hackerNews

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3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect (www.mymodernmet.com)

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Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s (m.theatlantic.com)

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The C10M problem (c10m.robertgraham.com)

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Frequency (xkcd.com)

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HTTP 308 Incompetence Expected (insanecoding.blogspot.com)

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The Man Who Built Catan (www.newyorker.com)

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Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users? (item?id=7248829)

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Prefer mercurial to git (lists.gnu.org)

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Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Where I can post my startup to get beta users? (item?id=7248460)

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When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (www.theatlantic.com)

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Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol (openlibernet.org)

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Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis (slatestarcodex.com)

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IMDB Top 100K Movies – Analysis in Depth, Part 1 (bugra.github.io)

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Why you should move that button 3px to the left (www.gv.com)

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A Case for Upserts (lucumr.pocoo.org)

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The C10K problem (www.kegel.com)

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Analysis of 419,000 FlapMMO attempts (t3hz0r.com)

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Early screenshots of Twitter ('06), Facebook ('05), and Tumblr ('07) (imgur.com)

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Compiling Quake 3 Virtual Machines To JavaScript (www.inolen.com)

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The Enigma of “Blind Tom” Wiggins (www.blackpast.org)

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Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps (comcastmyths.tumblr.com)

79 points first seen 2014021703 last seen 2014021709 85 comments

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Real-time Search as a Service (http://www.algolia.com)

74 points first seen 2014021709 last seen 2014021818 31 comments

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I No Longer Need StackOverflow (toumorokoshi.github.io)

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Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed (firstlook.org)

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Cyanogenmod Updater vulnerable to MITM attack (kyhwana.org)

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NYPD rejects request for its freedom of information handbook (www.muckrock.com)

69 points first seen 2014021715 last seen 2014021803 30 comments

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Microsoft Virtual Academy offers hundreds of free online courses (www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com)

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Possible citogenesis concerning whether MtGox ever hosted an MtG trading site (en.wikipedia.org)

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Facebook data scientists: A series of blog posts on love (www.facebook.com)

63 points first seen 2014021712 last seen 2014021900 14 comments

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List of possible changes, updates, additions for php6 (wiki.php.net)

59 points first seen 2014021721 last seen 2014021815 61 comments

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Gestice – Unlock your Android by shaking it whilst wearing a Pebble (gestice.org)

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Thousands of People Trying to Play the Same Game of Pokemon (www.dorkly.com)

55 points first seen 2014021709 last seen 2014021721 21 comments

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Volatiles Are Miscompiled, and What to Do about It [pdf] (www.cs.utah.edu)

53 points first seen 2014021712 last seen 2014021821 31 comments

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JavaScript Module Loaders Considered Harmful (techblog.ironfroggy.com)

49 points first seen 2014021706 last seen 2014021803 41 comments

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Ask HN: Is anyone successful with the 7-minute workout so far? (item?id=7248736)

49 points first seen 2014021706 last seen 2014021715 54 comments

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Blocking Google and Facebook using Ad Block Plus and Ghostery (www.leaseweblabs.com)

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True size of Africa (tariq.co)

42 points first seen 2014021712 last seen 2014021718 30 comments

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Angular-translate 2.0 released (http://angular-translate.github.io)

41 points first seen 2014021709 last seen 2014021812 12 comments

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The great 1928 flood of London (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A Russian satellite will crash into earth today – it can be tracked here (www.n2yo.com)

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Marketing beats quality (blog.marksteve.com)

40 points first seen 2014021721 last seen 2014021806 14 comments

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Thanks Hacker News for debugging our site (blog.lawnstarter.com)

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Why is Git better than Subversion? (stackoverflow.com)

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Flight ET702 hijacked – live Twitter feed (twitter.com)

35 points first seen 2014021718 last seen 2014021800 24 comments

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New Fractal Art Tool (glowinggreenhand.blogspot.com)

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BART rider with measles potentially exposed thousands in Bay area (www.sfgate.com)

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Apple exploring cars, medical devices to reignite growth (www.sfgate.com)

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Linksys E-series Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Exploit (www.exploit-db.com)

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Why Free Speech Loses in India (www.newyorker.com)

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German government plans use of counter-espionage against U.S. (www.spiegel.de)

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Please do not port software to Windows (www.fefe.de)

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Open-source 3D city platform ViziCities released on GitHub (viziciti.es)

29 points first seen 2014021721 last seen 2014021806 14 comments

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Kenya's mPesa vs Bitcoin: Success vs Failure (www.pymnts.com)

28 points first seen 2014021709 last seen 2014021718 41 comments

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DeepDB – High-performing transactional and analytic database (deep.is)

26 points first seen 2014021706 last seen 2014021721 28 comments

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The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words (www.cs.ucla.edu)

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Stack Overflow is down (stackoverflow.com)

22 points first seen 2014021706 last seen 2014021706 16 comments

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Deconstructing Facebook Paper's photo panner (subjc.com)

22 points first seen 2014021709 last seen 2014021803 10 comments

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Introducing StackWho: Discover other users on StackOverflow (cburgdorf.wordpress.com)

22 points first seen 2014021709 last seen 2014021803 9 comments

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WebNES – A browser-based, mobile NES emulator (http://webn.es)

18 points first seen 2014021712 last seen 2014021715 11 comments

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Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014 (blog.codeeval.com)

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My Short Affair with Microsoft Surface Pro and the Retail User Experience (www.apmexaminer.com)

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Feds: Mexican Tycoon Exploited Super PACs to Influence U.S. Elections (thecable.foreignpolicy.com)

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20 years of Impulse Tracker (roartindon.blogspot.sg)

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Flappy Bird had zero Facebook features (item?id=7247372)

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Fortnight.io – unique task planner built with Meteor (http://fortnight.io)

12 points first seen 2014021721 last seen 2014021721 2 comments

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Valve Anti Cheat Engine reads all the domains you have visited and sends it back (www.reddit.com)

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Should you do a startup with your spouse? (lifeafterliquidity.com)

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Building JavaScript Tools You Didn't Think Were Possible (gregfranko.com)

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Inside Japan’s star making machinery (beaconreports.net)

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NixOS added to DistroWatch after 7 years on waiting list (distrowatch.com)

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Bitcoin Drops 50% on Mt Gox to $230 (www.josic.com)

10 points first seen 2014021709 last seen 2014021712 3 comments

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On the moral bankruptcy of Wikipedia’s anonymous administration (wikipediocracy.com)

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On gitology (jordi.inversethought.com)

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MtGox hacked? (www.reddit.com)

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Apple will buy Tesla – rumor (venturebeat.com)

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NODE.JS FOR IOS (http://nodeapp.org)

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What the hell is a pixel? (maybeuseful.ghost.io)

6 points first seen 2014021706 last seen 2014021709 0 comments

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ChefAPI – A dependency-minimal Ruby HTTP client for a Chef Server (github.com)

6 points first seen 2014021712 last seen 2014021715 0 comments

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Together we can restore net neutrality (www.askthem.io)

6 points first seen 2014021715 last seen 2014021718 0 comments

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Use of Assertions (blog.regehr.org)

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Why major creative breakthroughs happen in your late thirties (qz.com)

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Bootsy: Framework For Project Managers (gillesbertaux.com)

5 points first seen 2014021709 last seen 2014021715 5 comments

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For Interns, All Work and No Payoff (www.nytimes.com)

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Google Partnering With Foxconn to Test Industrial Robots (singularityhub.com)

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How Putin's cronies seized control of Russia's Facebook (www.theverge.com)

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PhD students send out physical copies of their thesis to unknown persons (academia.stackexchange.com)

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Zooming user interface (en.wikipedia.org)

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Show HN: Sketchboard.io – Real-time Collaborative Lightweight Software Design (item?id=7248083)

4 points first seen 2014021706 last seen 2014021706 7 comments

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Ask HN: Interested in collaborating on a small site using this novel style? (item?id=7249129)

4 points first seen 2014021709 last seen 2014021709 2 comments

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Ask HN: Good examples of screenshot style product tours (item?id=7249880)

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Obama's Twitter Account Is Basically a Parody (www.thewire.com)

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Dropbox’s hiring practices explain its disappointing lack of female employees (venturebeat.com)

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Observable JavaScript Objects (jajeffries.wordpress.com)

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TRC post-mortem (pepijndevos.nl)

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XNA 5 (visualstudio.uservoice.com)

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Where's your F chord? (calnewport.com)

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Endless Winter Snow and Cold May Be Caused By Changing Jet Stream (nation.time.com)

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Using auto-Rickrolling routers to spread "gay propaganda" in Russia (www.orbooks.com)

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1980’s era IBM-PC emulator in 4043 bytes (www.ioccc.org)

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Syrian Electronic Army Says It Published Forbes User Info (recode.net)

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MMO 2D Competitive Space Action Clone of Cosmic Rift (item?id=7249641)

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Explain P = NP problem to 10 year old (cstheory.stackexchange.com)

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Lunar property rights: Hard cheese (www.economist.com)

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More Details on Directory Tiles (blog.mozilla.org)

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Professors, We Need You (www.nytimes.com)

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How The World Butchered Benjamin Franklin’s Quote On Liberty Vs. Security (techcrunch.com)

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Possible hijacking in progress -- ETH 702 squawking 7500 over Mediterranean (www.reddit.com)

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RMBP 13? (item?id=7250708)

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Ask HN: Has any company ever paid developers like they pay sales people? (item?id=7250452)

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Fundamentals of Cryptography; Algorithms and Security Services slides (vidcat.org)

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Google buys sound authentication firm SlickLogin (www.bbc.co.uk)

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50+ of the top 1,000 eTailers pay Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1us for our software – Engineers needed (www.jobscore.com)

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