hackerNews

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Firefox 29 (http://www.firefox.com)

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A Motion-Sensing Keyboard (research.microsoft.com)

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Vagrant Feature Preview: Docker-Based Development Environments (www.vagrantup.com)

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Announcing the MIT Bitcoin Project (bitcoin.mit.edu)

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Cakebrew: The Mac App for Homebrew (www.cakebrew.com)

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Outbox vs. USPS: How the Post Office Killed Digital Mail (www.insidesources.com)

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Stanford study finds walking improves creativity (news.stanford.edu)

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Test-induced design damage (DHH) (david.heinemeierhansson.com)

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Tails 1.0 is out (tails.boum.org)

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Divide Your Rent Fairly (www.nytimes.com)

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The Nix project – Atomic upgrades, rollbacks and multi-user package management (nixos.org)

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What's New in Mercurial 3.0 (hglabhq.com)

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The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business (grantland.com)

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World's Longest Conveyor Belt (www.conveyorbeltguide.com)

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My site was hacked and this is what they put (github.com)

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Show HN: turn sketches on paper into app prototypes (marvelapp.com)

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Programming Sucks (stilldrinking.org)

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Joystick-like Input Method for Smartwatches (www.gierad.com)

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The Control Group Is Out of Control (slatestarcodex.com)

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After a war, Popcorn Time development gets stabilized (popcorntimewar.com)

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Baremetrics for Buffer (buffer.baremetrics.io)

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

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World Deadliest Animals (www.gatesnotes.com)

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Why you might not need MVC with React.js (www.code-experience.com)

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Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic words (1998) (groups.google.com)

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Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operating Systems (www.greenteapress.com)

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Twitter Analytics (analytics.twitter.com)

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Var functionName = function() {} vs function functionName() {} (stackoverflow.com)

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Mathematicians trace source of Rogers-Ramanujan identities, find algebraic gold (phys.org)

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The Morality Police in Your Checking Account (www.eff.org)

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Android betrays tethering data (danielpocock.com)

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RIP TDD (www.facebook.com)

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The origin of “log in” (2011) (www.designcult.org)

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Square Pickup (squareup.com)

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Neovim's Next Feature Pool (neovim.org)

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Introducing the new PHP on Heroku (blog.heroku.com)

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Why it’s so easy to believe our food is toxic (blogs.plos.org)

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An interactive explanation of quadtrees (jimkang.com)

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A new study reveals that men are often the victims of sexual assault (www.slate.com)

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Go, robots and refactoring (matt.aimonetti.net)

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Circle of fifths and roots of two (www.johndcook.com)

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2048 in Idris (github.com)

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The Avail Programming Language (availlang.org)

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CSS vs. JS Animation: Which is Faster? (davidwalsh.name)

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4chan Intrusion Postmorterm (blog.4chan.org)

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Show HN: Startupjob.org a Reddit for startup jobs (http://startupjob.org)

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Visualize any public CSV on GitHub in a few clicks (blog.statwing.com)

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Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal (time.com)

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Falcon 9 First Stage Landing Video (www.spacex.com)

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Let’s Keep the Internet Dumb (blog.theoldreader.com)

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The strange truth about fiction (www.facebook.com)

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Nod Gesture Control Ring (hellonod.com)

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Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality (blog.hut8labs.com)

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On the future of Web publishing in Unity (blogs.unity3d.com)

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Hacker taps into baby monitor, shouts at sleeping infant (blog.sfgate.com)

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Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel (www.livescience.com)

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Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game (http://lemonstartup.com)

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Android betrays tethering data (lwn.net)

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Varnish 4 (www.varnish-cache.org)

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New MacBook Air Released – $100 Cheaper (www.apple.com)

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The Hash Function Lounge (www.larc.usp.br)

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Running Out of Power in a Tesla on the Side of a Highway (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 (www.chinatechnews.com)

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Flask by Example – Part 2 – Postgres, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic (www.realpython.com)

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The Physics of Spider-Man’s Webs (www.wired.com)

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Benchmarking Symmetric Crypto on the Apple A7 (cryptomaths.com)

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Strongtalk: A High-Performance Smalltalk With An Optional Type System (strongtalk.org)

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Show HN: Wipes – pipe stdin to your browser over websockets (github.com)

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AOL Security Update (blog.aol.com)

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Functional JavaScript, Part 4: Function Currying (tech.pro)

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Paul Graham's personal website (circa 2000) (bugbear.com)

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The Human Amygdala and the Induction and Experience of Fear (www.sciencedirect.com)

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SCiO: A Pocket Molecular Sensor (www.kickstarter.com)

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Rabbit Proto: Open source electronic prototyping for 3D printers (www.rabbitproto.com)

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The Space and Freedom Party in light of the crisis of 21st century capitalism (www.antipope.org)

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The Y chromosome is not vanishing (www.nature.com)

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Learn Electrical Engineering for Beginners (electricalengineeringforbeginners.blogspot.com)

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RoboCop Is an Almost Perfectly Symmetrical Film (dejareviewer.com)

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Why you should not use it, at all (tim.siosm.fr)

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Python Search – eval(raw_input()) (github.com)

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Introducing the Canary Release Channel (blog.aerofs.com)

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Big Texas Utility Files for Bankruptcy (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Horizontal gene transfer (en.wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Your favorite practical, underutilized programming tip? (item?id=7669444)

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A book about learning Python via hacking Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi (arghbox.wordpress.com)

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Glass still auto-uploads all photos to Google's servers (stackoverflow.com)

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Show HN: Open source enterprise mobile SDK – Mowbly (github.com)

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'Operation Choke Point' May Be Root of Porn Star Bank Account Closings (reason.com)

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China set to become the world's largest economy by the end of the year (www.economist.com)

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Wikipedia edit from government computer added Muslim insult (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Why a prolific Clojure user switched to Haskell (bitemyapp.com)

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European Union moves to end smartphone patent wars (in.reuters.com)

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Pwnmeal: Extreme Gaming Oatmeal (blog.maxistentialism.com)

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EU moves to end smartphone patent wars in landmark ruling (www.theguardian.com)

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Introducing the Public Buffer Revenue Dashboard: Our Real-Time Numbers (open.bufferapp.com)

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Weird Ways to Make Things Invisible (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Ask HN: Afraid of interviewing (item?id=7668464)

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Twitter Reports First Quarter 2014 Results (investor.twitterinc.com)

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Tails 1.0 is out (blog.torproject.org)

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From athletes to couch potatoes: humans through 6,000 years of farming (www.cam.ac.uk)

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Ubuntu: "I can still bypass the logscreen by rightclicking the indicators" (bugs.launchpad.net)

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This Google Motherboard Means Trouble for Intel (www.wired.com)

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Product Prioritization for Startups (www.sailthru.com)

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Linode Freemont down from DDoS (status.linode.com)

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How to use Bats to test your command line tools (blog.engineyard.com)

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CodeNow (YC W14 non-profit) expands to Miami to intro more youth to coding (www.knightfoundation.org)

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How do you make programming fun again? (item?id=7668607)

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Average Email Campaign Stats of MailChimp Customers by Industry (mailchimp.com)

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American Museum of Natural History Digital Special Collections (images.library.amnh.org)

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Show HN: Maniac Pengmaku, my Ludum Dare entry. Made in 48 hours (www.spotcos.com)

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Reading Pain in a Human Face (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Revocation still doesn't work (www.imperialviolet.org)

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Open Sourcing super expensive proprietary software (http://www.usethetree.com)

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Google AdSense leak? (pastebin.com)

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Caviar (YC S11), backed by Winklevoss twins, raises $15M (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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The Common Mistakes of a Marketer (blog.sqwiggle.com)

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Using Machine Learning to Detect Offensive Graffiti in San Francisco (blog.bigml.com)

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Why Piketty’s Book Is a Bigger Deal in America Than in France (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: what are the essential courses to became good programmer? (item?id=7670128)

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Debian Drops the SPARC Architecture (lwn.net)

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CleverPet: A Console that Teaches and Feeds Your Dog All Day (www.kickstarter.com)

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Brenner hammers ‘factory science’ (www.mc.vanderbilt.edu:8080)

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Finding the Best Path Forward to Protect the Open Internet (www.fcc.gov)

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The $50 satellite Eagle2 Launched into Space (www.50dollarsat.info)

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Why lousy retail service makes customers come back (www.cbc.ca)

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The Chinese Military Is a Paper Dragon (medium.com)

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UK and US Governments urge users to give up on Internet Explorer (www.techradar.com)

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Why I Stopped Using “Actually” and “But” In My Customer Service Emails (open.bufferapp.com)

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Goodbye Google (medium.com)

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W3C sends password change requests after breach (www.w3.org)

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Skynet: Slideshare's auto-healing infrastructure monitoring (engineering.slideshare.net)

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How to create nanowires only three atoms wide with an electron beam (news.vanderbilt.edu)

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Donald Sterling banned for life, fined $2.5 million (www.latimes.com)

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NBA Bans Clippers Owner for Life (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2014 edition (item?id=7670168)

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Nitrous.IO: Nitrous Hack Button (www.nitrous.io)

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Good Eggs Goes Mobile (bites.goodeggs.com)

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The Fastest-Growing Tech Companies You Haven't Heard Of (bloomberg.com)

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How funding killed my startup (pollenizer.com)

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Comparing Express, Restify, hapi and LoopBack for building RESTful APIs (strongloop.com)

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Killing XML (it's my pleasure) (item?id=7668095)

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Rewriting each other's commits with Mercurial Evolve (www.youtube.com)

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20 Ruby Developers to Follow Online (blog.newrelic.com)

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FitTube for Chrome – makes Youtube videos you see – responsive (chrome.google.com)