hackerNews

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How not to write an API (ghost.teario.com)

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Amtrak Residency (blog.amtrak.com)

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Learn regular expressions in about 55 minutes (qntm.org)

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ONO sells for $9.5 billion and nobody cares (english.martinvarsavsky.net)

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How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven (ales.io)

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Kill the Snowden interview, congressman tells SXSW (news.cnet.com)

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Rendering large terrains (WebGL) (www.pheelicks.com)

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What Are Your GCC Flags? (blog.httrack.com)

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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 makes it clear: we need to rethink black boxes (www.theguardian.com)

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The Fat Drug (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg (thepicrain.com)

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Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format (www.sony.net)

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Mark Karpeles' blog hacked (blog.magicaltux.net)

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Intro to Haskell for Erlangers (bob.ippoli.to)

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Show HN: What's my browser? (www.whatsmybrowser.org)

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The newest threat on the official Android market (blog.avast.com)

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Cell therapy shows remarkable ability to eradicate cancer in clinical study (www.sciencedaily.com)

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A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not? (http://chr13.com)

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Domino's Uses Pizza-Smelling Thermal Ink on Rented DVDs (www.thedenveregotist.com)

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The Flying Phantom: US$40k sailboat levitates two feet above the waves (www.gizmag.com)

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After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power (www.nytimes.com)

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The Bitcoin Model for Crowdfunding by Naval (startupboy.com)

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Wolfram Programming Cloud (www.wolfram.com)

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Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370 (english.martinvarsavsky.net)

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Two Generals' Problem (en.wikipedia.org)

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Nest is launching an API (nest.com)

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Python 3.3.5 has been released (docs.python.org)

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Show HN: LiteScript (luciotato.github.io)

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Experian Lapse Allowed ID Theft Service Access to 200 Million Consumer Records (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Mathematical Equations That Changed the World (twitter.com)

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EBay Files Patent Application for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger (www.ecommercebytes.com)

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File transfer via DNS (www.aldeid.com)

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Mt. Gox leak rumor (pastebin.com)

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Skype and Microsoft man-in-the-middle chats to give targeted ads (item?id=7369163)

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Grids From Typography (blog.weare1910.com)

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Introducing Chaos Mode (robert.ocallahan.org)

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How China Fooled the World (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Things I wish someone had told me about fundraising (blog.lawnstarter.com)

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A Former CIA Agent Talks Spycraft (pursuitmag.com)

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C++ braced initializers and type deduction (scottmeyers.blogspot.ca)

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Is Afghanistan really impossible to conquer? (www.bbc.com)

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Cheap Lights with Spherical Harmonics (astroids.tv)

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"Story of Your Life", by Ted Chiang (www.ime.usp.br)

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Overview of projects working on next-generation secure email (github.com)

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Google faces up to $5 billion fine from Competition Commission of India (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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Everything You Know About Fitness Is a Lie (2010) (www.mensjournal.com)

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China Begins Longest Bullet Train Service (www.nytimes.com)

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Why Roslyn is a Big Deal (joshvarty.wordpress.com)

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Hackers Hit Mt. Gox Exchange's CEO, Claim To Publish Evidence Of Fraud. (www.forbes.com)

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CIA Operative Teaches Spycraft and Psychology (b3rn3d.herokuapp.com)

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Is the lopsided Universe telling us we need new theories (arstechnica.com)

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Google’s Schmidt Says Inequality Will Be Number One Issue For Democracies (techcrunch.com)

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Monadic lifting in C++ (bannalia.blogspot.com)

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KitKat giving you battery drain problems? Uninstall Skype, says Google (www.zdnet.com)

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Common core long division. (www.facebook.com)

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New machine turns water into wine in three days (www.financialexpress.com)

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Constructive Empiricism (plato.stanford.edu)

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How to Get Smarter, Be More Productive, and Do Everything with Zero Effort (www.farnamstreetblog.com)

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Open Source Explained In Lego (www.youtube.com)

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A free weekly newsletter containing articles and tips on web performance (webperformancenews.com)

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The slow death of Silicon Roundabout (www.theguardian.com)

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22-Year Veteran Of Startups Says Employees Are Getting Screwed By VCs And CEOs (www.businessinsider.in)

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CS Degree Won’t Make You A Great Engineer, Your First Job Will (hunterwalk.com)

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Python 3.3.5 released (www.python.org)

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It's A Fork-Off: Tasting The World's Foulest Food (demislw.com)

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Ask HN: Did pay-to-play games really ruin the gaming industry? (item?id=7371246)

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Microsoft risks security reputation ruin by retiring XP (www.computerworld.com)

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400+ High School Students Attend 24 Hour Hackathon (blog.hackersunder20.com)

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Lesser-Known JavaScript Debugging Techniques (amasad.me)

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Ask HN: modern webmail application to self host email (item?id=7369456)

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Examining the file requests made by the top 100 Alexa sites (dangoldin.com)

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Ask HN: Use own name or form a company for development freelancing/consultancy? (item?id=7372092)

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This makes me feel old and sad because things change so fast (ftp.netscape.com)

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A process to find good B2B ideas (medium.com)

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Show HN: Guff, all the SASS framework you'll ever need (kenwheeler.github.io)

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Ten handy phrases for bluffing your way through the Ukraine crisis (blogs.spectator.co.uk)

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Secret Raises $10M At A $50M Valuation (techcrunch.com)

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Interpol: Database not checked pre-Malaysia flight (hosted.ap.org)

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What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong (time.com)

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As an employee, what guarantees do you have that your equity won't be diluted? (item?id=7371312)

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First LSD tests in decades show terminal patients gained lasting insights (www.rawstory.com)

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Ask HN: Do you get work offers via your StackOverflow profile/activity? (item?id=7368904)

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Ask HN: Living in a hacker house – Is it worth it? (item?id=7370402)

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How Liquidation Preferences Work (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: The software I want to build is too custom, how do I make it affordable? (item?id=7371468)

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Ask HN: Living in a hacker house – Is it worth it? (item?id=7369347)

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(cs)spinner – pure CSS loading animations with minimal effort (jh3y.github.io)

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SXSW Interactive is Not a Tech Conference Anymore (www.austingunter.com)

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Crawl | Powerhoof (www.powerhoof.com)

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To the Cloud: An Essay Celebrating 25 Years of the Web (www.michaelthomas.co)

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After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Questions and criticisms about our paid beta campaign (blog.hellocode.co)

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Me, my son and Minecraft (www.theguardian.com)

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Spider Silk Poised For Commercial Entry (cen.acs.org)

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Popcorn Time is Open Source (github.com)

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Amputee drummer gains "superhuman" skill (www.independent.co.uk)

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Cultural production of ignorance provides rich field for study (www.latimes.com)

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Auto Regulators Dismissed Defect Tied to 13 Deaths (www.nytimes.com)

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What Do Officers in the US Cyber Command Do on a Day-to-Day Basis? (www.quora.com)

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Go Home Marketing, You Are Drunk. (www.slideshare.net)

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Ask HN: How can I securely install Truecrypt on OS X? (item?id=7370954)

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The Cypherfunks is a grand experiment: a decentralized band and cryptocurrency. (thecypherfunks.com)

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