hackerNews

1

Curse Of The Gifted (www.vanadac.com)

602 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021606 355 comments

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The Book of Graham (www.leveragedsellout.com)

408 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021321 101 comments

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The Day the Internet Didn’t Fight Back (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water (thenextweb.com)

311 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021600 136 comments

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Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ (www.coindesk.com)

274 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021403 208 comments

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135 new currencies at Stripe (stripe.com)

271 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021403 140 comments

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How does Facebook disable Developer Tools? (stackoverflow.com)

241 points first seen 2014021215 last seen 2014021500 85 comments

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Toward Go 1.3 – 100% precise GC Finally (talks.golang.org)

235 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021303 244 comments

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John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar (www.smh.com.au)

217 points first seen 2014021215 last seen 2014021321 239 comments

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How to Burn Out Programming (blog.braegger.pw)

211 points first seen 2014021218 last seen 2014021403 113 comments

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Bitcoin withdrawal processing suspended (www.bitstamp.net)

169 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021300 224 comments

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Git Push Heroku Master: Now 40% Faster (blog.heroku.com)

159 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021400 44 comments

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Screwed by Square (alexshvartsman.com)

139 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021221 57 comments

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Vintage operating system reboot experiences (www.therestartpage.com)

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Why systemd is winning the init wars and other things aren't (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Widespread sex differences in gene expression in the human brain (2013) (www.nature.com)

117 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021306 199 comments

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Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round (blog.npmjs.org)

114 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021309 75 comments

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Webhooks Level Up (github.com)

107 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021306 25 comments

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The Day We Do Nothing Of Consequence (cryto.net)

104 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021212 73 comments

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Show HN: Abacus – Killing The Expense Report (www.abacus.com)

101 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021321 66 comments

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DigitalOcean opens a Singapore Datacenter (digitalocean.com)

98 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021312 66 comments

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Responsive JavaScript (www.responsivejavascript.com)

95 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021503 23 comments

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Pullup, the site you join via pull request (http://pullup.io)

93 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021309 49 comments

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I love you (jsbin.com)

92 points first seen 2014021221 last seen 2014021309 29 comments

7

Yelp’s Style Guide (engineeringblog.yelp.com)

88 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021306 18 comments

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StackMob is shutting down (pastebin.com)

87 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021306 82 comments

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Back To My Roots (al3x.net)

84 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021303 26 comments

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Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy (www.bloomberg.com)

81 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021303 54 comments

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Why Indie Developers Go Insane (Flappy Bird and more) (jeff-vogel.blogspot.ie)

80 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021200 19 comments

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Apocalypse, New Jersey: Camden, America's Most Desperate Town (m.rollingstone.com)

80 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021300 76 comments

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You have a moral obligation to use crypto (blog.easydns.org)

78 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021306 82 comments

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How Math Helped Me Write Less Code and Made Our App Faster (yahooeng.tumblr.com)

77 points first seen 2014021218 last seen 2014021400 24 comments

13

Alan Watts: Money, Guilt, and the Machine (pastebin.com)

74 points first seen 2014021221 last seen 2014021400 42 comments

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"The Mask" Espionage Malware (www.schneier.com)

72 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021303 11 comments

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JavaScript has a Unicode problem (2013) (mathiasbynens.be)

67 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021306 34 comments

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I wanted to work at Apple really bad, and now not so much. (medium.com)

65 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021221 51 comments

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Brain Hacks Top Founders Use to Get the Job Done (firstround.com)

63 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021300 16 comments

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Do messages get lost when Erlang modules are upgraded? (pankajmore.in)

60 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021300 32 comments

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You never did math in high school (j2kun.svbtle.com)

60 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021300 78 comments

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CSS source map support, network performance analysis and more in Firefox DevTools (hacks.mozilla.org)

56 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021303 30 comments

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Show HN: Anyone with kids? Plan their summer schedule (www.camperoo.com)

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Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser (www.zdnet.com)

52 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021221 57 comments

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An experiment-driven guide to Perl (matt.might.net)

51 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021303 35 comments

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Stop the autoconf insanity – Why we need a new build system (2003) (freecode.com)

51 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021303 77 comments

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A Celery-like Python Task Queue in 55 Lines of Code (www.jeffknupp.com)

48 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021300 42 comments

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On a Mission (a16z.com)

47 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021303 28 comments

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Lithium Technologies to Acquire Klout (recode.net)

46 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021300 27 comments

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Flappy Bird MMO (69.164.192.211)

44 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021200 13 comments

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Don’t Use Mozilla Persona to Secure High-Value Data (benjamin.smedbergs.us)

41 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021221 43 comments

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In-App Review Mechanics pushed Flappy Bird to the Top of the Charts? (venturebeat.com)

40 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021303 26 comments

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How To Develop a PCB on a Low Budget (pandoralive.info)

39 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021215 15 comments

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3D graphics in JavaScript (no libraries) (liveweave.com)

39 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021300 14 comments

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AdaCore University (university.adacore.com)

33 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014060106 11 comments

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I open sourced my startup (item?id=7220584)

31 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021221 8 comments

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Writing Your First Sweet.js Macro (jlongster.com)

30 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021300 13 comments

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Making syslog() non-blocking (github.com)

30 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021300 20 comments

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AeroFS Auditing and Content API Launch (blog.aerofs.com)

29 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021300 2 comments

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Show HN: A Better Excel Data API (https://voyager.datanitro.com)

29 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021209 12 comments

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Update on Transaction Malleability (bitcoinfoundation.org)

29 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021303 11 comments

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Dear-sir-or-madam: a bookmarklet that transforms web pages into ransom notes (github.com)

26 points first seen 2014021215 last seen 2014021303 10 comments

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Mozilla will put ads directly into Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)

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Scary 1929 market chart gains traction (www.marketwatch.com)

24 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021206 32 comments

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Download Wrappers and Unwanted Software are pure evil (www.hanselman.com)

24 points first seen 2014021215 last seen 2014021309 5 comments

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This weird keyboard may be the biggest thing since your standing desk (kadavy.net)

23 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021209 21 comments

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Dropbox updates transparency report, publishes data request principles (blog.dropbox.com)

22 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021300 7 comments

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Mozilla to sell ads in Firefox Web Browser (adage.com)

19 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021300 10 comments

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Scaling Existing Lock-based Applications with Lock Elision (queue.acm.org)

19 points first seen 2014021218 last seen 2014021303 2 comments

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Announcing the next generation of Amazon EC2 High I/O instance (aws.amazon.com)

17 points first seen 2014021218 last seen 2014021218 4 comments

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The Book of Graham (www.leveragedsellout.com)

15 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021209 4 comments

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Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened? (2008) (www.wired.com)

13 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021206 0 comments

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Why the most important part of your app has the messiest code (woutersmet.com)

13 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021203 0 comments

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Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center (blog.mozilla.org)

13 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021303 0 comments

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Goldman Handed Out Cosmetic Mirrors and Nail Files at Women’s Coding Event (dealbook.nytimes.com)

11 points first seen 2014021215 last seen 2014021300 4 comments

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This Malware Is Frighteningly Sophisticated And We Don't Know Who Created It (www.washingtonpost.com)

11 points first seen 2014021218 last seen 2014021218 5 comments

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Washing Machine for Men (medium.com)

10 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021203 10 comments

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Show HN: Hacker News Live Comments Bookmarklet (hnlivecomments.pex2.jp)

10 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021212 4 comments

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Fish on Wheels (www.youtube.com)

10 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021206 0 comments

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A responsive image slider/carousel in AngularJS and CSS (andyshora.com)

9 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021206 2 comments

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Ask HN: How is your company using Node.js? (item?id=7219338)

9 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021209 4 comments

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Open-sourcing Pingpong: Latency and uptime monitoring for HTTP services (keen.io)

9 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021209 2 comments

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Bing practicing Chinese censorship globally (zh.greatfire.org)

9 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021221 3 comments

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Programming language expert != programming expert (shaungallagher.svbtle.com)

9 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021212 6 comments

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Is Your Brain Truly Ready for TV, Porn, or the Internet? (ciotti.quora.com)

8 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021203 0 comments

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Java memory model under the hood (gvsmirnov.ru)

8 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021212 0 comments

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Steam Dev Day talks now available (steamdevdays.com)

8 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021212 0 comments

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Scientists find mild jolts to the brain may improve performance with numbers (online.wsj.com)

8 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021209 0 comments

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How TokuMX was Born (www.tokutek.com)

8 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021212 7 comments

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Ask HN: Why is there no collapse comment thread feature on HN? (item?id=7218528)

7 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021206 5 comments

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Radiohead: Polyfauna – An immersive, expansive world of primitive life. (www.creativeapplications.net)

7 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021218 0 comments

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The Next Big Thing You Missed: A Would-Be Dropbox Meant to Thwart the NSA (www.wired.com)

6 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021203 0 comments

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Learning R interactively with the Swirl package (flowingdata.com)

6 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021206 0 comments

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Good things cannot be sold; they can only be bought (bits.usablebytes.com)

6 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021203 0 comments

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It Took A Eugenicist To Come Up With 'Moron' (www.npr.org)

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Learn how to build your own Flappy Bird for iPhone using SpriteBuilder (www.makegameswith.us)

6 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021206 2 comments

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Show HN: Transcrypt – transparently encrypt files within a Git repository (github.com)

6 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021209 0 comments

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Introducing Blockade: a Jepsen-inspired tool for simulating network failures (github.com)

6 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021212 0 comments

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The Glitch That Will Help Kill Bitcoin (www.bloomberg.com)

6 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021212 0 comments

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Ask HN: What startup did you try to create in past that failed? (item?id=7221465)

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Why South Korea is really an Internet dinosaur (www.economist.com)

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Bdale Garbee chooses systemd as Debian Jesse init system. (lists.debian.org)

5 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021206 0 comments

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EA removes lawnmowers from Plants vs Zombies 2, makes you pay for each everytime (www.reddit.com)

5 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021203 0 comments

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Ask HN: Consulting the right way? (item?id=7218755)

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Alienating Atmosphere (martinfowler.com)

5 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021209 0 comments

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Ask HN: How persistent and smart do you have to be to learn to program? (item?id=7216248)

5 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021209 18 comments

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Meet Cody Wilson, creator of the 3D-printed gun (www.theguardian.com)

5 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021212 7 comments

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Taggregate: news aggregator focuses on tags and what you like, not up/down votes (http://www.taggregate.net)

5 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021218 0 comments

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Test-Driven Web Development with Python (chimera.labs.oreilly.com)

5 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021215 0 comments

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How the car industry made crossing the road an offence (www.bbc.co.uk)

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NSA targets SIM cards for drone strikes (blogs.computerworld.com)

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The Dash – Wireless Smart In Ear Headphones (www.kickstarter.com)

4 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021209 0 comments

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Small aviation pilot shortage could drive industry into the ground (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Apple $2.2 Billion Case Hinges on Two-Bit Issue (www.bloomberg.com)

4 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021212 0 comments

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Linus Torvalds presents git at Google in 2007 (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021209 0 comments

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DataCamp – Learn Data Analysis Online (www.datacamp.com)

4 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021209 2 comments

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A Flabby Bird clone by the creator of Super Hexagon (terrycavanaghgames.com)

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Should the government pay you to be alive? (www.bostonglobe.com)

4 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021212 0 comments

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The Rise of the Facebook Truthers (www.slate.com)

4 points first seen 2014021215 last seen 2014021221 0 comments

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar (www.catb.org)

4 points first seen 2014021215 last seen 2014021221 0 comments

77

Want to Change the World? Join a Corporation (www.fastcompany.com)

4 points first seen 2014021215 last seen 2014021218 0 comments

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Ask HN: Do you see a therapist? (item?id=7222423)

4 points first seen 2014021215 last seen 2014021218 6 comments

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Free, open-source college textbooks (openstaxcollege.org)

4 points first seen 2014021218 last seen 2014021221 0 comments

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Snapchat Hacked By Fruit Smoothie Enthusiast (techcrunch.com)

4 points first seen 2014021221 last seen 2014021300 0 comments

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Flappy Bird Creator's Advice to Indie Developers (www.ideatoappster.com)

3 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021203 0 comments

81

Don’t Overlook Sinatra when choosing a Ruby framework (blog.newrelic.com)

3 points first seen 2014021200 last seen 2014021203 0 comments

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Why Russia should ban Michelangelo and Caravaggio's gay 'propaganda' (www.theguardian.com)

3 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021206 0 comments

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Orchestrate fundraiser for EFF, #TDWFB (orchestrate.io)

3 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021206 0 comments

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How to make Vagrant performance not suck (www.stefanwrobel.com)

3 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021212 0 comments

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Ask HN: I am an intern (item?id=7220621)

3 points first seen 2014021209 last seen 2014021503 3 comments

88

NASA Tries to Rewrite the Book on Science Fiction (online.wsj.com)

3 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021215 0 comments

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Goat Simulator (www.goat-simulator.com)

3 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021212 0 comments

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/r/AlphaAndBetaUsers – subreddit for getting people to try your product (www.reddit.com)

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Americans find swift stonewall on whether NSA vacuumed their data (www.mcclatchydc.com)

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Mom creates birthday Facebook page after son says he has no friends (abclocal.go.com)

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Singapore Airport: A Disneyland for Backpackers (www.brenontheroad.com)

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GNU Hurd Is Enjoying User-Space Device Drivers (www.phoronix.com)

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Seeds of life can sprout in moon's icy pockets (www.newscientist.com)

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“Happy Birthday” copyright defense: Those “words” and “text” are ours (arstechnica.com)

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Rubyist interested in ML? Grouper is hiring (item?id=7218067)

0 points first seen 2014021203 last seen 2014021212 0 comments

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Want to hack on amazing tools for the crowdfunded economy? BackerKit (YC W13) (item?id=7219911)

0 points first seen 2014021206 last seen 2014021218 0 comments

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Pixate (YC S12) needs you, a full stack Node expert (item?id=7221715)

0 points first seen 2014021212 last seen 2014021221 0 comments

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Chute (YC W12) is Hiring a Front End Engineer (item?id=7223072)

0 points first seen 2014021218 last seen 2014021303 0 comments