hackerNews

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Egor Homakov: How I hacked Github again. (homakov.blogspot.com)

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How I learned to stop giving advice (jamesavery.io)

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Introduction to the Mill CPU Programming Model (ootbcomp.com)

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What happened when the CEO of a Boston burrito chain became an Uber driver (www.boston.com)

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Why Programming is Difficult (joearms.github.io)

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GoPro Files For IPO (techcrunch.com)

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Cheat Sheets – OWASP (www.owasp.org)

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Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts (blog.mozilla.org)

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ICE/ISEE-3 to return to an Earth no longer capable of speaking to it (www.planetary.org)

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How to Create Your Own Git Server (www.spinellis.gr)

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FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam (steamcommunity.com)

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Google Passes Exxon to Become Second-Most Valuable U.S. Company (www.bloomberg.com)

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Mt. Gox Halts ALL Bitcoin Withdrawals, Price Drop Follows (www.coindesk.com)

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Russia Bans Bitcoin (techcrunch.com)

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Libcloud: One Interface To Rule Them All (libcloud.apache.org)

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Wine 1.7.12 Released (www.winehq.org)

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Apple approves Dogecoin iOS app (http://www.mydoge.co)

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Show HN: Automatic VPN Generator – Protect Yourself at Sochi and Starbucks (www.tinfoilsecurity.com)

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Mozilla launches $300,000 Gigabit Community Fund (thenextweb.com)

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ShowHN: dweet.io – Twitter for machines (http://dweet.io)

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The Firing Squad Problem (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

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Hawala: The Working Man’s Bitcoin (priceonomics.com)

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One of the last chimp 'mega-cultures'in remote Congo forest (www.theguardian.com)

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Gitbucket – The easily installable Github clone powered by Scala (github.com)

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Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported (help.linkedin.com)

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German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website (www.thedomains.com)

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We’re Shutting Down and I’m Scared – The Aftermath (startupsanonymous.com)

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Drone and Docker, Open Source CI (blog.drone.io)

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California Law to Require Antitheft Technology in Cellphones (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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I left Heroku for OpsWorks and shaved 40% off response times (www.stefanwrobel.com)

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New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: Bubblin (https://bubbl.in)

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Show HN: progre(c)ss (jh3y.github.io)

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How Adobe Got Rid of Traditional Performance Reviews (www.linkedin.com)

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China’s Huge 3D Printers, Soon Able to Print Automobile-Sized Metal Objects (3dprint.com)

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Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex? (www.nytimes.com)

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AOL chief cuts 401k benefits, blames Obamacare and two “distressed babies” (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Sendwithus (YC W14) Offers A/B Testing And Analytics Tools For Email Marketers (techcrunch.com)

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Flappy Bird in HTML5 (uralozden.com)

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RPGFS: Crossing an RPG with a Unix Filesystem (code.google.com)

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Etcd 0.3.0 – Improved Cluster Discovery, API Enhancements and Windows Support (coreos.com)

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Bitcoin sinks after exchange pauses withdrawals (news.cnet.com)

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In the C++ bag of tricks: scoped locks (blog.skanev.org)

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An Interview with John Foreman, Chief Data Scientist at MailChimp (chartio.com)

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Ask HN: Founder's tactics crossing the line? (item?id=7197793)

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Jazzpunk: an adventure comedy game (jazzpunk.net)

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How much would an iPhone have cost in 1991? (www.techpolicydaily.com)

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I Code to Procrastinate When I Should be Growing My Startup (blog.yumhacker.com)

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Google refuses to pay French privacy fine in a battle of company versus country (www.engadget.com)

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Install Ruby 2.1, Rails and Passenger on Ubuntu – A beginner's guide (10kb.nl)

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Show HN: Fresh baked bread, delivered to your door via SMS (getbreadbox.com)

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Reverse engineering my bank's security token (blog.valverde.me)

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Atlanta introduces bill to shut down Uber and Lyft (clatl.com)

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European Teslas to have built-in Rdio (www.engadget.com)

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Restaurant fable explains everything wrong with San Francisco housing right now (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Yahoo drops pro gay Dilbert comic (news.yahoo.com)

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Proposed bill would require kill switch in Calif. phones, tablets (news.cnet.com)

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Quilter: open source file sharing with Node.js and Cloudant (cloudant.com)

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The “Real World” is depressing me (lazarski.me)

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Employee Stock Options as Explained By an English Major (thebillfold.com)

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October 2015: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card (blogs.wsj.com)

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Show HN: Sache.in: Discover Sass and Compass Extensions For Your Next Project (www.sache.in)

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The mystery doge ad in the Guardian's financial pages (www.theguardian.com)

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Linguist explains grammar of doge. Wow. (the-toast.net)

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How are pseudorandom and truly random numbers different and why does it matter? (superuser.com)

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Show HN: App for nonprofits, feedback appreciated (giver.io)

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Show HN: Search your clouds (http://xen.do)

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Report: Philip Seymour Hoffman to be Digitally Recreated for Hunger Games (www.seattlepi.com)

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Control Home Lighting with the Parse Webhook (sendgrid.com)

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Right now Facebook is having issues with messaging and Authenticating (developers.facebook.com)

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The End of Snow? (www.nytimes.com)

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How The Meritocracy Myth Affects Women In Technology (www.npr.org)

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Show HN: The HN effect on Dictionary Domains (traffic and revenue numbers) (blog.justinthiele.com)

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A Lazy Evaluation – Why I Find Learning Haskell Hard (connolly.io)

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Create 3D gifs by adding 2 lines. (imgur.com)

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Using Data to Pick the Optimal Name for Your Startup (tomtunguz.com)

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Cobalt intoxication diagnosed with the help of Dr House (www.thelancet.com)

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Turning table on NSA, US diplomats' phone call is bugged, leaked to YouTube (arstechnica.com)

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Why is it that reddit (almost) never shows up in Google search results? (www.reddit.com)

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Program an Arduino Yún without writing code Temboo's Sketch Builder (blog.arduino.cc)

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Florida Targets High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Beginners Guide to Internet Security and Privacy (www.tonido.com)

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Player Piano Emulating Human Speech (www.youtube.com)

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Assessing Cryptocurrency Use Cases (www.abcoin.net)

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BitLegal: Russia (bitlegal.io)

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Talking Discourse: An Interview with Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) (blog.bitnami.com)

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Big, Small, Hot or Cold - Data Pipeline Examples at Stripe, Tapad, Etsy, Square (www.hakkalabs.co)

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Facebook up and down intermittently starting around 1:20p PST (item?id=7198873)

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Please, Make Bitcoin Illegal (medium.com)

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Is Bitcoin Free Speech? (www.slate.com)

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Catch My Diff: Github's New Feature Means Big Things for Open Data (www.theatlantic.com)

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Nothing Keeps Apple From Making an Android Phone Except Common Sense (www.businessweek.com)

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Ben Horowitz’s Bitcoin Bet (techcrunch.com)

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Validating potential investors (josephwalla.com)

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Dong Nguyen, Creator of Flappy Birds, Responds To The Haters (www.ideatoappster.com)

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Sell Your Bitcoin to SecondMarket (www.secondmarket.com)

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Dogecoin=Facebook, Bitcoin=Myspace (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Do you downvote the comments above yours selfishly? (item?id=7198819)

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Fake-food scandal revealed as tests show third of products mislabelled (www.theguardian.com)

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Hackers can use Snapchat to disable iPhones, researcher says (www.latimes.com)

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Ask HN: Zooming on HN on Android phone? (item?id=7198127)

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Ask HN: Over time why wouldn't companies and people switch over to the new TLDs? (item?id=7198055)

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Participate in the Day We Fight Back with One Click (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Hackers can use Snapchat to disable iPhones, researcher says (www.latimes.com)

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Tesla Hires Hacker Kristin Paget to, Well, Secure Some Things (recode.net)

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The Finkbeiner test (en.wikipedia.org)

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Under-challenged web dev looking for work (item?id=7199499)

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Great Lakes ice cover spreading rapidly (www.mlive.com)

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Dogecoin Creators Talk Surprising Success, Scams, the Future and Pronunciation (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

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Share buybacks are what happen when you run out of ideas. Financial engineering (twitter.com)

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StoreMe | Miami storage startup, never go to a storage facility again (http://www.storeme.co)

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SEO Friendly Single-Page Apps with Batman.js and Rails (www.zohararad.com)

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Jumpers and the Software Defined Localhost (coreos.com)

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A Solution for Bad Teaching (www.nytimes.com)

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Mailpile Alpha Demo (demo.mailpile.is)

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