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SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station (www.forbes.com)

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The ticking time-bomb at the bottom of the Baltic Sea (www.economist.com)

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Metacademy (www.metacademy.org)

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Ask HN: Idea Sunday (item?id=7616910)

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Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime? (www.bbc.com)

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Man compares his prosthetic hand to a 3D-printed one (www.3duniverse.org)

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“Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team (medium.com)

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LibGDX 1.0 released (www.badlogicgames.com)

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The Case for Formal Verification (2013) (permalink.gmane.org)

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H. G. Wells's interview with Stalin (1934) (www.newstatesman.com)

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Capital Man: Thomas Piketty is economics’ biggest sensation and fiercest critic (chronicle.com)

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Iodine – tunneling IP over DNS (github.com)

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Space Colony Art from the 1970s (settlement.arc.nasa.gov)

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Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk (torrentfreak.com)

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Never Negotiate Your Freelance Rate (planscope.io)

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Debug your programs like they're closed source (jvns.ca)

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Rust for C++ programmers – part 2: control flow (featherweightmusings.blogspot.com)

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Home entertainment implementations are pretty appalling (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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Hack Rifle (www.hscott.net)

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UPSERTisms in Postgres (johtopg.blogspot.se)

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The Convergence of Modern C++ on the Lisp Programming Style (chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com)

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One Man's Quest to Make Business Travel a Lot Less Awful (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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Faster AngularJS Rendering with ReactJS (www.williambrownstreet.net)

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Fighting Cargo Cult – The Incomplete SSL/TLS Bookmark Collection (daniel.molkentin.net)

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CSS 3D Solar System (codepen.io)

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Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste (2007) (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04 (www.zdnet.com)

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In Silicon Valley Thriller, a Settlement May Preclude the Finale (www.nytimes.com)

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When the Internet dies, meet the meshnet that survives (www.newscientist.com)

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Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use (www.forbes.com)

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Nokia mobile, will be renamed Microsoft Mobile (zeenews.india.com)

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Fine grain Cross-VM Attacks on Xen and VMware are possible (eprint.iacr.org)

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Using GitHub for Push-to-Deploy to Google App Engine (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)

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Mobile-Payments Startup Square Discusses Possible Sale (online.wsj.com)

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Employee Equity: Too Little? (avc.com)

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NetBSD 6.1.4 and 6.0.5 released (blog.netbsd.org)

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The new schema.org actions: What they mean for personalisation on the Web (terraces.wordpress.com)

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It’s a fucking startup. Why are you here? (betashop.com)

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Pronking for Programmers (paulbutcher.com)

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One-bit Computing at 60 Hz (laughtonelectronics.com)

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A free full-time 7-week coding course in London (foundersandcoders.org)

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Twitter blocks two accounts on its Turkish network (news.yahoo.com)

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One week of OpenSSL cleanup (undeadly.org)

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Attacking Audio reCaptcha using Google's Web Speech API (www.debasish.in)

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I’m Single, Therefore I Tinder (techcrunch.com)

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Richard Garriott’s D&D #1 Contest (www.shroudoftheavatar.com)

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Here Comes Facebook’s Ad Network: Mobile Ads Launching This Month (recode.net)

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The Diving Save (randsinrepose.com)

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At Clearly Innovative, developers are hired with little practice and much passion (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Piketty, inequality and volatility: How can r exceed g? (www.chrisstucchio.com)

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Building an Electric Bass (www.weescribble.com)

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Who Gets Into Accelerators? Persistent Men With SaaS Apps, Says Study (techcrunch.com)

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Go Fucking Do It (levels.io)

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Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates (2012) [pdf] (www.biostat.jhsph.edu)

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The Myth of Massed Practice (www.salon.com)

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Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required (weekend project) (pixomize.com)

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The Long Path to Artisan Independence (helloanou.wordpress.com)

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DND-1 Source Code by Richard Garriott (1979) [pdf] (d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net)

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Laravel cookie forgery, decryption, and RCE (labs.mwrinfosecurity.com)

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The Vulgar Mechanic and His Magical Oven (nautil.us)

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Bored people quit (2011) (randsinrepose.com)

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10 things you (probably) didn't know about Go (nf.wh3rd.net)

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Why do software projects fail? (spage.fi)

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Birds sitting on electric wires: potential difference between their feet (physics.stackexchange.com)

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Weenerd – web weechat relay built using react.js (github.com)

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Twitter assists Turkish state in crackdown on dissidents (www.hurriyetdailynews.com)

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Show HN: Idea Sunday App (item?id=7617679)

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Binary operators – a basic intro using Arduino (rluckom.github.io)

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SpaceX Dragon CRS-3 Grappled by Robotic Arm on ISS (www.youtube.com)

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Know When To CDN (blogs.telerik.com)

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Ask HN: Idea Sunday is awesome... but now what? Let's build something. (item?id=7618147)

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I Hate Smartphones (mygodwhathassciencedone.blogspot.com)

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How Urban Anonymity Disappears When All Data Is Tracked (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Enlightened intolerance (www.economist.com)

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Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Art of Great Company Culture (2013) (blog.kissmetrics.com)

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Snowden email service Lavabit loses contempt appeal (www.bbc.com)

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3500 BC, Louisiana, Earliest dated, complex construction in the Americas (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Doom Loop of Oligarchy (www.vox.com)

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Xkcd: Free Speech (xkcd.com)

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The first computer used in the shooting of a major motion picture (2007) (www.webcitation.org)

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Taking On Adam Smith (and Karl Marx) (www.nytimes.com)

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16 Leadership Lessons from a Four Star General (www.farnamstreetblog.com)

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Ask HN: Interview Saturdays instead of interviews during work hours? (item?id=7619831)

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Hans Rosling: The best stats you've ever seen (www.ted.com)

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Some Shark Tank Fun Facts (www.thinkingwig.com)

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Your Looks and Online Dating (2009) (blog.okcupid.com)

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The timeless: 64K demo [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Setting Up Disco Map/Reduce (pauldbergeron.com)

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things (www.farnamstreetblog.com)

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ShowHN: My first company – AdTemple (item?id=7618924)

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Ask HN: Is (2013) necessary? (item?id=7618808)

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Can they make a better black box pinger? (ideas.4brad.com)

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Researchers present new view of myelin (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Show HN: Geodude – A tiny command-line tool for geocoding addresses (github.com)

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Show HN: MeT – A compelling Markdown editor (github.com)

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Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation? (www.airspacemag.com)

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A beautiful new article template for LaTeX (www.latextemplates.com)

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Future Programming Workshop: By Richard Gabriel, Alex Payne and Jonathan Edwards (www.future-programming.org)

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What's The Purpose Of The Universe? Here's One Possible Answer (io9.com)

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Opensource Backend as a Servicce: BaaSBox (www.baasbox.com)

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Ask HN: Would turning down equity offend recruiters? (item?id=7617244)

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Google Launches Home Try-On Program For Glass (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: AngularJS frontend – Rails API backend service. Is this approach sane? (item?id=7616817)

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OpenSSL and Linux: A Tale of Two Open-Source Projects (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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What It’s Really Like to Be One of the Silk Road’s Biggest Drug Lords (news.vice.com)

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Messaging Is A Winner-Take-Some Market (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Pitching cross-promotion partnership (item?id=7619143)

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Rakudo Star Release 2014.03 (rakudo.org)

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Is an MBA worth it? (item?id=7619457)

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FRED WILSON Q&A: Retirement, Tumblr's Exit, And Getting Over A Tough Year (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: How many startups have you started? (item?id=7620194)

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Cratejoy (YC S13) is hiring a front end developer in Austin, TX (jobs.lever.co)

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Rescale (YC W12) is hiring platform software engineers (item?id=7617909)

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Celery (YC S12) is hiring a developer to build e-commerce 2.0 (item?id=7620276)

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