hackerNews

1

The Engineer Crunch (blog.samaltman.com)

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Machines are better referees than humans but we’ll be sued if we use them (blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk)

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Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide (ledracapital.com)

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Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves (minimaxir.com)

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Complaint-Driven Development (www.codinghorror.com)

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Irrational Games (Bioshock Infinite) is shutting down (irrationalgames.com)

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A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work (matthaeuskrenn.com)

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WRT120N fprintf Stack Overflow (www.devttys0.com)

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How The Guardian successfully moved domain to www.theguardian.com (www.theguardian.com)

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Sta.li: Static Linux (http://sta.li)

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Show HN: our easy-to-use Text Analysis API (NLP + Machine Learning) (aylien.com)

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Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it (phusion.github.io)

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Never Be Intimidated (nancyhua.com)

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Why we love Scala at Coursera (tech.coursera.org)

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Video Processing at Dropbox (tech.dropbox.com)

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Show HN: My side project just reached #6 on App Store music charts (itunes.apple.com)

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At least 4 dead, more than 100 injured near Ukraine's parliament (LIVE UPDATES) (www.kyivpost.com)

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Cluster-Level Container Deployment with Fleet (coreos.com)

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Automated deployment with Docker – lessons learnt (www.hiddentao.com)

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REPL: To JSON what Excel is to CSV (http://repl.cc)

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Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka-Shing teaches you how to buy a car and house in 5yrs (therealsingapore.com)

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Java SE 8 Date and Time (www.oracle.com)

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Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site (item?id=7262662)

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A Simple Pair Programming Setup with SSH and Tmux (www.collectiveidea.com)

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Rails XSS vulnerability in number formatting (CVE-2014-0081) (groups.google.com)

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US Navy ready to deploy laser for 1st time (www.apnews.com)

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Offer HN: Why not improving/showing your skills working along with a NPO/NGO? (item?id=7257553)

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NZ court rules Megaupload warrant legal, dealing blow to Dotcom (www.reuters.com)

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Source of the recent outagelet (item?id=7261591)

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Belkin ships firmware signing-key within firmware image for WeMo devices (arstechnica.com)

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Abacus (YC W14) Wants to Make Expense Reports Obsolete (techcrunch.com)

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Viber Replaces MongoDB with Couchbase (www.couchbase.com)

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FTL: Advanced Edition introduces Clone Bay, Hacking, Mind Control and more (www.vg247.com)

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Show HN: Massren – multi-rename tool using your text editor (github.com)

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A Sochi Olympics API (www.kimonolabs.com)

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Running .NET apps in Docker containers (friism.com)

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Is it time to move away from silicon-based solar? (arstechnica.com)

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Rails Data Injection Vulnerability in Active Record (CVE-2014-0080) (groups.google.com)

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Fast request routing using regular expressions (nikic.github.io)

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Ideas Aren't Worthless (techblog.bozho.net)

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Why I Chose Academia (blog.ketyov.com)

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YC-Backed Eventjoy Is A One-Stop Shop For Organizing Events (techcrunch.com)

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Aggregating NBA data, PostgreSQL vs MongoDB (tapoueh.org)

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Ladonia: An Illegally Created Nation Where Creativity Rules (www.slate.com)

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FundersClub Reports Unrealized Net IRR of 41.2% (mattermark.com)

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Acid-bath stem-cell study under investigation (www.nature.com)

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Programming Laws and Reality, How programming maxims stand up against data (www.drdobbs.com)

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Random Seeds in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Cloud Instances (blog.dustinkirkland.com)

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E-Z-2-Use attack code exploits critical bug in majority of Android phones (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Update Android Apps Dynamically with no User Interaction (blog.vivekpanyam.com)

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Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Fun with Zurl, the HTTP/WebSocket client daemon (blog.fanout.io)

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On portability of GNOME (blogs.gnome.org)

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Windows 8 designer: Why Microsoft forced Metro on us all (news.cnet.com)

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Blonk – a Tinder for Jobs iOS/Android app (blonk.co)

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King.com, Maker of Candy Crush, files for IPO (money.cnn.com)

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Bitcoin for rent happening in the Philippines now (owners.trueproperty.ph)

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Italian and French jets escorted hijacked plane because Swiss AF was off work (theaviationist.com)

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Multiple Belkin WeMo (home automation) vulnerabilities (www.ioactive.com)

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IT consultant paid £2,000 a day to cover civil servant's job (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Should I quit my job if I am not learning? (item?id=7261977)

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I Am A Ukrainian, This Needs To Go Viral (thoughtcatalog.com)

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Introducing Cloudant Sync, Open Source Libraries for Mobile (cloudant.com)

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First animals may have lived with almost no oxygen (www.newscientist.com)

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Quantum vibrations in 'microtubules' in brain supports theory of consciousness (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Forbes.com hacked (item?id=7261245)

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Wireless System Could Offer a Private Fast Lane (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Some day Silicon Valley will move north. Here’s why it should settle in Oakland (gigaom.com)

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Google Explains How Not To Be A Glasshole (techcrunch.com)

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Candy Crush creator King files for IPO (thenextweb.com)

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Orchestrating docker containers with Juju (plus.google.com)

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One-Minute Animated Primers on Major Theories of Religion (www.brainpickings.org)

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GNU grep 2.17, 10x faster (lists.gnu.org)

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The problem with using or advocating Linux (forums.linuxmint.com)

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Edward Snowden elected rector of Glasgow University (glasgowguardian.co.uk)

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Fashion-friendly smart glasses (www.indiegogo.com)

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No Secret: the Demand For Mobile Engineers is Absurdly High (blog.yesgraph.com)

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A Bicycle That Rides On Water. Invented By a 60 Year Old Man from India (www.thebetterindia.com)

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How to Run Live User Testing, Part 1: Setup (blog.getcluster.com)

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How to Make Your Feedback Meaningful (firstround.com)

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Support Nothing To Hide, an (open source) anti-stealth game (back.nothingtohide.cc)

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Why I removed my sensitive files from Google Drive (vagosec.org)

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Riding Rails: Rails 4.1.0: Release candidate 1 (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

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Ask HN: Where can I find datasets of size greater than 1 GB? (item?id=7260621)

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Faking the Shot (medium.com)

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Reaffirming the White House's Commitment to Net Neutrality (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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This App Trains You to See Farther (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Memeoirs Raises $300K To Turn Your Facebook Conversations Into A Book (techcrunch.com)

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A New Tool That Seals Bullet Wounds in Seconds With High-Tech Sponges (www.wired.com)

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New Details Emerge in HP-Autonomy Accounting Scandal (recode.net)

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Spain struggles with shifted-schedule interruptions like some startups (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: what is the best cloud application to manage my sales pipeline? (item?id=7262715)

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Staying up to date with the latest protocols: SPDY/3.1 (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Ask HN: New parent or CTO at startup? Can I do both? (item?id=7259681)

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10 Signs That You Are An Awesome Web Developer (tutorialzine.com)

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The 40-day Bitcoin fortune plan (www.scribd.com)

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Email still rocks at conversions. Social, surprisingly, stinks. (www.linkedin.com)

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Ask HN: We should do something about Python, but what exactly? (item?id=7262499)

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Ask HN: How can i get better at design and using design tools (item?id=7257649)

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We don't sell saddles here (medium.com)

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Go + QML + OpenGL (www.youtube.com)

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The creative process that went into designing our new logo (blog.moustachecoffeeclub.com)

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Who made flapmmo.com? I am suprised no one else seems to be asking (item?id=7260333)

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NewHive is making the web weird again (www.theverge.com)

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How do you find a designer for personal projects? (item?id=7259522)

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Lessons learned A/B testing at Bump (apptimize.com)

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Dave Winer: How I think about Bootstrap (scripting.com)

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Rails security release (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

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Show HN: A simple share button generator (sharebuttongenerator.aakilfernandes.com)

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The Rise of the Feminist Hackers: Inevitable or Unlikely? (medium.com)

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Goodbye to 8 Design Elements: Dropdown, Carousel, ... (uxmag.com)

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Docker.io Service Discovery using my existing Network, DNS Server and DDNS (objectiveoriented.com)

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What kind of jobs do the software engineers who earn $500k per year do? (www.quora.com)

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84-Year Old Nun sent to prison for 3 years for peace protest at US nuclear site (www.csmonitor.com)

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localForage by mozilla (mozilla.github.io)

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Apple Patents Headphones With Integrated Activity, Health And Fitness Tracking (techcrunch.com)

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Why is math research important? (mathbabe.org)

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Making Angular.js realtime with Websockets (blog.pusher.com)