hackerNews

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Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850 (inessential.com)

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What Hard Drive Should I Buy? (blog.backblaze.com)

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How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love (www.wired.com)

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2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor (annualletter.gatesfoundation.org)

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Fake Name Generator (http://fakenamegenerator.com)

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New Year, New CEO for GitHub (github.com)

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Today my startup failed (chrishateswriting.com)

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Why Bitcoin Matters (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Docker Raises $15M (techcrunch.com)

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Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password (www.marco.org)

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Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding (http://geocod.io)

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Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) (blog.ycombinator.com)

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5

Economics Simulation (by Peter Norvig) (nbviewer.ipython.org)

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Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery (www.onthemedia.org)

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Utah is Ending Homelessness by Giving People Homes (www.nationofchange.org)

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4

Eric S. Raymond - clang and FSF's strategy (gcc.gnu.org)

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Outbox Is Shutting Down (blog.outboxmail.com)

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With Traction But Out Of Cash, 4chan Founder Kills Off Canvas/DrawQuest (techcrunch.com)

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Yale dean addresses censorship concerns, apologizes (yalecollege.yale.edu)

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My Mind: A new web-based mind map editor (github.com)

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Female Founders Conference (femalefoundersconference.org)

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10

Setting OmniGraphSketcher Free (www.omnigroup.com)

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The New Aaron Swartz Documentary at Sundance (www.newyorker.com)

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U.S. Court: Bloggers Are Journalists, even when they're libeling you (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: Workflow for Frontend-Developers to create Desktop Applications (github.com)

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CarWoo is shutting down (carwoo.com)

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SSL Labs: Stricter security requirements for 2014 (blog.ivanristic.com)

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Antimatter experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen (home.web.cern.ch)

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New Amazon EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for S3/EBS (aws.amazon.com)

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Bug #9424: ruby 1.9 & 2.x has insecure SSL/TLS client defaults (bugs.ruby-lang.org)

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Argentina restricts online shopping as foreign reserves drop (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Performance optimizations coming to Node.js v0.12 (strongloop.com)

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8

AMD Debuts New 12- and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Series Processors (www.techpowerup.com)

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12

Dots and Perl (perlhacks.com)

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Germany's Privacy Stance Boosts Berlin's Tech Startups (www.forbes.com)

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Functions Should Be Short And Sweet, But Why? (sam-koblenski.blogspot.ru)

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Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone (www.forbes.com)

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Warren Buffett offers $1 billion for perfect March Madness bracket (www.forbes.com)

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Myrddin: new programming language for coding close to the metal (mimir.eigenstate.org)

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Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm? (stackoverflow.com)

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Ukraine Tracks Protesters Through Cellphones (www.nytimes.com)

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Learn how to use SpriteBuilder, the new Cocos2d game dev tool (www.makegameswith.us)

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Beats Music launches (http://www.beatsmusic.com)

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Pushing Money to Debit Cards Using Balanced (balanced.crowdhoster.com)

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Map school: a free introduction to geo (mapschool.io)

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Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support (blog.varonis.com)

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Facebook almost reinvented PHP through HHVM (www.infoq.com)

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Poll: Do you donate to charity? (item?id=7098794)

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Super-fast Wi-Fi coming: 802.11ac-2013 (www.zdnet.com)

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LogMeIn to discontinue Free remote access product (blog.logmein.com)

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The healing power of video games (www.polygon.com)

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Windows 7 'back by popular demand', says HP as it targets wary consumers (www.theguardian.com)

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The tools that define us - Building a tool culture (www.cucumbertown.com)

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The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (www.theguardian.com)

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Grunt.js: Tips and Tricks (quickleft.com)

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It’s painful to do a tech startup in London (www.techdisruptive.com)

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1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell (www.theguardian.com)

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Graph of Programming Language Influences (bgriffen.scripts.mit.edu)

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Apportable’s SpriteBuilder lets developers run iOS games on Android (YC W11) (venturebeat.com)

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Computing the Perfect Model: Why Do Economists Shun Simulation? [pdf] (www2.econ.iastate.edu)

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Scaling PageRank with R on Rescale (blog.rescale.com)

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Introducing CodePlayer: Watch your code like a movie (engineering.hackerearth.com)

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Buses for Tech Workers in San Francisco Will Pay Fee (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Build iOS and Android games in Objective-C with SpriteBuilder (www.spritebuilder.com)

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Mail Pilot – The State of Email on the Mac (blog.schneidmaster.com)

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Queue everything and delight everyone (decafbad.com)

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Cycript – Objective-C++/JavaScript hybrid debug REPL for OSX/iOS (www.cycript.org)

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MakeGamesWithUs Summer Academy receives 1,000 applications in first month (www.makegameswith.us)

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CSS 'frameworks' are missing the point (2008) (stackoverflow.com)

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Facebook May Lose 80% of Its User Base by 2017 (www.vocativ.com)

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Person announces they're missing via tumblr (lequaintrellenoir.tumblr.com)

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Kanye West, Startup Idol (madebyloren.com)

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REST Superman - Parallel Async HTTP Client as a Service Open Sourced! (http://www.restsuperman.com)

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The subtle brilliance of Apple's product names (www.tuaw.com)

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Show HN: Nudge - The klout for healthy living (www.nudgeyourself.com)

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Paperless Office? screw it (kissflow.com)

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Show HN: Gugodoc, my static web generator (for what it's worth ) (http://gugodoc.free.fr)

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Apple Falls Behind Microsoft, Samsung, Sony In New Consumer Experience Survey (www.macrumors.com)

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Ask HN: What are some new things to try in life? (item?id=7101634)

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Hacker News without the Hacker News (on Meteor) (hn.meteor.com)

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The Sahara memorial seen from space (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Man moves multi-ton blocks using ancient technology (www.mlive.com)

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Coursera Data Science Certificate (www.coursera.org)

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Logging As Storytelling #2: Actions (www.hybridcluster.com)

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Amazon Considering Online Pay-TV Service (online.wsj.com)

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Show HN: Easily send encrypted email from your existing email (www.virtru.com)

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Ask HN: What is your current pet project? (item?id=7100580)

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Hackers access 16 million email accounts (www.thelocal.de)

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What's on my blackboard (whatsonmyblackboard.wordpress.com)

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Pixar Makes Painterly CG: New Research Could Change The Look of Their Films (www.cartoonbrew.com)

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Show HN: My 5-year mocap Machinima project with Hollywood stars (www.deathknightlovestory.com)

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Embedding Angular in the physical world (www.ng-newsletter.com)

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Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes (blogs.computerworld.com)

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Hackintosh Mod Used an Actual Trash Can to Look Like Apple's New Mac Pro (nofilmschool.com)

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Google Video Quality Report (www.google.com)

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What Are Some Stupid Things That Smart People Do? (www.quora.com)

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40% better single-threaded performance in MariaDB (kristiannielsen.livejournal.com)

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0

Warren Buffett Will Give You $1 Billion For A Perfect March Madness Bracket (www.businessinsider.com)

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How I stopped worrying and learned to love the Mongo Shell (blog.mongohq.com)

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Net Neutrality Is Already in Trouble in the Developing World (www.slate.com)

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Surviving legacy code (2013) (blog.learningbyshipping.com)

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T-Mobile Hopes to Shake Up the Check-Cashing Industry, Too (recode.net)

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Stanford - Cryptography II (www.coursera.org)

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The Prisoner of Stress: What does anxiety mean? (www.newyorker.com)

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Ask HN: What data science blogs do you follow? (item?id=7096518)

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81

Outbox Shutting Down (blog.outboxmail.com)

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I ported the minimalist text adventure we all know and love, A Dark Room, to iOS (itunes.apple.com)

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Introducing Verizon Cloud (beta.cloud.verizon.com)

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0

Just say no. Please, Marissa. Just. Say. No. (pando.com)

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Ask HN: Web Developer looking to move to Systems Programming seeking advice (item?id=7094556)

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0

How I Went From An Idea To Paying Customers In 3 Days (planscope.io)

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82

Gadget Made by a 16-Year-Old Could Decrease Your Energy Bills (tech.co)

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Show HN: Per-monitor workspaces for Compiz 0.8.x (github.com)

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Dotfiles/bin/todo (github.com)

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72

MPEG LA Announces Proposed HEVC Licensing Terms (www.streamingmedia.com)

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80

Email’s About to Die, Argues Facebook Co-Founder (www.wired.com)

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0

Slick 2.0 (slick.typesafe.com)

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0

Hacker found 70,000 records on Healthcare.gov through a Google search (www.theverge.com)

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0

Minuum keyboard on a Smart Watch (www.youtube.com)

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Yahoo is going full steam ahead with EmberJS (blog.shawndumas.com)

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Physicists discover 'clearest evidence yet' that the Universe is a hologram (www.independent.co.uk)

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Why We Love Ephemeral Messaging (And You Should, Too) (pingpal.io)

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The kindergarden art archive (medium.com)

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JOII: Simple object inheritance for JavaScript. (github.com)

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Nitrous wrote a Mac app with Ember and Node (blog.nitrous.io)

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Feinstein's defense of the NSA costs her support among key constituencies (www.latimes.com)

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Show HN: I made an app to immortalize inside jokes - Quoth (itunes.apple.com)

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Make any Cloud Provider HIPAA Compliant (www1.ncryptedcloud.com)

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87

Soylent Update 1/21 (blog.soylent.me)

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0

Pinterest CEO Lays Out Growth Plan (online.wsj.com)

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Show HN: Limelight - An open source implementation of Nvidia GameStream (limelight-stream.com)

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Warren Buffett’s Billion-Dollar Prize To Predict The Perfect NCAA Bracket (techcrunch.com)

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How reCAPTCHA Works, How You Can Cheat It, and How it's Good For Humanity (medium.com)

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A Breathtaking Lunar Panorama, Taken From China’s Moon Lander (www.wired.com)

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Segregating Bitcoin’s value systems (dizzynomics.wordpress.com)

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Yahoo mail implies Chromium degraded browser; asks upgrading to FireFox/Safari (twitter.com)

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Guinness planned to advertise in Nazi Germany (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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New M3 Instances Sizes + Features, Reduced S3 & EBS Prices (aws.typepad.com)

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Using MapBox with Ruby on Rails (vladigleba.com)

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0

The Humanities and Us (www.city-journal.org)

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Why So Many Tech Founders Who Are Jerks Become Insanely Rich And Successful (www.seattlepi.com)

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Women earned a majority of 2012 doctoral degrees in 33 STEM fields (www.aei-ideas.org)

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Pinterest marketing startup Ahalogy raises $3.1m Series A (techcrunch.com)

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Chomsky on Geneva 2 and Iran (voiceofrussia.com)

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Ramen To The Rescue: How Instant Noodles Fight Global Hunger (www.npr.org)

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Ask HN: What should I do with my abandoned project? (item?id=7098808)

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"The design goal of dlib is to make C as practical and concise as Perl" (github.com)

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Coinbase annotated Satoshi Bitcoin paper on Rap Genius (news.rapgenius.com)

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Why I Leaked the XB1M13 Agreement (reconxbl.blogspot.co.uk)

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The health hazards of sitting (apps.washingtonpost.com)

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MPAA & ICE Confirm They Interrogated A Guy For Wearing Google Glass During Movie (www.techdirt.com)

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Proposal to remove OpenSSL from Ruby's stdlib (bugs.ruby-lang.org)

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Pile of Viruses (what-if.xkcd.com)

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Canadian government invites coders to Hackaton (www.vancouversun.com)

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More frozen designs: "Mel would have *loved* it" (www.cs.utah.edu)

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Kickstarter Pledges Are Risky Investments, Not Purchases (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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0

In 1951 D.C. scientists set out to listen for the sounds of A-bombs (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Scientists detect “spoiled onions” trying to sabotage Tor privacy network (arstechnica.com)

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Mattermark (YC S12) is hiring a developer (mattermark.com)

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Java, Ruby and Design – Perfect Audience is Hiring (www.perfectaudience.com)

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Airware (YC W13) is looking for SDK/API gurus (item?id=7101482)

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