hackerNews

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Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again (kimonify.kimonolabs.com)

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Super successful companies (blog.samaltman.com)

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VC Pitches in a Year or Two (www.avc.com)

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Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation (www.edge.org)

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The Next Phase of Node.js (blog.nodejs.org)

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Coming soon: Stripe CTF3 (stripe.com)

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World’s most photographed places (www.sightsmap.com)

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Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes? (www.scientificamerican.com)

159 points first seen 2014011600 last seen 2014011703 147 comments

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Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems (arstechnica.com)

158 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011721 130 comments

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Frontline: Secret State of North Korea (2014) (video.pbs.org)

138 points first seen 2014011612 last seen 2014011800 89 comments

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Light Table ClojureScript Tutorial (github.com)

137 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011706 8 comments

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The Productivity Cycle (alexsexton.com)

134 points first seen 2014011609 last seen 2014011800 38 comments

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TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction And Volume Identification (volatility-labs.blogspot.com)

131 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011721 73 comments

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Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space (blog.mongohq.com)

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Google’s New Business Model (stratechery.com)

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What's expected of us (www.nature.com)

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Are passwords stored in memory safe? (security.stackexchange.com)

120 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011703 69 comments

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Show HN:An Open Source Data Science Curriculum (github.com)

116 points first seen 2014011621 last seen 2014011800 38 comments

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How To Hire Outsourced Developers (www.donnfelker.com)

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Same word. Different places? Different meanings (sivers.org)

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We Hacked North Korea With Balloons and USB Drives (www.theatlantic.com)

112 points first seen 2014011609 last seen 2014011721 81 comments

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FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps (techcrunch.com)

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In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings (online.wsj.com)

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MapGive - Open Mapping from the US State Dept. (mapgive.state.gov)

105 points first seen 2014011600 last seen 2014011700 24 comments

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Happy 25th Tcl (blog.tkdocs.com)

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Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group (www.reuters.com)

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Complexity of FreeBSD VFS using ZFS as an example. (www.hybridcluster.com)

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Hate Parking Tickets? Fixed Fights Them In Court For You (techcrunch.com)

91 points first seen 2014011609 last seen 2014011621 130 comments

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No more time limits on Spotify (news.spotify.com)

89 points first seen 2014011621 last seen 2014011706 92 comments

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List of languages that compile to JS (github.com)

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Ampere to get rational redefinition (www.nature.com)

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$695 USB cable wins TAS's editors' choice award (www.theabsolutesound.com)

72 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011606 116 comments

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Obtaining Antibiotics without a Prescription (www.nejm.org)

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Handybook Buys Exec in a Deal for the On-Demand World (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

71 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011703 21 comments

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Updated benchmark: capnproto-rust vs. c++ (dwrensha.github.io)

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3 Million Teens Leave Facebook In 3 Years: The 2014 Facebook Demographic Report (istrategylabs.com)

65 points first seen 2014011609 last seen 2014011703 50 comments

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CudaSharp - Making C# run on the GPU (khyperia.blogspot.co.uk)

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Microsoft extends updates for Windows XP security products until July 14, 2015 (thenextweb.com)

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Man jailed in UK for refusing to give police USB stick password (www.bbc.co.uk)

57 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011606 102 comments

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Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost? (www.tug.org)

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Show HN: Houdini – A new way to test web apps (http://www.tryhoudini.com)

48 points first seen 2014011609 last seen 2014011618 23 comments

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You can use Facebook to identify people by their email or phone number (www.facebook.com)

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Yahoo's COO Walks Out With $20M Stock Bonus, Plus $40M For 15 Months' Work (www.sfgate.com)

47 points first seen 2014011618 last seen 2014011703 65 comments

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Please Don't Learn Category Theory (2013) (jozefg.bitbucket.org)

46 points first seen 2014011609 last seen 2014011615 71 comments

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A First Look at the Target Intrusion, Malware (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Why rampant video game sales are bad for players (thecastledoctrine.net)

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Inside Quizlet's incredible feedback center (quizlet.com)

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Yahoo says COO De Castro leaving Thursday (www.marketwatch.com)

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Using beam tracing to calculate reflections in JavaScript (blog.kaistale.com)

37 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011700 17 comments

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Google Publisher Plugin for Wordpress (wordpress.org)

36 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011700 9 comments

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m0n0wall 1.8.1 released (m0n0.ch)

33 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011700 9 comments

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Connect Any Service to Zapier with the New and Improved Developer Platform (zapier.com)

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Why So Many Musicians Are Leaving San Francisco for L.A. (pitchfork.com)

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The Artificial Womb Is Born (1996) (www.nytimes.com)

32 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011606 17 comments

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$4 toast: Why the tech industry is ruining San Francisco (venturebeat.com)

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ShowHN: ScaleSimple - An Open Source CDN platform (blog.dberg.org)

30 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011609 8 comments

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Nathan Barry’s Lessons Learned Earning $355,759 through Gumroad (blog.gumroad.com)

30 points first seen 2014011609 last seen 2014011612 16 comments

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Impermium acquired by Google (www.impermium.com)

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Marc Andreessen talks about the pros and cons of net neutrality (gigaom.com)

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The Artificial Womb Is Born And The World of the Matrix Begins (1996) (consciousnewsmedia.blogspot.ru)

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Ouya Founding Team Member And VP Of Product Development Departs (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter (ctrltwit.com)

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Digital maps' unsung hero: how the geocoder puts us on the grid (www.theguardian.com)

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Dara Ó Briain - I love videogames (rhinospike.com)

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Show HN: Somewhere — Instagram hack motivates you to travel more (smwh.re)

22 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011606 18 comments

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TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction And Volume Identification (volatility-labs.blogspot.it)

19 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011603 0 comments

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A/B Testing iOS Apps Like a Pro (lukabratos.me)

19 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011606 2 comments

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HP to Re-Enter Smartphone Market With “Phablets” in India (recode.net)

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Is Your Product A Vitamin Or A Painkiller? (www.entrepreneur.com)

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Affordable telepresence robots heading home (news.cnet.com)

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Netflix Monitors BitTorrent To Purchase Shows (www.forbes.com)

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I am Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. Edward Snowden is my hero. AMA (www.reddit.com)

13 points first seen 2014011609 last seen 2014011609 0 comments

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The New York Times Had a Mistake on Its Front Page for More Than a Century (www.theatlantic.com)

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Try Out Decompilation In Your Browser (decompiler.fit.vutbr.cz)

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With YesGraph, Finding Tech Talent Is As Easy As Using Tinder (www.fastcompany.com)

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When Did We Start Trusting Bad Code? Silent Circle Vulnerability Handling (blog.erratasec.com)

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WA State Bill Proposes Criminalizing Help to NSA, Turning Off Resources (offnow.org)

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Why I don't regret quitting my job - unexpected perks of startup life (blog.lawnstarter.com)

10 points first seen 2014011612 last seen 2014011612 6 comments

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Understanding Obamacare in One Hour (lessaccounting.com)

9 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011606 0 comments

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Startup Ketamines (www.tomscott.com)

9 points first seen 2014011612 last seen 2014011612 0 comments

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A Gmail Workflow (blog.sourcing.io)

9 points first seen 2014011612 last seen 2014011612 2 comments

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Show HN: BeardedSpice: Mac Media Keys for the Masses (http://beardedspice.com)

8 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011603 0 comments

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Black Girls Code wins Microsoft grant (blogs.msdn.com)

8 points first seen 2014011615 last seen 2014011700 0 comments

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The Collateral Damage of a Teenager (nymag.com)

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Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep (plus.google.com)

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What was Kim Jong-un Like as a Boy? (www.pbs.org)

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Are LXC containers enough? (mattoncloud.org)

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Petition to Reclassify ISPs as common carriers. (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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How to make quick money with Bitcoin for fun (www.davidedicillo.com)

6 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011606 4 comments

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Show HN: web app to create flippable brochures/magazines (item?id=7064619)

6 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011803 6 comments

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Under Pressure, Does Evolution Evolve? (www.simonsfoundation.org)

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Blackboard Acquires Austin Startup MyEdu (www.edsurge.com)

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Basket for iPhone: The Definitive Dribbble Client (http://getbasketapp.com)

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If It’s Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is (www.informationsecuritybuzz.com)

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Ask HN: I was a victim of bike theft. What can I do? (item?id=7063638)

5 points first seen 2014011603 last seen 2014011603 14 comments

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One Billion Hands: Bringing Big Data to Poker Analytics (www.onebillionhands.com)

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Top Voted Startup Technologies (globality.be)

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Retail in the age of Amazon: Scenes from an industry running scared (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Show HN: How to make robots talk to each other (github.com)

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Steam Controller Ditches Touchscreen For Real Buttons (kotaku.com)

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Fighting a McDonalds in Queens for the right to sit. And sit. And sit (www.nytimes.com)

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“MTV for Mobile” Mindie raises $1.2M led by SV Angels & Dave Morin (www.rudebaguette.com)

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First Opinion Lets You Text A Doctor Anytime (techcrunch.com)

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Judge denies request to reduce $1.17 billion CMU patent verdict (www.post-gazette.com)

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The infamous sun.misc.Unsafe explained (www.mydailyjava.blogspot.no)

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Splitting a sandwich and feeling not deceived (math.stackexchange.com)

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The Refugee Project (www.therefugeeproject.org)

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The Day We Fight Back: The Video (thedaywefightback.org)

4 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011606 0 comments

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CoinMKT lists Worldcoin, Megacoin, and Quark Coin on their exchange. (blog.coinmkt.com)

4 points first seen 2014011606 last seen 2014011606 0 comments

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The average age of HN (in 2012) is lower than the average age of Reddit (royal.pingdom.com)

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Telemetry Protocols, or Why HTTP Won't Work for IoT (www.iotworld.com)

4 points first seen 2014011609 last seen 2014011612 0 comments

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If() (blog.markrendle.net)

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Dear e-reader designers and producers… (waltersstupidideas.com)

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Would you use Erlang again? (www.quora.com)

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Point-of-sale malware infecting Target found hiding in plain sight (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Does this exist? (micro open-source) (item?id=7067494)

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Seven year old forum topic gets response, author responds within a minute (www.linuxquestions.org)

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How do iBeacons work? (www.warski.org)

3 points first seen 2014011600 last seen 2014011600 0 comments

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ClojureScript Analysis & Compilation (swannodette.github.io)

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Free Lectures Online (www.onlinecourses.com)

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NextView Ventures' David Beisel on The VC Fundraising Timing Paradox (venturefizz.com)

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First confirmed record of a freshwater fish catching a bird midflight (www.nature.com)

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Lifestyles of the Young, Rich, and Homeless (medium.com)

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Thousands Of Hotel Listings Were Hijacked In Google+ Local (searchengineland.com)

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Discuss : Google will do to physical what it did to Internet (item?id=7063291)

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Paedophiles pay to watch webcam child sex abuse in Philippines (www.bbc.co.uk)