hackerNews

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GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide (www.theguardian.com)

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We Have Luxurious Jobs but We Are Not Aware of It (blog.gedrap.me)

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Yanukovych leaks (yanukovychleaks.org)

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Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll? (scrollsample.appspot.com)

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How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone realizes (akbars.net)

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Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection (online.wsj.com)

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10 Years of Coding Horror (blog.codinghorror.com)

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Obama's Trauma Team: Inside the Nightmare Launch of HealthCare.Gov (content.time.com)

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Apple Explains How Secure iMessage Is (techcrunch.com)

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The incredible stock-picking ability of SEC employees (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Testing at Airbnb (nerds.airbnb.com)

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How to intentionally get denied entry into the United States (travel.stackexchange.com)

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Introducing Flask API – Awesome web-browsable Web APIs for Flask (www.flaskapi.org)

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Unicode support in MySQL is ... 👎 (www.codeka.com.au)

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C++17: I See a Monad in Your Future (bartoszmilewski.com)

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'Godfather' of Helvetica font, Mike Parker, dies at 84 (www.cnn.com)

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A message from Lawrence Lessig [video] (www.socallinuxexpo.org)

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Atom: Now with pair programming (atom.io)

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Fashions in Shaving and Trimming of the Beard, 1842-1972 [pdf] (www.uvm.edu)

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Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate It in Any Way (blogs.wsj.com)

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In Praise of Perl 5 (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)

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Touch Mathematics – Trigonometry (www.touchmathematics.org)

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Micron Automata Processor – A Brief Introduction (files.shareholder.com)

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TLS Symmetric Crypto (imperialviolet.org)

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Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World. (swirl-project.org)

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Open-source Real User Monitoring (github.hubspot.com)

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PostgreSQL Prefers the Scenic Route (www.linuxinsider.com)

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Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate? (www.schneier.com)

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Spanish government limits crowdfunding to € 1M, donations capped at € 3000. (translate.google.com)

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The Mammoth Cometh: Bringing extinct animals back to life is really happening (www.nytimes.com)

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Pets vs. Cattle (blog.engineyard.com)

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A Major Coinbase Milestone: 1 Million Consumer Wallets (blog.coinbase.com)

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Does Causation Imply Correlation? (stats.stackexchange.com)

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An Analysis of Facebook Photo Caching (code.facebook.com)

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Awesome Netflix/Fitbit Hack Detects When You’ve Fallen Asleep, Auto-Pauses Movie (techcrunch.com)

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Chrome 34: Responsive Images and Unprefixed Web Audio (blog.chromium.org)

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Erlang/OTP 17.0-rc2 has been released. (www.erlang.org)

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A dependency-free Node.js Tracer (github.com)

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YC Backs Its Next Nonprofit, Coding Education Program CodeNow (techcrunch.com)

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Talk About An Unprofessional LinkedIn Response (www.406northlane.com)

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Show HN: Custom Nginx Indexer (blog.gotux.net)

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Boeing’s Black: This Android phone will self-destruct (arstechnica.com)

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The Diet Fix (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

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Garbage Collection is Wrong (www.lb-stuff.com)

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Spotify – security team response time (algorithm.dk)

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The Videogame That Finally Made Me Feel Like a Human Being (www.wired.com)

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Zero-Commission Stock Trading App RobinHood Kicks Off Private Beta (techcrunch.com)

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Auroracoin: Cryptocurrency for every Icelandic resident (www.auroracoin.org)

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A Letter To Senator Manchin (avc.com)

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Beautiful visualization of wind currents on Earth (earth.nullschool.net)

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Show HN: MealSquares, our whole food Soylent alternative (www.mealsquares.com)

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Ask HN: What is really wrong with the US economy, really? (item?id=7315244)

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Show HN: Rebump – Bump Important Emails Until They're Answered (http://rebump.cc)

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Secrets about Google Analytics funnels (blog.hublo.co)

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Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (www.theatlantic.com)

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i18n made easier with static analysis (blog.glebm.com)

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The People’s Republic of Zuckerstan (www.thebaffler.com)

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When did America become to afraid to explore a frontier? (www.usv.com)

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Meet Moov: The End of The Bullsht Workout (preorder.moov.cc)

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3D Printed iPhone Cases with Open Source files (www.fraemes.com)

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Billionaire Jack Ma teaches you how to be successful in life and business (sg.news.yahoo.com)

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Nations Mull the Ways to Regulate Bitcoin (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Mobile Deeplinks for Developers (urx.com)

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Monetizing Failure (www.donnfelker.com)

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E-mail didn't really evolve since Gmail. Why is it so hard to innovate? (blog.frontapp.com)

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How WPEngine Is Failboating Your SEO and Leaking Your Information (auditwp.com)

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Terasaur: Discover/publish material too large for regular web sites (terasaur.org)

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Ask HN: I can't work anymore. Burnout? I have no idea. What can I do? (item?id=7314732)

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Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 20% Macs vulnerable to attacks (www.computerworld.com)

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Mt. Gox to Hold News Conference (online.wsj.com)

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Case-sensitivity is the past trolling us (tiamat.tsotech.com)

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Share HN: Rilke on how to be an artist (1903) (item?id=7314689)

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How high-tech wizards revived Obama's troubled HealthCare.gov website (content.time.com)

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Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Meltdown That Brought Our Startup to Its Knees for 15 Hours (www.groovehq.com)

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Science confirms: Internet trolls are terrible people (arstechnica.com)

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The Emacs Problem (2005) (sites.google.com)

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How The Comcast and Netflix Deal Is Structured (blog.streamingmedia.com)

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Teaching SE: code as design (davec.org)

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Android Apprenticeship (blog.bloc.io)

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MtGox files for Bankruptcy Protection (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: What side projects are you working on? (item?id=7313694)

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.NET Fiddle adds MVC (dotnetfiddle.net)

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Google ordered to remove anti-Islamic film from YouTube (news.yahoo.com)

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Europe invites Apple, Google to discuss 'in-app' purchases (www.reuters.com)

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Crashlytics Launches Beta Beta App Distribution Tool (techcrunch.com)

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'Calvin and Hobbes' Creator Pens His First Public Comic In 18 Years (www.npr.org)

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Postgres-XC: multi-master, read and write-scalable shared-nothing cluster (postgres-xc.sourceforge.net)

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Netflix and Net Neutrality (www.marco.org)

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This Mount Everest Disaster Shows The Danger Of Clinging To Goals (www.businessinsider.com.au)

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HAV could deliver tonnes of supplies to remote areas by air (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Good Art Is Popular Because It's Good. Right? (www.npr.org)

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Instant Messaging Is Going Corporate (www.forbes.com)

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Why is it so hard to innovate in the e-mail space? (blog.frontapp.com)

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Show HN: Design Review Made Easy, LastRev (www.lastrev.com)

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Ben Golub Explains Docker Inc (www.activestate.com)

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It's a Unix system I know this (jurassicsystems.com)

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With elective surgery, you can plan for almost everything except the price (www.themorningnews.org)

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Ember and the future of the web (frontside.io)

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Ask HN: Is there a science news platform like hacker news? (item?id=7312231)

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Rule 34, Meet Kafka: GCHQ's video snooping and its implications (www.antipope.org)

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A launch page evolution (blog.boolt.in)

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The Dalai Lama Thinks Silicon Valley Needs a Dose of Compassion (www.slate.com)

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Trustycon LiveStream: Starts at 9:30am Pacific Time (www.youtube.com)

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Bitcoin Donations Now Integrated into BitTorrent Client (torrentfreak.com)

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Lumia phones are leaking private information to US-servers (item?id=7285608)

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Why we are registering the npm trademark (blog.nodejitsu.com)

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How young tech millionaires invest (money.cnn.com)

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Leaked: Just before Bitcoin catastrophe, Mt. Gox dreamed of riches (arstechnica.com)

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NASA's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds (www.nasa.gov)

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Netflix is not a friend of net neutrality (stratechery.com)

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Ask HN: How many internet-connected microphones are in the same room as you? (item?id=7313053)

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Steve Wozniak Switches To MapQuest (twitter.com)

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Computer Recognition of Speakers Who Disguise Their Voice (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

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The Meltdown That Brought Our Startup to Its Knees for 15 Hours (groovehq.com)

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Chinese Scientist Likens Beijing's Smog Problem To "Nuclear Winter" (www.popsci.com)

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FrostWire integrates Bitcoin donations into Torrent files. (frostwire.wordpress.com)

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The App Stores are not “long tail” (www.rudebaguette.com)

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Google’s Doodles: Oodles of Men (blogs.wsj.com)

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XKCD: Now (www.xkcd.com)

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The Physical Limit of Trick Shots in Billiards (io9.com)

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Dynamic Docker links with an ambassador powered by etcd (coreos.com)

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Ask:HN If x.com is $1.5M then how much x.net should be? (item?id=7317656)

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New type of DDoS? Authoritative Name Server attack (dnsamplificationattacks.blogspot.nl)

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Ask HN: You want Atom invites/you have invites to give? (item?id=7311890)

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What's New for Web Development in IntelliJ IDEA 13 (blog.jetbrains.com)

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Ask HN: Keep the product free during the beta? (item?id=7311547)

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How I Judge the Quality of Documentation (ericholscher.com)

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Flat Design Is Going Too Far (blog.usabilla.com)

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Google Debuts Open Source Online Education Tool Oppia (thenextweb.com)

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Statement by Pierre Omidyar, eBay Inc. Chairman of the Board (www.ebayinc.com)

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MIT alum designs hacked sleep mask for better naps (alum.mit.edu)

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Ask HN: Weird connections during OS X 10.9.2 upgrade – should I be worried? (imgur.com)

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Show HN: Codebox – Open-source cloud and desktop IDE (github.com)

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British soldiers banned from training for snowy conditions because it's too COLD (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Accelerated Life Cycle Testing and the Myo Armband (www.thalmic.com)

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If you are not p-hacking and you know it, clap your hands (papers.ssrn.com)

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NLCrypt: Semantic Cryptography (euske.github.io)

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TLS Symmetric Crypto (www.imperialviolet.org)

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Facebook Messenger for Windows closing from March 3 (www.techcomunication.com)

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Ask HN: Who is a software architect? (item?id=7310441)

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Why don't more people read? (item?id=7309956)

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How To Learn Trigonometry Intuitively (betterexplained.com)

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Ask HN: Abnormally high level of TLS patching going on? (item?id=7303982)

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Ask HN: I have bitcoins in MtGox – So what now? (item?id=7290181)

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Show HN: LittleGift.co (www.littlegift.co)

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Amazing ’80s Ads From Omni, the Mag That Defined Geekdom (www.wired.com)

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Meetup is currently under DDoS attack (twitter.com)