hackerNews

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CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked (twitter.com)

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“In a typical year the OpenSSL project receives about US $2000 in donations” (groups.google.com)

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Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way (zulko.github.io)

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The Heartbleed Challenge (www.cloudflarechallenge.com)

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3rd Circuit vacates weev's conviction (pdfserver.amlaw.com)

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Amazon Will Pay You $5,000 to Quit Your Job (time.com)

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"Let me know how I can help" – a proposal to HN (tomcritchlow.com)

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NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years (www.bloomberg.com)

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Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders May Soon Be Allowed to Work in the U.S. (blogs.wsj.com)

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ExpressJS 4.0 has been released (expressjs.com)

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Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding King of Patent Trolls (gigaom.com)

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Testing with Jenkins, Ansible and Docker (blog.mist.io)

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Experiment: Eliminating Toast Sweat (murrayhurps.com)

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HMO: Help Me Out – April 2014 edition (item?id=7573172)

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Fake audiophile opamps: OPA627 (AD744?) (zeptobars.ru)

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This Tower Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Let Me Google That For You Act (thomas.loc.gov)

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From L3 to seL4: What Have We Learnt in 20 Years of L4 Microkernels? [pdf] (www.nicta.com.au)

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Japanese railway operator to offer maglev tech to US for free (asia.nikkei.com)

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Statement on Bloomberg News story that NSA knew about the “Heartbleed bug” (icontherecord.tumblr.com)

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

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Is There Anything Beyond Quantum Computing? (www.pbs.org)

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Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer (spectrum.ieee.org)

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The race to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak (www.wired.co.uk)

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Windows is not a Microsoft Visual C/C++ Run-Time delivery channel (blogs.msdn.com)

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Can You Buy A License to Speed? (priceonomics.com)

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Russian government threatens to block CloudFlare (rkn.gov.ru)

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OpenBSD Foundation reaches funding goal for 2014 (marc.info)

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Why We Made a European Alternative to Hacker School – Hacker Retreat Berlin (hackerretreat.com)

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New Data Shows 44% of Existing Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent A Tweet (blogs.wsj.com)

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Frama-C is a suite of tools dedicated to the analysis of software written in C (frama-c.com)

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How Uber Creates an Algorithmic Monopoly to Extract Rents (mattstoller.tumblr.com)

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Michael Lewis hits back (www.salon.com)

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Podcasts for Bootstrappers and Solopreneurs (www.startupclarity.com)

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Attenborough documentary filmed for Oculus Rift (www.wired.co.uk)

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Show HN: Grasswire – a collaborative newsroom for the Internet (grasswire.com)

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My heart is ok, but my eyes are bleeding (blog.leafsr.com)

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The problem with profitless startups (nymag.com)

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The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011) (queue.acm.org)

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StartSSL, please revoke me – My private key has been compromised (revokame.tonylampada.com.br)

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Amazon Preparing to Release Smartphone (online.wsj.com)

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PolarSSL (does anyone have any experiences with this OpenSSL competitor?) (polarssl.org)

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Our Commitment to your Rights and Privacy (blog.dropbox.com)

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That Pretty Much Wraps it Up for C (inessential.com)

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Haskell Cheat Sheet [pdf] (blog.codeslower.com)

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AngularJS integration with Haskell (github.com)

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NoSQL No More (technosophos.com)

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Ask HN: Examples of GPL Licence Violations being enforced? (item?id=7572332)

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Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions (www.bailis.org)

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Stop Writing Code Everyday (www.theniravshah.com)

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Stolen AWS credentials result in a surprise $5000 bill (blog.joemoreno.com)

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Bitcoin Mining Boom Sputters as Prospectors Face Cash Losses (www.bloomberg.com)

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Show HN: Open Source Rails Point of Sale (websitescenes.github.io)

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Heartbleed certificate revocation tsunami yet to arrive (news.netcraft.com)

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IAC Said to Buy More Tinder Shares at $5B Valuation (www.bloomberg.com)

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NIST's cryptographic standardization process (blog.cr.yp.to)

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What Happened to the Hominids Who May Have Been Smarter Than Us? (discovermagazine.com)

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Weev Is Free (techcrunch.com)

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Strong, Unique and Memorable Passwords: a Creative Approach (elekslabs.com)

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Fast arrow functions in Firefox 31 (www.jandemooij.nl)

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Heartbleed Bug's 'Voluntary' Origins (online.wsj.com)

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The Most Famous Desktop Wallpaper(Bliss) Ever Is a Real, Unaltered Photo (www.slate.com)

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The truth about pirates of Somalia (www.africaontheblog.com)

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Illinois Gov't: Don't Worry, We Never Used SSL To Begin With (www.icc.illinois.gov)

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Never mind Heartbleed, Santander are using a cert that expired a year ago (myonlineaccounts2.abbeynational.co.uk)

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Amazon Preparing to Release Smartphone (online.wsj.com)

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iPad Pro Concept (dribbble.com)

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How Did Things Ever Get This Good? (2009) (prog21.dadgum.com)

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Booking Video: Aaron Swartz Jokes, Jousts With Cops After MIT Bust (www.wired.com)

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Meritocracy is the software engineer’s delusion. (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

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Ethereum: the Yellow Paper [pdf] (gavwood.com)

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Can You Get Private SSL Keys Using Heartbleed? (blog.cloudflare.com)

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GitHub for Poets (www.kickstarter.com)

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Background Burner API (www.bonanza.com)

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Ask HN: Lost – Please Help (Side Project) (item?id=7574196)

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Protesters Gather at Google Lawyer’s Apartments (missionlocal.org)

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OpenSSL Heartbeat Code (github.com)

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NASA Software Catalog Offers Treasure Trove of Coding Tools (www.pcmag.com)

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Freenode is still using the same certificate after Heartbleed (item?id=7573930)

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Amazon AWS vs GitHub – “Suspected Unauthorized Activity” (pivotedreality.wordpress.com)

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An Open Letter to Brogrammers (tacit.livejournal.com)

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Running Node.js apps in production (fhemberger.github.io)

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

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What it really takes to fix heatbeat, not what the sites want you to believe (cardiac-surgery.github.io)

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Why Node.js is not vulnerable to Heartbleed (github.com)

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No, Tinder Is Not Worth $5 Billion (www.forbes.com)

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Dropbox faces online protests after appointing Condoleezza Rice to board (www.theguardian.com)

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Credit Card-Reading Spy Camera Found in the NYC Subway (gizmodo.com)

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US seizing tax refunds of children over parents' debt (www.cnbc.com)

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What startups need to know about press embargoes (blog.pressfriendly.com)

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Heartbleed attack now used by Call of Duty cheaters (www.theregister.co.uk)

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UMich on Heartbleed: "5.7% of all hosts that support HTTPS remain vulnerable" (zmap.io)

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AngularJS Developer to Build with Kinect Data in Berlin (www.angularjobs.com)

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Longaccess as a safe deposit box for Dropbox files. Feedback wanted. (the.longaccess.com)

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The NSA knew about Heartbleed for years... (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Would you do video calling to practice a language with a native speaker? (item?id=7576615)

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Where the Price of Freedom is Jail: Pics from Kabul’s Central Women’s Prison (www.bagnewsnotes.com)

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Special-Ed Student Who Recorded Bullies Accused of Felony Wiretapping (www.vocativ.com)

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Running JavaScript in an iOS application with JavaScriptCore (www.infinum.co)

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Amazon Pay $5,000 If You Quit (www.businessinsider.com)

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Airbnb OpenAir, tech conference featuring PG and Ben Horowitz (www.airbnb.com)