hackerNews

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Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain (math.stackexchange.com)

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Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue (comicneue.com)

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Ask HN: Idea Sunday (item?id=7541601)

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The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid (uncrunched.com)

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WebM support on 4chan (blog.4chan.org)

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Mailr: an Open Source webmail client with gmail like conversations (pusto.org)

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Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer (startupboy.com)

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Alan Kay's Reading List (c2.com)

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Halide, a language for image processing and computational photography (halide-lang.org)

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Oracle kills third-party JD Edwards reference website (jderef.com)

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Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season. Here’s Why (www.wired.com)

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One reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is hard (arstechnica.com)

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Speed memory access by arranging data to take advantage of CPU caching. (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)

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The Fall of Hacker Groups (phrack.org)

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The Fallacy of Android-First (techcrunch.com)

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Steve Jobs’ Itinerary for Apple's 2011 Top 100 Meeting (news.rapgenius.com)

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Don't design your own REST back end (plus.google.com)

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Agony of an African programmer (www.iafrikan.com)

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A Story Of realloc (And Laziness) (blog.httrack.com)

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Digital Ocean needs to start showing outages on their status page (medium.com)

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Code your own utopia: Meet Ethereum, Bitcoin's most ambitious successor (america.aljazeera.com)

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Show HN: Siri, open the garage (delian.io)

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Half Life 1 Engine on GitHub (github.com)

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NoSQL Meets Bitcoin and Brings Down Two Exchanges (hackingdistributed.com)

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A veteran programmer explains how the stock market became “rigged” (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Note the commit hash (github.com)

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Today I taught my 7-year old daughter how to code. Here's how it happened (dancali.io)

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Anti-Tech Protesters Are Telling Kevin Rose’s Neighbors That He’s A “Parasite” (techcrunch.com)

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Why Bother With Cucumber Testing? (www.jackkinsella.ie)

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The Power of Lua and Mixins (notmagi.me)

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Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Static is better: here's why (www.staticapps.org)

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A Fuel-Efficient Big Rig From Walmart That Looks Like a Smushed Corvette (www.wired.com)

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Facebook for Android and Why Zuckerberg now owns your ass (dannybrown.me)

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Game of Thrones: why hasn’t Westeros had an industrial revolution? (theconversation.com)

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Poll: How long have you been programming? (item?id=7543102)

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Microsoft Is Suddenly a New Company. But Is It Too Late? (www.wired.com)

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2048 in 3D (seenjs.io)

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Peas: Ruby-based Docker PaaS (github.com)

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Xwayland (blog.mecheye.net)

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Blender crowdsourcing an open film (cloud.blender.org)

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Agony of an African programmer (m.geektime.com)

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Ballast: A tool for balancing user load across SSH servers (code.nasa.gov)

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Ask HN: How viable is F# on Mono for real-life web apps? (item?id=7542903)

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Encryption week – practical GPG (digital-era.net)

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4chan has now enabled WebM files on all boards. (NSFW) (boards.4chan.org)

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The Richest Rich Are in a Class by Themselves (www.businessweek.com)

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Agony of an African programmer (m.geektime.com)

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Ask HN: How do you feel about HBO's Silicon Valley? (item?id=7544333)

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Wesleyan bucks trend, lets students graduate in 3 years (www.bostonglobe.com)

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The recovery puzzle: New factory in Ohio struggles to match jobs to job-seekers (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown (http://www.decksetapp.com)

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Teaching Devina to Code (lifewetravel.com)

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Brendan Eich (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

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Ympact releases mini-documentary on Helsinki's startup scene (arcticstartup.com)

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Jef Raskin's Swyft Card (willegal.net)

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Virtual currency on Ebay (www.ebay.com)

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NASA Picks Qt For International Space Apps Challenge (www.drdobbs.com)

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The Help You Help Me Dinner (www.helpmehelpyoudinner.org)

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Severe bug in g++ optimizer (-O2) (codeforces.com)

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Is the Video of the Meteorite and the Skydiver Legit? (www.slate.com)

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Ask HN: What would you do with a Billion dollars? (item?id=7544299)

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Half-century milestone for IBM mainframes (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Why Doesn't America Read Anymore? (www.npr.org)

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Lift web framework bans someone from contributing a pull request (github.com)

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Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level (www.nytimes.com)

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Facebook And The Linux Kernel (lwn.net)

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The scrypt key derivation function and encryption utility (www.tarsnap.com)

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Ask HN: Any philosophy grads who have turned into hackers? (item?id=7543021)

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Show HN: iOS Touch Visualizer (github.com)

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Apple Employees reveal the truth (www.businessinsider.com)

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Bing is here to stay (techcrunch.com)

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The “IKEA Effect”: When Labor Leads to Love (www.hbs.edu)

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Teacher in CA slipped LSD by student on a field trip; writes account of ordeal (www.metrosantacruz.com)

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A giant art installation targets predator drone operators (notabugsplat.com)

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Transparency controlled by heartbeat (www.studioroosegaarde.net)

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A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science (www.compoundchem.com)

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Building a Software Deployment Pipeline (lethain.com)

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Australian Gas Industry Wants to Curb Pay as Cooks Earn $325k (www.bloomberg.com)

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Catnip-Scented Flyers Turn Felines Into Mailmen (www.psfk.com)

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Even Small Medical Advances Can Mean Big Jumps in Bills (www.nytimes.com)

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PolyPassHash: Password storage scheme to prevent cracking passwords individually (github.com)

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Apollo_15_feather_and_hammer_drop.ogg (upload.wikimedia.org)

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Mother Earth Mother Board (1996) (archive.wired.com)

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Introducing IFTTT for iPad and the iOS Notifications Channel (blog.ifttt.com)

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Triathlete injured as drone filming race falls to ground (www.abc.net.au)

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Show HN: Khojo – Inspiring innovation in the form of shareable visual stories (http://khojo.org)

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A collection of JavaScript asynchronous patterns (bredele.github.io)

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Being useful – a short introduction to proactive experiences (writing.mariusz.cc)

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Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results? (item?id=7545094)

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Team behind webOS releases its abandoned interface redesign to the community (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: What do you use to track what your comeptitors are doing? (item?id=7541061)

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Ask HN: How would you handle items' IDs beyond 2^64 (18.4 quintillion)? (item?id=7540973)

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Google Project Loon Internet balloon circled the globe in 22 days (arstechnica.com)

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Why the immune system is so damn complicated (yarchive.net)

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Ask HN: How do you feel about pirated software? (item?id=7543971)

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Cities Advance Their Fight Against Rising Inequality (www.nytimes.com)

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As a coder maybe you've a mechanical keyboard, but, do you've a mechanical frog? (http://getjumpingfrog.com)

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Linux developers considering On-screen QR codes for kernel panics (slashdot.org)

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XWayland in XOrg (cgit.freedesktop.org)

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My house was protested today by anti-tech folks (twitter.com)

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What is your optimal way of staying in touch with the world? (item?id=7541590)

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Stephen Wolfram demos Wolfram Language (www.youtube.com)

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Drone Hits Triathlete (www.abc.net.au)

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Tools for App Developers [Cheat Sheet] (www.nextbigwhat.com)

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Ask HN: Software Devs – What's your channel into pop culture? (item?id=7545167)

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Ask HN:Is it possible to make an app in Node.js same as a RoR app? (item?id=7540712)

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My Nightmare (avc.com)

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Microsoft toggle video predates Apple's slide-to-unlock patent (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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How Soviet Artists Imagined Communist Life in Space (io9.com)

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5 Fun Facts about HBase that you didn’t know (strata.oreilly.com)

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Ask HN: Validate my storage company idea (item?id=7542154)

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Best real-time communication sContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1oftphone on the Linux desktop? (danielpocock.com)

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2048: LoTR Edition (games.usvsth3m.com)

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How well do you know the world? Play Geoguessr to find out (www.bbc.com)

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Ask HN: Tiered pricing vs Pay-As-You-Go. What works when? (item?id=7545451)

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Railways and WhatsApp (ben-evans.com)

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Ask HN: Discussion software where posts are edited democratically? (item?id=7545191)

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Lead Front End Developer for FlightCar (YC W13) (item?id=7541368)

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