hackerNews

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Whatever goes up, that’s what we do (dcurt.is)

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Stripe: Bitcoin (stripe.com)

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Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game (asherv.com)

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Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do (medium.com)

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I am a successful software dev but I have a serious drinking problem (item?id=7485673)

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Microsoft launches Office for iPad (thenextweb.com)

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“The Mill” – It just might Work (jakob.engbloms.se)

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Servo (Mozilla’s experimental Web engine) passes Acid2 (twitter.com)

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Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro (www.rileybrandt.com)

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After seven years, exactly one person gets off the gov’t no-fly list (arstechnica.com)

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Turkish government takes down YouTube too (en.webrazzi.com)

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Tarsnap now accepts Bitcoin (www.daemonology.net)

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Photographing A Town That Never Was – The Meta Picture (themetapicture.com)

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released (lists.ubuntu.com)

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Ccv open sources near state-of-the-art image classifier under Creative Commons (libccv.org)

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Experts Find Mt.Gox Only Lost 386 Bitcoins Due To Transaction Malleability (techcrunch.com)

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Steve Jobs wasn't even okay with Google hiring former Apple engineers (www.tuaw.com)

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How many 32-bit RISC CPUs fit in an FPGA? Now vs. 1995? (forums.xilinx.com)

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Build Your Own Lockitron With Twilio, Arduino, and Node.js (www.twilio.com)

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Yale researchers reconstruct facial images locked in a viewer’s mind (news.yale.edu)

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We Built a Hacker News for Biotech (http://news.harlembiospace.com)

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The Drugging Of The American Boy (www.esquire.com)

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I Didn’t Want To Lean Out (modelviewculture.com)

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Pending Comments Update (item?id=7484304)

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Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU (gaasedelen.blogspot.co.uk)

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After reviewing about 30 YC Apps, here's some general advice (sandersak.posthaven.com)

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Andreessen Horowitz Raises New $1.5 Billion Fund (a16z.com)

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Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine (www.wired.co.uk)

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The Eighth Meditation on Superweapons and Bingo (squid314.livejournal.com)

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Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine (www.meteor.com)

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Spatial Data Structures for Better Map Interactions (chairnerd.seatgeek.com)

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WebScaleSQL: A collaboration to build upon the MySQL upstream (code.facebook.com)

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More News Is Being Written By Robots Than You Think (singularityhub.com)

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Btapp.js: BitTorrent in the browser (btappjs.com)

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Free software for freedom, surveillance and you (media.libreplanet.org)

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Why almost everything you've been told about unhealthy foods is wrong (www.theguardian.com)

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Exercising for Healthier Eyes (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Was Y Combinator Worth It? (wiwillia.com)

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Famo.us Demos (demo.famo.us)

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New responsive TfL website launched (http://www.tfl.gov.uk)

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Is it OK to Hire People from Your Friend’s Company? (2011) (www.bhorowitz.com)

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1930s immigrants who Americanized their names earned more (www.economist.com)

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PEP 461 Accepted: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray (mail.python.org)

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CoreOS Update: btrfs, docker 0.9, add users, writable /etc, and more (coreos.com)

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Python Maze Generator (www.janthor.com)

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HTML5 Security Spreadsheet (github.com)

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War of the 3D Engines (www.irrlicht3d.org)

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You will become who you choose to be around (kevinchau.me)

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The problem with self-published books (startupreader.net)

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The Day I Met Jeff Bezos (blog.highfive.com)

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Sparkfun offering discounts on Arduino day (www.sparkfun.com)

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RIP Captain Jerry Roberts – Bletchley Park Codebreaker (unbound.co.uk)

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How to Make GIMP Work More Like Photoshop (lifehacker.com)

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In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (250bpm.com)

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Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases (www.wired.com)

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Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles refuses travel to U.S. for questioning (www.cryptocoinsnews.com)

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The ARM plan for CentOS (www.karan.org)

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The “Housing Affordability Crisis” (blog.kwelia.com)

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The Jim Weirich Scholarship Fund: honoring Jim's legacy through education (https://jim.neo.com)

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A Look at the Box S-1 (kellblog.com)

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Scientists hail synthetic chromosome advance (www.bbc.com)

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The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game (asherv.com)

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Will pair for food. (item?id=7485367)

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Japan brings kaizen philosophy to Ethiopia (www.bbc.com)

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Wu-Tang Clan will sell only one copy of new album (pitchfork.com)

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How to Scale Yourself and Get More Done Than You Thought Possible (zapier.com)

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Is Google overreaching by forcing me to use TLS? (security.stackexchange.com)

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Internet.org: A Facebook connectivity lab project (internet.org)

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When Everyone Wants To Watch 'House Of Cards,' Who Pays? (www.npr.org)

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Show HN: I want you to build real time applications so I built this (http://www.simplert.com)

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Web Hosting for App Developers (www.marco.org)

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The Dropbox Shared Folder API Beta (dropboxapi.wufoo.com)

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Show HN: E-paper room booking system with Google Calendar, Python and Bootstrap (www.visionect.com)

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"Sharing economy" should share its wealth (www.sfbg.com)

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Stripe Merchants Will Soon Be Able to Accept Bitcoin Payments (recode.net)

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Creating PostgreSQL Arrays Without A Quadratic Blowup (blog.heapanalytics.com)

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Edward Snowden at TED: Here's how we take back the Internet (www.ted.com)

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Why ghostly false positives cropped up in MH370 satellite hunt (www.wired.co.uk)

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Why I Won't Switch To Go from Node.js (notduncansmith.github.io)

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Let's build a webinar tool that doesn't suck (http://survey.getgrasp.io)

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USB attacks without physical access [pdf] (www.nccgroup.com)

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Tell PG: "Pending" discourages conversation on older threads no longer on FP (item?id=7482084)

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Free Dash accounts now have Twitter dashboard widgets (www.thedash.com)

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The slow, sad death of Last.fm (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: Do any alumni think YC was not worth it? (item?id=7482786)

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Ask HN: Any useful tips for writing in Emacs? (item?id=7483669)

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The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED Talk (www.ted.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg, the Warren Buffett of technology? (blogs.reuters.com)

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The “secret” to being good (www.erickarjaluoto.com)

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WebScaleSQL | "We're Gonna Need A Bigger Database" (webscalesql.org)

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Ex-Spotify Engineers Raise $2.2 Million For Lookback, A User Experience Platform (techcrunch.com)

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Built it and they didn't come. (item?id=7480864)

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Staff at Mozilla call for new CEO Brendan Eich to ‘step down’ (thenextweb.com)

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Lenovo Recalls Battery Packs for ThinkPad Notebook Computers Due to Fire Hazard (www.cpsc.gov)

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Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and LMI (2009) (danweinreb.org)

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Google begged Steve Jobs for permission to hire engineers for its Paris office (pando.com)

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Code a 2048 bot on hackerrank (www.hackerrank.com)

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Show HN: Instant genetic classification (helix.io)

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Visualize march madness (github.com)

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One of my worst mistakes at my day job (reinventingsquares.com)

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DRM Helmets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (2002) (www.oreillynet.com)

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Light Table (www.lighttable.com)

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SSDB: A fast on-disk NoSQL database that uses the Redis protocol (www.ideawu.com)

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Demo of Kernel Upgrade without Downtime [youtube] (www.youtube.com)

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Block-level AIDS incidence map of San Francisco (www.sfdph.org)

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Mozillagate grows (americablog.com)

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Ask HN: Possible to know everything in a computer system, like in old days? (item?id=7485078)

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Ask HN: When is MongoDB the Right Tool for the Job? (item?id=7446919)

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Ask HN: Living in two cities? Please share your experience? (item?id=7443829)

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PencilCase: An iPhone and iPad app maker and private publishing platform (robotsandpencils.com)

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Inked Sales: How a Growing Law Firm Manages the Sales Process (federisgroup.com)

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Does it ever heal? (luk3thomas.com)

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Bing Begins 'Street View' Photography (www.seroundtable.com)

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An Investor's Guide to Hardware Startups (http://hwguide.spetic.si)

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No Conversation Left Behind (github.com)

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Product Care Symbols (www.patagonia.com)

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Zuckerberg's update on Connectivity Lab (www.facebook.com)

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UPDATE: iwanttogotocarnegiemellon.com rejected (iwanttogotocarnegiemellon.com)

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Ask HN: 100+ people/companies were hiring at ClojureWest? (item?id=7483446)

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How to solve the cold-start problem for social products (andrewchen.co)

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Ask HN: Unpaid job at a startup. What can be done to get the most out of the xp? (item?id=7484769)

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A Breakup Letter to Facebook from Eat24 (blog.eat24hours.com)

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EFF: Turkey blocks Tor's website (twitter.com)

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How an Under-Appreciated iOS 7 Feature Will Change the World (www.cultofmac.com)

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Time, timezones and python property descriptors (tttv-engineering.tumblr.com)

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New app turns you into a walking iBeacon. (http://www.getloopd.com)

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Oculus CEO Palmer Lucky responds to Notch's "cancellation" of Minecraft for Rift (i.imgur.com)

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Using Terra(LuaJIT+LLVM) to Write Faster Extensions for R (people.mozilla.org)

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The Patterns Behind the “Most Shared” NYTimes Articles (blog.percolate.com)

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Show HN: Downtyme, Scheduling Freetime with Friends (downty.me)

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Ramifications of the Quantified Self (exist.io)

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Offered $500k + 3-year contract. How should I respond? (www.brightjourney.com)

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Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases (www.wired.com)

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Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who Walk And Text (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone making money from open data? (item?id=7480161)

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Basecamp network attack postmortem (signalvnoise.com)

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19 Extraordinary Women In Tech (www.businessinsider.com)

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Dahala Khagrabari – The Indian Town in Bangladesh in India in Bangladesh (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Million Dollar Homepage still exists, but 22% of it has rotted away (qz.com)

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USB attacks need physical access, right? Not any more... (www.nccgroup.com)