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Neovim (github.com)

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Sam Altman for President (blog.ycombinator.com)

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America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998) (www.nytimes.com)

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Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN Why isn't Erlang more popular? (item?id=7277797)

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It's time to break up the NSA (www.cnn.com)

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About the security content of iOS 7.0.6 (support.apple.com)

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VAXen, my children, just don't ... (crash.com)

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Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds (www.medievalists.net)

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Go Ahead, Let Your Kids Fail (www.bloomberg.com)

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My children’s book on technology raised 100k within 24 hours – here’s how (lindaliukas.tumblr.com)

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Mid Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer (www.modernperlbooks.com)

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How much is time wrong around the world? (poisson.phc.unipi.it)

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Things that cost more than Space Exploration: WhatsApp. (costsmorethanspace.tumblr.com)

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Show HN: I built an HTML 5 Guitar Tuner (http://www.freetuner.co)

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Show HN: Selfie Ticket (www.ticketleap.com)

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Developers and Depression (thenextweb.com)

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Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin (arstechnica.com)

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Gmaxwell's “prove how (non)-fractional your Bitcoin reserves are” scheme (iwilcox.me.uk)

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How Google missed the boat (scripting.com)

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TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple (techcrunch.com)

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Uzbl – Web interface tools which adhere to the Unix philosophy (www.uzbl.org)

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A Geometric Review of Linear Algebra [pdf] (www.cns.nyu.edu)

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What's relevant in the Ruby Universe? (www.omniref.com)

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Radiation-hardened quine (github.com)

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Microsoft killed my Pappy (www.hanselman.com)

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Sam Altman Taking Over As President Of Y Combinator (techcrunch.com)

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Can We Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia? (www.antipope.org)

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CRS-3 Falcon 9 first stage to sport legs and attempt soft splashdown (www.nasaspaceflight.com)

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Rarely known C++ constructs (part 1): Function try blocks (szelei.me)

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Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency (gist.github.com)

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Google search for “blink html” (www.google.com)

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The broken-down grace of Bill Murray (thedissolve.com)

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Building a Decision Tree in Python from Postgres data (www.garysieling.com)

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A simple distributed algorithm for small idempotent information (antirez.com)

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Gobble (YC W14) Automates Your Dinner With A Subscription Meal Delivery Service (techcrunch.com)

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42 (YC W14) Brings Big Data to Brick-and-Mortar Retailers (techcrunch.com)

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NSA Official Warned About Threat 17 Years Before Snowden (www.bloomberg.com)

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Zuckerberg’s Data Stance Faces Privacy Backlash in Europe (www.bloomberg.com)

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Bitcoin security model: trust by computation (radar.oreilly.com)

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Gmail is a Usability Nightmare (moron4hire.tumblr.com)

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Free online course from Stanford – Creativity: Music to my ears (novoed.com)

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Magical Square Root Implementation In Quake III by Carmack (www.codemaestro.com)

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Show HN: I've open-sourced my ERP SaaS, Stockor (item?id=7277284)

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Important BufferBox Update (blog.bufferbox.com)

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Utah Teapot (en.wikipedia.org)

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Wanted: Awesome HTML5 app ports for Firefox OS and the Open Web (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Iraq offers $17,200 reward for killing jihadists (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Deploying meteor.js apps to e-paper (www.visionect-epaper.com)

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First programming job – a 4 month reflection (pastebin.com)

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SoundFocus Raises $1.7M to Protect Hearing in Post-iPod, XBox Era (blogs.wsj.com)

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One Week After Launching My Startup (www.codingcupboard.com)

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Ambition (YC W14) Brings Fantasy Football-Style Motivation to Sales Teams (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Find and Watch TV Shows on YouTube with CouchTube.net (insightdatascience.com)

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Can Haskell power the next Ruby on Rails? (www.stackbuilders.com)

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Jersey 2.6 has been Released: New and Noteworthy (blog.dejavu.sk)

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No Silver Bullets: Etsy's Randy Hunt on Product Design (www.jasonshen.com)

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Bye Bye, WhatsApp: Germans Switch To Threema For Privacy Reasons (techcrunch.com)

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I'm a Jill of all trades and damn proud of it (emmanemtin.com)

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World Income Mapped by Location (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)

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Memory Access Microbenchmark: Clojure, F#, Go, Julia, Lua, Racket, Ruby, Self (togototo.wordpress.com)

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Dashboard Metrics that Actually Work (segment.io)

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Ask HN: do you use App.net? (item?id=7276553)

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Python Tools for Machine Learning – A beginner's guide (www.cbinsights.com)

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An Algorithm for Nudity Detection [pdf] (vidcat.org)

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T.E.C.H. Foundation Spring Beer Tasting featuring Family House - San Francisco (item?id=7279339)

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Taps and Swipes: Intuition vs. Machine Learning in UX Design (minuum.com)

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What the Whatsapp acquisition tells us about Facebook's mobile strategy (blog.jordankong.ca)

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Ask HN: I want to get out of finance but salaries scare me (item?id=7277723)

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Netflix packets being dropped every day because Verizon wants more money (arstechnica.com)

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Fitbit stops sales, issues recall over health tracker complaints (venturebeat.com)

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LXC 1.0 has been released (article.gmane.org)

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Venezuela tells CNN journalists to 'get out' (www.cnn.com)

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Ask HN: How much is my webapp worth? (item?id=7280952)

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Unfortunate State of Mobile Web (serv.github.io)

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Ask Sama: Do you plan any major changes with HN and YC (item?id=7279244)

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Google Fiber Plans to Expand Gigabit Internet to 34 New Cities (www.techcomunication.com)

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Ask HN: Any examples of currying that's not toy stuff? (item?id=7277035)

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Apple Acquires Burstly, which owns Testflight (iOS beta testing platform) (www.macrumors.com)

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OpenRFPs: Open RFP Data for All 50 States (blog.dobt.co)

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Give HN: Take over my Apple video site? (item?id=7279595)

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Fitbit Issues Voluntary Recall For Fitbit Force Due To Skin Irritation (techcrunch.com)

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Quantified Self: Thoughts on two years of exercise data (mikemcdearmon.com)

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What To Do When Your Launch Gets Zero Traction (startupsanonymous.com)

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Why Data Strategy Matters (www.jasonkolb.com)

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Study uncovers six basic types of Twitter conversations (www.pbs.org)

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Can you learn to code and build an app in a month? Here’s what I made. (davidmckinney.com)

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Buddhist Monks Discovered America Before Columbus (1998) (www.lindseywilliams.org)

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Richard Branson insists he will be aboard first Virgin Galactic space flight (www.theguardian.com)

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Lessons learned from running a NodeJS app in production (www.spectrumcoding.com)

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Netflix and Comcast have reached a peering agreement (gigaom.com)

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Redditor writes to Google in C++ requesting fiber, Google responds in Java (www.reddit.com)

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Logical Rudeness (legacy.earlham.edu)

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THIS is how you code. (mikecavaliere.com)

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Arizona passes law aimed at refusing service to people who are gay (www.reuters.com)

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It doesn't matter if there's a bubble (farmdawgnation.com)

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JPMorgan Chase Closing Accounts of Coinbase [YC S12] Customers (www.reddit.com)

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Heml.is – A secure messenger with a beautiful design (https://heml.is)

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The smartphone app wars are over, and Apple won. (techland.time.com)

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HTML and JavaScript usage (www.chromestatus.com)

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Allen Dulles: Some Elements of Intelligence Work (grugq.github.io)

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Keith and Mario's Guide to Continuous Deployment (speakerdeck.com)

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Ask HN: What U.S. tech/developer conferences have you enjoyed? (item?id=7276710)

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ToU: Paid contributions amendment (meta.wikimedia.org)

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Nokia considers buying Juniper (www.reuters.com)

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The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula (abovethecrowd.com)

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SuperDARN (octopart.com)