hackerNews

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Project Tango (www.google.com)

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Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Notes as a tribute on Jim Weirich's final GitHub commit (github.com)

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DHH: Jim Weirich, creator of 'Rake', has left us. (twitter.com)

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How LinkedIn lies to increase its user numbers (plus.google.com)

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Banking Startup Simple Acquired For $117M, Will Continue To Operate Separately (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX (github.com)

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Jim Weirich: Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (2012) (www.confreaks.com)

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Bitcrypt broken (blog.cassidiancybersecurity.com)

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Who helps your Linux distribution run smoothly? Thank a packager today (opensource.com)

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Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots (blog.interfacevision.com)

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Tim Bray is leaving Google (www.tbray.org)

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WhatsApp issued takedown against alternative clients a week before acquisition (raw.github.com)

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Synthetic Muscle Made of Fishing Line is 100 Times Stronger Than the Real Thing (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Tmux 1.9 released (sourceforge.net)

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Coding for SSDs (codecapsule.com)

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The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule (www.jacobinmag.com)

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Kit Kat Conspiracy (everything2.com)

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Building Cordova apps for Firefox OS (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make (blog.samaltman.com)

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The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night and the Media Is Asleep At the Switch (caracaschronicles.com)

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Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout (www.eff.org)

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10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America (mentalfloss.com)

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Vienna again named world's most liveable city. (www.reuters.com)

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There is now an API to build low-volume hardware products (gigaom.com)

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Cable lobby rebuffed in attempt to ban public broadband networks (arstechnica.com)

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Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Arrested By The FBI (techcrunch.com)

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Using Bootstrap the Right (Semantic) Way (www.ostraining.com)

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Hypercard – Way Too Early (avc.com)

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Ask HN: Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps? (item?id=7270378)

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Simple – The Next Chapter (www.simple.com)

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The Path Not Taken by Simple to Remake Finance (blog.zactownsend.com)

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Show HN: Gargl – Create an API for any website, without writing a line of code (jodoglevy.com)

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Responsibly Bringing a new Cryptography Product to Market (spideroak.com)

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Reactive (Dataflow) Programming in Java and Clojure with Quasar and Pulsar (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

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Open-sourcing Facebook's internal branch of Thrift (code.facebook.com)

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Yasp – Web-based emulator, assembler for students learning assembly language (yasp.me)

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Cryptographic obfuscation and 'unhackable' software (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

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Jolla's Sailfish OS for Android devices (reviewjolla.blogspot.de)

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DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 (status.namecheap.com)

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Gitter – Chat, for GitHub (gitter.im)

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Balanced Partners With Coinbase and Adds Bitcoin Support (techcrunch.com)

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Time travellers: please don’t kill Adolf Hitler (www.theguardian.com)

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DDoS on FreeDNS and Default DNS v2 (status.namecheap.com)

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Crowdhoster becomes CrowdtiltOpen, launches out of private beta (open.crowdtilt.com)

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Geeksphone launches the first multi OS smartphone (www.geeksphone.com)

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Results of the SQL Performance Quiz: 60% Fail (use-the-index-luke.com)

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Bitcoin Builder: Trade “MtGox” BTC and “Real” BTC (and back) (http://www.bitcoinbuilder.com)

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Old Arctic Ice Is Disappearing, and Taking the Rest of the Ice With It (www.slate.com)

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Facebook buys Whatsapp for $19B: Value and Pricing Perspectives (aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)

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Mobile Analytics Platform Amplitude (YC W12) Takes On Flurry and Mixpanel (techcrunch.com)

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Silicon Valley’s acquisition fever is bad for innovation (www.washingtonpost.com)

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

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How I Work Around The require(“../../../../../../../”) Problem In NodeJS (lostechies.com)

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Here is why your Internet is so pathetic and so expensive (knowmore.washingtonpost.com)

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Show HN: Automated Discounts on Amazon (https://www.zincsave.com)

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Bitcoin’s Value Falls 10% as Faltering Mt.Gox Exchange Continues to Implode (techcrunch.com)

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The FCC’s Plan to Reboot Net Neutrality Might Transform Municipal Broadband (www.slate.com)

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Google Launches Project Tango To Experiment With Computer Vision and 3D Sensors (techcrunch.com)

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Two Tap (YC W14) Wants to Fix Mobile Checkouts (techcrunch.com)

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LXC 1.0 released (linuxcontainers.org)

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PHP or ASP.net: Did I Do The Right Thing? (www.wekeroad.com)

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Mobile A/B Testing at LinkedIn (apptimize.com)

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The Basics of a Ghost Theme (www.ostraining.com)

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Dropbox – Updating our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (blog.dropbox.com)

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SV Angel-Backed Benchling (YC S12) Is Modernizing Software For Biotech Labs (techcrunch.com)

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Do Successful Programmers Need to Be Introverted? (www.pistoncloud.com)

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Chute’s (YC W12) new commerce offering turns any online store into a social hub (thenextweb.com)

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Be clear first and clever second (nathanpowell.me)

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Show HN: Fantasy Sports Solved through Dynamic Programming (www.rotoraider.com)

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Making Fun: Mission Control Desk (makezine.com)

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How to make a Flappy Bird in HTML5 with Phaser (blog.lessmilk.com)

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Tray.io: streamlined app development (blog.tray.io)

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Welcome to Algorithmic Prison (www.theatlantic.com)

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Whatsapp vs Viber – Who got a better deal? (appiterate.com)

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React v0.9 (facebook.github.io)

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The State of LTE – USA record the second-lowest speeds worldwide (opensignal.com)

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Is Facebook defrauding their advertising customers? (domaintower.com)

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Harvard Research Computing Resources Misused for Dogecoin Mining Operation (www.thecrimson.com)

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Deploying code with packages (synack.me)

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The Official Forecast of the U.S. Government Never Saw This Winter Coming (www.businessweek.com)

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"Eye of the tiger" on dot matrix printer (vimeo.com)

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Global Forest Watch (http://www.globalforestwatch.org)

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Learning to Cut the Sugar (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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

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Ski rental problem (en.wikipedia.org)

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Hyperlocal Neighborhood Maps Reveal the Chaos in Aleppo – Wired (www.wired.com)

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Why we don't sell ads? (blog.whatsapp.com)

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Pixate Now Open Source (CSS for iOS/Android Apps) (github.com)

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Show HN: No coding, No hassle, No wait time. (www.vessel.io)

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Ask HN: How the hell is Whatsapp worth $18 billion dollars? (item?id=7275470)

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The Eat of Battle: How the World's Armies Get Fed (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: CloudXLS – Painless Excel reports and exports (https://cloudxls.com)

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Infosec startup Ionic Security raises $25.5M from Google, Kleiner (www.bizjournals.com)

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The fall and rise of SVG – how SVG is more relevant than ever (blog.iconfinder.com)

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MtGox Bitcoin update (www.mtgox.com)

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Why PHP doesn't suck (medium.com)

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Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: What keeps you off of Postgres? (item?id=7272605)

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How to choose a great freelance client (scoutzie.com)

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The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact (medium.com)

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Dropbox Government Data Requests Principles (www.dropbox.com)

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Code Reviews and Bad Habits (bitquabit.com)

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Understanding Linux Memory utilization (careers.directi.com)

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Writing the Snowden Files: 'The paragraph began to self-delete' (www.theguardian.com)

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Online bank Simple acquired by Spain’s BBVA for $117M (venturebeat.com)

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Jim Weirich (en.wikipedia.org)

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WhatsApp Sells for 19 Billion and All I Got Was Jealous (startupsanonymous.com)

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Banks are broken (zbruhnke.com)

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Composer: Downloading Random Code Is Not A Security Vulnerability? (blog.astrumfutura.com)

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Supersonic jet to have windowless cabin (www.spikeaerospace.com)

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Things that are cheaper than whatsapp (thingsthatarecheaperthanwhatsapp.tumblr.com)

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Show HN: Handle PIL vs. Pillow in your Python modules with Pillowfight (github.com)

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In Silicon Valley, Indians' dreams have become reality (www.marketplace.org)

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How I Would Succeed If I Started With Nothing (hackthesystem.com)

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GoShip: A simple tool for deploying code to servers (github.com)

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Introducing Freestyle (http://www.pixate.com)

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My Flask to Django Experience (jokull.calepin.co)

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Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Transformation Of The Computer Scientist (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: I'm self-publishing my first book on LeanPub (servercheck.in)

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Hipsterdb: The Webscaliest Database You've Never Heard Of (github.com)

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Google's Revolutionary 3D Vision Chip Of The 'Project Tango' Phone (techcrunch.com)

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Google's Project Tango (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: How do you do accounting for your startup? (item?id=7273286)

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Coming Soon: Free Internet From Space (www.nationaljournal.com)

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Business As Usual In The New Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Is it worth to start a Startup in the USA for a foreigner? (item?id=7274432)

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4G data: The USA is second-slowest while Australia is fastest (thenextweb.com)

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Ask HN: Why is MtGox BTC so much cheaper? (item?id=7275813)

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How to become a Ruby on Rails developer (www.infinum.co)

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Trapped Electron Reveals Its Mass (news.sciencemag.org)

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Ask HN: What kind of spam is this? (item?id=7270129)

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This is Tile (www.thetileapp.com)