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LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboard-only forums (www.symmetrymagazine.org)

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Drone operators free to operate commercially in US airspace, rules federal judge (www.dronehire.org)

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Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser (http://animatron.com)

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Show HN: My current App Store Featured Game was written entirely in Scheme (itunes.apple.com)

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Turn a Raspberry Pi into an FM transmitter (makezine.com)

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Ask HN: Looking for contributors? (item?id=7360491)

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Did an F-15 airplane successfully land with just one wing? (skeptics.stackexchange.com)

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Understanding IP, TCP, and HTTP (www.objc.io)

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Myths about /dev/urandom (www.2uo.de)

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A brief introduction to Haskell, and why it matters (github.com)

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Open Data Stack Exchange (opendata.stackexchange.com)

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Show HN: Metalsmith – A pluggable static site generator (www.metalsmith.io)

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Transitioning Persona to Community Ownership (identity.mozilla.com)

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Dot-Com IPO Insanity Returns With Coupons.com (www.bloombergview.com)

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PowerPointless: Digital slideshows are the scourge of higher education (www.slate.com)

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How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Luculent, a new code/terminal font (eastfarthing.com)

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Bulletproof HTML Email Components (www.sendwithus.com)

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SR-71 In-Flight Breakup at Mach 3.1 (www.barthworks.com)

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EFF goes to court, quashes patent troll’s attempt to grab donor names (arstechnica.com)

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PHPUnit 4.0 Released (github.com)

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Balanced's Architecture (blog.balancedpayments.com)

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One World Trade Center: The Top of America (wtc.gigapan.com)

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Reader Macros in Common Lisp (gist.github.com)

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Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carrying Over 200 (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Did you invent Bitcoin? Take our simple quiz to find out. (www.slate.com)

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The Challenge of Relativistic Spaceflight (www.icarusinterstellar.org)

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Why should I use a pointer rather than the object itself? (stackoverflow.com)

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In Tennessee, four bills seek to reverse restrictions on public broadband (arstechnica.com)

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Search on after Malaysia Airlines flight vanishes (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box (medium.com)

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Why are callbacks more “tightly coupled” than promises? (stackoverflow.com)

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Understanding Quaternions (3dgep.com)

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Try downloading this "Highlighted" dataset from data.gov (www.data.gov)

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Dear Newsweek: RTFM (thoughtcrook.wordpress.com)

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General Assembly raises $35M Series C (blog.generalassemb.ly)

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Coup or Death for the Bitcoin Foundation? (two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com)

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Syncing data between iOS devices (www.objc.io)

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Show HN: Xplode – Mobile App Promotion and Monetization (xplode.iddiction.com)

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Buffett: Bitcoin not a currency (video.cnbc.com)

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College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated (www.bloomberg.com)

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Cory Doctorow: How startups of Silicon Roundabout are gradually being flattened (www.theguardian.com)

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Show HN: We built a platform for forums and called it Microcosm (microco.sm)

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Cryptanalys.is – Hacker News for crypto, security, and privacy (https://cryptanalys.is)

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Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane' (www.bbc.com)

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Newsweek's Statement on the Bitcoin Story (www.newsweek.com)

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Events that moved Linux forward (opensource.com)

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How to exploit the x32 recvmmsg() kernel vulnerability CVE 2014-0038 (blog.includesecurity.com)

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Visualizing the cross product between two vectors (1ucasvb.tumblr.com)

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Elite security posse fostered founders of WhatsApp, Napster (www.reuters.com)

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Richard Stallman – Free Software Song Lyrics (rock.rapgenius.com)

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Apple starts 2014 with 41.6% US smartphone share, Samsung at 26.7%; BlackBery... (www.freshtechapps.com)

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Show HN: See lower prices in your cart (chrome.google.com)

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The Quiet Revolution Is Here. Help Us Map It (www.freelancersunion.org)

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Building A Portfolio Community (blog.kirigin.com)

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Chord – $1300/meter Ethernet cables for audiophiles (www.chord.co.uk)

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Show HN: I built an open-source kernel for Texas Instruments calculators (item?id=7363869)

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Show HN: Zentrade.io – Bitcoin Prediction Markets (www.zentrade.io)

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Two Students Reinvent the Box (www.industrytap.com)

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Stumped for a startup idea? (projectgenerator.herokuapp.com)

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Get started with Unix command line, VIM and SH: for the total (windows) newbie (www.webdesignporto.com)

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Show HN: Restroom Rater. We take our crap seriously. (http://www.getrestroomrater.com)

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Unrideable bricycle (www.youtube.com)

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The curse of the full stack marketer (www.growlot.com)

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NSA created 'European bazaar' to spy on EU citizens (www.cso.com.au)

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US Geological Survey confirms Fracking caused 5.7 quake in Oklahoma (www.rawstory.com)

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Deputies Claim Newsweek Quotes From Satoshi Were Accurate (www.latimes.com)

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The Satoshi Paradox (blogs.reuters.com)

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Ask HN: How can I sure my blog will live after I dead, forever? (item?id=7362831)

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Terror attack: Dark day (www.economist.com)

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Was XML Flawed from the Start? (2005) (www.rebol.com)

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Jelly Vs Locish, like-minded people make the difference (blog.locish.com)

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Searching For One-Sided Tradeoffs (slatestarcodex.com)

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Jekyll Slides (www.bleonard.com)

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How the Military Uses Twitter Sock Puppets to Control Debate (medium.com)

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Clue To Mysterious Lights That Appear Before Earthquakes (www.iflscience.com)

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SASS 3.3 released (sass-lang.com)

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Newsweek Bitcoin story quoted Satoshi Nakamoto accurately (www.latimes.com)

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Visualization of DNS Query and Response (m-mizutani.github.io)

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NodeJS 5 KEY Things I Wish I Knew Earlier. (www.rm2kdev.net)

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Stephen Wolfram's new programming language: Can he make the world computable? (www.slate.com)

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Show HN: Movie Reviews Simplified (item?id=7362101)

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14 y.o. builds earthquake warning system with Arduino/detector/PubNub for 360k (www.pubnub.com)

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Testimony to European Parliament on Electronic Mass Surveillance [pdf] (www.europarl.europa.eu)

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Building Paper (code.facebook.com)

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Bliss (image) (en.wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Step by step guide to landing a SME client? (item?id=7364677)

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Ask PG: Why is Bitcoin so severely penalized on HN? (item?id=7364586)

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Snowden: I raised NSA concerns internally over 10 times before going rogue (m.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: Please write descriptive titles for your HN submissions (item?id=7359590)

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Show HN: Hacker News Colors for Firefox (addons.mozilla.org)

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Designing a timeless smartwatch (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: View Company's source code in a job interview? (item?id=7362200)

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Show HN: A new, declarative spin on client-side package management (embed.plnkr.co)

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An activity diagram to describe the resolution of HTTP response status codes (raw.github.com)

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Timezone-aware contribution graphs (github.com)

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SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Interivew (www.sbnation.com)

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Bitcoin blogger explains Mt. Gox leak (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

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San Francisco described in a 1930s history book (twitter.com)

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Two in five Brits cough up for CryptoLocker ransomware's demands (www.theregister.co.uk)

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The 10 Can't Miss Hardware and Wearable Device Events at SxSW (founderdating.com)

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New York Police Department is beta-testing Google Glass (venturebeat.com)

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The Google-Military-Surveillance Complex (pando.com)

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Bitcon supposedly created by NSA (bitcoinwarrior.net)