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The Weight of Rain (style.org)

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Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature (www.google.com)

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Show HN: JS library to make your website instant (item?id=7201353)

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Transparent Bitcoin Ponzi scheme (ponzi.io)

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Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system for 8.0 Jessie (lists.debian.org)

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There is no one else. In this universe, there’s just you (www.galactanet.com)

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Total security in a PostgreSQL database (www.ibm.com)

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The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield (america.aljazeera.com)

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Your Progress As A Programmer Is All Up To You (thecodist.com)

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Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore" (twitter.com)

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Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable. (arstechnica.com)

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Every line of code is always documented (mislav.uniqpath.com)

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Can Namecoin Obsolete ICANN (and More)? (theumlaut.com)

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80s Typography in CSS (codepen.io)

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Turkey pushes through new raft of 'draconian' Internet restrictions (www.theguardian.com)

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JZed.js – The functional JQuery Alternative [zedshaw] (github.com)

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A Better Firefox Sync (blog.mozilla.org)

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How I Optimize, Myself (danrodriguez.me)

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wget: the "low-cost tool" used to best the N.S.A. (www.nytimes.com)

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Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age: Maj. Hering and a question that ended his career (www.slate.com)

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Fosdem 2014 First videos are online (fosdem.org)

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Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup (blog.codecombat.com)

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The Programming Steamroller Waits For No One (thecodist.com)

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Why Mt. Gox, the World’s First Bitcoin Exchange, is Dying (www.coindesk.com)

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Books to Read in a Lifetime (www.amazon.com)

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Minecraft, The Sims, And The Future Of Filmmaking (www.antipope.org)

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Show HN: Speedsums (http://www.speedsums.com)

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Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on Google.fr (www.pcmag.com)

57 points first seen 2014020912 last seen 2014021021 30 comments

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Ask HN: What is REST exactly? (item?id=7201871)

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The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning (www.cs.utexas.edu)

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It Takes 36 Days After a Tragedy Before Jokes About It Become Funny (www.newrepublic.com)

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UBook – Markdown for eBooks (ubook.info)

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Ask HN: What should I learn to stay relevant in the next 5 – 10 years? (item?id=7204982)

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Nothing But A Bunch of Boobs (micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com)

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Scientists Think They Have Found the 'Sunstone' Vikings Used to Navigate (www.businessinsider.com)

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Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup (blog.codecombat.com)

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What side projects did you start in 2014? (item?id=7202149)

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Show HN: Crushify.org (crushify.org)

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The Rise of Worse is Better (www.dreamsongs.com)

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Poll: What is your main focus? (item?id=7203021)

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Cloudflare app for thedaywefightback.js (www.cloudflare.com)

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Show HN: Goatee – Redis, WebSocket notifications in Go (github.com)

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Middle class leaving San Francisco, census says (blog.sfgate.com)

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Mt. Gox is dead (coinde.sk)

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How I Hacked My Husband's Programming Addiction (www.huffingtonpost.ca)

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Meme Motes - Rumor Monger (www.mememotes.com)

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Woman engineer at the centre of India's space mission (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Distressed by Baby Controversy, AOL’s Armstrong Reverses 401(K) Policy (recode.net)

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Android Teleportation (or silly location restrictions) (blog.gingerlime.com)

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Things Microsoft Still Does Well (techland.time.com)

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An estimate of the real savings for merchants from Bitcoin (www.thebusinessofbitcoin.com)

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AOL chief reverses changes to 401(k) policy after a week of bad publicity (www.washingtonpost.com)

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I work at an accelerator. My boss asked me to predict the year 2043 (blog.raywu.co)

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Proposed Minecraft fan film canceled on Kickstarter by Notch (www.polygon.com)

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Lattice Quadrilaterals on Project Euler (projecteuler.net)

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Finland Moves To Block Wikipedia Donations (www.finnbay.com)

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Ask HN: Software to help retrieve stolen laptop for a paranoid person? (item?id=7201625)

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A Digital Detox Test: Unplug Twitter and Facebook. Put Off Email and Smartphone (www.nytimes.com)

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Flappy Bird Developer Says He’s Taking The Hit Game Down Tomorrow (techcrunch.com)

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Training Hybrid Human-Machine Computer Vision Classifiers (blog.cs.brown.edu)

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Ask HN: How can I improve my note-taking web app? (http://scrib.in)

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One HTML5 Game Per Week (http://www.lessmilk.com)

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Why you shouldn't use HowAboutWe (runspired.com)

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Ask HN: Why is HN in such a flap over Flappy Bird? (item?id=7202635)

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Giving Back to the Developer Community as a Junior (blog.johncapecelatro.com)

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GCC and LLVM developers to begin collaborating? (gcc.gnu.org)

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Republicans Are Wooing the Wired (www.nytimes.com)

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There’s a Russian Air Force “doomsday plane” circling over Sochi (theaviationist.com)

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Show HN: Get the best inspirational content to your inbox (startupitis.com)

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Well-capitalized Seattle startup seeks Unix developers (Amazon, 1994) (groups.google.com)

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Show HN: My Windows Phone Homescreen-Concept with Customizable Backgrounds (fabian.svbtle.com)

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Barilla Wants 3D Pasta Printers In Restaurants (3dprinterplans.info)

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Air Hockey Robot Opponent (a 3D printer hack) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Ask (any) Attorneys on HN: Why do you need to do this? (item?id=7201687)

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Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times – TEPCO (rt.com)

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FreeBSDJournal (freebsdjournal.com)

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Ask HN: Advice for first days/weeks/months at first dev job? (item?id=7203321)

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Ask HN: Why did this submission get penalized? (item?id=7204766)

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Apple Buys Back $14 Billion of Its Shares in Two Weeks (www.nytimes.com)

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NSA is collecting less than 30 percent of U.S. call data (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: Is it really possible to use a WiFi signal as a motion sensor? (item?id=7201821)

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Finland Has A Shyness Problem (www.businessinsider.com)

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The Myth of "Public" Schools: It's not public if you can't go (www.slate.com)

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I love Shpaml (HTML abstraction language) (blog.ram.rachum.com)

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Interactive Hadoop with Parkour (blog.platypope.org)

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Lottie Dexter should quit – and take the Year of Code board with her (adrianshort.org)

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OclHashcat – GPU password cracker (hashcat.net)

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Show HN: Statistical analysis of India General Elections 2014 (273seats.com)

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What happened when I reached the top of Hacker News (theblogbowl.in)

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