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How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help (medium.com)

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Moon (typesetinthefuture.com)

658 points first seen 2014021415 last seen 2014021906 90 comments

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Flappy Space Program (corpsmoderne.itch.io)

474 points first seen 2014021418 last seen 2014021800 109 comments

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Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen (www.deepdotweb.com)

418 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021421 498 comments

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Keybase.io (keybase.io)

372 points first seen 2014021412 last seen 2014021721 118 comments

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

332 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021700 344 comments

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Plan 9 released under GPLv2 (akaros.cs.berkeley.edu)

316 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021706 162 comments

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Ron paul launches snowden clemency petition (reason.com)

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Why Your Python Runs Slow. Part 1: Data Structures (lukauskas.co.uk)

225 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021618 162 comments

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The Star Trek Economy (medium.com)

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Technical Details Behind a 400Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack (blog.cloudflare.com)

199 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021606 69 comments

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Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese? (blog.stackoverflow.com)

193 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021618 250 comments

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Servo Layout Engine: Parallelizing the Browser (paulrouget.com)

192 points first seen 2014021421 last seen 2014021706 56 comments

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OCaml: what you gain (roscidus.com)

184 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021700 113 comments

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Making Remote Work Work – Source Learning (source.opennews.org)

178 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021615 87 comments

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Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS (item?id=7231164)

148 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021500 93 comments

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Why I'm Done With Social Media Buttons (solomon.io)

141 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021606 98 comments

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The Day We Fought Back: By The Numbers (thedaywefightback.org)

134 points first seen 2014021412 last seen 2014021615 44 comments

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Bitcoin transaction malleability: looking at the bytes (www.righto.com)

125 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021603 64 comments

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Startup sales negotiations 101 – how to respond to discount inquiries (blog.close.io)

119 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021606 43 comments

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React, JSX, and CoffeeScript (neugierig.org)

112 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021600 66 comments

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Migrating from MongoDB to Cassandra (www.fullcontact.com)

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Male, female or custom? Facebook adds options for users to self-identify (www.usnews.com)

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Show HN: Fiddlewax (news.fiddlewax.com)

81 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021500 56 comments

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A subfield-logarithm attack against ideal lattices (blog.cr.yp.to)

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Part 2: Lessons learned tuning TCP and Nginx in EC2 (engineering.chartbeat.com)

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"But It Doesn't Mean Anything" – A demonstration of the value of computer code (www.ex-parrot.com)

77 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021412 54 comments

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Skip the OS and Get 40 million Requests Per Second in Lua (highscalability.com)

76 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014071003 46 comments

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How I Ended Up in Solitary After Calling 911 for Help (medium.com)

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Secure your rsync shares, please. (blog.steve.org.uk)

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The Couple That Pays Each Other to Put Kids to Bed (www.nbcnews.com)

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"Strong" stack protection for GCC (lwn.net)

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VMWare to Bring Traditional Windows Apps and Desktops to Chromebooks (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)

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Scala-JS v0.3 released, with Future, Promise support (github.com)

58 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021500 11 comments

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Google enforcing Web store only extensions for Chrome (sites.google.com)

58 points first seen 2014021421 last seen 2014021506 77 comments

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Could This Baker Solve the Gluten Mystery? (www.motherjones.com)

57 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021418 46 comments

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Redesigning the United flight search interface in Photoshop (nathanbarry.com)

57 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021506 32 comments

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Instead of a card, give your valentine a website (http://valentine.brace.io)

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Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source (techcrunch.com)

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Quant community picks 25 investment algorithms (blog.quantopian.com)

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America’s labour market has suffered permanent harm (www.economist.com)

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10 French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online (www.rudebaguette.com)

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Editorially is shutting down (stet.editorially.com)

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New Android OEM licensing terms leak; “Open” comes with a lot of restrictions (arstechnica.com)

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Hemingway Takes the Hemingway Test (www.newyorker.com)

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Group Matchmaking Startup The Dating Ring (YC W14) Launches In San Francisco (techcrunch.com)

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Google will block local extensions in Chrome 33 for Windows (thenextweb.com)

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Rakuten to Buy Voice-Call App Maker Viber (online.wsj.com)

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Writing an MMO with Web Actors (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

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Which is less expensive: amazon or self hosted? (gigaom.com)

38 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021406 51 comments

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AngularJS Form builder (github.com)

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Bitcoin stolen while laptop was in Apple store (item?id=7233230)

35 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021421 29 comments

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Link Bait: Mapping the Spread of the Epic Twitter Link Chain (loganhasson.github.io)

35 points first seen 2014021418 last seen 2014021600 12 comments

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Monte Carlo Simulations and Fibonacci: Why Developers Still Need The Basics (blog.smartbear.com)

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Opera is really nice. (tomforb.es)

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Rust on Computer Language Benchmarks Game (benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org)

32 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021409 44 comments

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Angular JS Kinda Sucks (okmaya.com)

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Job polarisation and the decline of middle-class workers’ wages (www.voxeu.org)

29 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021406 54 comments

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Sesame Street Fighter - A Typing Fighting Game (flavourmachine.com)

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The Noteblock – Roses will wither, but the Blockchain is forever (www.thenoteblock.com)

27 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021500 28 comments

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Pandora Suit May Upend Century-Old Royalty Plan (www.nytimes.com)

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Very tense atmosphere at a Google Bus stop in San Francisco (www.cnbc.com)

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4 Wordpress sites, 1 server – great performance on Digital Ocean with Nginx (lukespear.co.uk)

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After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer copies than Windows 7 did (thenextweb.com)

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Yes, There’s a Pilot Shortage: Salaries Start at $21,000 (www.businessweek.com)

24 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021400 17 comments

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Taking Google’s QUIC For a Test Drive (www.connectify.me)

19 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021406 11 comments

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Regulate the Internet like the real world or the real world like the Internet? (nickgrossman.is)

19 points first seen 2014021412 last seen 2014021500 18 comments

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Ask HN: Do you have any code currently in production that you're ashamed of? (item?id=7232017)

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Redditor tears apart the current JavaScript thick-client landscape (www.reddit.com)

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TokuMX 1.4 released: Major improvements to MongoDB sharding and replication (www.tokutek.com)

15 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021409 19 comments

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Hiring Interns the Legal Way (www.justworks.com)

15 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021406 15 comments

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Show HN: link shortening API in Go (rdhq.co)

14 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021409 13 comments

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Launching a startup? Market to these guys (corp.pipl.com)

14 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021403 4 comments

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Dear Hiring Manager, Please Don't Shun Me (www.linkedin.com)

13 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021406 16 comments

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Is Your TV Watching You? (eamann.com)

13 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021421 15 comments

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Show HN: Baby steps towards real-time patient monitoring (techcrunch.com)

13 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021421 5 comments

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Show HN: Build your own Flappy Bird in your browser (www.makegameswith.us)

13 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021409 2 comments

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Show HN: We made Craigslist for the university that I will be attending. (www.penngems.com)

12 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021403 4 comments

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Don't give access to your beta for free, swap it (blog.frontapp.com)

12 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021418 10 comments

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Show HN: SciCast, Science and Tech Combinatorial Prediction Market by GMU (scicast.org)

12 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021415 7 comments

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Why do web browsers use such bad languages? (www.deseret-tech.com)

12 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021421 9 comments

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Introducing CLydE: HackTech Grand Prize Winner [video] (www.clydepowered.com)

12 points first seen 2014021418 last seen 2014021418 8 comments

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Mastering ProGuard for Building Lightweight Android Code (www.crashlytics.com)

11 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021406 0 comments

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Ask HN: Can a Stack Overflow moderator give us Stack Overflow back? (item?id=7230872)

9 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021403 20 comments

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The 25% Discount that Cost Us $12,000 (Plus, a Big Announcement) (www.groovehq.com)

9 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021406 4 comments

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Mutual Respect and the barking of dogs (swombat.com)

9 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021406 0 comments

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National License Plate Recognition Database (www.fbo.gov)

9 points first seen 2014021412 last seen 2014021500 2 comments

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FlapBot – Bot for FlapMMO.com (github.com)

9 points first seen 2014021412 last seen 2014021412 5 comments

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Dogecoin reachs block 100,000 – reward drops by half (dogechain.info)

9 points first seen 2014021415 last seen 2014021415 0 comments

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More on Hiring Software Developers (hesh.am)

8 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021400 16 comments

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Ask HN: What is your favorite Linux distro and why? (item?id=7230840)

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Netflix is builing new algorithm for recommendation engine (www.wired.com)

8 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021403 3 comments

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Show HN: Hacking the cremation urn industry – Artisurn.com (item?id=7231952)

8 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021503 7 comments

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Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Responds To Widespread Criticism (www.forbes.com)

8 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021409 0 comments

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Entrepreneurs Don't Have an Optimism Bias (blogs.hbr.org)

8 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021415 3 comments

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Airbnb in NYC: The Real Numbers (skift.com)

8 points first seen 2014021412 last seen 2014021415 0 comments

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Shenandoah: An almost pauseless garbage collection algorithm (icedtea.classpath.org)

8 points first seen 2014021412 last seen 2014021500 0 comments

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Coinbase Launches “BitHack” an Online Bitcoin Hackathon (www.followthecoin.com)

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Ask HN: What are your thoughts about 'Everyone Should Learn How To Code'? (item?id=7234020)

7 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014030109 9 comments

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Linksys Worm "TheMoon" Summary: What we know so far (isc.sans.edu)

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Jade Rabbit lunar rover alive after all, says China (www.theguardian.com)

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How I Ended Up in Solitary After Calling 911 for Help (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021406 0 comments

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A PR Hacking Code of Conduct (blog.rjmetrics.com)

6 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021406 0 comments

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Poll: Do you encrypt your files? (item?id=7234822)

6 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021415 9 comments

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Natural gas vehicles worse for climate than diesel ones (www.usatoday.com)

6 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021415 0 comments

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First year as an independent business owner (lauris.h-s.io)

6 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021412 0 comments

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Launch Your App on New Year's (mobile.openx.com)

6 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021409 0 comments

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Proposed new tag: IMG (1993) (1997.webhistory.org)

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Python 3.3.4 Release (python.org)

6 points first seen 2014021415 last seen 2014021421 0 comments

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AppFog reduce free plan to 512MB RAM, 2 services, 2 instances (us2.campaign-archive1.com)

6 points first seen 2014021418 last seen 2014021500 2 comments

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Rust, Go, C++11 or Julia? Which would you choose and why (item?id=7237682)

6 points first seen 2014021421 last seen 2014021500 14 comments

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The European Debt Crisis Visualized [video] (www.bloomberg.com)

5 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021409 0 comments

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Ask HN: Best-looking Documentation pages? (item?id=7232849)

5 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021503 4 comments

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Soylent Manufacturing Update 2/11 (blog.soylent.me)

5 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021412 0 comments

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See who’s participating in The Day We Fight Back (blog.datanyze.com)

5 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021412 0 comments

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Show HN: Flappy Bird in 128 Lines of CoffeeScript (danmarner.github.io)

5 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021412 0 comments

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Coinbase launches "BitHack" an online Bitcoin Hackathon with $18,000 in prizes (bithackathon.com)

5 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021415 0 comments

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Why I Won't Sign Your NDA (medium.com)

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'French PRISM' revealed: All communications tracked, metadata collected (rt.com)

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The Trouble With Microsoft, In One Angry Email (www.slate.com)

5 points first seen 2014021415 last seen 2014021421 0 comments

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Changes to AppFog Free Plans (blog.appfog.com)

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Show HN: AsmHTTPd – The tiniest webserver ever written (Linux, x86_64 assembly) (github.com)

5 points first seen 2014021418 last seen 2014021421 0 comments

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The joys of pretending to help the poor: The Kiva Story (www.dailykos.com)

4 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021403 0 comments

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The Shadowy World Of Wikipedia's Editing Bots (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021403 0 comments

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Ask HN: Things you do on the Internet once, twice a day? (item?id=7231764)

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A tutorial on the expressiveness and universality of fold (swizec.com)

4 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021403 2 comments

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Ask HN: Moving in is miserable, what if we did it for you? (item?id=7232551)

4 points first seen 2014021406 last seen 2014021503 7 comments

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Hyperlinking is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules (torrentfreak.com)

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8 secrets for success from early retirees (www.fidelity.com)

4 points first seen 2014021409 last seen 2014021412 0 comments

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Customers are scared to buy online. What can convince them? Suggestions? (item?id=7235629)

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Upworthy Traffic Gets Crushed By Facebook Feed Changes (growthhackers.com)

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Tom Perkins: The war on the 1% [video] (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

4 points first seen 2014021418 last seen 2014021500 3 comments

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Why C/C++ Is My One True Love (blog.danlarsen.me)

4 points first seen 2014021418 last seen 2014021418 5 comments

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Gearbox – Framework for asynchronous job dispatching (getgearbox.org)

3 points first seen 2014021400 last seen 2014021400 0 comments

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Analysis Paralysis: Stop worrying about your code (blog.gadr.me)

3 points first seen 2014021403 last seen 2014021403 0 comments

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Hyperlinking is not copy right infringement, EU court rules (torrentfreak.com)

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Man vs. machine table tennis match (www.teamusa.org)

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Giant Robot Software is closing its doors (gist.github.com)

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UC Berkeley release of Plan 9 under the GPLv2 (github.com)