hackerNews

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PostgreSQL partitioning explained (github.com)

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SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. (www.computerworld.com)

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GitHub monoculture (nedbatchelder.com)

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Does Google Have A Secret “Translate” Service? (searchengineland.com)

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Truthcoin: Trustless, Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Marketplace (github.com)

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Working on The Witness: The Nebraska Problem (mollyrocket.com)

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GitHub Language Trends (redmonk.com)

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Stranger in a Strange Land (www.machinedlearnings.com)

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The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (1970) (liamk.org)

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Parallelising Python with Threading and Multiprocessing (www.quantstart.com)

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Prose, a content editor for GitHub (http://prose.io)

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NoTex: An online text editor for reStructuredText, Markdown, LaTex (notex.ch)

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Why washing machines are no longer built to last (www.bbc.co.uk)

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SSH agent notifications for OS X (devinteske.com)

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The Great Smartphone War (www.vanityfair.com)

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World History Maps and Timelines (geacron.com)

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A C error handling style that plays nice with C++ exceptions (blog.sduto.it)

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Confirming Consensus on removing RSA key Transport from TLS 1.3 (www.ietf.org)

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Bloodhound – Elasticsearch client and DSL for Haskell (github.com)

70 points first seen 2014050412 last seen 2014050600 23 comments

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Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) (www.smashingmagazine.com)

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A Chinese copy of GitHub.com (code.csdn.net)

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Nimrod for C programmers (github.com)

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Show HN: My first Ludum Dare entry, online multiplayer game Hide-n-Stab (54.244.244.60)

63 points first seen 2014050406 last seen 2014050512 53 comments

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Intuition for Simulated Annealing (rs.io)

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Bill Gates on track to own no Microsoft stock in four years (www.reuters.com)

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Pattern Matching – Make the Compiler Work for You (deliberate-software.com)

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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s lame excuses for his net neutrality proposal. (www.slate.com)

56 points first seen 2014050400 last seen 2014050421 38 comments

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Interactive Rust disassembler (rust.godbolt.org)

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End of Moore's Law: It's not just about physics (www.cnet.com)

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The Norwegian Tech Industry is All at Sea (www.thenordicweb.com)

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When Hitting ‘Find My iPhone’ Takes You to a Thief’s Doorstep (www.nytimes.com)

49 points first seen 2014050421 last seen 2014050603 69 comments

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Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms (en.wikipedia.org)

47 points first seen 2014050406 last seen 2014050509 14 comments

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Storing Bandwidth with Superdense Coding (strilanc.com)

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Project VimR – Refined Vim experience for Mac (github.com)

47 points first seen 2014050409 last seen 2014050509 26 comments

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Novena’s Hackable Bezel (www.bunniestudios.com)

43 points first seen 2014050403 last seen 2014050506 0 comments

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I would prefer to pay for Twitter (justindunham.net)

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What Would Have Happened Had You Invested in an Index Fund? (blog.greaterthanzero.com)

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Command Line Twitter (github.com)

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The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease (on.wsj.com)

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Founders with Kids (priceonomics.com)

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Moog Music Factory Tour (www.coolhunting.com)

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Marc Andreessen: Why I’m Bullish on the News (www.politico.com)

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LocalBitcoins received a very dangerous attack against the site infrastructure (localbitcoins.com)

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Knol – Let's Rethink the Way We Handle Knowledge Bases (knol.io)

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37 percent of adults cannot swim the length of a 25-yard pool (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Two Equals Four (2011) (www.solipsys.co.uk)

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What Killed Google+ And What Can Save It (www.forbes.com)

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Movie Scripts Ranked by Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (dfkoz.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: Why isn't D more popular? (item?id=7692230)

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Building out the infrastructure for Graph Search (www.facebook.com)

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Clients from Hell (clientsfromhell.net)

19 points first seen 2014050406 last seen 2014050409 9 comments

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Stripe Dashboard and API Down (https://status.stripe.com)

19 points first seen 2014050412 last seen 2015100812 0 comments

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Let Over Lambda–50 Years of Lisp (letoverlambda.com)

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Creating Cellular Automata: Elementary Cellular Automata (nicholasyager.com)

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After Technology Destroys Capitalism (techcrunch.com)

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The future doesn't need us – Bill Joy (2000) (archive.wired.com)

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Why synthetic biology and the Netflix model are the future of medicine (gigaom.com)

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What Was It Like to Consult for Breaking Bad? (news.sciencemag.org)

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Netflix Inc. May Have Found the Magic Bullet to Kill Comcast's Connection Fees (www.fool.com)

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What is the name of this operator: "-->"? (stackoverflow.com)

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Doubling down on stress: launching a startup while going through a divorce (heartofdorkness.com)

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Jaadi.js – JS Storage Abstraction (github.com)

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Show HN: Early adopter of speed reading web-tools, built similar app for iOS (item?id=7691313)

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U2 Spy Plane Fries Air Traffic Control Computers, Shuts Down LAX (www.nbcnews.com)

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Self-defense (ninjasandrobots.com)

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New PayPal Exec Blasts Fellow Employees In Late-Night Tweets (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday (item?id=7691863)

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A clear picture of power and significance in A/B tests (www.win-vector.com)

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Ask HN: Idea Sunday (item?id=7693262)

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Programming Is a Dead End Job (thecodist.com)

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DNA GPS Maps Where Your Ancestors Lived (www.iflscience.com)

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Ship loses more than 500 containers in heavy seas (edition.cnn.com)

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A New Method of Producing Large Volumes of High-Quality Graphene (www.kurzweilai.net)

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One of Fallout's fathers returns to the wasteland (www.polygon.com)

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Password Live (http://passwordlive.github.io)

4 points first seen 2014050409 last seen 2014050412 7 comments

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GMT vs UTC time (www.diffen.com)

4 points first seen 2014050409 last seen 2014050415 0 comments

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Ask HN: can you review my idea, please? (item?id=7692320)

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Lita – A chat bot written in Ruby (http://lita.io)

4 points first seen 2014050415 last seen 2014050421 0 comments

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Why gaming needs its Game of Thrones moment (www.theguardian.com)

3 points first seen 2014050400 last seen 2014050400 0 comments

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The Agda standard library (agda.github.io)

3 points first seen 2014050403 last seen 2014050403 0 comments

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Text Columns: How Long is Too Long? (2006) (blog.codinghorror.com)

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The Pragmatic Programmer Checklist (gotchacode.com)

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Why I TDD (twitter.com)

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Tracking our SSL configuration (blog.cloudflare.com)

3 points first seen 2014050409 last seen 2014050412 0 comments

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Compile Time TDD Coverage with Idris (chromaticleaves.com)

3 points first seen 2014050409 last seen 2014050412 0 comments

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Show HN: Hackernews for Quotes (daily.quott.in)

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Getting started with Pharo 3.0 (SmallTalk) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Hold on to your wallet: Doug Henwood on the Bitcoin scam (www.washingtonmonthly.com)

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Querying Elasticsearch (maxhorstmann.net)

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