hackerNews

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Today is The Day We Fight Back (thedaywefightback.org)

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The Facebook Fraud, by Veritasium (www.youtube.com)

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Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help (richardlynch.blogspot.com)

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Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit (www.reddit.com)

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Did English ever have a formal version of “you”? (english.stackexchange.com)

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Why don’t software development methodologies work? (typicalprogrammer.com)

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Why Mt. Gox is full of shit (cryto.net)

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Why Indie Developers Go Insane (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)

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Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (2011) (royrapoport.blogspot.com)

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Phaser – Desktop and Mobile HTML5 Game Framework (phaser.io)

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Things We Forgot to Monitor (word.bitly.com)

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Mbox – A lightweight sandboxing mechanism (pdos.csail.mit.edu)

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Flappy Bird Typing Tutor (www.mrspeaker.net)

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Hy, a Lisp that compiles to Python (github.com)

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Netflix performance on Verizon and Comcast has been dropping for months (arstechnica.com)

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JetBrains C++ IDE: Status update and Video report (blog.jetbrains.com)

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GitHub goes to school (github.com)

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Why Don't Schools Teach Debugging? (danluu.com)

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If you had to start over, what technologies would you learn in 2014? (www.hanselman.com)

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Not a protocol fault: MtGox and transaction malleability (blog.oleganza.com)

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CoinDesk Removes Mt. Gox from Bitcoin Price Index (www.coindesk.com)

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Glen Greenwald's news site, The Intercept, is up (firstlook.org)

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Cryptocat security audit results (github.com)

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JavaScript Promises in Wicked Detail (mattgreer.org)

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Google’s IPv6 Stats Pass 3% Less Than 5 Months After Passing 2% (www.internetsociety.org)

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A Vim Tutorial and Primer (www.danielmiessler.com)

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Arthur Chu Is Playing Jeopardy the Right Way (www.slate.com)

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Anonymity (blog.samaltman.com)

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Rewrites of the STM core model – again (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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Announcing gitsh (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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Common Lisp in the 21st Century (github.com)

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The Kiva Fairytale (www.nextbillion.net)

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World's largest DDoS strikes US, Europe (www.itnews.com.au)

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hr for your terminal (github.com)

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How smoking weed is still legal for tourists in Amsterdam (travel.stackexchange.com)

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How I hacked Instagram to see private photos (insertco.in)

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Mt. Gox Blames Bitcoin – Core Developer Greg Maxwell Responds (www.cryptocoinsnews.com)

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Gisp: A Lisp that compiles to Go (github.com)

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Nokia Releasing First Android Phone (online.wsj.com)

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Arq 4 Beta (www.haystacksoftware.com)

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SymPy – simplify (docs.sympy.org)

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Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters (www.usnews.com)

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Elliptic Curves as Elementary Equations (jeremykun.com)

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JeroMQ: Native Java implementation of ZeroMQ (github.com)

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The Tragedy of Mathematics In Russia (www.math.nsc.ru)

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Google's link to French privacy fine crashes watchdog's site (www.theguardian.com)

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Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate (www.nature.com)

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Hormones Explain Why Girls Like Dolls and Boys Like Trucks (www.livescience.com)

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Comcast locks value customers out of Sochi streams (gigaom.com)

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Ask HN: What are the best sources of news for iOS app dev? (item?id=7214909)

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Distributed Neural Networks with GPUs in the AWS Cloud (techblog.netflix.com)

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Hitlist, a Smart Flight Finder That Saves You Money by Telling You When To Fly (techcrunch.com)

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Our Flappy Dystopia (www.mattiebrice.com)

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Show HN: I wrote a very niche ebook about GTFS public transit data (http://gtfsbook.com)

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How Snapchat is Missing Out on $1.5M in Revenue Each Day (blog.namomedia.com)

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Why Watson and Siri Are Not Real AI (www.popularmechanics.com)

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With 230m active users, Talking Tom Cat apps are bigger than Twitter (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Decode Youtube 500 page (item?id=7210750)

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Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare (item?id=7214375)

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Barnes and Noble Fired Its Nook Hardware Engineering Staff (www.businessinsider.com)

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Show HN: Steal back your productivity (www.heyfocus.com)

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The Day We Fight Back – February 11th 2014 (thedaywefightback.org)

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Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Says App 'Gone Forever' (www.forbes.com)

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Comcast is definitely throttling Netflix, and it’s infuriating (mattvukas.com)

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Empiricism Is Not a Matter of Faith (2008) [pdf] (aclweb.org)

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Show HN: faces.io – ridiculously simple video chat (item?id=7214596)

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Node Summary – Naive summarization algorithm for Node.js (jbrooksuk.github.io)

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Nathan Fielder (Comedy Central) comes out as prankster behind Dumb Starbucks (www.latimes.com)

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Path for iOS 7 (blog.path.com)

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OAuth2 in Python [pdf] (goodcode.io)

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The Anatomy of a Great Stack Overflow Question (After Analyzing 10,000) (www.takipioncode.com)

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Github People You Know (github.com)

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Kickstarter for Improved PostgreSQL support in Django (www.kickstarter.com)

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How to build and make use of connections. (startupworks.co)

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International Community Unites to Protest Big Brother (www.eff.org)

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Inkless metal pen will write forever (www.cnet.com.au)

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The weekend I tried to sell 3 plasma TVs: FOBO vs. Craigslist vs. Amazon (benguild.com)

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Show HN: Automatic feedback on improving your PowerPoint slides (sketch-deck.com)

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Me And Facebook Open Academy (tenderlovemaking.com)

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Show HN: Guipedia – clone, program, and execute in the browser (guipedia.com)

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The Archaeology of the Stars (www.nytimes.com)

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Oh, you still use Wordpress for your blog? That's adorable. (blog.zonino.co.uk)

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Chrome Incognito Tracking (matt.xerq.net)

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Kaspersky uncovers sophisticated APT (www.kaspersky.com)

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Obama Officials Weigh Drone Attack on US Suspect (abcnews.go.com)

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The Passion Gospel (devblog.avdi.org)

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Has the United States Become Ungovernable? (www.becker-posner-blog.com)

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A/B testing Android vs. iOS (apptimize.com)

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Kobra – Realtime Collaborative Code Editor with Built In video Chat (kobra.io)

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Ask HN: What are the best sources for inspiration for website designs? (item?id=7215553)

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Ask HN: Any tips for someone working from home for the first time? (item?id=7209570)

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I Lost to a Dreamweaver Design (eugeneross.com)

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What's the Easiest Programming Language I Can Learn (item?id=7210700)

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Wall Street vs Silicon Valley (blog.zlemma.com)

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Why Dynamic Typing Is A Bad Idea (stacktrace.so)

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Ask HN: How to pronounce “doge”? (item?id=7213445)

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Will This Go Faster Than Light? (www.youtube.com)

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Freelancer.com Scavenger Hunt (www.freelancer.com)

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F7 – Full Featured HTML Framework For Building iOS 7 Apps (http://ss14-team-15.divshot.io)

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Richard Stallman Explains His Position on Google [video] (techrights.org)

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Evidence Facebook's revenue is based on fake likes [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: One month into dev job and I'm recruited for one with twice the salary (item?id=7215777)

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Show HN: The Sochi 2014 medal count ordered by population (gflandre.com)

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Early-stage Startup Mistakes (codingvc.com)

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GitHub Education (education.github.com)

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Ask HN: Btrfs or ZFS on Linux in production? (item?id=7214359)

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Syck vs Psych: Differences and Conversion (devblog.arnebrasseur.net)

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Did a hacker just reveal how much Clash of Clans makes in a day? (www.gamezebo.com)

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Supercell dashboard hacked and numbers exposed – $5.1M in Daily Revenue (recode.net)

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Welcome to The Intercept (firstlook.org)

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Saying goodbye to Internet in Turkey (medium.com)

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Show HN: Flappy Doge AI (item?id=7214981)

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Ask HN: Curriculum for learning JavaScript, JQuery, and Node? (item?id=7213993)

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Remember Klout? (mashable.com)

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Clash of Clans’s FB page compromised; revenue figures released (e27.co)

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Julia Studio – an open-source, cross-platform IDE for Julia (forio.com)

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The Basics of JavaScript Framework SEO in AngularJS (seogadget.com)

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Boromir Death Simulator (boromir.toolness.org)

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To disrupt banking, do you need to own the bank? (qz.com)

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High availability and configuration management, RFC (blog.daniellobato.me)

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How to work with strings on iOS (www.objc.io)

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IPython 1.2.0 has been released (pypi.python.org)

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You’d Be Surprised By What Really Motivates Users (www.nirandfar.com)

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The Tool Every Web Designer/Developer Should Start Using Immediately (dailytekk.com)

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Hacker Swipes PayPal CEO's Credit Card Info, Goes on Shopping Spree (gizmodo.com)

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Everything we know Google is working on in 2014 (arstechnica.com)

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Mathematicians calculate that there are 177,147 ways to knot a tie (phys.org)

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Ask HN: Not sure what to do with my side project. (item?id=7215436)

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Libc random number generator flawed? (stackoverflow.com)

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XKCD on user habituation (xkcd.com)

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Show HN: deals for startups – pre-release feedback (item?id=7211497)

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US Suspect Possibly Targeted for Drone Attack (www.breitbart.com)

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Nintendo: No Complaints About ‘Flappy Bird’ (blogs.wsj.com)