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Tom Preston-Werner resigning | Results of the GitHub Investigation (github.com)

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Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects (http://gamemechanicexplorer.com)

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Build Tools – Make, no more (hadihariri.com)

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Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing (tom.preston-werner.com)

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Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (2010) (pinyin.info)

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LibreSSL official site up (www.libressl.org)

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Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs (www.myce.com)

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Is the Toilet Free? (madebymany.com)

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Debugging Asynchronous JavaScript with Chrome DevTools (www.html5rocks.com)

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Flynn: first preview release (flynn.io)

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How to Convert a Digital Watch to a Negative Display (forums.watchuseek.com)

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The most expensive lottery ticket in the world (blogs.reuters.com)

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Everyone Deserves Great Design (http://www.everyonedeservesgreatdesign.com)

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What every founder fears (medium.com)

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Scala 2.11.0 Release Notes (scala-lang.org)

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Supreme Court to hear arguments on Aereo this week (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Elixir v0.13.0 released, hex.pm and ElixirConf announced (elixir-lang.org)

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Redis 2.8.9 is out (groups.google.com)

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Show HN: never miss an online course again – to-learn list and course reminders (accredible.com)

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AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat Bluff (www.dslreports.com)

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Let the Type System do the Work (javadocmd.com)

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Vegetative patient says 'I'm not in pain' (www.bbc.com)

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Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal (forums.aws.amazon.com)

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Pied Piper (www.piedpiper.com)

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Dept of Health and Human Services spends $146 per month per user for email [pdf] (www.gao.gov)

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Invitation for DNC reception with Obama at YC (www.scribd.com)

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Cubans trace roots to remote Sierra Leone village (m.bbc.com)

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Chemical weapons from Syria about to be dumped into the Mediterranean (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Isaac Asimov's predictions 50 years on (www.bbc.com)

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Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax (www.bloomberg.com)

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Chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic sea (www.mir.gdynia.pl)

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Accepted projects – Google Summer of Code 2014 (www.google-melange.com)

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Getting Lazy with C++ (bartoszmilewski.com)

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Ruby Tips: Part 5 (globaldev.co.uk)

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Reddit downgrades technology community after censorship (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Class 13 Notes – You Are Not A Lottery Ticket (2012) (blakemasters.com)

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Set up your private Git hosting with Gogs (obahua.com)

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When to Hold Out For a Lower Airfare (fivethirtyeight.com)

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Functional Programming in JavaScript is Garbage (awardwinningfjords.com)

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Please stop hashing passwords (blog.tjll.net)

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Reference Note on Russian Communications Surveillance (csis.org)

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Dujiangyan irrigation system (en.wikipedia.org)

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OpenBSD forks, prunes, fixes OpenSSL (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: Is UML still relevant today? (item?id=7624601)

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Clang vs GCC benchmark on UnrealEngine3 (plus.google.com)

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Interpolated Equity – mathematically justified cash vs equity compensation (medium.com)

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There is no such thing as 'cheating' in art (muddycolors.blogspot.com)

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The utility of switching lanes when stuck in traffic (blogs.reuters.com)

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Future of Amazon Prime? 2 days shipping+movies+music+books+magazines? (blog.minming.net)

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Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital: Capitalism vs Democracy (www.nytimes.com)

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False Urgency (medium.com)

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Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots (blog.interfacevision.com)

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Testing Chromium: ThreadSanitizer v2, a next-gen data race detector (blog.chromium.org)

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Why Facebook Can’t Figure Out What to Do With Its Apps (www.wired.com)

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Java is back? Programming language trends for 2345 teams (blog.helloworldopen.com)

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Toward an open Internet of Things (radar.oreilly.com)

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Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money (getfreelancy.com)

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Show HN: Our weekend project – PaperSync, notebook scanning as a service (http://www.papersync.co)

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Netflix will raise streaming prices for new members this quarter (gigaom.com)

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Why you should build your product in public (ryanhoover.me)

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Adroll raises $70m (techcrunch.com)

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Using sysdig to troubleshoot (bencane.com)

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Facts conveniently withheld – The rest of the Julie Ann Horvath story (medium.com)

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Comparing Low-Power Wireless Technologies (2011) (www.digikey.com)

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Ahead Of NY Subpoena Hearing, Airbnb Weeds Out Hosts With Dozens Of Listings (techcrunch.com)

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How Americans Hate Each Other (priceonomics.com)

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Ask HN: The startup I work for, got acquired. What will I get? (item?id=7626648)

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CES: Worse Products Through Software (2013) (hypercritical.co)

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Name for OpenSSL fork released (www.openbsdfoundation.org)

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Why I am not persuaded by Thomas Piketty’s argument (marginalrevolution.com)

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Inside the tech aiming Aereo through TV's legal hoops (www.cnet.com)

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In Defense of Marketing, Hacking, and Programming (emilydelmont.svbtle.com)

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Show HN: Ekho, a simple way to add voice interactivity to your site (ekho.io)

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Mailbox – How to ruin customer trust. (skylarsch.com)

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Survival at High Altitude: Wheel-Well Passengers (www.faa.gov)

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3129 numbers that unlock keyless entry cars (2004) (everything2.com)

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Tips for running HBase on low-memory EC2 (dev.hubspot.com)

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Show HN: Jollyshot – ephemeral image hosting (http://jollyshot.com)

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Level Skies – Price protection on airfare. If fares go up, we pay you. (levelskies.com)

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A guide for programming in style (github.com)

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How Google Screwed Up Google Glass (www.forbes.com)

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UIActivityViewController (nshipster.com)

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Some Simple Sales Tips (jacobaldridge.com)

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APIs, App Stores, and the Era of Mass Customization in Banking (blog.zactownsend.com)

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U.S. Promotes Network to Foil Digital Spying (www.nytimes.com)

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VUE, Behavioral analytics for mobile users is crowdfunding (ramen.is)

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Ukraine: Photos 'show Russian troops' in east (www.bbc.com)

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How to start building mobile apps? (item?id=7625494)

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Contractual: Design by contract in JavaScript (codemix.github.io)

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The backlash against big data (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: Search HN Users By Interest (https://findhn.firebaseapp.com)

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Nothing sucks the joy out of programming like a job (www.planningforaliens.com)

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Julie Ann Horvath: "There was no investigation." (twitter.com)

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Django security releases issued (www.djangoproject.com)

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Ask HN: I'm scatter brained. What do I do? (item?id=7624830)

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How Startups “Level Up” After Raising Money (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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Mail.Ru launches vulnerability reward program (www.microsofttranslator.com)

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Back to Basics: Writing SQL Queries (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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Wage Theft Across the Board (www.nytimes.com)

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2048 on 8-bit Sega Systems (www.smspower.org)

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Pope Francis as a "Turnaround CEO" (www.economist.com)

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Who Dies on Everest–and Where, and Why (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Life of an Optimizer (blog.sqwiggle.com)

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Build your product in public (thenextweb.com)

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21 Rough Lessons Learned from Our Startup Failure (www.daryllu.com)

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Most Americans Do Not Want Google-ish Glasses, Drones, Or Lab-Grown Meat (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Age of the Earth + Google Newspaper Archive (k2xl.com)

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Testing Chromium: ThreadSanitizer v2, a next-gen data race detector (blog.chromium.org)

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Mind Control in a Flash of Light (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Your thoughts on if H1B employees should contribute to 401k or not? (item?id=7623499)

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Swiftly and Machine Learning: Part 2 (99designs.com)

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Silicon Valley companies to go on trial for conspiring to keep employees down (www.cnbc.com)

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Boy Who Hid in Plane’s Wheel Well Beat Long Odds in Surviving 5 ½-Hour Flight (www.nytimes.com)

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Reddit downgrades technology community after censorship (www.bbc.com)

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At Mt. Gox Bitcoin hub, 'geek' CEO sought both control and escape (uk.reuters.com)

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Vault of Satoshi Launches full Proof of Solvency (Not Just an Audit) (item?id=7622886)

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Better (www.apple.com)

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I Still Use PHP – Jordan Koschei (blog.jordankoschei.com)

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500 Startups Funds Five Bitcoin Startups With $100,000 Each (www.coindesk.com)

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Improving vulnerability disclosure for researchers (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Everyone Deserves Great Design (www.everyonedeservesgreatdesign.com)

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Ask HN: A more open-minded and less judgmental community? (item?id=7624280)

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7 Funny and Fitting Programmer Cartoons (ryanfrankel.com)

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Even the most secure cloud storage may not be so secure, study finds (www.networkworld.com)

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What's Wrong With GNU Make? (www.conifersystems.com)

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Ask HN: Why can't I comment on HN ads? (item?id=7624792)

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Why Privacy Is Actually Thriving Online (www.wired.com)

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Reverse Engineering Machines with the Yoneda Lemma (2006) (blog.sigfpe.com)

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The Corruption of Real Science (2012) (corruption-of-science.blogspot.co.uk)

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Ask HN: What should I read this summer? (item?id=7625429)

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Jared Diamond: We Could Be Living in a New Stone Age by 2114 (www.motherjones.com)

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Linux Power Saving (irenicus09.wordpress.com)

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Tiny Code: Floppy booting, Open Firmware, Bitlash, more Movizt. (kmkeen.com)

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It’s Official: 2013 Was the Busiest Year Yet for Cyber Criminals (recode.net)

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Crunch Time (pivotallabs.com)

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April 21 and 22: Global Action Against Censorship in Mexico (contraelsilencio.wordpress.com)

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Link-time optimization in GCC: A brief history (hubicka.blogspot.co.uk)

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Watsi is hiring a full-stack engineer (blog.watsi.org)

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Meteor hiring Engineers at Large (www.meteor.com)

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