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Tim Berners-Lee: we need to re-decentralise the web (www.wired.co.uk)

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NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent (blog.erratasec.com)

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QuakeNet addresses government sponsored attacks on IRC networks (www.quakenet.org)

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Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings (chrome.blogspot.com)

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FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List (www.wired.com)

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Flappy Bird is proof that no one knows what the audience wants (www.polygon.com)

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Show HN: I built this game alone (design, code, music, sound, marketing) (www.toucheliss.com)

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Stanford Scientists Put Free Text-Analysis Tool on the Web (engineering.stanford.edu)

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Money for Nothing (www.dansdata.com)

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Why does Apple continue killing bitcoin apps? (blog.sfgate.com)

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Guide to Advanced Programming in C (pfacka.binaryparadise.com)

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ReactOS 0.3.16 released (www.reactos.org)

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Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over (recode.net)

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CircleCI raises $6m Series A (blog.circleci.com)

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Graphene conducts electricity ten times better than expected (www.nature.com)

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Google bought $750M Lenovo stake on January 30 (www.reuters.com)

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EA certainly isn't making it easy to give Dungeon Keeper a low rating on Android (www.pocketgamer.co.uk)

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Imgur is Covertly Redirecting Image Links on Facebook and Twitter (minimaxir.com)

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Warsaw, August 1947 (www.facebook.com)

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100 time cheaper dropbox like service (hubic.com)

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Django 1.6.2 and 1.7a2 released (www.djangoproject.com)

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Getting to No: The Key to Startup Selling (www.sequoiacap.com)

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Simple Dynamic Strings – A C strings library (github.com)

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Statement Regarding BTC Withdrawal Delays (www.mtgox.com)

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There’s something rotten in the state of online video streaming (gigaom.com)

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New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Google shows support for LGBT Olympians (www.google.com)

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You don't have big data (blog.mongohq.com)

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DataBall (grantland.com)

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Show HN: A developers-only news site you join via pull request (pullup.herokuapp.com)

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Tory Boss of Government Coding Education Initiative Can't Code (politicalscrapbook.net)

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Breakthrough bionic hand restores amputee’s sense of touch (ca.news.yahoo.com)

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JEP 188: Java Memory Model Update (openjdk.java.net)

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Candy Japan 2013 Year in Review (www.candyjapan.com)

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Bitcoin users smash their iPhones after Apple bans Blockchain from App Store (www.digitaltrends.com)

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Amazon Acquires Video Gaming Studio Double Helix Games (techcrunch.com)

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The Tragedy of NASA. (www.slate.com)

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Why I Gave Up My Front-Row Seat in Silicon Valley (founderdating.com)

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Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics (newsfeed.time.com)

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Recruiting: There is no such thing as a developer shortage (sarajchipps.com)

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A Guide to Basic CSS Layout Structures and Quirks (db.marknadal.com)

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Replaced JS with HTTP request (github.com)

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More than half of US fracking wells take water from drought-stricken areas (www.usatoday.com)

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Bitcoin banned in Russia (translate.googleusercontent.com)

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I For One Welcome Our New Robot Vocal Cords: Radical Computer Music (thequietus.com)

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Dual-Pivot Binary Search (vkostyukov.ru)

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Tesla expands Supercharger Network in Europe (www.ciol.com)

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The number two paid app on iOS is based on a $10 GameSalad template (www.gamasutra.com)

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SolarCoin – the cryptocurrency that pays you to generate solar power (www.newscientist.com)

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Sony sells off VAIO PC business amid prolonged industry slump (arstechnica.com)

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Dogpatch – An HTTP API testing framework (github.com)

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Bank of Indonesia changes course, now says Bitcoin is legal (bitlegal.io)

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Show HN: PressFriendly – PR software built with machine learning for startups (www.pressfriendly.com)

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Your Brain Wasn’t Built for Junk Food, Porn, or the Internet (www.sparringmind.com)

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Quarks Know Their Left From Their Right (news.sciencemag.org)

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An expanded comment on Clojure web development (hackworth.be)

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The lesson of Flappy Bird for games developers (www.gamezebo.com)

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Implementing, Abstracting and Benchmarking Lightweight Threads on the JVM (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

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Why you should (or shouldn’t) trust a startup (blog.compile.com)

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Slashdot is falling apart (altslashdot.org)

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Building Bare-Metal ARM Systems with GNU (www.embedded.com)

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Monitor PasteBin for Your Email or Passwords (github.com)

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LinkedIn To Acquire Bright.com (press.linkedin.com)

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NASA, Saylor Foundation to Offer New Free Space Systems Engineering Course (www.nasa.gov)

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“Can you teach someone to be an entrepreneur?” – France responds (www.rudebaguette.com)

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Docker and Security (blog.docker.io)

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Show HN: Snapbugz – The easiest way to discuss bugs. (www.snapbugz.com)

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Why I Did Not Go To Jail (www.bhorowitz.com)

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How Being a Doctor Made Me a Better Founder (www.inc.com)

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All Visitors to Sochi Olympics Immediately Hacked (www.nbcnews.com)

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Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely? (item?id=7194405)

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Beep: Bringing music to every room of your home (www.thisisbeep.com)

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Clippy.js (www.smore.com)

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How We Grew Our Customer Exit Survey Responses (groovehq.com)

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Ask HN: Have your parents done anything to make you interested in Science or IT? (item?id=7189774)

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Why The Greatest Online Tool, Email, Still Needs Disruption (blog.frontapp.com)

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Sniper Attack on San Jose power substation (www.mercurynews.com)

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Show HN: Firesub – Reusable checklists for teams [MVP] (firesub.com)

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Leonard Nimoy reveals he has lung disease (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Lob lowers prices (www.lob.com)

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The Julia Language is Here to Stay (crt.blogs.realtor.org)

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I got fired after 2 weeks of being hired. Please help me understand something (item?id=7195200)

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"Fuck the EU" – Phone call intercept (Google translate) (translate.google.com)

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India extends visa-on-arrival facility to 180 countries (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Attending – Free events, done better (attending.io)

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Sorry, Guy: I Won’t Come Work For Buzzfeed (medium.com)

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Counterparty (XCP), first trust-free decentralized asset exchange, is now live (blockscan.com)

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Ask HN: How to parry incoming employment leads into consulting leads? (item?id=7191500)

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Why mine Bitcoins when you can use Computing Power for Hedging? (crowdprocess.com)

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My Experiment to Have More Meaningful Conversations (neiljoglekar.com)

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The Silent Treatment: Sex and Silence at Yale (nymag.com)

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"Secret" App Is Becoming Silicon Valley’s New Blind Item (techcrunch.com)

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How Amazon Forced CVS to Stop Selling Cigarettes (www.wired.com)

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One Ad to Rule Them All (oneadtorulethemall.tumblr.com)

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Edward Snowden's greatest fear already happened in the 1970's (code.danielbeardsley.com)

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Doge 4 Kids: Dogecoin community donates $30,000 in 3 days (doge4kids.org)

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Police will have 'backdoor' access to health records despite opt-out, says MP (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: How tarnished is this domain name? (item?id=7195081)

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Planck Stars: new type of star emerges from black holes (arxiv.org)

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Steve Wozniak: Apple Should Make an Android Phone (www.wired.com)

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Verizon responds to Netflix throttling allegations (www.afterdawn.com)

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Flagsmith – A Flag Building Typeface (www.flagsmithfont.com)

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Indian physicist resolved Black Hole paradox much before Hawking. (businesstoday.intoday.in)

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How I Discovered My Growth Opportunity at Balanced (blog.balancedpayments.com)

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Leave Pricing OFF your homepage (item?id=7194552)

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I Think My School is Distributing Pirated Software (www.reddit.com)

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In Defense of Scala, part 2 (blog.gridgainsystems.com)

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The most expensive e-book (www.amazon.com)

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Learn programming (5 examples illustrated by xkcd comics) (medium.com)

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Hitting a comet (what-if.xkcd.com)

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Engineering a Dilbert Movie Script (dilbert.com)

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Applying Transformations To Responsive Web Design (mobile.smashingmagazine.com)

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Hands-on with Google’s new “Chromebox for meetings” (blog.cdw.com)

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Tesla Model S Cross Country Rally – Los Angeles to New York [video] (www.youtube.com)

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New Relic claims revenue more than doubled in 2013 on its road to IPO (gigaom.com)

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JavaScript MV* libraries benchmarked with TodoMVC (vuejs.org)

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Ask HN: Are there any jobs where a primary task is writing reg exps? (item?id=7195214)

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Slinky.js – scrolling navigation lists with stacking headers. (slinky.iclanzan.com)

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Tim-Berners Lee: We need to re-decentralize the web (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Depressed – To 'Start Up' or Not ,Help (item?id=7190975)

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I created this to help my son – maybe you know someone that could use it (item?id=7191926)

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Learn Clojure with Project Euler (ochronus.com)

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Air India 787 Dreamliner 3 computers failed at same time (www.smh.com.au)

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The Underground Economy of Dolores Park (priceonomics.com)

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The Passion of Alvin Weinberg: the man behind China's thorium push (thebreakthrough.org)

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The Infinity Machine: The Quantum Quest for a Revolutionary Computer (content.time.com)

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Leveraxe: the asymmetric axe (vipukirves.fi)

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Former Googlers announce new Beep audio streamer that connects to any speaker (www.techspot.com)

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In Russia, Bathroom Mirror Watches You (techcrunch.com)

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Why no women in the story on Silicon Valley fashion? (www.marketplace.org)

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Why programmers work at night [2011] (swizec.com)

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Bitcoin: Short and Medium Term Opportunities For Entrepreneurs (quasar-ventures.com)

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As an interviewee, what was your Stripe interview experience? (www.quora.com)

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Your Logical Fallacy Is (yourlogicalfallacyis.com)

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Zero to traction (www.slideshare.net)

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A slimmer and faster pdf.js (blog.mozilla.org)

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Google now displays large-format video in search results (www.google.com)

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Australia's Atlassian – a startup headed for a billion dollar IPO (www.businessinsider.com.au)

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Samsung, Cisco Sign Cross-License Pact for Tech Patents (online.wsj.com)

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Sony To Exit PC Business By Selling VAIO (techcrunch.com)

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Workers Who Have Been Unemployed Earn Less for Years (blogs.wsj.com)

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Ask HN: How does your team manage software releases? (item?id=7190922)

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MemSQL throws a curve, adds column store on flash (gigaom.com)