hackerNews

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All RGB colors in one image (joco.name)

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Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible (noncombatant.org)

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Goodbye Academia (anothersb.blogspot.co.uk)

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Jurassic Park computer system in the browser (www.jurassicsystems.com)

289 points first seen 2014030400 last seen 2014030600 80 comments

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Beets - cli music manager and auto tagger (github.com)

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Confessions of an Intermediate Programmer (www.michaelbromley.co.uk)

235 points first seen 2014030412 last seen 2014030703 116 comments

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Q – A Data Language (http://www.q-lang.io)

206 points first seen 2014030400 last seen 2014030509 79 comments

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Help me distribute $100,000 to new entrepreneurs in Africa (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

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Zapier Email Parser: Extract Text From Automated Emails (parser.zapier.com)

198 points first seen 2014030412 last seen 2014030603 83 comments

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I don't know (blog.42floors.com)

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Rails – The Missing Parts (eng.joingrouper.com)

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NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says (www.theguardian.com)

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FSF joins forces to fight software patents in U.S. Supreme Court (www.fsf.org)

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Algebraic and calculus concepts may be better way to introduce children to math (www.theatlantic.com)

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There is no gender gap in tech salaries (qz.com)

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Alcatraz – Package manager for Xcode 5 (http://alcatraz.io)

141 points first seen 2014030403 last seen 2014030509 65 comments

4

Cracking Linksys “Encryption” (www.devttys0.com)

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Dear Google, am I pregnant? (NHS data breach) (www.antipope.org)

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Keurig Will Use DRM In New Coffee Maker (www.techdirt.com)

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Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier (www.haystacksoftware.com)

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Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge because of NDA (arstechnica.com)

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The Ken Thompson Hack (c2.com)

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With Free Version of Windows, Microsoft Gives In to the Google Way (www.wired.com)

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Free Money for Everyone (www.washingtonmonthly.com)

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Puff Puff… Pass (faptrackr.org)

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The Inside Story of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin’s $460M Disaster (www.wired.com)

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TLS Triple Handshakes (www.imperialviolet.org)

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Thoughts on YC's Female Founders Conference (techrotica.tumblr.com)

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Fast scraping in Python with Asyncio (compiletoi.net)

82 points first seen 2014030406 last seen 2014030500 19 comments

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Secretary Problem (en.wikipedia.org)

82 points first seen 2014030412 last seen 2014030509 63 comments

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Free Python Screencasts (www.neckbeardrepublic.com)

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Facebook In Talks To Acquire Drone Maker Titan Aerospace (techcrunch.com)

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A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA (www.nytimes.com)

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How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids (www.latimes.com)

59 points first seen 2014030400 last seen 2014030406 80 comments

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Mopidy - server which can play music from multiple sources (docs.mopidy.com)

56 points first seen 2014030409 last seen 2014030500 29 comments

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Meetup fighting against DDOS extortion (meetupblog.meetup.com)

52 points first seen 2014030403 last seen 2014030500 60 comments

22

GnuTLS certificate verification vulnerability announced (CVE-2014-0092) (item?id=7338389)

52 points first seen 2014030415 last seen 2014030500 36 comments

21

Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome (chrome.google.com)

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Intel Acquires Basis Watch (wearableworldnews.com)

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Say Hello to Cortana, Microsoft’s Siri Equivalent (www.gamerevolution.com)

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OpenStreetMap provider CloudMade shuts its doors on small users (notes.ericjiang.com)

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JXcore – A Node.js Distribution with Multi-threading (flippinawesome.org)

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Why We Love You – aggregate positivity for your friends (www.whyweloveyou.com)

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C++11/C++14 compiler & library implementation shootout (cpprocks.com)

38 points first seen 2014030415 last seen 2014100303 10 comments

29

Show HN: Awesometalk – Free video calling without the hassle (www.awesometalk.com)

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Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy (arstechnica.com)

37 points first seen 2014030412 last seen 2014030418 52 comments

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PulseAudio 5.0 (lists.freedesktop.org)

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HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog) (github.com)

33 points first seen 2014030418 last seen 2014030500 53 comments

19

A programmer trying to fix roof gutter overflow (Gutter Guard) (chethiya3000.blogspot.com)

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AirPair Partners w 20+ startups for Instant API Integration Help (techcrunch.com)

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Seven Chapter Guide to E-mail Marketing for Startups (blog.getvero.com)

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Protocols.io – Life Sciences Protocol Repository (www.kickstarter.com)

32 points first seen 2014030418 last seen 2014030506 12 comments

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Apple.com (2004) (web.archive.org)

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How the world came to hate Silicon Valley (www.theage.com.au)

31 points first seen 2014030415 last seen 2014030418 38 comments

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WWII Bugatti 100P Plane Rebuilt (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

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Why I Eat Lunch at My Desk (scottndecker.com)

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It took two years to cancel Singularity, and ten months to fix it (www.polygon.com)

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The European Go Conference, October 10th in Paris (http://dotgo.eu)

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Smartcar – Nest for your Tesla (https://smartcar.io)

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Vidpresso (YC W14) Offers Low-Cost Tools for Adding Tweets and Ads to Broadcasts (techcrunch.com)

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What happened when our OSS project stayed on the front page of HN for 24 hours (plivo.com)

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Simple iBeacon Creator (skylarrudolph.blogspot.com)

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To become the Switzerland of online music, Bop.fm (YC S13) adds Beats support (gigaom.com)

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TextDrive shuts down (discuss.textdrive.com)

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Meetup site down after hacker sought to extort $300 from CEO (www.cso.com.au)

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Why Russia no longer fears the West (www.politico.com)

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Apple OpenSSL Verification Surprises (hynek.me)

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Show HN: bloom, a wool blanket inspired by origami (www.kickstarter.com)

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Mozilla Lightbeam Web Tracker Visualization (www.mozilla.org)

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Lessons Learned From Female Founders and BossedUp Conferences (findingferdinand.com)

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Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism (2008) (blog.codinghorror.com)

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How to Protect Your iCloud Keychain from the NSA (tidbits.com)

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Renting Judges for Secret Rulings (www.nytimes.com)

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0

The Junior Jump – Life After Coding Bootcamps (blog.carbonfive.com)

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Parse Emails by Zapier (parser.zapier.com)

9 points first seen 2014030409 last seen 2014030418 0 comments

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The Cellphone Unlocking Bill Finally Passed, and It’s a Total Sham (wired.com)

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Hackers hijack 300,000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes (arstechnica.com)

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Meetup refuses to pay $300 ransom to hackers (www.reuters.com)

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Chronon support in IntelliJ IDEA (blog.jetbrains.com)

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Satya Nadella announces changes to senior leadership team (www.microsoft.com)

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How a 2-man startup got 1000 signups in their first week with no product (blog.stockapps.net)

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Justice Department Backs Broadcasters in Aereo Dispute (recode.net)

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A Successor to Sagan Reboots 'Cosmos' (www.nytimes.com)

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Mt. Gox code posted by hackers as company files for bankruptcy protection (arstechnica.com)

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First month sales of USD5k, how do we keep growing? (item?id=7334373)

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Highlights from YC's First Female Founders Conference (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Lawsuit: Sprint charged US gov’t $21 million too much for spying expenses (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: What factors determine compensation in companies like Facebook? (item?id=7337606)

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Microsoft 'Cortana' set to rival Apple's Siri (venturebeat.com)

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Part 2: So you wanna start a conference... Money (www.jasonamyers.com)

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Tip: Run Jasmine From RSpec (blog.leshill.org)

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78

The Netflix Dynamic Scripting Platform (techblog.netflix.com)

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0

Best books for learning HTML5/JavaScript Mobile Apps? (item?id=7334360)

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What happens when robot journalists produce stories that are “good enough” (www.niemanlab.org)

5 points first seen 2014030409 last seen 2014030412 0 comments

0

Ask HN: First time in San Francisco. Can I visit your startup? (item?id=7335362)

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Obama Bubble Sort. Wait, what does he say at 1:01? (www.youtube.com)

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0

The Cellphone Unlocking Bill Finally Passed, and It’s a Total Sham (www.wired.com)

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Xkcd #1337 (xkcd.com)

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Don’t Expect To Use Google Maps With Apple CarPlay (techcrunch.com)

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Give this beer to your browser. Wait. Enjoy (sokolmichael.com)

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Why am I Angry with the Video Game Industry in Turkey? (medium.com)

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Apple launches CarPlay (guru8.net)

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Yes, My Kindle Can Do This: Flappy Bird on Paper (quentin.bonnard.eu)

4 points first seen 2014030406 last seen 2014030409 0 comments

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ASP.NET Framework Performance (weblog.west-wind.com)

4 points first seen 2014030406 last seen 2014030406 0 comments

0

Querying the Enron email trove with Lucene and Orchestrate (orchestrate.io)

4 points first seen 2014030406 last seen 2014030406 0 comments

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Mozilla Security Blog: Update on Plugin Activation (blog.mozilla.org)

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Is the state a good nanny? 400K children are wards of the US government (priceonomics.com)

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U.S. suspends trade and investment talks with Russia (stream.wsj.com)

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What is the strangest online interaction you ever had? (item?id=7337730)

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Police quiz 62-year-old who advised Cameron on web filters on child porn charges (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Was Your Twitter Password Just Reset? Don’t Panic — Twitter Screwed Up (techcrunch.com)

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ISEE/3 ICE on xkcd (xkcd.com)

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0

What I learned from an unfortunate incident with social media tools (www.nickfarr.org)

3 points first seen 2014030400 last seen 2014030400 0 comments

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VPN Users ‘Pirating’ Netflix Scare TV Networks (torrentfreak.com)

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0

Survey Results: How Many Developers Write Unit Tests? (blog.hubstaff.com)

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0

Help choose MIT's greatest hack (alum.mit.edu)

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0

Why You Should Stop Hacking Your Life and Invest in the Journey (medium.com)

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0

Bandit Algorithm and A/B Testing Tutorial (www.chrisstucchio.com)

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0

The Troublesome Misconception of Parallax in Web Design (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Best Databases book? (item?id=7335588)

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0

Estimate This (blog.testdouble.com)

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'Probability waves” spark a new revolution of understanding (www.mysanantonio.com)