hackerNews

9

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username (medium.com)

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2

We're Shutting Down and I'm Scared (startupsanonymous.com)

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1

Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria (blog.coursera.org)

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1

EVE Online wages largest war in its 10 year history (www.polygon.com)

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5

Let banks fail: Iceland’s plan looks to be working (business.financialpost.com)

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3

Open for everyone (blog.svbtle.com)

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2

AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100 (arstechnica.com)

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1

Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue (arstechnica.com)

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4

IE7 users, we need to talk… (www.nursingjobs.us)

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8

Jb’s story about how he nearly lost his Twitter handle (d.pr)

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3

US bans students from “blacklisted” countries from getting access to COURSERA (hummusforthought.com)

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8

Vim Croquet (www.drbunsen.org)

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4

Medium raises $25 million (recode.net)

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6

I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it (blog.yumhacker.com)

146 points first seen 2014012906 last seen 2014013012 70 comments

9

CoffeeScript 1.7.0 (http://coffeescript.org#changelog)

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26

How Bitcoin helped me start a completely anonymous blog (untraceableblog.com)

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5

World’s First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer Announced (3dprint.com)

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6

Mistakes Programmers Make when Starting in Machine Learning (machinelearningmastery.com)

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11

Google launches chrome apps for android and ios (thenextweb.com)

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3

Redesigned Conversations (github.com)

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14

JSON Mail Access Protocol Specification (JMAP) (jmap.io)

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12

Avatar: A browser OS with built-in privacy and anonymity (sneakpeek.avatar.ai)

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20

Show HN: Dogecoin tutorial (howtodogecoin.com)

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20

Ukraine crisis: Parliament abolishes anti-protest law (www.bbc.co.uk)

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5

Linode CLI (blog.linode.com)

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16

This bug in AOSP is impeding science. How to best get Google's attention? (code.google.com)

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9

Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2 (github.com)

89 points first seen 2014012921 last seen 2014013103 61 comments

40

10 things you should know about Token-based Authentication (blog.auth0.com)

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40

Technology and wealth inequality (blog.samaltman.com)

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6

Open Dylan's Call for Help (opendylan.org)

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13

Even Akamai screws up their SSL certs (www.akamai.com)

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12

New era of fast genetic engineering (www.newscientist.com)

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10

Post mortem: Thanks and lessons learned (elnorr.com)

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10

Google has disabled the ability to search in discussions (www.seroundtable.com)

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11

Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

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44

Ember.js is driving me crazy (softwaresimply.blogspot.com)

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16

A Tiny Startup’s Plot to Beat Google at Big Data (wrd.cm)

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82

Silicon Valley Is Now Public Enemy No. 1, And We Only Have Ourselves To Blame (techcrunch.com)

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11

Indiegogo: The $7 PC to bridge the digital divide for 5 billion people (www.indiegogo.com)

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13

3D-printed Aerospike Rocket Engine (www.kickstarter.com)

53 points first seen 2014012912 last seen 2014013003 29 comments

16

How to safely invoke Webhooks (blog.fanout.io)

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19

Atomic Clocks Make a Quantum Leap in Accuracy (www.engineering.com)

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90

Rename GTFO to GOAWAY (github.com)

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19

RIP Martin Schaedel: 1985–2009 (blog.rb.cm)

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83

The problems SparkFun has letting people bring dogs into work (www.sparkfun.com)

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37

Apple TV graduates from hobby/accessory to product line ahead of major changes (9to5mac.com)

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45

Oculus Is Awesome for Games, But It’s the Future of Movies (www.wired.com)

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45

Hand Coding A Personal Website (seogadget.com)

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21

Problems versus Exercises (www.epsiloncamp.org)

45 points first seen 2014012906 last seen 2014013000 9 comments

24

TrueCrypt Volumes are Indistinguishable from Random Data (16s.us)

45 points first seen 2014012912 last seen 2014013000 42 comments

22

Fat Models – A Django Code Organization Strategy (redbeacon.github.io)

45 points first seen 2014012912 last seen 2014013003 27 comments

18

First-Ever Porsche Rediscovered: Electric Power from 1898 (ca.finance.yahoo.com)

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17

Mozilla Ichnaea geo-location from cellphone towers, wifi networks, etc. (github.com)

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28

New York Department of Financial Services Bitcoin Hearing - Live (www.totalwebcasting.com)

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48

Jesse Ryan Loskarn's Last Message (www.jesseryanloskarnslastmessage.com)

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71

Ukraine's PM Azarov and government resign (www.bbc.co.uk)

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20

Weilos (YC S13) Moves From Fitness Coaching To Weight-Loss Selfies (techcrunch.com)

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80

Passwordless Products (blog.bolt.co)

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68

Quentin Tarantino is suing Gawker for posting a link to the script of his film (www.bbc.co.uk)

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28

Genetic Weapon Against Insects Raises Hope and Fear in Farming (www.nytimes.com)

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24

Tumblr Terms and Privacy Policy diff (github.com)

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32

Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle' (www.theguardian.com)

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31

The New Hotel Key: Your Smartphone (online.wsj.com)

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73

Battling Silicon Valley Wage Suppression (blog.mightyspring.com)

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Amazon to release sub-$300 android games console this year (www.vg247.com)

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24

Improving compaction in Cassandra with cardinality estimation (www.datastax.com)

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23

The Pebble Steel review: Wearables 2.0 arrive (arstechnica.com)

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36

YC Alum GoCardless Raises Another $7M (techcrunch.com)

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79

Linus Torvalds and other developers are leaving Bitcoins on the table (www.itworld.com)

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37

On ZFS deduplication and compression support (www.leaseweblabs.com)

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66

How to validate your SaaS idea with the power of hustle (blog.close.io)

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26

DDOS attack against Digitalocean San Francisco Datacenter (status.digitalocean.com)

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30

Decentralizing Docker: How to Use Serf with Docker (blog.ctl-c.io)

21 points first seen 2014012915 last seen 2014013003 4 comments

24

Apache ignores access control when using FastCGI (issues.apache.org)

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22

The Data that Drives Customer Support for Over 600,000 Product Use Cases (zapier.com)

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88

Commit 15 Minutes to Help a Student Break Into Your Industry (projectxpresso.com)

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24

Show HN: SupportKit embeds Zendesk into your iOS apps, with one line of code (http://supportkit.radialpoint.com)

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29

How we improved Python packaging & distribution (rhodecode.com)

19 points first seen 2014012900 last seen 2014012918 12 comments

27

San Diego Hacker News Meetup 48 this Friday (1/31) (anyvite.com)

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88

Conceal, a fast Android crypto lib for SD storage. (facebook.github.io)

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53

Run Chrome Apps on mobile using Apache Cordova (blog.chromium.org)

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33

Kill your index.php (www.workingsoftware.com.au)

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70

Quick Left and Sprint.ly pair up to form a web-development superpower (venturebeat.com)

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68

Do you want to learn some abstract math? Will you give me your opinion? (item?id=7139635)

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59

RIP Pete Seeger (www.bbc.co.uk)

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35

Investors and advisors: the crowd, the ringside, and your corner (josephwalla.com)

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33

The Case for Free Online Books (from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com)

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0

Testimony of Pete Seeger before the House Un-American Activities Committee (www.peteseeger.net)

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33

LiveRebel 3.0 lands: Now release multiple apps simultaneously (zeroturnaround.com)

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74

Ask HN: Should I continue with my bootstrapped Start Up? (item?id=7137359)

11 points first seen 2014012903 last seen 2014012906 10 comments

46

Keep Emotions Out of Your Startup (startupbox.posthaven.com)

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68

Why Aren’t App Designers as Famous as Chefs? (on.wsj.com)

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75

Ask PG: If you were at Hacker School this year what would you work on? (item?id=7139617)

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0

As Facebook Turns 10, Zuckerberg Wants to Change How Tech Industry Works (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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0

Proxying User Images (github.com)

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49

Flag – the app that prints and mails your photos for free (www.kickstarter.com)

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0

The state of computer science education in California’s high schools (medium.com)

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84

Ask HN: Will we be using Unix derived OS's for the next 50 years? (item?id=7139273)

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55

If You’re Not Helping People Develop, You’re Not Management Material (blogs.hbr.org)

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87

Government finally admits plaintiff was on the “no-fly” list (papersplease.org)

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0

Why You (And Everyone Else) May Soon Be Taking 15 Photos Per Hour (blog.yourmemoir.com)

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0

Build with Legos in Chrome (www.buildwithchrome.com)

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58

Imgur rolls out crazy useful viral image analytics dashboard (venturebeat.com)

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0

How not to write a job post (blog.hackerearth.com)

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72

Google Chrome stores every password that you use, even in Incognito mode (item?id=7137989)

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64

German cows cause methane blast in Rasdorf (www.bbc.co.uk)

6 points first seen 2014012903 last seen 2014012906 0 comments

66

ThoughtWorks annual Tech Radar is out (www.thoughtworks.com)

6 points first seen 2014012903 last seen 2014012906 0 comments

0

Hacker News Lisbon meetup, Thursday 30th January (www.meetup.com)

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84

Ask HN: Charge at launch, or wait a few months to learn about our users? (item?id=7139189)

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80

Move Loot (YC W14) Brings Furniture Consignment Into The 21st Century (techcrunch.com)

6 points first seen 2014012906 last seen 2014012909 0 comments

83

Mistakes Startups Make When Building for Mobile (firstround.com)

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67

Girls underperform when they play chess against boys (bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.il)

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58

Los Angeles hopes 'Hacktivists' will turn city data into user-friendly apps (www.scpr.org)

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84

Show HN: An API for Customer Feedback (http://supportive.io)

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0

6 million downloads later, Elasticsearch launches a commercial product (gigaom.com)

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0

Why I Love Go (blog.jonathanoliver.com)

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79

How to really hack the system and eat for free (www.news.com.au)

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0

Npm is down (twitter.com)

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75

Facebook Reading Android Users’ Texts? Well, Hold On (techcrunch.com)

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0

Hackers and Founders Mumbai Meetup – 1 Feb (www.meetup.com)

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81

New Course: Intro to Data Science (blog.udacity.com)

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0

Snowden leaks: GCHQ 'spied on Facebook and YouTube' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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86

Lift-share firm Uber faces lawsuit over child death (www.bbc.co.uk)

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0

Ask HN: How to handle taxes on a larger freelance contract (item?id=7137337)

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0

Poorly Redacted Snowden Documents Finger Al-Qaeda in Mosul Using Adobe (cryptome.org)

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0

In the Company of Wealth (bigthink.com)

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0

Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 (www.nytimes.com)

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0

Google Glass to Be Covered by Vision Care Insurer VSP (www.nytimes.com)

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59

Facebook: Open Compute Has Saved Us $1.2 Billion (www.datacenterknowledge.com)

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0

The Oculus Rift Put Me In Game of Thrones and It Made My Stomach Drop (gizmodo.com)

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0

Do you use any service to invoice customers after getting paid with Stripe? (item?id=7139283)

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85

F.B.I. Audit of Database That Indexes DNA Finds Errors in Profiles (www.nytimes.com)

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0

On The Future Of Statistical Languages (www.drbunsen.org)

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62

What sucks/rocks about being an Open Source community manager (www.computerweekly.com)

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82

Spotify: how a busy songwriter you've never heard of makes it work for him (www.theguardian.com)

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0

Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore (kotaku.com)

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0

What is exposed about you and your friends when you login with Facebook (boingboing.net)

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0

CukeUp London, 3-4 April 2014 (cucumber.pro)

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0

Tether – Marrying elements for life (github.hubspot.com)

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0

Quick Left and Sprintly Merge to Form Web-Development Super Power (quickleft.com)

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0

Go beyond followers – Quantify your contributions and online authority (thoughtly.co)

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79

Show HN: Sell your Starbucks giftcards for Bitcoin (cardforcoin.com)

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0

A week after sort-of launching my first startup (item?id=7137945)

3 points first seen 2014012903 last seen 2014012903 0 comments

0

Fit.js – Fit things into other things (github.com)

3 points first seen 2014012903 last seen 2014012903 0 comments

0

Introducing Resource Blueprint (github.com)

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0

Genius for iPhone is Here (news.rapgenius.com)

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0

Jason Calacanis launches his new startup, Inside.com. (blog.inside.com)

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77

Stop Hiring DevOps Experts and Start Growing Them (www.hakkalabs.co)

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79

Bitcoin exchange CEO arrested for money laundering (money.cnn.com)

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90

Tell HN: Use hand grippers to alleviate hand pain when using your keyboard (item?id=7140315)

3 points first seen 2014012909 last seen 2014012912 4 comments

0

Maybe the real reason teens are leaving Facebook (2013) (medium.com)

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0

Ask HN: I'm a senior in high school looking for a CS internship (item?id=7139934)

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0

Recruiter Job Posts, Explained (jobtipsforgeeks.com)

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0

Adventures in Go land: high performance custom HTTP(S) service (aruiz.synaptia.net)

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0

Ask HN: You're building a new house. What tech features would you want in it? (item?id=7140541)

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0

Instructional Exercise: A Rhyming Dictionary in Clojure (github.com)

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88

Launching HealthCare.gov [June] (developmentseed.org)

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90

How to be a Great Entrepreneur with Josh Kopelman (drt.fm)

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0

What is the Prince Lawsuit Really About and Why is it Relevant (www.longest.com)

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0

VC Tom Perkins: I Regret Comparing Plight Of 1% To Nazi Germany (sfist.com)

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0

Elderly Bletchley Park volunteer sacked for showing Colossus exhibit to visitors (www.theregister.co.uk)

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0

Haptic GPS Bicycle Handlebars (basheertome.com)

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0

What if your next in-person meeting was like a conference call... (twentytwowords.com)

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0

Ask HN: Bridge Story/Metaphor (item?id=7142733)

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19

Build great systems on top of banks at Standard Treasury (YC S13) (jobs.lever.co)

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30

Golang, systemd, Linux, docker, build it all with CoreOS (YC S13) (item?id=7140396)

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