hackerNews

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"OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure it's exploitable" (article.gmane.org)

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World Airports Voronoi (www.jasondavies.com)

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Rails 4.1.0 released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

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Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion (blogs.wsj.com)

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How I Came to Write D (www.drdobbs.com)

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All of Matt Cutts Videos Summarised into Actual Answers (www.theshortcutts.com)

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Today, IE6 is dead (www.ie6death.com)

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NSA Spied On Human Rights Groups, Says Snowden (techcrunch.com)

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Neel Mehta donates Heartbleed bounty to Freedom of the Press Foundation (hackerone.com)

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TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell (github.com)

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Xv6 (blog.regehr.org)

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Enough (nathanbarry.com)

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OpenSSL is written by monkeys (www.peereboom.us)

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Hijacking user sessions with the Heartbleed vulnerability (www.mattslifebytes.com)

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Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production (samsaffron.com)

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Evolutionary algorithm to find Quake III's fast inverse square hack with Python (multigrad.blogspot.com)

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My Heart Bleeds for OpenSSL (coderinaworldofcode.blogspot.com)

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.NET JIT and SIMD are getting married (blogs.msdn.com)

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DynDNS ends free services (linktracking.dyn.com)

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Great machine learning resources (wayfinder.co)

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Heartbleed Alexa top 10000 (gist.github.com)

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Dirt Cheap Dirty Boards (dirtypcbs.com)

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Spinal cord work is unexpected shocker: 'This is a breakthrough' (www.cnn.com)

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MongoDB 2.6 Released (blog.mongodb.org)

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Show HN: Stripe Checkout + full-featured dashboard/admin (https://www.snappycheckout.com)

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Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (colah.github.io)

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Heroku | OpenSSL Heartbleed Security Update (blog.heroku.com)

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Star Trek 1971 Text Game (2008) (www.codeproject.com)

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LastPass and the Heartbleed Bug (blog.lastpass.com)

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Eve Online shatters records with larger, costlier war: The 49-U6U Slaughterhouse (community.eveonline.com)

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The Mobile Downturn (avc.com)

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AWS Services Updated to Address OpenSSL Vulnerability (aws.amazon.com)

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JVM on Python (pyjvm.org)

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Heartbleed vulnerability tester (github.com)

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Creating Style Guides (alistapart.com)

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Font War: Inside the Design World's $20M Divorce (www.businessweek.com)

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.ng is the most dangerous cctld of all cctlds,also the most expensive cctld (www.nairaland.com)

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Chrome/Firefox aren't checking CA revocation lists (item?id=7556909)

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Show HN: Try Ion before you buy – uses BluetoothLE, Node.js, websockets, jsmpeg (tryion.lava.io)

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Single Address Space Operating System (c2.com)

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OkCupid's CEO Donated to an Anti-Gay Campaign Once, Too (www.motherjones.com)

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Add heartbeat extension bounds check (github.com)

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So you want to be a consultant? (twintechs.com)

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"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't (www.schneier.com)

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Orders projected to begin shipping 4/21 (blog.soylent.me)

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Buffett Will Steer Investors to Airbnb to Avoid Price-Gouging by Omaha Hotels (blogs.wsj.com)

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Let Them Eat Code: Coding Lessons Don't Cure Homelessness (www.dissentmagazine.org)

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Navy tests rail gun (news.yahoo.com)

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Post Flat Design (blog.collectiveray.com)

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DeepBeliefSDK: image recognition framework for iOS (github.com)

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Ng-2048: Building 2048 in AngularJS (www.ng-newsletter.com)

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RFC7169 – No Secrecy Afforded X.509 extension silently published (on 2014-04-01) (tools.ietf.org)

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Rethinking What We Mean by ‘Mobile Web’ (daringfireball.net)

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Lazy Ruby (sonnym.github.io)

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Using Git Grep (blog.afoolishmanifesto.com)

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This is your brain on engineeing (video.wired.com)

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Using Heartbleed PoC for Hijacking User Sessions En Masse (www.michael-p-davis.com)

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Facebook privacy settings are about to change again (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Poachbox – Recruit Startup and Tech Talent (http://www.poachbox.com)

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Cafe theft suspect nabbed after video goes viral (blog.sfgate.com)

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Led by Stanford’s 5%, Top Colleges’ Acceptance Rates Hit New Low (www.nytimes.com)

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StartCom charges for reissuing SSL certs due to Heartbleed (cv.exbit.io)

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Browse through 100k 3D models (sketchfab.com)

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Famo.us – JavaScript engine and framework (Livestream today) (famo.us)

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Meet the Minnesota company pulling petabytes of data from the field (gigaom.com)

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First VR Headset on the Block with a 2.5K Display (www.roadtovr.com)

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If Switzerland is attacked, it is literally rigged to blow up. (www.schneier.com)

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13 robots 31 hours (www.kickstarter.com)

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The Chicago Open Government Movement (www.lauradhamilton.com)

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The Girls Next Door (www.5280.com)

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What Happened to Canada? (nplusonemag.com)

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Coming soon: a whole new you, in your Twitter profile | Twitter Blogs (blog.twitter.com)

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Termination of Mozilla CEO Likely Violated California Law (www.vtzlawblog.com)

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15k? Heartbleed bug worth more like $1M (run-node.com)

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We're hiring an operations person (www.hackerschool.com)

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UberPitch: Google Ventures Investors are On-Demand Wednesday, April 9 (blog.uber.com)

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Ask HN: Flunking out of college, how to proceed? (item?id=7557570)

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Organ regenerated inside a living animal for the first time (www.economist.com)

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How API-First Development Boosts Productivity (www.lob.com)

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RFC 6520 and the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug share the same author (item?id=7558394)

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0

Is my private key secure? (http://privatekeycheck.com)

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0

Shifu: A Smart Way To Manage Your To Do List On Your Smartphone (play.google.com)

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Strange light on Mars (m.sfgate.com)

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“See you in the trenches”: Uber’s threat finally hits as Postmates surges (pando.com)

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Onboarding at Percolate (blog.percolate.com)

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Shit Hackers Say (www.youtube.com)

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How to add a brain to your smart phone (petewarden.com)

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Show HN : Teaching programming using a robot, go from drag/drop to real code (www.robotiky.com)

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Negotiating Startup Job Offers (blog.mightyspring.com)

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Preventing Disaster from Potential Security Bugs like Heartbleed (samlanning.com)

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Ninefold Labs – Zero Downtime Deployment for Rails Apps (ninefold.com)

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Docker 0.10: Quality and Ops Tooling (blog.docker.io)

10 points first seen 2014040912 last seen 2014040912 0 comments

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Gamification: The Key to Re-Engaging High School Dropouts (26gems.io)

10 points first seen 2014040921 last seen 2014041003 10 comments

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One line browser notepad (item?id=7551792)

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Ask HN: Why do open source projects attract more coders than designers? (item?id=7554125)

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Ask HN: Someone is offering to buy my side-project (item?id=7553879)

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Heroku working to fix Heartbleed (status.heroku.com)

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Decentralized orchestration tool Antitude announced PipelineConf 2014 in London (continuousdelivery.uglyduckling.nl)

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Ask HN: What's the purpose of the "payload" in SSL TLS/DTLS Heartbeat anyway? (item?id=7558227)

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Understand SQL JOINS visually and interactive (joins.spathon.com)

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Stackoverflow HTTPS Error – Heartbleed Bug (stackoverflow.com)

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Why Companies Turn Me Down For Contracts (blogs.perl.org)

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The bullshit humanitarian obsession of silicon valley. (jwopinions.tumblr.com)

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A PR Launch Checklist for Early-Stage Startup Founders (founderdating.com)

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Show HN: Bid with Bitcoin to write whatever you want on my web page (www.coinsayswhat.com)

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“Duke Collective” grad students collectivize their wages (www.slate.com)

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Ask HN: How can I pay for college? (item?id=7550950)

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Masstest for heartbleed vulnerability (github.com)

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Video gamers’ aggression linked to frustration (www.rochester.edu)

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Why I Rank My Friends By Income, IQ, And Attractiveness (www.businessinsider.com)

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Wikimedia moving to Elasticsearch (blog.wikimedia.org)

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Log out of all SSL sessions immediately (item?id=7557384)

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China’s steelmakers owe $484 billion (qz.com)

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The Programming Languages Beacon (www.lextrait.com)

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0

Ask HN: What is your favorite Open Source personal Finance App? (item?id=7552934)

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When You're at the Crossroads of Should and Must (firstround.com)

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REASONS WHY SAN FRANCISCO IS THE WORST PLACE EVER (www.vice.com)

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Show HN: A native rsync client for Windows (www.acrosync.com)

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Collaborative 3D scene builder in 50 lines of code (www.meteor.com)

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Microsoft releases source code for Spectrum Observatory under OSS license (blogs.technet.com)

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Are You Programmed to Enjoy Exercise? (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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17-Year Old Scams Thousands of Android Users With Fake AV App (www.dailytech.com)

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0

Ask HN: Do you prefer to work for socially conscientious employers? (item?id=7552673)

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Your child is not a genius. Get over it (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Release Notes for MongoDB 2.6 (docs.mongodb.org)

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Twitter is about to look exactly like Facbook (www.businessinsider.com)

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Generative Impressionist Paintings in HTML5 Canvas (mattdesl.github.io)

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Ask HN: HN and attacks (item?id=7543196)

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IE6 Countdown (www.modern.ie)

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"New" Pacific Island Consumes Its Neighbor (www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

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Microsoft Office iPad Team – AMA (www.reddit.com)

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MediaFire Takes Its Desktop Apps Out Of Beta, Removes File Size Restrictions (techcrunch.com)

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Wordpress 3.8.2 Security Release (wordpress.org)

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0

Is a "Reverse Heartbleed" exploit possible to read the client's memory? (item?id=7555865)

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ARM bases Compiler 6 on Clang/LLVM (semiaccurate.com)

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Stanford Eclipses Harvard as Applicants Eye Innovation Focus (www.bloomberg.com)

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Chromebleed (chrome.google.com)

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NSS compatibility for Open SSL apps (rcritten.fedorapeople.org)

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Ask HN: How to start a CA? (item?id=7557890)

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Ask HN: SSL Certs need to be revoked, right? (item?id=7557949)

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Ask HN: I am a startup employee "getting screwed" by offshore talent (item?id=7557634)

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Where others see only barriers, innovators see opportunities (timkastelle.org)

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Semi amusing development stories (item?id=7558210)

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Critical crypto bug exposes Yahoo Mail, other passwords Russian roulette-style (arstechnica.com)

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A video game controller that can sense players’ emotions (www.kurzweilai.net)

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Stanford Dropouts Build Excel Spreadsheet That Doesn’t Totally Suck (www.wired.com)

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Clojure Web Security (www.lispcast.com)

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Uber for Drones (www.gofordrones.com)

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0

Ask HN:have moore's law slowed innovation in chip manufacturing? (item?id=7555205)

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Show HN: Promoter.io, a SaaS platform built for measuring NPS (promoter.io)

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NETmundial Executive Stakeholder Committee (EMC) Outcome Document (wikileaks.org)

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Chrome 34 released to stable (googlechromereleases.blogspot.com)

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Battery offers 30 second phone charging (www.bbc.co.uk)

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DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches (www.newscientist.com)

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Ask HN:Is there a panic button service for immigrants on work visas (item?id=7556560)

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"Ocean Shield" – The Amazing Aussie Ship Searching for Malaysian Flight MH370 (en.wikipedia.org)

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Braun SK55 (www.minimallyminimal.com)

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0

Ask HN: What OSS has the best written (clean) code you have seen? (item?id=7557439)

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WordPress 3.8.2 Security Release – Update Immediately (wordpress.org)

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My Response to "Why Nerds Are Unpopular" by Paul Graham (item?id=7558031)

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Torvalds Is Unconvined By LTO'ing A Linux Kernel (www.phoronix.com)

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0

'I CAN'T write code myself,' admits woman in charge of teaching our kids to code (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Sorry, XP isn't dead yet. (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Kimono Labs (YC W14) is hiring engineers #1, #2 and #3 (kimonolabs.com)

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SmartAsset (YC S12) is hiring full-stack developers in NYC (www.jobscore.com)

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Become a MakeGamesWithUs (YC W12) Campus Rep (item?id=7557528)

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