first seen 2014010518 last seen 2014010603 0 comments

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Amazon Best Sellers: Best External Zip Drives (www.amazon.com)

9 points first seen 2014010518 last seen 2014010600 2 comments

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Fukushima: There's more radiation in Bananas (www.forbes.com)

9 points first seen 2014010521 last seen 2014010600 10 comments

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The results of being on page 1 of Hacker News (www.scottsbarlow.com)

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Hacker Monthly Issue #44 - January 2014 (hackermonthly.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone else have symptoms similar to Aspergers? (item?id=7014208)

8 points first seen 2014010515 last seen 2014010518 4 comments

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Ask HN: Where to begin when learning hardware hacking? (item?id=7015082)

8 points first seen 2014010521 last seen 2014010906 3 comments

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Show HN: Feeling-based movie search (item?id=7013823)

7 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010515 0 comments

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EReader Typography: Why it's Broken & How to Fix It (jeffarchibald.ca)

7 points first seen 2014010518 last seen 2014010600 0 comments

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Zappos says goodbye to bosses (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Schneier on Security: NSA Exploit of the Day: IRONCHEF (www.schneier.com)

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The Perils of Founder Fighting (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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We're Buying More PC Games Than We Can Play (kotaku.com)

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Protesting with a mirror (imgur.com)

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Bluetooth ZX Spectrum: Recreating the Sinclair ZX Spectrum by Elite Systems Ltd (www.kickstarter.com)

5 points first seen 2014010506 last seen 2014010509 0 comments

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Developer Tools in Python (pypix.com)

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What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries? (thetyee.ca)

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The Voltmeter Story: An argument in favor of the likelihood principle (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Banks’ Quiet Coup is Still Very Much in Place (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

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My resolution: A new programming language each week (cdawson.net)

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Ask HN: How to Make Collection of Cell Data via Wifi Useless? (item?id=7013789)

5 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010512 0 comments

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Thousands of visitors to yahoo.com hit with malware attack (www.washingtonpost.com)

5 points first seen 2014010515 last seen 2014010521 0 comments

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Recruiters only know bad developers (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2014010515 last seen 2014010515 5 comments

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Ask HN: Salary stipulations attached to seed deals? (item?id=7014787)

5 points first seen 2014010518 last seen 2014010518 2 comments

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Ask HN: Find new job while winding down startup. (item?id=7014563)

5 points first seen 2014010518 last seen 2014010518 5 comments

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Show HN: GeoTreat.com: Delight Website Visitors by Geolocation (item?id=7010932)

4 points first seen 2014010500 last seen 2014010503 8 comments

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Ask HN: What's your favourite notebook and pen? (item?id=7010736)

4 points first seen 2014010500 last seen 2014010500 11 comments

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Games Giant Zynga Starts Playing With Bitcoin (www.coindesk.com)

4 points first seen 2014010500 last seen 2014010500 0 comments

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Ask HN: new consulting company culture: DOs and DON'Ts? (item?id=7010649)

4 points first seen 2014010500 last seen 2014010906 0 comments

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The Art Of Storytelling (jackkenyon.net)

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Lean Startup Conference 2013 Roundup (www.skmurphy.com)

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Samsung Electronics' Market Value Drops Nearly $9 Billion (online.wsj.com)

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Silicon Valley Lost, and Found (techcrunch.com)

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Random Forest (en.wikipedia.org)

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Ubuntu Will Add Torrent Search to Embed Free Culture Into User Experience (torrentfreak.com)

4 points first seen 2014010509 last seen 2014010509 0 comments

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Ask HN: What is the best language/framework for rapid prototyping of web apps (item?id=7013785)

4 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010512 5 comments

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What I've Learnt Being a Developer Dad (lukevenediger.me)

4 points first seen 2014010512 last seen 2014010512 0 comments

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Knights Landing Details (www.realworldtech.com)

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You Can’t Take It With You, but You Still Want More (www.nytimes.com)

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Comparison of Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear accidents (en.wikipedia.org)

4 points first seen 2014010518 last seen 2014010521 0 comments

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WhatsApp Is The Leading Messaging App (www.businessinsider.com)

4 points first seen 2014010518 last seen 2014010518 0 comments

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How did SnappyCam unlock 20 pictures/sec at 8 Mpx on iPhone (web.archive.org)

4 points first seen 2014010521 last seen 2014010521 0 comments

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Why organisational culture breaks at startups (blog.hackerearth.com)

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Using WebStorm to maintain a Jekyll site (hadihariri.com)

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Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. (jamesclear.com)

3 points first seen 2014010503 last seen 2014010503 0 comments

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Ask HN: how do you read your noisy Twitter stream? (item?id=7011213)

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What You Need To Learn To Code In 2014 (www.fastcolabs.com)