hackerNews

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An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow (item?id=7037532)

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Female Founders (paulgraham.com)

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Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides (github.com)

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2

The Day We Fight Back (https://thedaywefightback.org)

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4

Down The Rabbit Hole We Go: Mind-Expanding Documentaries (www.diygenius.com)

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2

FFmpeg and a thousand fixes (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)

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Money and wealth: clearing up some serious misconceptions (swombat.com)

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13

Simple git workflow is simple (blogs.atlassian.com)

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3

Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 (duck.co)

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3

Torturer met the tortured 50 years after WW2 (www.abroadintheyard.com)

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4

Malicious Use of the HTML5 Vibrate API (shkspr.mobi)

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5

We stopped advertising on Facebook (vpj.svbtle.com)

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21

My Amazon interview experience (www.jayhuang.org)

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8

Ethereum: A Turing-Complete Cryptocurrency (ethereum.org)

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20

The Command Line Crash Course (cli.learncodethehardway.org)

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10

Never Going Back - A Week of Not Eating Lunch at My Desk (randomdrake.com)

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8

Source Code in TV and Films: There's a bug in AirWolf's code ... (moviecode.tumblr.com)

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Dropbox is down (item?id=7041201)

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4

Sarah Stierch leaves Wikimedia Foundation over paid editing (lists.wikimedia.org)

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12

Cloact: Minimalistic React for ClojureScript (holmsand.github.io)

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0

Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car (yro.slashdot.org)

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4

Court to Yelp: Reveal names of negative reviewers (news.cnet.com)

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5

Anonymous hacks MIT website on anniversary of Aaron Swartz suicide (www.techienews.co.uk)

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Supreme Court to Hear Aereo Case (variety.com)

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9

Using deep learning to listen for whales (danielnouri.org)

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20

How the College Bubble Will Pop (online.wsj.com)

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West Virginia Officials Warn Not to Use Water Following Chemical Leak [video] (www.wchstv.com)

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9

FOBO (YC S11) Launches in SF to Become The Fastest Way to Sell Your Electronics (techcrunch.com)

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13

Finite State Entropy - A new breed of entropy coder (fastcompression.blogspot.fr)

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10

I Hired My Mom (bradt.ca)

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Foursquare constantly tracking users' locations (blog.valverde.me)

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7

PHP 5.5.8 Released (www.php.net)

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Marco.org target blank (www.marco.org)

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9

BMW's Laser Headlights (wot.motortrend.com)

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28

Ask HN: I'm building one html5 game per week, need feedback (item?id=7036486)

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11

Why Americans Stopped Moving to the Richest States (www.theatlantic.com)

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10

SSL/TLS analysis of the Internet's top 1,000,000 websites (jve.linuxwall.info)

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Plankalkül — a programming language designed between 1943 and 1945 (en.wikipedia.org)

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7

Replica Ferraris Raise Ire of Auto Maker (online.wsj.com)

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Support for Ruby version 1.9.3 will end on February 23, 2015. (www.ruby-lang.org)

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'World first' Bitcoin insured vault (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Taplytics, A/B testing on iOS without App Store updates (http://taplytics.com)

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19

Twitter's Paper Millionaires May Want to Get Out ASAP (www.wired.com)

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Growth Hacking Is Bull (marketingland.com)

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0

Death To The Open Offices Floor Plan (www.fastcolabs.com)

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9

Path Closes $25 Million Funding, Led by Indonesia’s Bakrie Global Group (recode.net)

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16

Gulp, Grunt, Whatever (blog.ponyfoo.com)

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GoDaddy ends support for ruby as of 23/01/2014 (support.godaddy.com)

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Google Bus Protesters’ Manifesto: ‘Get Out of Oakland’ (blogs.kqed.org)

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Obama administration to end contract with company behind HealthCare.gov (www.washingtonpost.com)

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25

Pebble Smartwatch Review: A Useful Dumbwatch (programmingzen.com)

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14

CCP Games brings Sentry to the PlayStation (blog.getsentry.com)

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8

UCS vs UTF-8 as Internal String Encoding (lucumr.pocoo.org)

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12

Hackers steal card data from Neiman Marcus (krebsonsecurity.com)

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31

Understanding and mitigating NTP-based DDoS attacks (blog.cloudflare.com)

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13

IBM unveils plans for Watson supercomputer (money.cnn.com)

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10

Thinking of Aaron: An Update (www.plainsite.org)

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Can you start a successful tech career later in life? (www.newyorker.com)

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21

Red Hat’s CentOS “acquisition” good for both sides, but ‘ware the Jabberwock (redmonk.com)

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The eCommerce buying API powering amberExpress. Order products with code. (blog.amber.io)

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Building modular applications with Riot.js, the 1kb MVP library (moot.it)

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0

Free Bootstrap Framework for Startups (designmodo.github.io)

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To what extent is an organisation liable when they get security wrong? (www.troyhunt.com)

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Man Jailed for Gmail Invite to Ex-Girlfriend (abcnews.go.com)

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0

Show HN: The new Breaker 101 course has launched (breaker101.daeken.com)

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Hands-on with Toshiba’s high-resolution 4K laptops (and more) (arstechnica.com)

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Handling Associations on Null Objects in Rails (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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Turn Off Gmail's Email From Google+ Users (item?id=7038238)

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8

Comparing Filesystem Performance in Virtual Machines (mitchellh.com)

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Do you know your bitwise operators? (quaxio.com)

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Mobile ISP image recompression (calendar.perfplanet.com)

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Play with Interactive Bootstrap Documentation (pinegrow.com)

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How to hustle and launch in 3 weeks: The FOBO Backstory (josephwalla.com)

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Testium, Groupon's node.js tool for browser integration testing now open source (engineering.groupon.com)

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Backdoor on port 32764 of Cisco, Netgear and Linksys routers (translation) (translate.google.com)

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Google programmer blew off $500K salary at startup because he's making $3M/year (www.businessinsider.com)

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0

25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help? (item?id=7037395)

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The ten things I wish I would have known as an entrepreneur (from a VC) (pando.com)

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The Web Setup: Runscope (blog.meldium.com)

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This company sold Google a quantum computer. Here’s how it works. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Co-Founder Of Snapchat Admits He's Never Owned A Physical Server (www.technews24h.com)

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0

Don't Ignore the Trolls. Feed Them Until They Explode. (jezebel.com)

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Missing Person, Luke Arduini: Yahoo Programmer. Please help find him. (findluk.com)

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Samsung’s secret mission to cut Google out of its Galaxy (www.digitaltrends.com)

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74

Ask HN: Why do people who work harder get less pay? (item?id=7042011)

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70

Harvard-developed organic battery hailed as cheap renewable energy solution (www.cbc.ca)

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0

Flat Design vs Realism: JS Animated Story (www.flatvsrealism.com)

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0

Implementing Bret Victor's Learnable Programming Has Never Been Easier (amasad.me)

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Target: Names, Emails, Phone Numbers on Up To 70 Million Customers Stolen (krebsonsecurity.com)

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0

Reach the people you know more easily in Gmail (gmailblog.blogspot.com)

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76

The Electricity-Generating Bicycle Desk That Would Power the World (www.theatlantic.com)

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Ask HN: what's your Internet claim to fame? (item?id=7038691)

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Target Breach Affected Up to 110 Million Customers (www.nytimes.com)

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How Effective Will Your Diet Be in 5 Years? (priceonomics.com)

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A graduate school survival guide: "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D" (www.cs.unc.edu)

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“Uber is charging a premium for a commoditized service” (www.rudebaguette.com)

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87

Ask HN: How has knowing data structures and algorithms been useful to you? (item?id=7037234)

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LivingSocial CEO steps down (blog.livingsocial.com)

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How Not To Hire Someone (thomaslarock.com)

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Senior managers are the worst information security offenders (www.net-security.org)

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0

Minimum Viable Painting (chenyuz.quora.com)

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0

Light Table Ruby Plugin (github.com)

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0

Everyone is Successful, Except for You (seanonstartups.co)

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0

Ask HN: How did RapGenius get their ranking back? (item?id=7038880)

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Overstock.com, had 780 Bitcoin orders that accounted for $124,000 (twitter.com)

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Stranded by Sprawl (2013) (www.nytimes.com)

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Google Programmer 'Blew Off' A $500,000 Salary At A Startup (www.sfgate.com)

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How to ensure financial independence in the long run (helloimnadia.com)

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0

Senator Leahy tries to make Talking about Computer Hacking a Serious Crime (www.techdirt.com)

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0

How much to raise using Crunchbase data (correlatedcausation.com)

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0

Ask HN: Would you like a DM facility "in" HN? (item?id=7024974)

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0

A Google programmer blew off a $500k job offer because he is already making $3M (www.businessinsider.com)

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0

Ask HN: What exactly happens when accelerated startup fails? (item?id=7038401)

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0

The Internet of (unmaintained, insecure, and dangerously hackable) Things (arstechnica.com)

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0

Bitcoin's Fatal Flaw (www.businessinsider.com)

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Acupuncture Whac-a-Mole (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

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0

Ask HN: For how much money would you be willing to leave your job? (item?id=7040782)

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Show HN: Calcapp Creator, create apps instead of Excel calculators (calcapp.net)

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0

Help I think I'm getting screwed over (item?id=7041160)

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How an Xbox One owner trolls using his clever nickname (www.youtube.com)

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14 Fucks I Refuse To Give In 2014 (medium.com)

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0

Ask HN: default code width formatting at 120? (item?id=7036115)

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Einstein’s Camera: How one renegade photographer is hacking... (medium.com)

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0

Apocalyptic Ice Tsunami Rips Through House In Minnesota (www.youtube.com)

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[UK] Channel 4 removes full-length programmes from YouTube (www.bbc.co.uk)

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0

Betabrand's attempt at hiring a UX Designer (www.betabrand.com)

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0

Neal Ford on Giving Technical Presentations (www.infoq.com)

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Improving Ranking of Twitter Handles Search (blog.algolia.com)

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How Oculus VR will eat Hollywood (medium.com)

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This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education (www.social-consciousness.com)

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Video: Lake Michigan Waves Birth Giant Ice Balls (www.accuweather.com)