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An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1 (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

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Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014) (item?id=7679431)

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The cost of Linux's page fault handling (plus.google.com)

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One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos (www.theguardian.com)

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The slow death of purposeless walking (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy (www.eff.org)

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How a Florida kid’s “stupid app” saved his family’s home (pando.com)

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My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal (time.com)

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Let's Write Some x86-64 assembly (nickdesaulniers.github.io)

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Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World (www.psmag.com)

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John Carmack's former employer claims he stole tech for Oculus VR when he left (www.engadget.com)

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Random JSON data generator (http://www.json-generator.com)

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Hugelkultur: the ultimate raised garden beds (www.richsoil.com)

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Is it Pokémon or big data technology? (docs.google.com)

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The Launch of the Mayday Citizens' SuperPAC (lessig.tumblr.com)

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Python for Finance (www.amazon.com)

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Linux file write patterns: So you want to write to a file real fast… (blog.plenz.com)

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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014) (item?id=7679422)

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Map Reduce: A really simple introduction (ksat.me)

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Common LibreSSL porting mistakes (insanecoding.blogspot.ro)

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Comparing Ember and Angular – Embular Part 1 (www.benlesh.com)

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SpaceX granted injunction in rocket launch suit against Lockheed-Boeing (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Mayday: Larry Lessig launches a Superpac to get money out of US politics (boingboing.net)

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Lisp 1 Programmer's Manual (1960) (history.siam.org)

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It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: Can we do a "Who's looking for work?" (item?id=7682189)

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Null pointer dereference – new security bug for OpenSSL (ftp.openbsd.org)

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Swarm: Foursquare's ambitious plan to split its app in two (www.theverge.com)

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Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript (rigsomelight.com)

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Here’s the Agreement Oculus Broke, According to ZeniMax (recode.net)

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Lulzlabs AirChat: Free Communications For Everyone. (github.com)

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Web Framework Benchmarks Round 9 (www.techempower.com)

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Ask HN: Best current Linux compatible Laptop (item?id=7684775)

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ECMAScript 6 support in Mozilla (developer.mozilla.org)

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Consul 0.2 UI Demo (demo.consul.io)

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Alibaba I.P.O. May Unleash Global Fight Over Users (www.nytimes.com)

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The reality show: Schizophrenics used to see demons and spirits (2013) (aeon.co)

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Calculator Forensics (2002) (www.rskey.org)

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Why Events Are A Bad Idea For High-Concurrency Servers (2003) (static.usenix.org)

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Fractals for Fun and Profit (gideon.smdng.nl)

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Al Feldstein, the Soul of Mad Magazine, Dies at 88 (www.nytimes.com)

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Snabb Switch: Open source packet processing for ISPs (github.com)

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Coping with theTCP TIME-WAIT state on busy Linux servers (vincent.bernat.im)

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Is CSS Turing Complete? (stackoverflow.com)

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Yahoo ends support of “Do Not Track” (yahoopolicy.tumblr.com)

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SpaceX wins injunction to stop USAF buying Russian rocket engines (www.reuters.com)

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Simpson's Paradox is Back (matloff.wordpress.com)

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Twitter is not dying. It’s on the cusp of getting much bigger (www.slate.com)

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SoundCloud Wall (karan.github.io)

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The Golden Age of Basic (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Delete it Later – Schedule Your Tweets and Facebook Status To Be Deleted Later (www.deleteitlater.com)

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Ask HN: Ideas for tech in developing countries (item?id=7680205)

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The Greatest Amateur Astronomer (medium.com)

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Xerox Printer Beacons And The Importance of Documentation (labs.opendns.com)

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Math shall set you free – How to do divorce, divestment, and death properly (nautil.us)

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Webhook – demolishes Kickstarter target (www.kickstarter.com)

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Significance Labs: Hack on Real Social Problems (significancelabs.org)

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Droplet lens turns a smartphone into a 160X microscope (www.kurzweilai.net)

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The YC Interview and a Visit to 10 Downing Street (blog.jamesmcaulay.co.uk)

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Microsoft rescues XP users with emergency browser fix (news.msn.com)

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Show HN: Vhoto – Find photos in your videos (vho.to)

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1Password Watchtower Mac App Integration (blog.agilebits.com)

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How to win at rock-paper-scissors (www.bbc.com)

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Facebook's Method for Hiring Designers (firstround.com)

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Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be Paper (www.wired.com)

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Azure: Compute and Storage Full Service interruption in West Europe region (www.windowsazurestatus.com)

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“If you're not paying for the product, you are the product” is hogwash (plus.google.com)

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MakeSpace, cloud storage for your physical stuff, raises $8M in Series A (www.fastcompany.com)

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Minecraft gamers tear virtual Denmark to the ground (cphpost.dk)

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Ask HN: How do you succeed in the workplaces as an introvert? (item?id=7684127)

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US Contractors Scale Up Search for Heartbleed-Like Flaws (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Hunt for the Invisible Axion (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Fast Python testing with VCR.py (venmo.github.io)

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Why Category Theory Matters (rs.io)

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Amd64 and Va_arg (2010) (blog.nelhage.com)

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Weave – Tinder for Professional Networking (techcrunch.com)

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11 things to avoid when planning a responsive web interface (geeks.bizzabo.com)

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John L. Sullivan Fights America (publicdomainreview.org)

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Removing the strange #t and #f of the if's in Racket bytecode (gus-massa.blogspot.com)

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Gourmet Service Objects for Rails (brewhouse.io)

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Aristotle (The Knowledge Web) (2004) (edge.org)

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Webdriver Torso YouTube mystery clips' French connection (www.bbc.com)

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The Anamorphic Stretch Transform: Putting the Squeeze on “Big Data” (www.osa-opn.org)

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We just interviewed at Y Combinator – here’s the full transcript (item?id=7681985)

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Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder? (item?id=7680438)

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Eloquent JavaScript 2nd edition preview (eloquentjavascript.net)

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Gimli Glider (en.wikipedia.org)

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Yahoo’s Default = A Personalized Experience (yahoopolicy.tumblr.com)

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A Billion Words: Today's language modeling standard should be higher (googleresearch.blogspot.com)

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What's happening to Valleywag? (www.kumar.vc)

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Show HN: Instant search for Spotify (rukmal.github.io)

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A JIT for packet filters (2011) (lwn.net)

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The World's Most Powerful Browser-Based IDE – Codio (codio.com)

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Snake in HTML5 (neirynck.us)

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Id Software parent stakes claim on Carmack’s Oculus Rift technology (arstechnica.com)

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Atari 2600 Source Code (pastebin.com)

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Frustration Rises Over Crowdfunding Rules (online.wsj.com)

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The Vanhawks Valour, A Connected Bike With GPS Navigation (techcrunch.com)

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Walking on my (startup's) grave (sandersak.posthaven.com)

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Ask HN: Two examples for which you use spreadsheet in your team recently (item?id=7680996)

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Secret Android deals for illegal search monopoly (gigaom.com)

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Sometimes the best way to get rid of a dead whale is to blow it up (qz.com)

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The Dark Side of the Sharing Economy (www.nytimes.com)

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Using Firebase with ReactJS (www.firebase.com)

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My Favorite Liar (2008) (www.overcomingbias.com)

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Programming Isn't Manual Labor, But It Still Sucks (mashable.com)

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Ancient Egyptians transported pyramid stones over wet sand? (www.fom.nl)

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Reddit in react.js (jsfiddle.net)

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Assembly Language Succinctly [pdf] (www.syncfusion.com)

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Show HN: The Provisionator – Apple push notification certificate wizard (gamethrive.com)

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India's EVMs are Vulnerable to Fraud (indiaevm.org)

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Ask HN: Need Help? Willing to help? (item?id=7680160)

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The Future of Chicken: How to mass-produce meat without breeding killer microbes (www.slate.com)

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Sergey Aleynikov Legal Defense Fund (www.aleynikov.org)

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How Not to Be Misled by the Jobs Report (www.nytimes.com)

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The initial stack, reading process arguments and environment variables (2012) (www.mindfruit.co.uk)

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Wikis: now with more love (github.com)

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Twitter SICP: A group excursion of Twitter employees into computation (github.com)

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Ask HN: why do companies use 3rd party recruiters? (item?id=7683500)

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China vs the U.S.: It's Just as Cheap to Make Goods in the USA (www.businessweek.com)

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Kickstarter Censors Movie Project About Kermit Gosnell (www.theblaze.com)

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XSS at Food.gov.uk – disclosed and fixed (shkspr.mobi)

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Whither Twitter? (medium.com)

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Kendo UI Chrome Inspector (developer.telerik.com)

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TitaniumD – A D Binding for the Botan Cryptography Library (forum.dlang.org)

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Smart doorbell uses facial recognition to grant access to friendly faces (www.springwise.com)

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Baremetrics Crosses $10,000 MRR (baremetrics.io)

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Facebook has killed its move fast break things mantra (venturebeat.com)

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SmartStack vs. Consul (igor.moomers.org)

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Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea? (item?id=7682763)

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Example Short V – Netflix movie for testing 25 frames per second (www.netflix.com)

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OECD Better Life Index (http://oecdbetterlifeindex.org)

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Back to the future of databases (yinwang0.wordpress.com)

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Mental Models (www.farnamstreetblog.com)

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Smart Wind and Solar Power: Big data and artificial intelligence (www.technologyreview.com)

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Cisco retires WebEx Social (www.computerworld.com)

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Show HN: Inspector Badass, a rogue-like made over 72h by a team of 7 (sparklinlabs.com)

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Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste (dankaminsky.com)

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Grouper (YC W12) is hiring a front-end engineer in NYC (item?id=7680417)

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Amicus (YC S12) is hiring a Sales Director in NYC (jobs.amicushq.com)

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HelloSign (YC W11) is hiring a developer (item?id=7683034)

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Hiring engineer #2 for fast-growing enterprise logistics company (item?id=7683815)

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Zaranga (YC W13) is hiring a UI Designer -Web designer (item?id=7684595)

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