hackerNews

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Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty (en.community.dell.com)

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Godot engine open sourced (MIT license) (www.godotengine.org)

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That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter (www.slate.com)

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Flappy Bird by the Numbers (zachwill.com)

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The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program (firstlook.org)

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Elance Flappy Bird jobs (www.elance.com)

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'Dumb Starbucks' mystery: Who's behind the faux coffee front in Los Feliz? (www.scpr.org)

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Learning to Code vs Learning Computer Science (shkspr.mobi)

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When Random Isn't Random Enough: Lessons from an Online Poker Exploit (www.lauradhamilton.com)

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Tex – Show off your best scientific illustration (tex.stackexchange.com)

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Debian 7.4 Relased (www.debian.org)

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Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science (qrohlf.com)

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Mtgox: "transaction malleability" in btc protocole (www.mtgox.com)

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High-Speed Trading Isn't About Efficiency—It's About Cheating (www.theatlantic.com)

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What Snow Tells Us About Creating Better Public Spaces (thisoldcity.com)

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I've made an open source flappy bird clone (github.com)

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French journalist "hacks" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+ (arstechnica.com)

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Broken by design: systemd (ewontfix.com)

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Broken by design: systemd (ewontfix.com)

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Sublime Text 2 plugin to show git commit history for selected line(s) of code (github.com)

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What the Heck is Happening to Windows? (winsupersite.com)

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Streams in Java 8 (download.java.net)

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Contact Us (contact.darkigloo.com)

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Change your passwords: Comcast hushes, minimizes serious hack (www.zdnet.com)

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Drone is a Continuous Integration platform built on Docker (github.com)

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Netflix Development for Cloud Best Practices (www.infoq.com)

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Design Details: Secret for iOS (blog.brianlovin.com)

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This Week in Rust (cmr.github.io)

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A game to learn a new language (babadum.com)

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A Google employee's critic of the Ars technica Android unforkable article (arstechnica.com)

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The importance of co-founder due diligence (chrisjamieson.me)

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The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies (www.truthdig.com)

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Raft Consensus Algorithm (raftconsensus.github.io)

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For Many Older Americans, an Entrepreneurial Path (www.nytimes.com)

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Bitcoin: The future of money is at stake (www.newscientist.com)

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SaaS Vanity Metrics (gigaom.com)

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Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Investors want Microsoft’s new CEO to kill Xbox, Bing and Surface (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (2006) (www.slate.com)

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The Lost History of Helmand (2009) (www.bbc.co.uk)

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"there is a substantial gap between the capabilities of hardware and C" (accu.org)

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How I got my Google AdWords account (un)suspended (www.decalmarketing.com)

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The GNU C Library version 2.19 is now available (sourceware.org)

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Show HN: Flappy Block – Flappy Bird clone using the iOS7 Physics Engine (github.com)

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#Googlewinseverything (Jason Calacanis) (blog.launch.co)

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IPv6 domain readiness tester (ip6.nl)

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How VC’s Get to “Yes” (robgo.org)

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Show HN: My weekend project – Manual Viable Product (http://manualviableproduct.com)

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The Calculus Trap (2005) (www.artofproblemsolving.com)

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We built a Bitcoin Keurig coffee maker this weekend (www.hackthebeanpot.com)

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Jim'll Paint It (jimllpaintit.tumblr.com)

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Why You Should Always Use === and Other Bad Practices (fifod.com)

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Ospari: PHP based Blogging software that can use Ghost themes (github.com)

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An open letter to Dong Nguyen, creator of Flappy Bird (www.techinasia.com)

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Python with Braces (www.pythonb.org)

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eBay listing for iPhone with "Flappy Bird" installed. At $90,000 and counting... (www.ebay.com)

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Counting Votes Is Hard (blog.forcerank.it)

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Mt. Gox halts Bitcoin withdrawals until bug in bitcoin is fixed (www.mtgox.com)

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Mobile? Who Are We Kidding? (andersonjr.com)

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Slashdot alternative in the works (http://www.soylentnews.org)

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The 2,500-Person Tech Mixer That Was Not a Party (recode.net)

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The Beginner's Guide to Believing in Yourself (ajjuliani.com)

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Why the World Will Run Out of Helium (medium.com)

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We just took over the former Zynga offices in Dallas (imgur.com)

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Oakland hackathon tries to broaden Silicon Valley’s recruitment pipeline (www.sfchronicle.com)

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New open source Disqus alternative: Debiki Embedded Comments (item?id=7205878)

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We recognize less attractive faces best (www.sciencedaily.com)

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How NASA Prints Trees (techcrunch.com)

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High prices sending Bay Area renters and homebuyers to outlying communities (www.mercurynews.com)

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Metaquery and the end of Media Queries (glenmaddern.com)

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'Dumb Starbucks' coffee shop opens in Los Feliz (www.scpr.org)

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Edward Bernays (wikipedia.org)

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Golang overtakes Clojure in Goggle Trends (www.google.com)

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Flappy Bird Removed (www.macrumors.com)

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Tim Cook Admits Apple Has Stopped Growing In North America (www.businessinsider.com)

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What should I learn for a good career? (item?id=7208915)

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Draggable Physics Animation Demo (www.greensock.com)

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Resisting the Urge to Build (My New Startup Checklist) (2013) (paulfurley.com)

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The Intercept (firstlook.org)

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In one month, everyone in Iceland will own cryptocurrency (motherboard.vice.com)

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Girls and Software (www.linuxjournal.com)

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Accountability is more important than your stack (ixmat.us)

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Rust performance in Alioth benchmarks (benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org)

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19-year-old inventor finds way to clean up the world’s oceans (themindunleashed.org)

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Ask HN: Open source focused crawler? (item?id=7204950)

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Beautiful 3-D Brain Scans Show Every Synapse (www.youtube.com)

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JavaScript projects to look into (http://www.javascriptoo.com)

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Criminalizing journalism? CNN interviews Glenn Greenwald [video] (reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com)

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How many hours of minimum wage work it takes to earn a beer (qz.com)

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Debian discovers more than 100,000 potential privacy breaches in documentation (item?id=7209317)

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C++ Cypherpunk Toolkit for Democratization of Finance (opentransactions.org)

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Hexaflexagons (www.youtube.com)

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The Pixel Density Race and its Technical Merits (www.anandtech.com)

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Getting started with koajs (h3manth.com)

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John Gruber's Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs (gist.github.com)

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Not happy with Agile, but why? (blog.jonasbandi.net)

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Doing a sound synth in JavaScript (www.bitsnbites.eu)

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NBC On Richard Engel's Hacking Report (www.businessinsider.com)

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"We just took over the former Zynga offices in Dallas" (www.reddit.com)

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An alternate history of Flappy Bird: "we must cultivate our garden." (www.blog.radiator.debacle.us)

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Getting Things Done: It's All About the Short Breaks (blog.gedrap.me)

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Asio is My Go-To C++ Application Framework (www.digitalpeer.com)

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Because Of DRM, The Entire Copyright Monopoly Legislation Is A Lie (torrentfreak.com)

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It's OK, You Can Still Buy Flappy Bird (For $1500) (kotaku.com)

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Facebook's Hiring Surprise (www.linkedin.com)

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Drone strikes increasingly rely on NSA surveillance data, report suggests (gigaom.com)

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Strongbox: Aaron Swartz's last gift to Internet privacy (May 2013) (www.zdnet.com)

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PlanGrid (YC W12) is looking for senior Android engineers (item?id=7205858)

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