hackerNews

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Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image (projectnaptha.com)

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The New Deal (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Parallax effect from Google Lens Blur photos (depthy.stamina.pl)

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My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player (andrewkelley.me)

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Space Monkey dumps Python for Go (www.spacemonkey.com)

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OnePlus One – $299 CyanogenMod 'killer' smartphone (oneplus.net)

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Do Men Suck At Friendship? (www.mensjournal.com)

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Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery (www.planetary.org)

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GitLab | Open Source Git Management Software (www.gitlab.com)

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How to be a great software developer (peternixey.com)

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Goji: a web microframework for Go (goji.io)

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Hacking Sonos (medium.com)

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Vkontakte Founder Flees Russia (www.themoscowtimes.com)

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Go 1.3 beta 1 released (tip.golang.org)

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Nobody lives here: the 5 million US census blocks with zero population (mapsbynik.tumblr.com)

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Seattle Band 'netcat' Releases Album as a Linux Kernel Module (github.com)

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GCC 4.9.0 released (gcc.gnu.org)

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Lytro Announces New Light Field Camera (www.lytro.com)

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The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest (www.nytimes.com)

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OS X Beta Seed Program (appleseed.apple.com)

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Arecibo Observatory Detects Mysterious, Energetic Radio Burst (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)

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Critique of Don't Fuck Up the Culture (scottberkun.com)

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Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k (www.vox.com)

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Mellow, the robotic sous-chef (cookmellow.com)

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The disappearing inventor (blog.kenperlin.com)

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Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL (nplusonemag.com)

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Solving a Maze with D3.js (bl.ocks.org)

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NPR open-sources Copytext, a library for handling spreadsheets as Python objects (copytext.readthedocs.org)

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Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom (blogs.wsj.com)

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Don't Settle for Eventual Consistency (queue.acm.org)

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Which Cities Sleep in, and Which Get to Work Early (fivethirtyeight.com)

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NIST removes Dual_EC_DRBG (www.nist.gov)

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Falcon 9 first stage found, but probably not recoverable (www.spaceflightinsider.com)

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Security Update 2014-002 (support.apple.com)

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The $357 Uber Ride (news.rapgenius.com)

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Sorting Out the Law Behind Phil Ivey's Edge Sorting Debacle at Borgata (www.pokernews.com)

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Depth data viewer for Google Camera (www.clicktorelease.com)

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Web scraping with Factor (re-factor.blogspot.com)

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Flappy48 is a work of diabolical genius (www.cnet.com.au)

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Lisp macros for C (github.com)

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Rust for C++ programmers – part 3: primitive types and operators (featherweightmusings.blogspot.com)

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ARIN down to 1.00 /8 – Akamai got 104.64.0.0/10 yesterday (www.arin.net)

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Graphene made with kitchen blender (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Google I/O Registration 2014 (stancarney.co)

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HFT Quote Stuffing is a software bug (www.chrisstucchio.com)

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Wait, WUT? (x.naveen.com)

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What you’d need to make in every county in the US to afford a decent one-bedroom (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Colleges Want Students with Character, But Can’t Measure It (nautil.us)

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The Best Hires Are Right Under Your Nose (firstround.com)

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The Quest for Randomness (www.americanscientist.org)

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Solving a 2014 Google I/O Secret Invite Puzzle (blakecaldwell.net)

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Crunchbase 2.0 (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: jumping back into C++ after 4 years, what did I miss? (item?id=7629514)

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Safe – EncFS-compatible encrypted filesystem for Windows and Mac (www.getsafe.org)

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Companies Built on Sharing Balk When It Comes to Regulators (www.nytimes.com)

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DHH Keynote from Confreaks (www.justin.tv)

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Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X (passingcuriosity.com)

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Discovery Communications Sells HowStuffWorks.com (online.wsj.com)

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Introducing Teepee: the next step for rust-http (chrismorgan.info)

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Functional JavaScript, Part 3: apply, call, and the arguments object (tech.pro)

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Digging for answers: The “strong smell” of fraud from one Bitcoin miner maker (arstechnica.com)

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How Docker helped us keep our run-time environment up to date (blog.iron.io)

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Meet Flappy48, The Clone Game To End Clone Games (techcrunch.com)

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Notes On Concurrent Ring Buffer Queue Mechanics (psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com)

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Myjson – A simple JSON store for your web or mobile app (myjson.com)

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Inflated Tech Valuations Bloat The Entire Economy (www.forbes.com)

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Protests Continue Against Dropbox After Appointment of Condoleezza Rice to Board (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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An Interview With Eric Lippert (www.i-programmer.info)

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Lazy sequences in idiomatic C++ using iterators (ideone.com)

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Kolmogorov Complexity - it's a bit silly (www.forwardscattering.org)

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Our way to rethink PaaS with devops automation (http://www.visualops.io)

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The rich have begun to work longer hours than the poor? (www.economist.com)

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Show HN: Capsule – Simple Packaging and Deployment for JVM Apps (github.com)

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Golo – a dynamic language for the JVM with Java-comparable performance (golo-lang.org)

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Placeholder Image Service with Curated CC-licensed Images from Flickr (p-hold.com)

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An Interview With Eric Lippert (www.josetteorama.com)

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Android-resource-remover – utility to auto-remove unused Android resources (github.com)

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In Canada, find a penny, recycle it (www.pbs.org)

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The Distance: A new online magazine about long-lasting businesses (thedistance.com)

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How do spammers harvest your e-mail address? (karan.github.io)

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Paying to get rid of pagination on Slate.com? (bokardo.com)

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The Revolt of the Cities (prospect.org)

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Schema Markup Shows In 36% Of Google Searches, But Almost No Websites Use It (searchengineland.com)

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My Mistakes (www.gwern.net)

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Send Postcards to Kickstarter Backers With Lob (www.lob.com)

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How Zidisha Hides Its 20% Loss Rate From Lenders – And Why It Matters (modernmicrocredit.blogspot.com)

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Origins of libressl (www.tedunangst.com)

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Hefur: a Standalone C++ BitTorrent tracker (github.com)

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Task Tracking Tools for Small Development Teams (codecondo.com)

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SRI's Nimble Micro Robots (prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com)

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Show HN: My first serious Android game (play.google.com)

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RethinkDB Stability Report for Single, Multi, and Large Deployments (rethinkdb.com)

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Inside the Algorithms Facebook and Twitter Use to Build the Perfect Feed (www.wired.com)

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Canada passes US in middle-class wealth (www.bbc.com)

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Flat UI Design – A showcase of the best examples of the flat UI design (http://fltdsgn.com)

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Shopify now powers 100,000 stores (www.shopify.com)

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Show HN: My HTML5 multiplayer fast action game experiment (http://space.toolset.io)

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Strlen(buf) – Not as simple as you’d think (medium.com)

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The mind readers (mosaicscience.com)

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FenOS to support natively all binary formats out there (www.myfenos.com)

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Welders Make $150,000? Bring Back Shop Class (online.wsj.com)

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The rich have begun to work longer hours than the poor (www.economist.com)

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How much of Walmart’s revenue comes from its shoppers’ food stamps? (medium.com)

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Guess Who Makes More Than Bankers: Their Regulators (online.wsj.com)

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CoinMKT.com – US Based Crypto Exchange launches API for trade and exchanges. (blog.coinmkt.com)

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Near-Eye Light Field Displays (research.nvidia.com)

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U.S. justices show little support for Aereo TV in copyright fight (www.reuters.com)

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Museum acquires 'virtually complete' source code from Atari's arcade heyday (www.polygon.com)

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David Einhorn Just Cried Bubble And Let Slip The Shorts Of War (techcrunch.com)

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Wreq: a Haskell web client library (www.serpentine.com)

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Two-thirds of NYC’s Airbnb rentals are illegal sublets (nypost.com)

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Here's The Only Way To Get Really, Really Rich (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ways to plot dendrograms in R (gastonsanchez.com)

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Justices Skeptical Of Aereo’s Business (www.nytimes.com)

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Everything You Need to Know to Rebuild Civilization from Scratch (io9.com)

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Ask HN:When will html 5 become the standard for mobile apps? (item?id=7627101)

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The tiny Wyoming creek that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (twentytwowords.com)

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Campaign Monitor raises $250m in initial round, 10 years after first launching (www.theaustralian.com.au)

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Announcing AeroPython (lorenabarba.com)

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If a Bubble Bursts in Palo Alto, Does It Make a Sound? (www.nytimes.com)

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OpenSSL code beyond repair, claims creator of LibreSSL fork (arstechnica.com)

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Supreme Court justices appear conflicted over Aereo copyright case (www.latimes.com)

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The Four Kinds of Programmers: How And Why They Excel (blog.braegger.pw)

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Show HN: Let's connect home libraries around the world (http://bibliofair.com)

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AT&T Launches $500M Joint Venture To Invest In The Next Netflix (techcrunch.com)

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Durov, Out For Good From VK.com, Plans A Mobile Social Network Outside Russia (techcrunch.com)

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Hacker News, what do you think of my idea? Please help validate my startup idea (mattcowlin.com)

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Ask HN: How to sell a small Internet business? (item?id=7629413)

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3D printing solves watery-ketchup conundrum (www.cnet.com)

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Battery production problems delay 5.5-inch 'iPhone Air' (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Algolia Realtime Search Engine (www.algolia.com)

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Transcript of Supreme Court argument in Aereo case [pdf] (www.supremecourt.gov)

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Improving the protocol parsing in Redis (kellabyte.com)

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Flappy48 by Broxxar (broxxar.itch.io)

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Tesla to build cars in China (money.cnn.com)

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Lytro changed photography – now can it get anyone to care? (www.theverge.com)

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Customer-Driven Product Development: Understanding the real problem (dev.hubspot.com)

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What should you learn next? (www.whatsnext.info)

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Lytro Illum Pre-order (preorder.lytro.com)

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EcoHack goes global – hack for the environment in SF, NYC, São Paulo and Madrid (http://www.EcoHackSF.org)

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Google is working on end-to-end encryption for Gmail (www.theverge.com)

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Where Do You Want to Be Born? (baselinescenario.com)