hackerNews

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Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear (www.hemingwayapp.com)

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Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released (www.elasticsearch.org)

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Comcast Acquiring Time Warner Cable In All Stock Deal Worth $45.2 Billion (online.wsj.com)

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Apple rejects app for being "too simple" (www.huemanapp.com)

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Saying goodbye to Python (www.ianbicking.org)

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[Tell HN] My Brother Died Last Week. His Death Will Not Be In Vain. (evanmrose.tumblr.com)

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Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion (www.npr.org)

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The anonymity I know (chrishateswriting.com)

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CandySwipe Open Letter to King regarding trademark (www.candyswipe.com)

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Massively multiplayer online Flappy Bird (flapmmo.com)

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Show HN: Siri-as-a-Service Speech API (wit.ai)

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Programming and Depression (2012) (www.robsheldon.com)

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Obama Sued by Rand Paul Over Phone Surveillance Program (www.bloomberg.com)

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Dug.js – A JSONP to HTML Script (rog.ie)

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IBM layoffs strike first in India; described as 'slaughter' and 'massive' (wraltechwire.com)

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The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life (www.dallasobserver.com)

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Rails 4 Engines (tech.taskrabbit.com)

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Scaling Asana.com (eng.asana.com)

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JQuery Notebook – A Medium like editor wrapped inside a jQuery plugin (raphaelcruzeiro.github.io)

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Is the shared economy racist? (www.2drew3.com)

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Clef – stop using passwords (getclef.com)

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LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved (hacks.mozilla.org)

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China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon (www.cbc.ca)

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You Don't Want to Think Like a Programmer (prog21.dadgum.com)

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European Commission proposes a reform to the way the Internet is managed and run (europa.eu)

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P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume (www.nature.com)

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New Jersey slaps MIT Bitcoin hackers with subpoena – and they’re fighting back (venturebeat.com)

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X86 is Turing-complete with no registers (mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com)

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A look at Apple's R&D expenditures from 1995-2013 (www.tuaw.com)

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Password prompts are annoying (danbirken.com)

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Swedish developer discovers serious security hole in iPhone (translate.google.com)

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On Programming Communities (lucumr.pocoo.org)

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Do you trust the Bitcoin Foundation? (www.aarongreenspan.com)

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Cockpit, a web-based server management interface (liquidat.wordpress.com)

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Google Glass evangelist: It's not worth the headache (news.cnet.com)

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IMessage from Terminal (github.com)

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QUIC - Google Developers Live, February 2014 (docs.google.com)

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Dropbox hires a COO: Dennis Woodside, former Motorola Mobility CEO (blogs.wsj.com)

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Elasticsearch as a NoSQL Database (2013) (www.found.no)

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Linode under large DoS attack (status.linode.com)

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The Full-Fat Paradox: Whole Milk May Keep Us Lean (www.npr.org)

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The troublesome history of the bitcoin exchange MtGox (anders.io)

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Spark web server (github.com)

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Facebook launches employee ferry service from SF (blog.sfgate.com)

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Go for Objective-C developers (runtimeintrospection.tumblr.com)

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Why I Tried To Kill Myself at Penn (pennmentalhealth.tumblr.com)

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PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit (venturebeat.com)

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How Colleges Flunk Mental Health (mag.newsweek.com)

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Show HN: ssh and cd get married (github.com)

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Beacon (YC W14) Offers A New Approach To Crowdfunding Journalism (techcrunch.com)

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Scaling Meteor: The Challenges of Real-time Apps (www.discovermeteor.com)

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Create a DDOS attack using NTP servers (github.com)

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The Erosion Of The Status Of Software Developers As Professionals (codemanship.co.uk)

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The worlds most remote base exit is still untouched (www.espenfadnes.com)

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Show HN: pyDash – small web dashboard for linux in python and Django (item?id=7224710)

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Don't Pickle Your Data (www.benfrederickson.com)

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US invasion plan for Canada (1920) [pdf] (strategytheory.org)

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NASA Evidence Reveals Possible Water on Mars (www.weather.com)

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Really LinkedIn? You're better than this (appmagma.com)

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W3schools: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good (www.impressivewebs.com)

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Show HN: Email Templating API (www.sendwithus.com)

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Roast Your Coffee In Two Stages – Now With OpenCV Tricks (blog.chewxy.com)

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U.S. Targets Buyers of China-Bound Luxury Cars (mobile.nytimes.com)

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JXCore LLVM JavaScript Frontend (jxcore.com)

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How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error (www.wired.com)

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In the wild: Phony SSL certificates impersonating Google, Facebook, and iTunes (arstechnica.com)

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I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling (pando.com)

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Foreign regimes use spyware against journalists, even in U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Free Public Speaking Workshop For Women (github.com)

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Stellar archaeologist: We excavated the purest star (www.newscientist.com)

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Technical Debt is Not a Bad Thing (sendgrid.com)

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Orwell was hailed a hero for fighting in Spain, Today he'd be terrorist (www.theguardian.com)

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CSS usage metrics (Chrome) (www.chromestatus.com)

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Remember Smalltalk? (2008) (blogs.gartner.com)

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Show HN: Kenvak, representation for freelance web professionals (http://kenvak.com)

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Kamele PHP Framework. Small framework. Much awesome. (github.com)

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What this CEO Learned from a Day on the Help Desk (www.fullcontact.com)

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Pennsylvania High School Rolls Out 1,700 Linux Laptops to Students (www.linux.com)

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Techstars Grad Codeship Raises $2.6M for Software Deployment-as-a-Service (bostinno.streetwise.co)

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Meteor 1.0 is coming (differential.io)

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Github: DMCA takedown notice for many WhatsApp related repositories (github.com)

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Invention and Timing (a16z.com)

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The Technologies that Drive Lob (www.lob.com)

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Flickr co-founder launches Slack, a messaging tool designed to kill email (gigaom.com)

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JP Morgan: Bitcoin is “vastly inferior” to traditional, fiat currency (arstechnica.com)

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Teach your clients to give you a perfect bug reporting (talkweb.eu)

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Steve Jobs time capsule dug up after 30 years (news.cnet.com)

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Nuclear fusion breakthrough raises hopes for ultimate green energy source (www.theguardian.com)

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What is the fuss with Reactive Cocoa? (khanlou.com)

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Wait (robertgreiner.com)

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Show HN: Visualising how streaming AJAX speeds up the web (oboejs.com)

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Once the full stop meant a sentence was over – now it means you're angry (www.newstatesman.com)

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Disney Is Launching Its Own Startup Accelerator, With Help From Techstars (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Infringement notice from Wolfram Alpha (item?id=7226283)

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Ask HN: Was The Day We Fight Back Really a Failure? (item?id=7228294)

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SXSW RSVP tool (sx.getwillcall.com)

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Tell HN: Twitter blocking links to https://thedaywefightback.org/international/ (item?id=7230022)

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Ruby takes 2min to match a regex (gist.github.com)

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Wikimedia New Trademark Policy for Free Knowledge and Open Source Work (wikimediafoundation.org)

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Everything I Know About Startup Marketing I Learned From Punk Rock (blog.francoismathieu.ca)

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How fast is a distributed computing platform made entirely of web browsers? (blog.crowdprocess.com)

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Rand Paul Sues NSA: "Do We No Longer Have A Fourth Amendment?" (www.realclearpolitics.com)

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Mozilla Will Sell Ads In Firefox To Create A New Revenue Stream (techcrunch.com)

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The leaked iPhone has a 5.25" display (virtualpants.com)

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How to find web development work in Europe as an American? (item?id=7227917)

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Conquering Asynchronous Context in Node.js (fredkschott.com)

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Ask HN: Why do you think vulnerable code is still being released today? (item?id=7224097)

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Maryland Bill would cut water and electricity to NSA headquarters (www.foxnews.com)

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A Better GitHub Issue Queue (octokan.com)

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Dogecoin Soars $40M in Value Following Chinese Exchange Opens (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

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When Programmers Scrape By (www.newyorker.com)

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Clash of Clans Generates $892 Million in 2013 (recode.net)

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Clapper Reads from Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-monger over Transparency (firstlook.org)

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FounderDating launches adviser matchmaking service for startups (venturebeat.com)

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Rand Paul and Ken Cuccinelli accused of stealing NSA lawsuit (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: What's a good machine learning independent study project? (item?id=7229738)

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Android's 'Open' System Has Limits (online.wsj.com)

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Where can i find golang programmers (groups.google.com)

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Dual Query: Practical Private Query Release for High Dimensional Data (arxiv.org)

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Gulag (nethahussain.blogspot.in)

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Liquid-Cooled Supercomputers, to Trim the Power Bill (www.nytimes.com)

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Network Stack Specialization for Performance (highscalability.com)

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Why Andreessen Horowitz Is Investing in Rap Genius (news.rapgenius.com)

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The Old Reader introduces premium subscription (blog.theoldreader.com)

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Opinion: Stop the NSA while we still can (www.cnn.com)

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Lush trademarks cosmetics range named after Amazon's UK boss (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Advice for a directionless developer (item?id=7228644)

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The Year I Didn’t Retweet Men (medium.com)

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Rvalue semantics in C++11 (ogunyinkajoshua.blogspot.com)

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Show HN: /r/HackerNews: The HN front page mirrored on Reddit. (www.reddit.com)

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Jade Rabbit rover 'declared dead' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Good Intentions: How Not To Run a Business (the-pastry-box-project.net)

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Uber sued for wrongful death of 6-year-old (www.cbdlaw.com)

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An Open Source Grant with a Difference (blog.engineyard.com)