hackerNews

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European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law (gigaom.com)

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0^0 (www.askamathematician.com)

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Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 (techcrunch.com)

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Amazon Fire TV (www.amazon.com)

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Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL (rhaas.blogspot.in)

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Zed – new OSS code editor (+ the creator quits his full-time job to develop it) (zedapp.org)

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Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop (www.bunniestudios.com)

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Shutting down Ubuntu One file services (blog.canonical.com)

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Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps (wmpoweruser.com)

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So You Think You're Smarter Than A CIA Agent (www.npr.org)

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WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript (msdn.microsoft.com)

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Announcing TypeScript 1.0 (blogs.msdn.com)

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Google splits into GOOG and GOOGL today (m1.marketwatch.com)

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-2000 lines of code (www.folklore.org)

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My First Year of Coding (blog.jenniferdewalt.com)

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Any female engineers in SD interested in showing my 12 yo daughter their work? (item?id=7515755)

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Detecting duplicate images with Python (blog.iconfinder.com)

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Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8.1 with personal assistant Cortana (thenextweb.com)

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How the secret police tracked my childhood (m.bbc.com)

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Show HN: Digitizing photos of whiteboards using the command line (gist.github.com)

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My Surreal UberX Experience (tomtunguz.com)

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New Wu-Tang Clan only has one physical copy, will be treated as art (pitchfork.com)

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Am I really a developer or just a good Googler? (www.hanselman.com)

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Brutal Professional Audit of CryptoCat Published (isecpartners.github.io)

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Announcing .NET Native Preview (blogs.msdn.com)

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A tube map of the Internet (geography.oii.ox.ac.uk)

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Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk (www.kickstarter.com)

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This is how an engineer feels when he's surrounded by idiots (www.cnet.com)

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Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus (techblog.livingsocial.com)

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Status IE – IE's feature status and plans (status.modern.ie)

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Microsoft Updates Visual Studio (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: I built this notifying device – electronics, code, design, marketing (http://www.notifon.net)

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Microsoft Build 2014 Day 1 live (channel9.msdn.com)

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How to get beyond the parasite economy (www.ericgarland.co)

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Using Docker with Github and Jenkins for repeatable deployments (blog.buddycloud.com)

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Haskell in the Newsroom (www.infoq.com)

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Manhattan, Twitter's real-time, multi-tenant distributed database (blog.twitter.com)

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Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub (github.com)

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Top Bitcoin questions I’ve been asked (medium.com)

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Breaking Half of the Telegram Contest (blog.thijsalkema.de)

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Suspicious Minds – Why No One Trusts People In Authority (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How Russians are outsmarting Internet censorship (advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org)

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions (www.nytimes.com)

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Suspension of NASA contact with Russian entities (www.spaceref.com)

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Ephemeral Apps (www.schneier.com)

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ReactOS Community – Features (community.reactos.org)

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How We're Feeling: Tweet sentiment (jenniferdewalt.com)

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Dai/Nakamoto emails (www.gwern.net)

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A Revolution in Money (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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New York is the heart of a new digital economy. (www.nyctecheconomy.com)

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Man stealing electricity to mine Bitcoin charged with money laundering (translate.google.com)

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A Lot of Top Journalists Don't Look at Traffic Numbers (blog.hubspot.com)

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Implementing Plausible Crash Recovery (www.plausible.coop)

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Show HN: API Happiness is not a 'nice-to-have' (www.apitools.com)

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Navigating the WARC file format (commoncrawl.org)

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What's The Value of a Free Lunch? (blog.highfive.com)

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IBM introduces 'laptop' computer (1986) (blogs.wsj.com)

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The Document Foundation announces the Document Liberation Project (blog.documentfoundation.org)

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Coshx Labs is giving away $50k of development. No strings attached. (competition.coshx.com)

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Google+ Hangout with Vint Cerf – starts at 2PM EST (plus.google.com)

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Show HN – Command line method for digitizing photos of whiteboards (item?id=7519093)

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How the secret police tracked my childhood (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Calibre beta announced (calibreapp.com)

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How programmers should write their resumes (www.doesnotcompute.biz)

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I'm writing "D3.js in Action" for diving deep into D3 (item?id=7517969)

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Linus blocks system d maintainer from further kernel commits (lkml.org)

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I'm an idiot. I quit my dream job to become an entrepreneur... (frombothsidesofthetable.com)

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Ask HN: Effects of hiring based on GitHub (item?id=7521553)

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Building a Better PHP – Part 3: Getting Started with Hack (blog.engineyard.com)

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Fur – WebGL (oos.moxiecode.com)

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A boot-strappers guide to turning $2000 into $2,000,000 in sales in 4 months (www.upshiftpartners.com)

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This Is What You Build to Juggle 6,000 Tweets a Second (prod.wired.com)

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Microsoft making Windows free on devices with screens under nine inches (www.theverge.com)

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OkCupid Pulls Firefox Blocker (www.cnet.com)

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Opencart illegally stripping license and attribution from reused code (github.com)

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The Mobile Browser Is Dead, Long Live The App (www.forbes.com)

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Mining Bitcoin with stolen electricity == Money Laundering (says Dutch Police) (www.powned.tv)

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Designing a RESTful web API (scotch.io)

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Share Nothing, Scale Everything (blog.engineyard.com)

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Ask HN: Contributors for open courseware on web development (item?id=7521432)

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New Effort Gives Tech Workers Additional Way to Donate to Charity (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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What Michael Lewis Gets Wrong About High-Frequency Trading (www.businessweek.com)

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Code isn't poetry (jshak.es)

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What it feels like to have poor communication skills in a meeting (hub.bs)

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US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest (bigstory.ap.org)

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Turn the server into the new personal device with Node.js, Cozy and CouchDB (blog.cozycloud.cc)

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Macbook Developer Setup (christian.gen.co)

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Yahoo Bolsters Encryption Between Data Centers, Promises Encrypted Messenger (techcrunch.com)

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Healthcare Startup SimplyInsured Goes Nationwide (thenextweb.com)

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Harvard student pens letter about lack of response to sexual assault (www.nydailynews.com)

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Leo Web: Leveraging the Web and Address Book (www.jisiguo.com)

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Windows 8: The Start menu is back (www.theverge.com)

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Sputnik Panik : a tiny game about sending satellites in orbit (sputnikpanik.com)

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Calm Down. Facebook Is Not Screwing You. (recode.net)

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The function of zebra stripes (www.nature.com)

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NASA suspends work with Russia over involvement in Ukraine (www.theverge.com)

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Michael Lewis: “The Stock Market Is Rigged” (www.vanityfair.com)

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Stripe now paying out funds in 2 days rather than 7 (item?id=7518681)

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Handbook of a Modern Entrepreneur (vusal.me)

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Ask HN: What accounting software do you use? (item?id=7515318)

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Secure protocols for accountable warrant execution (freedom-to-tinker.com)

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Amazon Officially Unveils Amazon Fire TV, A Tiny Media Streaming Bpx (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: How do you handle the information mass HN provides you with? (item?id=7516802)

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Amazon Introduces Fire TV Set-Top Box (mashable.com)

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Why do I need to quit my job this year? (www.jamesaltucher.com)

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Show HN: Lindora online code editor (http://lindora.net)

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SwayDating sends out email spam, reveals their database password (twitter.com)

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Flying Wind Turbines to be Deployed at 1000 Feet (www.spokesman.com)

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Ask HN: What's your development workflow? (item?id=7519122)

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The Story Behind @Dropbox’s 58,449 Retweets (blog.kirigin.com)

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Status Update: Encryption at Yahoo (yahoo.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: First job in IT, what best practices should I get in to? (item?id=7520700)

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Ask HN: Where do I go from here? (item?id=7521418)

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Weak, Strong, Static And Dynamic – An Introduction To Programming Type Systems (coding.smashingmagazine.com)

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It's Inevitable: Designers Will Rule the Web (blog.webflow.com)

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Fire TV: Everything You Need to Know About Amazon's Streaming Box (gizmodo.com)

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Amazon's FireTV set top box is also a gaming console (www.theverge.com)

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Bitcoins aren’t cash, so Silk Road creator’s clean: lawyer (nypost.com)

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One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R (onepager.togaware.com)

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How To Improve Product Quality (blog.yesgraph.com)

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Rob Pike: Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (oldie but goldie) (vimeo.com)

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Stop trying to find a growth hacker (www.wework.com)

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Andromeda – Google's latest networking stack (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)

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NASA Internal Memo: Suspension of NASA contact with Russian entities (spaceref.com)

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Stripe now has two-day transfers (item?id=7518542)

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JS Inheritance is awesome, and you're doing it wrong (coderwall.com)

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One of my domains could be worth a lot – what's the best way to sell it? (item?id=7519885)

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Microsoft says Windows for the Internet of Things will be free (thenextweb.com)

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End system that allows patent trolls to thrive (www.sfgate.com)

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US Secretly Created 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest (hosted.ap.org)

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Lorenz (xkcd.com)

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Amazon reveals game, movie streaming hardware 'Amazon Fire TV' (www.joystiq.com)

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How countries calculate their GDP (www.economist.com)

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Coursera courses on Android app (play.google.com)

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Microsoft Will Slash The Price Of Windows To Zero For Phones, Small Tablets (techcrunch.com)

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What Loggly Learned About Scaling with Apache Storm (www.loggly.com)

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Lyft Raises $250 Million From Coatue, Alibaba To Expand Internationally (techcrunch.com)

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Thoughts on Amazon Fire TV (livedigitally.com)

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Microsoft Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale (blogs.msdn.com)

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My Startup made $290,475.48 in 26 month and I'm shutting it down (item?id=7520387)

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Show HN: Write your own Ruby agent to play 2048 (github.com)

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US secretly built 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest (www.sfgate.com)

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Oliver R Smoot (en.wikipedia.org)

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Saudi Arabia declares all atheists are terrorists in new law (www.independent.co.uk)

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New Cryptocat audits (blog.crypto.cat)

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How can I respond to negative comments about my accent in a non-native language? (workplace.stackexchange.com)

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

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The last laugh will be mine (startupsanonymous.com)

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Amazon announces Fire TV (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: Should I be looking for an internship or a job? (item?id=7517781)

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Bitcoin Creator Comments on Shia LaBeouf Performances, Praises Dogecoin (medium.com)

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Amazon Fire TV (www.amazon.com)

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Techie scum (me) attends anti-tech protest meeting (pando.com)

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AirPooler Is Lyft For Private Planes (techcrunch.com)

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The public trial of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich (interview) (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: Looking for some guinea pigs for our shiny API (item?id=7519027)

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My new TREZOR – Bitcoin hardware wallets arrive (bitcointalk.org)

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Man charged with possession of child porn after Google tip (www.grandforksherald.com)

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FarmHash by Google (code.google.com)

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NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts on Missions to Deep Space (motherboard.vice.com)

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If You Want To Get Rich At A Startup, You Better Ask These Questions (www.businessinsider.in)

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The modular Twitter sensor node (blog.donaldderek.com)

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Simple and succinct guide to CSS Layouts (learnlayout.com)

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You’re probably doing your household budget all wrong (2013) (www.slate.com)

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SmartAsset (YC S'12) Seeks Senior UI/UX Architect (www.jobscore.com)

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Watsi is looking for engineer #3 (item?id=7519397)

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Firebase (YC S11) is hiring a front end engineer in SF (www.firebase.com)

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Rainforest QA (YC S12) is hiring full stack and front end engineers (www.rainforestqa.com)

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Bitnami (YC W13) is looking for a technical writer (item?id=7521044)

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