hackerNews

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Gmail was down (www.google.com)

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Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator (mondrian.io)

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King.com (Candy Crush) copied an existing game (junkyardsam.com)

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Framed For Selling Crack, Surveillance Video Helps Him Sue Police (ipvm.com)

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Gmail Glitch Is Causing 1000s Of Emails To Be Sent To One Man’s Hotmail Account (techcrunch.com)

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Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster (periscope.io)

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The hardest computer game of all time (www.slate.com)

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How Long Have I Got Left? (www.nytimes.com)

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“We Just Can’t Have You Here” (yaledailynews.com)

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Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves (www.nbcnews.com)

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Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics (money.cnn.com)

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Where do you find the time for side projects? (justinjackson.ca)

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Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes' : Nature News & Comment (www.nature.com)

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UK porn filter blocks League of Legends update (www.joystiq.com)

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Why I'm Moving My Business From San Francisco To St. Louis (needwant.com)

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Richard Stallman - Re: clang vs free software (gcc.gnu.org)

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Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad revenue on 4.2.2.x (james.bertelson.me)

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The rise and rise of dogecoin, the internet's hottest cryptocurrency (www.theage.com.au)

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The monkeys in 2013 | Mozilla JS (blog.mozilla.org)

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Why Dogecoin is Important (www.abcoin.net)

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JQuery 1.11 and 2.1 Released (blog.jquery.com)

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16 Free eBooks On Machine Learning (efytimes.com)

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This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup (ariannasimpson.com)

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Google’s Reliability Team Sat Down for an AMA Right Before Gmail Exploded (techcrunch.com)

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Macintosh 128K Teardown (www.ifixit.com)

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CBSD - FreeBSD based Docker alternative (www.bsdstore.ru)

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HN Search Updated (hn.algolia.io)

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Today’s outage for several Google services (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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Ethereum is a next-generation cryptocurrency platform (ethereum.org)

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Super Rare NES game in eBay auction at $89,000 (www.ebay.com)

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Beware! Bats hide in your jQuery (blog.spiderlabs.com)

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Hawking: Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes (arxiv.org)

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Light Table 0.6.2 released (github.com)

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Personal Computers – Hardware Review – Apple Weighs in With Macintosh (1984) (www.nytimes.com)

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To Apple: An iOS Developer’s Wishlist (blog.cloudmagic.com)

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Ethereum “Dagger” PoW function is flawed (bitslog.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: cheap ways to host your own email server? (item?id=7117263)

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Young 'pranksters' skewed landmark sexuality study (www.news.cornell.edu)

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Show HN: Buy stuff through your terminal (zinc.io)

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An open letter to Nature editor Philip Campbell (tenureshewrote.wordpress.com)

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Memo to Stripe: Winning the hearts of Valley startups is not winning payments (pando.com)

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Snapchat usage triples among teens in the last year (survata.com)

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The 30-Year-Old Macintosh and a Conversation With Steve Jobs (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Apple wants to run its own mobile payments (online.wsj.com)

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How Real is ‘Her’? Artificial Intelligence Experts Weigh In (blogs.wsj.com)

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UK "Privacy not Prism" organisation (https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk)

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Why Violence Against Tech Firms May Only Be Beginning (www.realcleartechnology.com)

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Macs: 5% of global market, 50% of industry’s profits (blogs.wsj.com)

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Rethinking the limits on relational databases (www.craigkerstiens.com)

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DNSSEC Surpasses 50% (blog.icann.org)

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The Macintosh Is 30, and I Was There for Its Birth (www.wired.com)

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Hawking dismisses event horizons in favor of ADS-CFT (arxiv.org)

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Defending PowerPoint Against Tufte (www.john-foreman.com)

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New XAMPP / Apache Friends site released (http://apachefriends.org)

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Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup (blog.expensify.com)

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MySQL server memory usage troubleshooting tips (www.mysqlperformanceblog.com)

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Surviving Hosting On Airbnb When On Vacation (blog.booksuperhost.com)

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Reduced Pricing on Azure Storage - Price Matching Amazon Web Services (blogs.msdn.com)

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Why you should use Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (blog.teamtreehouse.com)

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Ask HN: How do you find clients? (item?id=7119392)

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Write an aphorism using valid code (codegolf.stackexchange.com)

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3 Years of Remote Work and Counting (blog.thegrizzlylabs.com)

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Dispelling Backblaze's HDD Reliability Myth (www.tweaktown.com)

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Hospital Chain Said to Scheme to Inflate Bills (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: GrowthHack as a Service – mturk + Google news api automation (https://www.robogrowth.com)

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Stanford launches latest version of iOS course on iTunes U (online.stanford.edu)

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Hackers can pwn your Android in 10 seconds, if you use Bing App in Starbucks (blog.trustlook.com)

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Balanced takes product development to the next level with crowdfunding (techcrunch.com)

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Large portions from Blizzard Entertainment's San Francisco Office laid off (www.ongamers.com)

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Ask HN: I hate startups, I love HN — am I weird? (item?id=7114421)

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We are the Google Site Reliability Engineering team. Ask us Anything (www.reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Friendly Cities? (item?id=7117490)

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4 Lifehacks From Ancient Philosophers That Will Make You Happier (www.bakadesuyo.com)

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Self-referential functions and the design of options (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

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Apple Celebrates 30 Years (www.apple.com)

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Tuesday Tinkering: Try something new (collectiveidea.com)

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We are creating the HIV/AIDS vaccine to give away to the world for free. AMA. (www.reddit.com)

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Ask HN: What do you wish bitcoin facilitated, but doesn't currently? (item?id=7115188)

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It wouldn’t be crazy to give up grilled, smoked, or fried food (www.slate.com)

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Tell Apple the Story of Your First Mac (www.apple.com)

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The Best Study Resources for Technical Interviews(I've found) (www.davidhampgonsalves.com)

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XKCD: Cold (xkcd.com)

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Apple Pushes Deeper Into Mobile Payments (online.wsj.com)

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Peroxide: A simple proxy server that hits a chain of sources before failing (github.com)

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It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (techcrunch.com)

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Engineers Spotted ‘Hundreds’ of Cracks in San Francisco Bridge (www.businessweek.com)

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Microsoft’s great quarter suggests its next CEO should be Steve Ballmer (qz.com)

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South Korea rules pre-installed phone bloatware must be deletable (www.zdnet.com)

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Guess the Movie based on the code (gist.github.com)

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An AI Pal That Is Better Than “Her” (www.technologyreview.com)

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Wow. Such Weather. (dogeweather.com)

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Samsung.com Account Takeover Vulnerability Write-up (thehackerblog.com)

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Hobbyists pilot small drones for dogfights, photography (www.cnn.com)

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Why Chicago needs to stop playing by Silicon Valley’s rules (www.holovaty.com)

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A Ranty and Dogmatic Troll Masquerading as Coding Guidelines (blog.rocketpoweredjetpants.com)

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Snowden considers returning to the US (arstechnica.com)

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This is how Google is killing the Web (medium.com)

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Bitcoin is a bubble - Robert Shiller, Nobel Laureate in Economics (rt.com)

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NSA Guide to Internet Research (www.muckrock.com)

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Ask HN: Appointment Booking Software? (item?id=7117467)

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Ghost in the Shellcode: TI-1337 (Pwnable 100) (blog.skullsecurity.org)

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Introduction to libclang (www.mikeash.com)

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Tenth Grade Tech Trends, 2014 Edition: Snapchat usage up 3X (blog.garrytan.com)

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Firefighter creates Google Glass app to help save lives (www.mnn.com)

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In Russia, Couriers Halt Parcel Delivery (www.nytimes.com)

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Why I went with Plivo, not Twilio (vincedasta.com)

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Surveillance protest on 02/11 now has 3,000 sites signed up to take part (thedaywefightback.org)

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Ask HN: Why is Karma so unfair on HackerNews? (item?id=7119542)

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The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic (www.latimes.com)

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A Colombo Show HN Meetup (blog.thameera.com)

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Paul Graham - A Students Guide to Startups (paulgraham.com)

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Stallman calls LLVM "A Terrible Setback" (www.phoronix.com)

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No clue on SEO, any hints on tips on how we can improve our site. (item?id=7115491)

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We made Bitcoin this easy to use.[2:04] (www.youtube.com)

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Big Data and the Future of Privacy (www.whitehouse.gov)

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Boeing's Big Bet On American Creativity -- And Why It's A Loser (www.forbes.com)

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Eric Schmidt On Inequality (www.businessinsider.com)

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Exploring Type Classes in Nimrod (vocalbit.com)

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Ask HN: What are your best tips for organizing conferences? (item?id=7115978)

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Peter Thiel raises $750M for Founders Fund (www.bloomberg.com)

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You should do coding challenges (nortonwang.com)

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Apple.com does more to protect your password, study of top 100 sites finds (arstechnica.com)

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Symmetry in game theory: reducing 21 simultaneous equations to 1 equation (mindyourdecisions.com)

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Review My ProjContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ect - WriteYourRep.org (item?id=7119092)

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Show HN: Video Communication SaaS for Healthcare Providers (medisprout.com)

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Kingdom Come (www.kickstarter.com)

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New Tor Denial of Service Attacks and Defenses (blog.torproject.org)

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AeroFS is Hiring Mobile, Backend, and Support Engineers (www.aerofs.com)

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Aisle50 (YC S11) is hiring a junior UX/graphic designer (aisle50.com)

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