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By The Time You Give Them a Raise, They’re Already Out The Door (saastr.quora.com)

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As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes (danlec.com)

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Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? (ux.stackexchange.com)

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Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge (alp.im)

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I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society (nymag.com)

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Drawing as a programmer (gameofworlds.tumblr.com)

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Why we left AngularJS (sourcegraph.com)

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Snowden Documents Reveal Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks (firstlook.org)

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There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows? (embeddedgurus.com)

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Introducing Bing Code Search for C# (blogs.msdn.com)

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A Collection of Less Commonly Used Unix Commands (www.danielmiessler.com)

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Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN? (item?id=7254884)

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My Startup, a Retrospective (www.rdegges.com)

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From India, Proof That a Trip to Mars Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank (www.nytimes.com)

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Steam's VAC reads all the domains you visited, sends it back to servers hashed (www.twitlonger.com)

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TCP/IP over audio (www.anfractuosity.com)

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Off-the-Record Messaging Protocol v3 (otr.cypherpunks.ca)

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The Erlang Shell (medium.com)

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Ways to avoid using the word 'very' (writerswrite.co.za)

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I Quit My Job To Teach People About Hardware (chrisgammell.com)

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The fastest pulsar spins at 716Hz; its equator spins at 24% the speed of light (en.wikipedia.org)

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How Airbus is debugging the A350 (www.businessweek.com)

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How north ended up on top of the map (america.aljazeera.com)

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No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline (www.solitr.com)

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KitKat will make your SD Card useless (plus.google.com)

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Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator) at Startup Grind 2014 (www.youtube.com)

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Darwin's Children Drew All Over the “On The Origin of Species” Manuscript (theappendix.net)

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Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis? (www.networkworld.com)

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New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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Gabe Newell: Valve, VAC, and trust (www.reddit.com)

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Free static page hosting on Google App Engine in minutes (www.fizerkhan.com)

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Therac-25 (en.wikipedia.org)

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Microsoft Virtual Academy (http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com)

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Using Django for mostly static sites (goodcode.io)

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After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes (theconversation.com)

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Why Europe needs to get over its Silicon Valley envy (www.theguardian.com)

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REPL to any browser in the cloud (github.com)

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What happens when a host cancels with Airbnb? (www.paulsavage.eu)

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10 Websites That Boost Your Traffic For Free (bondero.com)

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Only 30% of Americans Out of Comcast Reach After Deal (cabletv.com)

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Google, Apple rejecting flappy-branded games (arstechnica.com)

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Valve DNS privacy flap exposes the murky world of cheat prevention (arstechnica.com)

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Did you know Samsung could've bought Android first, but laughed it out of court? (www.phonearena.com)

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Automate Your Home With Your Own Personal SkyNet (wired.com)

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How YC Companies Found Employee #1 (blog.yesgraph.com)

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After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes (www.thehindu.com)

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Mt. Gox Impact Diminishes as Market Price Dissociates (thegenesisblock.com)

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Show HN: RTFA, a Chrome extension to hide HN comments until you read the article (chrome.google.com)

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Poll: What impact do payment fees have on your margin? (item?id=7254276)

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Why DuckDuckGo is better for web development (devblog.avdi.org)

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Naive Parallel Prime Numbers Sieve in Erlang (github.com)

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Beginning games in Unity 2D: a tutorial (designagame.eu)

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Why and how I write Java (stevewedig.com)

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An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (preshing.com)

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Spek – A Specification Framework (jetbrains.github.io)

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Why bad software architecture is easy to monetize (tojans.me)

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The Death of Xenix (1997) (www.linuxjournal.com)

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Raganwald quits Hacker News (twitter.com)

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Though Its Network Of Mentors, HackHands Offers Live Help for New Programmers (techcrunch.com)

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Robot construction crew, inspired by termite colonies (news.harvard.edu)

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What if Apple bought Tesla? (thenextweb.com)

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The Difference Between Programmers and Coders [2013] (workfunc.com)

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Neurodebian – Neuroscience Software Platform (neuro.debian.net)

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Switzerland's Answer to Silicon Valley (www.credit-suisse.com)

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Show HN: I am building Reesd, a redundant storage service (hypered.io)

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Hurting For Cash, Online Porn Tries New Tricks (www.npr.org)

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This is how much I want to intern at Google. (www.mygoogleinternship.com)

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Getting started with component(1) (blog.kewah.com)

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FusionCharts mocks open source but uses it extensively (blog.overseas-exile.com)

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CSC 103 Lecture Notes Week 1 (users.csc.calpoly.edu)

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ReactJS library for dynamic forms, grids and widgets – with interactive demos (github.com)

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Happiness Hack – Remember what happened good today (myhappiness.io)

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Local state is harmful (scattered-thoughts.net)

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Ask HN: Which git commands do you use most? (counting command included) (item?id=7252229)

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How Evernote Onboards New Users (www.useronboard.com)

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Ask HN: What would you compute on 2000 badly behaved worker nodes? (item?id=7253358)

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See Inside Our Financials: The Baremetrics Demo (www.baremetrics.io)

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Mt. Gox Update – Announcement Affecting Bitcoin transfers (www.mtgox.com)

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How KitKat 4.4 Killed Android (beranger.org)

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Broccoli: First Beta Release - JavaScript build tool (www.solitr.com)

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Bindable.js: Flexible, fast, bidirectional data-binding library (github.com)

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Review of “Grinding it Out” by Ray Kroc, co-founder of McDonald’s (www.richardprice.io)

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Xbox One: Where it all went wrong. (ninjamoomin.seshn.com)

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JScrud: CRUD for JavaScript objects (github.com)

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What Americans Don't Know About Science (www.theatlantic.com)

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Vizicities: Opensource 3D city and data visualisation platform (github.com)

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Mozilla Plans to Sell Ads in Firefox Browser (daringfireball.net)

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Apple SVP of Design Jony Ive Removed from Leadership Webpage (forums.macrumors.com)

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What is a Type System for? (michaelrbernste.in)

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Jeff Lindsay joining DigitalOcean to build a service platform using Flynn. (twitter.com)

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When there is a gold rush, start selling pick axes and blue jeans (blog.urx.com)

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Google Font CDN (www.google.com)

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How We Use Flowdock At Flowdock (blog.flowdock.com)

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Ask HN: How do SEO consultants get backlinks? (item?id=7251219)

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Show HN: Booltin - Create flyer, Promote it and Get feedback (item?id=7252552)

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Micro-Apartments: Boston’s Housing Solution Or Developers’ Cash Cow? (www.wbur.org)

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Ask: Has programming disrupted your companion relationship? (item?id=7254010)

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Web-Based Remote Desktop with Guacamole and Django (blog.rescale.com)

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Dear Asus router user: You’ve been pwned, thanks to easily exploited flaw (arstechnica.com)

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Samsung could have bought Android (hacksandstuff.com)

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Ask HN: How do you scale up as a freelancer? (item?id=7257009)

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Why do movie posters use credit fonts that are hard to read? (ux.stackexchange.com)

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Show HN: Mailion – Superfast editor for your Mailchimp lists (item?id=7251627)

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What the Heck is an Architect? (padgeblog.com)

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Alternative to Rails::Engine (pothibo.com)

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Dogecoin has allegedly forked (www.reddit.com)

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Data Analysis: The Hard Parts (blog.mikiobraun.de)

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Google Here and Now (medium.com)

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Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility (credibility.stanford.edu)

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Ask HN: When doing everything yourself, design or code first? Together? (item?id=7252712)

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We Don't Sell Saddles Here (medium.com)

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(Killer Inspirational Video) Why people fail, quit and how not to (vimeo.com)

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Beacon's (YC W14) new button lets you decide how much writers get paid (venturebeat.com)

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CoinTerra to Release GSX I Water-Cooled PCIe Bitcoin Mining Card (www.coindesk.com)

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Slooh space telescope – asteroid live stream (live.slooh.com)

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Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check (www.newscientist.com)

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What do those squiggles on the pavement actually mean? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Call for paper and workshops open for Barcelona FutureJS (futurejs.org)

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How do we know if mobile apps are secure? (www.hanselman.com)

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Pear OS bought and is no longer available (news.softpedia.com)

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Your own personal SkyNet (www.wired.com)

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Why I hate you because of your resume (medium.com)

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Inspired by GitHub (www.avc.com)

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Ask HN: Would you use a Django package that models the AWS console? (item?id=7253050)

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A First Look At Echobox, An Analytics Tool For News Sites (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Recommended external Hard Drive (item?id=7252872)

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‘Data walls’ in Massachusetts shame students with low test scores (news.yahoo.com)

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StrataConf Insider Tweets (memamsa.com)

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Money and Open Source (medium.com)

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Why Expedia is wrong (medium.com)

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A case for the infinite free trial. (www.woutersmet.com)

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TrackDuck – A Tiny Web Site Build Tracking Startup (techcrunch.com)

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Understanding Parallel Processing (eamann.com)

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How to hack your own linux system (www.tecmint.com)

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Mayer’s Search Plans: “Three S’s” and Slipping Through a Microsoft Loophole (recode.net)

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Apple Reportedly Launching Two New iPhones with Larger Displays In September (www.macrumors.com)

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Stop using your phone, give clean water to children in need (tap.unicefusa.org)

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Protesters crash Google talk on corporate mindfulness at Wisdom 2.0 conference (www.tricycle.com)

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Ask HN: What are some high-impact books on leadership you've read? (item?id=7256653)

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The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Valve isn't tracking your browser history (www.theverge.com)

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Solar/Thermal Desalinzation Technology Could Help Farmers (www.nytimes.com)

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URX (YC S13) is hiring the founding members of its mobile team (jobs.lever.co)

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User Acquisition at Virool (YC S12) (www.linkedin.com)

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