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1
One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen
(lauren.vortex.com)
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Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam
(online.wsj.com)
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What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced
(www.elezea.com)
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Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones
(www.engadget.com)
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Bram Moolenaar responds to Neovim
(groups.google.com)
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Comcast’s deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat
(bitcoinfoundation.org)
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ClearSkies – opensource file syncing without cloud
(github.com)
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Mt.Gox's tweets are all gone
(twitter.com)
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Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory [pdf]
(www.qubitproducts.com)
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The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1999)
(www.gamasutra.com)
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Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes
(www.righto.com)
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Exxon CEO sues against fracking in his own backyard
(www.forbes.com)
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Xorg can now run without privilege on OpenBSD
(undeadly.org)
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Doctored.js – A new kind of editor
(holloway.co.nz)
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Hipster Dev Stack
(hipsterdevstack.tumblr.com)
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Jan Koum promoting WhatsApp in the Flyertalk forum (2009)
(www.flyertalk.com)
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Gmail adding prominent 'Unsubscribe' option to marketing emails
(www.pcworld.com)
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Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language
(thoughtinfection.com)
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Regex Golf Part 2: Infinite Problems
(nbviewer.ipython.org)
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Comparing Haskell Web Frameworks
(edofic.com)
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$25 Smartphones on Firefox OS to Rock MWC
(www.eetimes.com)
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Take the Linux Filesystem Tour
(tuxradar.com)
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This Week in Rust
(cmr.github.io)
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My life in London's houseboat slums
(www.theguardian.com)
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Is San Francisco losing its soul?
(www.theguardian.com)
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97 comments
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Prison Switcharoo
(www.cartalk.com)
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The WhatsApp Story Challenges Some of the Valley’s Conventional Wisdom
(techcrunch.com)
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27 comments
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Molecular Visualisations of DNA [video]
(www.wehi.edu.au)
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U.S. now bugging German ministers in place of Merkel – report
(uk.reuters.com)
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The C++/Programming books I recommend
(bert-hubert.blogspot.com)
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How Bad Can 1 GB Pages Be?
(www.pvk.ca)
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Air Hockey Robot – a 3D printer hack
(cienciaycacharreo.blogspot.com.es)
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Misleading Graph Generator
(www.yrden.de)
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Facebook's big deal shows we're back in the dot-com funny money era
(www.latimes.com)
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Decoding the term sheet
(blog.thesecretofraisingmoney.com)
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Rare 'polio-like' disease reports in California
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Why Bitcoin Matters for Africa
(www.ariannasimpson.com)
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44 comments
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The Fall Of Perl, The Web's Most Promising Language
(www.fastcolabs.com)
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The 5 people in your organization that grow legacy code
(zeroturnaround.com)
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What the bubble got right (2004)
(paulgraham.com)
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Telecom firms mine for gold in big data despite privacy concerns
(www.reuters.com)
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Exploring an alternative to git-subtree
(www.mos6581.org)
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Go DevRoom videos from FOSDEM
(video.fosdem.org)
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The Startup Accelerator That Wants Founders to Move to Africa
(www.fastcoexist.com)
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Line length in programming
(ck.kennt-wayne.de)
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Adobe releases emergency Flash update amid new zero-day drive-by attacks
(arstechnica.com)
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Efficient Aggregates in Julia
(julialang.org)
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25 comments
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Libucl: Universal configuration library parser
(github.com)
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Vulnerable NTP Servers Closing Down
(blog.cloudflare.com)
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SF Is the Third Least Affordable Major City in the World
(www.modernluxury.com)
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Homejoy (YC S10) Opens An Office In New York City
(techcrunch.com)
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Are the robots about to rise? Google's new director of engineering thinks so
(www.theguardian.com)
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GrubHub Seamless Files Confidential Public Offering
(www.forbes.com)
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Nokia launches a trio of Android platform phones
(arstechnica.com)
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SVG Ironman
(cssdeck.com)
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Designers should prototype ideas in hours, not weeks #iterate
(williamnewton.co)
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I was partially deaf for the last couple of years
(bycomet.wordpress.com)
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Researcher: Array of Apple Apps Vulnerable to “Gotofail” Attack
(recode.net)
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The Mysterious Smell of Moondust (2006)
(science1.nasa.gov)
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"For the past two months, I’ve been living in the world of keystroke tax."
(thetypist.com)
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Show HN: How typefaces work.
(www.slate.com)
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Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong
(blog.streamingmedia.com)
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Google Readying Android Smartwatch with LG
(m.us.wsj.com)
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Ask HN: Please share your YC applications
(item?id=7288377)
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Bisecting Floating Point Numbers
(squishythinking.com)
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Vultr: DigitalOcean Clone
(http://ww.vultr.com)
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Ask HN: Do you have startup ideas to share?
(item?id=7285759)
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Hallucinated Gods
(www.meltingasphalt.com)
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Your dotfiles and you
(www.twinbit.it)
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Microsoft asks pals to help kill UK gov's Open Document Format dream
(www.theregister.co.uk)
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Ask HN: does everything known by Google engineers exist in books?
(item?id=7286963)
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Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience
(www.thedailybeast.com)
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Yellowstone Supervolcanoe begins de-gassing rare Helium 4 isotope
(www.latimes.com)
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Fun with Unicode and Julia
(iaindunning.com)
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Declutter by Writing Expiration Dates on Items You Rarely Use
(lifehacker.com)
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Truthcoin prediction markets for Bitcoin: fully distributed trading and judgment
(www.reddit.com)
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Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++ (2013)
(www.theregister.co.uk)
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Pass the Hash on Windows 8.1
(samsclass.info)
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Obtaining, Scrubbing, and Exploring Data at the Command Line
(www.hakkalabs.co)
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MusicBox: Effortless Music Discovery
(www.strikingly.com)
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So This Is What Getting Pwned Is Like
(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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Ask HN:What are the successful examples of startups which started as a blog
(item?id=7289407)
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Silicon Valley (HBO) Season 1 – Long Trailer
(www.youtube.com)
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Beauty and Ugliness in Type Font Design
(ilovetypography.com)
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Readability: Characters Per Line
(www.danielbough.com)
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A Simple Improvement to Product Mails
(insideintercom.io)
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Course from 2005
(ocw.mit.edu)
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Eccouncil.org defaced with Edward Snowden's passport
(www.eccouncil.org)
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The Need for an Open Barcode Database
(kyleconroy.com)
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How do we really make decisions?
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Ask HN: Why would MtGox delete all their tweets if things are going to be okay?
(item?id=7289928)
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Epiphany Eyewear: Like Google Glass, But Maybe Even Better
(www.laweekly.com)
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Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check
(www.newscientist.com)
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Mozilla Says New Chip Paves Way for $25 Smartphone
(recode.net)
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New PayPal scam to trick people into future pre-approved payments
(www.facebook.com)
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Ask HN: What Web framework do you recommend for a Java Shop?
(item?id=7286161)
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How Obamacare Could Unlock Job Opportunities
(www.nytimes.com)
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What Comes Next?
(avc.com)
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Samsung Weans Itself From Android – at Least for Smart Watches
(www.technologyreview.com)
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Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan
(papers.ssrn.com)
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Spacefunk Sublime Text Theme Is Awesome
(www.longren.org)
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Hacker News Turned 7 years old on February 20
(ycuniverse.com)
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Google #analytics down
(twitter.com)
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NSA moves from bugging German Chancellor to bugging German ministers
(arstechnica.comContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1)
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Ask HN: How can Apple safely upgrade a OS when the update app itself is broken?
(item?id=7290042)
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Nokia forks Android
(techcrunch.com)
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This is Nokia X
(www.theverge.com)
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