hackerNews

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I am not famous but I am dying from cancer at 35 (d4l3.com)

748 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014031800 380 comments

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Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading (http://www.squirt.io)

410 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031621 203 comments

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Samsung Galaxy Back-door (redmine.replicant.us)

400 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014040200 93 comments

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Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA (thenitai.com)

363 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014031706 348 comments

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Show HN: I've been making one HTML5 game per week. Here's my 10th game. (www.lessmilk.com)

330 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031606 148 comments

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How the NSA Plans to Infect “Millions” of Computers with Malware (firstlook.org)

295 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031406 171 comments

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MMM Receives Legal Threats – Great Lawyer Wanted (www.mrmoneymustache.com)

271 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031415 88 comments

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Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video] (www.dronehire.org)

256 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031403 97 comments

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Valve's openGL debugger open sourced (github.com)

242 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031506 34 comments

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Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem (www.nytimes.com)

225 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031415 217 comments

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2048 – multiplayer (emils.github.io)

217 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031500 112 comments

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Why is git pull considered harmful? (stackoverflow.com)

215 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031400 140 comments

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How a Light Saber Works (dickgrune.com)

172 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031518 118 comments

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Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (tinyhack.com)

167 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031503 38 comments

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Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours (online.wsj.com)

164 points first seen 2014031318 last seen 2014031418 206 comments

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Apache Kafka, a messaging system rethought of as a distributed commit log (kafka.apache.org)

163 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031500 61 comments

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12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time (www.fourhourworkweek.com)

161 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014031421 86 comments

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Support an open source animation feature film made with Blender (gooseberry.blender.org)

160 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031503 41 comments

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Coconut Headphones: Why Agile Has Failed (mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk)

159 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031518 129 comments

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Sane Concurrency with Go (Golang) (blog.mozilla.org)

147 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031500 64 comments

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You are a Marxist – but don't worry (www.philosophersmail.com)

123 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031318 186 comments

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Amazon's War On The House Of Otto, Germany's $18 Billion Family (www.forbes.com)

121 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031500 108 comments

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Agile Is Dead: The Angry Developer Version (rubiquity.com)

110 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031318 65 comments

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Wow signal (en.wikipedia.org)

104 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014031421 95 comments

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Seattle's University Bridge still operates on Compaq 8080 and 5.25" Floppy disks (www.seattlebikeblog.com)

98 points first seen 2014031318 last seen 2014031500 82 comments

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Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)

95 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031318 127 comments

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Ask HN: How effective have the job posts on HN been? (item?id=7387512)

93 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031409 89 comments

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How we restarted our company in two weeks during Y Combinator (blog.eventjoy.com)

92 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031406 76 comments

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Taking a second look at free fonts (www.smashingmagazine.com)

86 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031406 31 comments

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DeepFace: Closing the Gap to Human-Level Performance in Face Verification (www.facebook.com)

74 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014031503 45 comments

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Boston hospital experiments with Google Glass in ER (geekdoctor.blogspot.com)

67 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031318 72 comments

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App basics for Firefox OS – start of a video series (10 in the next days) (hacks.mozilla.org)

63 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014031500 3 comments

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Mineral hints at bright blue rocks deep in the Earth (www.bbc.com)

61 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031500 12 comments

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IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 RC Introduces Sublime Text Style Multiple Selections (blog.jetbrains.com)

60 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031400 47 comments

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Consider the Nimrod Programming Language (geetduggal.wordpress.com)

60 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031400 62 comments

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Over a billion people lack electricity, but microgrids are powering them up. (www.nature.com)

56 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031400 19 comments

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Building Secure Node.js Applications (blog.safaribooksonline.com)

50 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031403 11 comments

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30 Days of Inbox Zero: How I Did it (waxman.me)

49 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031321 47 comments

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SketchDeck Turns Terrible Slide Decks Into Beautiful Presentations In Just A Day (techcrunch.com)

48 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031403 31 comments

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Meet the People Making New Games for Atari, Super Nintendo, and Virtual Boy (animalnewyork.com)

48 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031406 39 comments

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MH370: China releases satellite images of possible crash site (www.theguardian.com)

43 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014031400 43 comments

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I was wrong to be afraid of Angular.js (daemon.co.za)

42 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031303 53 comments

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Beyond Source Maps (fitzgeraldnick.com)

42 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031403 22 comments

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Seamlessly Buy with Bitcoin using Zinc (blog.zincsave.com)

40 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031321 23 comments

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How to build a cloud-connected motion sensor (blog.spark.io)

37 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031400 17 comments

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Using Ansible Galaxy (servercheck.in)

33 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031406 8 comments

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A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth (www.nytimes.com)

32 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031315 19 comments

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Native scrolling and iTerm2 (filippo.io)

32 points first seen 2014031318 last seen 2014031406 10 comments

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Our Sales Process at Lob (www.lob.com)

31 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031312 7 comments

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North Dakota oil boom: American Dream on ice (www.bbc.com)

31 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 44 comments

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Why I Don't Recommend scrypt (blog.ircmaxell.com)

30 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2015020403 9 comments

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Visualizing Rails Schemas with the RailRoady Gem (engineering.coachup.com)

29 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031321 13 comments

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Abandon fish! Leaving GlassFish for TomEE or JBoss (zeroturnaround.com)

29 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014031500 23 comments

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Testing with Cucumber – best practices (blog.codeship.io)

28 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031309 6 comments

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Show HN: A browser extension I made appeared on 60 Minutes (www.cbsnews.com)

28 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031403 11 comments

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The New Razer Blade (www.razerzone.com)

27 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014031312 51 comments

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Dealing with Apple ACPI issues (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

24 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014031406 0 comments

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Goldman Sachs Bitcoin analysis (www.scribd.com)

22 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031400 0 comments

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REST Commander: Scalable Web Server Management and Monitoring (www.ebaytechblog.com)

18 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031318 2 comments

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Speed Up Your Rails Specs by 10x (blog.originate.com)

18 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031321 11 comments

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West Coast apocalypse: How “earthquake storms” could devastate California (www.salon.com)

17 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031315 10 comments

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ChilledLime: A Twitter for Opinions (www.chilledlime.com)

16 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031400 20 comments

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Show HN: Shippable – Free CI and CD service built on Docker, 2X faster than travis (http://www.shippable.com)

16 points first seen 2014031318 last seen 2014031321 32 comments

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Crowdsourcing Translations With GitHub, Middleman, and Heroku (www.discovermeteor.com)

15 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031318 0 comments

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San Francisco Women With PhDs Featured as Models for Spring Collection (time.com)

14 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014031312 13 comments

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Tim Berners-Lee Concerned About the Future of the WWW [AMA] (www.reddit.com)

12 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031312 0 comments

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In Horowitz's Silicon Valley Tell-All, a Woman's Place Is Strictly Hypothetical (www.businessweek.com)

12 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014031400 0 comments

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Goldman Sachs: Bitcoin Is Not A Currency (techcrunch.com)

11 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031318 6 comments

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All Bootstrap's components in one page (anvoz.github.io)

11 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031400 0 comments

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17 Equations That Changed The World (www.businessinsider.com)

11 points first seen 2014031318 last seen 2018050718 3 comments

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Github caves in to Whatsapp's Legal Assault (item?id=7390488)

11 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014032203 6 comments

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2048 with undo (sujeetgholap.github.io)

10 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014031312 4 comments

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What Real-Time Gambling Data Reveals About Sports: Introducing Gambletron 2000 (news.rapgenius.com)

9 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 0 comments

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Meet the man who gave the world email attachments (qz.com)

9 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031306 0 comments

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Oil rig worker says he saw Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 burst into flames (www.news.com.au)

9 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031315 3 comments

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Ask HN: Suggest a platform for programming blog (item?id=7385183)

8 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031303 12 comments

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ShowHN: Snowden’s SXSW appearance condensed into 10 most-tweetable minutes (blog.stepup.io)

8 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031306 3 comments

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New Racket web page (racket-lang.org)

8 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 4 comments

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Getting started with Python in HPC (andy.terrel.us)

7 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031312 0 comments

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'Phantom call' theory dismissed by experts (edition.cnn.com)

7 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 17 comments

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No, Twitter has not been hit by a massive spam botnet (thenextweb.com)

7 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031315 6 comments

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Google and Password Security (wesleyac.x64.me)

7 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031400 12 comments

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Ask HN: PR – How does it work... (item?id=7385112)

6 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031303 3 comments

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Ask HN: How productive are you? (item?id=7385167)

6 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031303 7 comments

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Ask HN: do you have any mobile app ideas? (item?id=7385043)

6 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031303 8 comments

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What if I wrote a book? (blog.xkcd.com)

6 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031300 0 comments

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PopcornTi.me is down (popcornti.me)

6 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031306 13 comments

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MetaEvents for Rails: DRY Up, Structure, and Document Your Mixpanel Events (swiftype.com)

6 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031306 0 comments

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JavaScript: the High Road and the Low Road (www.slideshare.net)

6 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031318 0 comments

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The 'boring' Game that Became a Smash Hit (www.bbc.com)

5 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031309 0 comments

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Meet the man who gave the world email attachments (qz.com)

5 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031306 0 comments

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Ask HN: Making money as an undergrad (item?id=7388540)

5 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031312 3 comments

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Facebook hacked by NSA, injecting malware into their users computers. (blogs.wsj.com)

5 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031312 0 comments

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Move over, small-time Bitcoin exchange startups–Wall Street has arrived (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031312 0 comments

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What if I wrote a book? | xkcd (blog.xkcd.com)

5 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031309 0 comments

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Visualizing Alleged Collusion in Silicon Valley (kumu.io)

5 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014031312 2 comments

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Attacks over the (lack of a) gender gap in tech salaries (qz.com)

5 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014031312 0 comments

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My First Hand Experience With Sexism (becomingmedium.com)

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Candy Crush creator KING IPO valued at 7.5B USD (www.reuters.com)

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Which MIT hack is the best ever? (alum.mit.edu)

4 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031309 0 comments

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Facebook F8 developer conference registration is live (http://fbf8.com)

4 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031309 0 comments

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Popcorn Time Installer Pulled From Host For Violating Terms Of Service (techcrunch.com)

4 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031306 0 comments

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Mt. Gox died, yet Bitcoin didn't. (item?id=7388440)

4 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031309 0 comments

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Web at 25: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Invention of the Web (www.webat25.org)

4 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031309 0 comments

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Breathtaking UX for new Project Management app (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031309 0 comments

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Docker vs Vagrant Cloud (www.centurylinklabs.com)

4 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031318 0 comments

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25 old school websites (econsultancy.com)

4 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031318 0 comments

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Documents say NSA disguises itself as Facebook in surveillance (www.freshtechapps.com)

4 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014031321 0 comments

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Pioneering 3D printing reshapes patient's face (www.bbc.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031300 0 comments

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Cheat Sheet for Becoming the "Local Computer Expert" (imgs.xkcd.com)

3 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031300 0 comments

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee: World wide web needs bill of rights (www.bbc.com)

3 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031300 0 comments

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British hospital to become first in Europe to use Skype for consultations (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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8 Deadly Commands You Should Never Run on Linux (www.howtogeek.com)

3 points first seen 2014031300 last seen 2014031300 0 comments

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JsDelivr does it better (blog.maxcdn.com)

3 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031306 0 comments

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Youtube 502 error (twitter.com)

3 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 0 comments

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Youtube.com is down? (youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 5 comments

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ASK HN: Why does the Outback app on my IPhone need access to my photos? (item?id=7386024)

3 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 3 comments

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Mars Crater-Naming Campaign Sparks an International Blowup (www.nbcnews.com)

3 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 0 comments

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Werewolves.io – WebRTC party game for 7-16 players (daemon.co.za)

3 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 0 comments

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Ask HN: Why HTTPs certificates cost at least 50$? (item?id=7385915)

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Popcorn Time Deleted By Dotcoms Mega. MPAA Lawsuit Pending (torrentfreak.com)

3 points first seen 2014031303 last seen 2014031303 0 comments

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WWW proposal submited 25 years ago today (www.w3.org)

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The Future of Internet Freedom (www.nytimes.com)

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Truth, Lies, and 'Doxxing' (2012) (www.wired.com)

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Traders Beat Market Indexes Borrowing Tools From Sports (www.bloomberg.com)

3 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031312 0 comments

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Critics Say Andreessen’s Analysis of the News Industry Is Broken (techonomy.com)

3 points first seen 2014031309 last seen 2014031309 0 comments

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Pnotify 1.3 released. (sciactive.com)

3 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014041106 0 comments

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Attacking the iOS 7 early_random() PRNG by kernelpool (blog.azimuthsecurity.com)

3 points first seen 2014031321 last seen 2014031321 0 comments

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Kamcord (YC S12) is looking for a lead frontend engineer (item?id=7387359)

0 points first seen 2014031306 last seen 2014031315 0 comments

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Come hack on a payments network – Balanced Payments (YC W11) (item?id=7389249)

0 points first seen 2014031312 last seen 2014031321 0 comments

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Lead our front-end web development efforts at Airware (W13) (item?id=7389878)

0 points first seen 2014031315 last seen 2014031400 0 comments