hackerNews

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Follow up to the investigation results (github.com)

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The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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What Killed My Sister? (theamericanscholar.org)

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Skype group video calling becomes free (blogs.skype.com)

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Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3,500 for prototypes (http://betatype.io)

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Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming (www.donotlick.com)

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What Unsustainable Growth Looks Like: Herbalife, Groupon, and More (data.heapanalytics.com)

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Exec($_GET (github.com)

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Leaving Go (jozefg.bitbucket.org)

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Google's POWER8 server motherboard (plus.google.com)

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Male Scent May Compromise Biomedical Research (news.sciencemag.org)

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What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are? (newyorker.com)

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Wikipedia redesign (jgthms.com)

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Google Cloud DNS (developers.google.com)

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Show HN: Velocity.js – Accelerated JavaScript animation (http://VelocityJS.org)

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The 64-core Parallella is alive (www.adapteva.com)

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Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X (davidhsiehlo.com)

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DSploit Scam and the Guy Who Made Our Small Income Gone Forever (dsploit.net)

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A Gossip App Brought My High School to a Halt (nymag.com)

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Tolkien Snubs a German Publisher Asking for Proof of His “Aryan Descent” (1938) (www.openculture.com)

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Aerial Imagery of 95% of New Zealand released under open license (data.linz.govt.nz)

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Everything that is wrong with American capitalism, in one headline (blog.rongarret.info)

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Excess Catered Food in San Francisco? Donate it to FoodRunners (www.foodrunners.org)

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How Many People Are Wrongly Convicted? Researchers Do the Math (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)

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Rust for C++ programmers – part 4: unique pointers (featherweightmusings.blogspot.com)

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US-CERT recommends not using IE until use-after-free vulnerability is fixed (www.us-cert.gov)

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Pop: An extensible animation engine for iOS and OS X (github.com)

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The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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Symptoms of Dysfunction in Software Teams (blog.hedges.net)

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Uncle Bob on DHH: Monogamous TDD (blog.8thlight.com)

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Web SQL Database: In Memoriam (nolanlawson.com)

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PushServer – Node.js server for sending iOS push notifications (github.com)

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How Should You Write a Fast Integer Overflow Check? (blog.regehr.org)

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Google acknowledges XKCD #1361 (item?id=7664031)

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Matt Blaze: My life as an international arms courier [1995] (www.crypto.com)

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Nissan's ‘Self-Cleaning’ Car Prototype [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Become a better programmer with programming challenges (macgyverdev.blogspot.se)

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Why CPUs aren't getting any faster (2010) (www.technologyreview.com)

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Lessons learned from a cancelled project at GitHub (opensoul.org)

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NPR memo: “The Internet is a collection of computer networks..." (nprchives.tumblr.com)

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Stochastic Superoptimization [pdf] (theory.stanford.edu)

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Intel Clang-based C++ Compiler [pdf] (www.llvm.org)

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Living with Lag (livingwithlag.com)

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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A command line tool to manage your ssh config file (github.com)

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The Hackaday Prize (hackaday.io)

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SMS logins: an illusion of security (danielpocock.com)

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Why Americans Are Moving Less: New Jobs Aren't Worth It (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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Cross Platform Development with Mono (stephenhaunts.com)

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OOM relation to vm.swappiness=0 in new kernel (www.mysqlperformanceblog.com)

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The Singularity is not coming (2012) (www.sphere-engineering.com)

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Thinky 1.0 – Light Node.js ORM for RethinkDB (thinky.io)

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How do I find Waldo with Mathematica? (stackoverflow.com)

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How successful are you? (bycomet.wordpress.com)

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The first 10,000 users (hackernoons.com)

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A Startup's Guide to Time Hacking (info.predictiveedge.com)

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Go is boring (aerokode.com)

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Uber – London Tube Strikes or How to take advantage of a protest (blog.uber.com)

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US Nuclear Missile Silos Still Use Floppy Disks (www.slate.com)

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NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into Moon's orbit (www.newscientist.com)

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Verizon inks paid peering deal with Netflix (gigaom.com)

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Bypassing the Telegram authentication protocol [pdf] (cert.inteco.es)

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Last Mile Logistics: Amazon vs. Fedex vs. Startups (www.datafox.co)

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How I Killed A Startup In 4 Hours (And Why I Don’t Regret It) (techcrunch.com)

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A neuromorphic-computing ‘roadmap’ (www.kurzweilai.net)

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Code Fellows Alumni Stats (www.codefellows.org)

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Texas may well have killed an innocent man (www.economist.com)

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A Tale of CenturyLink Backdoors, PCI Compliance, and Pain (thenubbyadmin.com)

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Designing a safer intersection with geometry (2013) (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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The Inner Workings of the Executive Brain (online.wsj.com)

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Rust for C++ programmers – part 4: unique pointers (featherweightmusings.blogspot.co.nz)

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An Untold Startup Story (modelviewculture.com)

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Are journalism schools teaching their students the right skills? (www.niemanlab.org)

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Fully customizable jquery sliders, Single/Double handles, Touch-enabled, (lokku.github.io)

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2 Middle-Aged Women doing a startup blog (karentcrye.posthaven.com)

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Chernobyl: Capping a Catastrophe (www.nytimes.com)

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How-to take down any DigitalOcean-hosted website. (item?id=7661218)

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RoCE – RDMA over Converged Ethernet (2012) (www.fmepnet.org)

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The Deadliest Animal in the World (www.gatesnotes.com)

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October 1983: "Why the girls don't compute" (imgur.com)

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Introducing Pop, the animation engine behind Paper (code.facebook.com)

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IBM Cloud marketplace (marketplace.ibmcloud.com)

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France Could Create A Developer Visa To Support French Startups (techcrunch.com)

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IPhone 5 Sleep/Wake Button Replacement Program (ssl.apple.com)

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Introducing Famo.us-Angular (thomasstreet.com)

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Give Bitcoins to homeless people and see what happens (handup.us)

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An Email App Don Draper Would Use (medium.com)

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Introducing Two-Factor Authentication for your personal computer (blog.authy.com)

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Ask HN: What motivates you in your work? (item?id=7660442)

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Solving FizzBuzz with Hypermedia (smizell.com)

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Ask HN: What are your unused domain names that you would give to a good owner? (item?id=7662046)

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Ask HN: What's your writing process? (item?id=7663829)

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Microsoft rushes to fix browser after attacks; no fix for XP users (www.reuters.com)

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RIP, Car Washes: See Nissan’s New Self-Cleaning Paint in Action (www.wired.com)

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To the teams currently being rejected by YC (thestartuptoolkit.com)

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Write SQL in your JavaScript (github.com)

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New study sheds light on the pandemic flu virus of 1918 (medicalxpress.com)

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Show HN: Delaunay triangulation wallpaper creator with PNG/SVG export. (maxoffsky.com)

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Who cares what Apple's stock price is? (www.bloombergview.com)

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Exposure to male researchers causes stress response in lab mice (www.nature.com)

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Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done (blog.asmartbear.com)

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Ask HN: Is Sublime Text abandonware? (item?id=7661113)

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60 Minutes shocked to find 8-inch floppies drive nuclear deterrent (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Do you think Silicon Valley (HBO) is funny or offensive? (item?id=7662845)

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Aaron Swartz: The Documentary – Teaser (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: 6 months later, DigitalOcean still Sucks... Why do you use them? (item?id=7665209)

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Microsoft must release email data held on Dublin server to US court (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: Space Frack, a fracking game in space (guscost.github.io)

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RoboPoker: Your bot versus others (robopoker.org)

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This Island Will Charge Its Lake-Sized Batteries with Wind Power (motherboard.vice.com)

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How we scaled Freshdesk (Part I) – Before Sharding (blog.freshdesk.com)

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Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk (www.youtube.com)

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Seth Roberts’ Final Column: Butter Makes Me Smarter (betabeat.com)

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Exploration company believes it may have found MH370 (au.news.yahoo.com)

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Funding Your Startup With Hackathon Winnings (www.getvue.co)

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URX Raises $12 Million, Sets Sights on Links Inside Apps (blogs.wsj.com)

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The 30 second habit (medium.com)

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Suggest HN: Use opacity for better downvoted-comment hiding (item?id=7663285)

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An Open Letter to PuppetLabs (communities.bmc.com)

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Creating a Culture in your Organisation that Increases and Sustains High Perf (blog.binarymist.net)

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To Divide the Rent, Start With a Triangle (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Equity for first employee unpaid? (item?id=7664576)

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Angular Radial Plot – An Angular directive for creating radial plots (gordyd.github.io)

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Desert dig uncovers huge Atari games dump (www.bbc.co.uk)

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An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Chrome's CRLSets (www.grc.com)

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Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom (www.theguardian.com)

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User Location Leak – Privacy and the Mobile Web (milesgrimshaw.com)

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Google Self Driving Cars Getting Smarter (techcrunch.com)

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Minimal Web Frameworks for Go (codecondo.com)

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Show HN: Complete Redesign of Codacy – automatic code linting (https://www.codacy.com)

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Maintain net neutrality to protect the freedom of information (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer Explained The Hedge Fund He's About To Launch (www.businessinsider.com)

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New Relic brings in $100M more ahead of IPO (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: When should a startup start caring about gender and racial diversity? (item?id=7661217)

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The graduate software developers' reading list (maxehmookau.github.io)

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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (www.thewhitereview.org)

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Stanford bioengineers create circuit board modeled on the human brain (news.stanford.edu)

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Error-Free Quantum Computing Made Possible in New Experiment (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Designing and Building an "Open-Hardware" Laptop (www.tested.com)

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The Seductive Trap of Black-Box Machine Learning (machinelearningmastery.com)

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Pornhub is planting a tree for every 100 videos you watch (www.dailydot.com)

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Marc Andreessen on Big Breakthrough Ideas and Courageous Entrepreneurs (www.datafox.co)

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Lob is hiring its first Growth Engineer (item?id=7660013)

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Weebly is hiring Android Engineers (item?id=7664074)

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GoCardless (YC S11) is hiring developers in London (item?id=7665878)

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