hackerNews

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Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites (www.eff.org)

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Save more with Google Drive (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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How We Make Trello (blog.fogcreek.com)

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Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean (news.netcraft.com)

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The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years (firstlook.org)

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Google slashes costs for Google Drive, 1 TB for $9.99 (googleblog.blogspot.in)

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NewsBlur, one year after Google Reader announced its shutdown (blog.newsblur.com)

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Show HN: My Desk Chair is Better Than Yours (people.csail.mit.edu)

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Helsinki’s personalized bus service is like Uber for public transit (grist.org)

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Murder Machines: Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year (www.collectorsweekly.com)

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What Real-Time Gambling Data Reveals About Sports (www.gambletron2000.com)

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The Little Manual of API Design (www4.in.tum.de)

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Free Google Course: Making Sense of Data (datasense.withgoogle.com)

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Phone call metadata does betray sensitive details about your life – study (www.theguardian.com)

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The Setup / John McAfee (john.mcafee.usesthis.com)

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Google Fiber expansion moves fast; San Antonio approves construction (arstechnica.com)

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Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology (www.nearform.com)

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Man Walks Nearly 3000 Miles Through China (Before and After Photos) (www.lifebuzz.com)

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The Truth About Speed Reading (lifehacker.com)

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EFF adds ASCII art to its DNS (pastebin.ca)

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JSON Field type for Django and Postgresql (metric.io)

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How the Best CEOs Get the Most Out of Every Day (firstround.com)

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Android Development Tips For iOS Devs (stuartkhall.com)

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Apple's Buttonless Mouse Came From Steve Jobs' Misunderstanding (www.minyanville.com)

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Git Integration (blog.atom.io)

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Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation (blog.golang.org)

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GitHub's language detection is broken (github.com)

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SXSW: 2 dead, 23 injured. (www.nydailynews.com)

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Zuckerberg Expresses Frustration Over Surveillance (www.facebook.com)

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Netflix VP of IT on the Future of Infrastructure (www.amplifypartners.com)

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Database Versioning: The ignored aspect of version control (www.nimkar.net)

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Should you launch more than once? I’ve got $58,332 as evidence. (nathanbarry.com)

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Ask PG: Is this what you meant by "web-based Excel/database hybrid"? (sheetjs.com)

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Amazon.com Help: Amazon Prime and Amazon Student Prime Membership Fee Changes (www.amazon.com)

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Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 (www.transparency.org)

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Einstein and Pi (www.preposterousuniverse.com)

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Announcing JS Error Reporting and AJAX Timing in New Relic (blog.newrelic.com)

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Which Links Get More Clicks? (www.adpushup.com)

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Government's Empty Buildings Are Costing Taxpayers Billions (www.npr.org)

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Show HN: A new platform for meaningful, balanced debates (www.saysaw.org)

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Facebook introduces 15-second video ads that auto-play without sound (thenextweb.com)

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Medical Anarchy (chrispacia.wordpress.com)

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Multitail (www.vanheusden.com)

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To Keep Teenagers Alert, Schools Let Them Sleep In (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Rails is half of your application (ku1ik.com)

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Mozilla's 4.5” Dual-Core Reference Phone (www.droidreport.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA (money.cnn.com)

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Show HN: Abacus – Next-Day Reimbursements (www.abacus.com)

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Why I was Wrong to be Afraid of Angular.js, Part 2 (daemon.co.za)

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Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year (techcrunch.com)

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Google’s results ditch underlining, change font size in new “experiment” (techcrunch.com)

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Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane flown deliberately toward Andamans (www.reuters.com)

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The Node.js job market (blog.8020.co)

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Save more with Google Drive (googledrive.blogspot.com)

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Ask HN: Which CRM for a solo-freelancer in 2014? (item?id=7397846)

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The scientific study has become a flawed manual for living (www.theguardian.com)

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OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike (www.openstreetmap.org)

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Soylent Update 3/13 (blog.soylent.me)

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Super-secret debug capabilities of AMD processors (2010) (www.woodmann.com)

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If you were starting from scratch today, what platforms would you build on? (docs.google.com)

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Dear startups, stop being afraid to show a phone number on your website (blog.aircall.io)

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My Brain Has No Space For Your User Interface (joshtimonen.com)

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We’re Switching to Balanced and Cutting Our Fee by 40% (blog.neighbor.ly)

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White House urges 'geeks' to get healthcare coverage, launch startups (www.computerworld.com)

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Swiftype Search Analytics 2.0 (swiftype.com)

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Show HN: Visualise the structure of a spreadsheet (www.useslate.com)

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Vulnerabilities – the World Through the Eyes of Hackers (landing.edgewave.com)

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Writing Room and Content Query API, ideas for reshaping Content Management (blog.prismic.io)

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We did a Show HN and it landed on the front page of Hacker News (blog.pitchit.io)

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Complaints as Amazon Raises Cost of Prime (www.nytimes.com)

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Edward Snowden is a hero: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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Quantifying the value of BitCoin (statisticaleconomics.org)

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Harvard's Looking for a 'Wikipedian in Residence' (www.theatlantic.com)

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Would You Eat a Salad Grown in a Bomb Shelter? (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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I have lost all respect for TechCrunch (martinweigert.com)

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Women in Computing: The Night I was the Belle of the Ball (groupthink.jezebel.com)

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2048 x 2 = 4096 (martijnkorteweg.github.io)

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Ask HN: how you successfully quit your full-time job? (item?id=7391520)

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WhatsApp database dumper for Metasploit (github.com)

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Ask HN: Are there other communities like Hacker News? (item?id=7393072)

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Ask HN: What's your favorite keyboard for programming? (item?id=7396437)

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Is UCC Article 9 Going to Kill the Use of Bitcoin by US Businesses? (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

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Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages (www.theguardian.com)

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Benchmark Backs Bitcoin Secure Storage Provider Xapo (www.bloomberg.com)

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4 Lessons You Can Learn from Factlink’s Pivot (factlink.com)

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NSA Has Been Hijacking the Botnets of Other Hackers (www.wired.com)

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2048 in Augmented Reality (quentin.bonnard.eu)

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Take a screenshot, draw on it, create a Trello card with it in seconds (chrome.google.com)

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Sup – A console-based email client for people with a lot of email (github.com)

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Haiti – Bringing clean water to those that need it most (www.indiegogo.com)

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Ask HN: tools for collaboration with a remote cofounder (item?id=7391000)

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The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back. (medium.com)

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Your Distracted Driving Killed Me (medium.com)

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Introducing the Open Source Rapid Response Kit from Twilio.org (www.twilio.com)

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Show HN: An app to tweet text as an image (item?id=7394767)

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Run your Minecraft server in AWS with CraftBukkit and Bitnami (blog.bitnami.com)

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Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It (www.businessweek.com)

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Google slashes Google Drive storage pricing, offers 1TB for $9.99 (www.theverge.com)

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Startup Dogfooding: Engineers as Recruiters (blog.mightyspring.com)

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Show HN: Open Review – Scientific peer review is broken. We want to fix it (news.researchgate.net)

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Clinkle’s Still a Hot Mess As Its Big Shot COO Departs (recode.net)

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Ask HN: Would you use an API for your personal bank account? (item?id=7396459)

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Ask HN: What have you learned in 2014 so far? (item?id=7397165)

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Ask HN: If I work for you for 100 days, will you help me pay for Bloc? (item?id=7397097)

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What the evidence says about Vitamin E (examine.com)

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Resizing Images on the Fly with Go (engineering.oysterbooks.com)

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Allow Ukrainian Citizens 90 day entrance into the USA on passport, without Visa. (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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Ask HN: How does a 3 man consultancy land projects, not just contracts? (item?id=7393259)

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Ask HN: Is it illegal or unethical to build apps based on previous paid work? (item?id=7393218)

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Google Drive is now 9.9$ for 1TB and 1.9$ for 100GB (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: Peer to Peer trust? (item?id=7395629)

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The Slash Factor: The Secret Sauce To A Hackathon That Rocks (www.rackspace.com)

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Google Will Start Encrypting Your Searches (time.com)

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Protohacks: A Hackathon for Low Income High Schoolers (medium.com)

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Project Sentry Gun (sites.google.com)

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Why Razer Spent $380K Redesigning The USB Port (www.fastcodesign.com)

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Ask HN: Best place to incorporate a startup? (item?id=7391372)

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How We Grew Conversions 100% by Rethinking Our Design Strategy (www.groovehq.com)

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Elon Musk is about to launch the heaviest rocket in existence (www.businessinsider.com)

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Lemon Digital Wallet Founder Wences Casares Gets $20M for Bitcoin Startup Xapo (recode.net)

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Building Profitable Software: Step 1. How Big Is Your Opportunity? (blog.buildbettersoftware.com)

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Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview (www.rollingstone.com)

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Ask HN: HSBC is holding my LLC's money hostage, what are my options (item?id=7394802)

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Is My Shift Key On Or Not (iOS 7.1) (ismyshiftkeyonornot.com)

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Reddit has been hacked (item?id=7396260)

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Categories of Bitcoin-related projects (www.cdixon.org)

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Hollywood's Copyright Lobbyists Are Like Exes Who Won't Give Up (re: SOPA) (www.slate.com)

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How to setup Node.js on a Raspberry Pi and run a node script on boot (weworkweplay.com)

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Apple Activity Tracker Patent (techcrunch.com)