hackerNews

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The next version of DuckDuckGo (https://next.duckduckgo.com)

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Observations of an Internet Middleman (blog.level3.com)

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Minimum Viable Block Chain (www.igvita.com)

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RSS: What Not Dying Looks Like (blog.theoldreader.com)

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New dev-release of Sublime Text 3 (www.sublimetext.com)

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Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster (news.php.net)

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Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden (www.kurzweilai.net)

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NES Dual Port RAM Interface (www.batslyadams.com)

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Startup School is going global (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork (animalnewyork.com)

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Swype makes almost 4000 location requests per day (forum.swype.com)

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We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed pasting (twitter.com)

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3D Lightning Reconstruction (2013) (calculatedimages.blogspot.com)

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The Case for React.js and ClojureScript (murilopereira.com)

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Why I am excited about Clojure (blog.txus.io)

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Through the Warp Zone: Hacking Super Mario Brothers to unlock new worlds (emily.st)

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You never did math in high school (j2kun.svbtle.com)

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Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet (blog.mozilla.org)

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TextSecure's Private Group Messaging (whispersystems.org)

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Optimizely Raises $57 Million (blog.optimizely.com)

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I “Leaked” the story about the Biometric EarPods. But I’m not proud of it (earpodsecret.tumblr.com)

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Automattic Raises $160 Million, Valued at $1.16 Billion (recode.net)

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LLVM based JavaScript JIT that beats V8 on asm.js benchmarks (trac.webkit.org)

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Why our startup failed (oncletom.io)

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Target removes CEO in wake of cyber attack (www.reuters.com)

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The Skip (musicmachinery.com)

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Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a cautionary tale (dynamicecology.wordpress.com)

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A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks (github.com)

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VC portfolio page changes (neuvc.com)

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Facebook's Realtime Updates API has been down for 12 days (developers.facebook.com)

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AMD is working on K12, brand-new x86 and ARM cores (techreport.com)

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OpenSSH sshd – memory leak (pastebin.com)

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Port of SGI ElectroPaint screensaver made via decompilation (github.com)

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Death to the Technical Interview (blog.iambob.me)

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OpenTX is open source firmware for RC radio transmitters (http://www.open-tx.org)

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OpenSSL CVE-2010-5298 / CVE-2014-0198 (www.ubuntu.com)

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HTML5 Security Cheat Sheet (www.owasp.org)

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The Alexandria Police Department is taking pictures of everyone’s cars (capitolcityproject.com)

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A colourful book (1692) (erikkwakkel.tumblr.com)

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The Mezzo Programming language (protz.github.io)

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Lock-free Data Structures Part 1 – Introduction (kukuruku.co)

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Combinator Parsing (www.goodmath.org)

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Target CEO resigns over data breach (online.wsj.com)

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Sony develops new 185TB storage tape (www.bbc.com)

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Can Internet security ever work? (2011) (cryptome.org)

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Proposed Mexican Telecom Law Would Be a Disaster for Internet Freedom (www.eff.org)

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Programming with Managed Time [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)

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Python recursion visualizations : recursive descent parsing (zvzzt.wordpress.com)

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Plasso: Payments Made Simple (http://plasso.co)

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Brazil's other passion: Malba Tahan and the man who counted (www.bbc.com)

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Show HN: I open-sourced my iPhone app side project (github.com)

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Ask HN: Coinbase just sent you 0.002329 BTC (item?id=7699531)

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Gulp-obfuscate ZALGO setting, H͇̬͔̳̖̅̒ͥͧẸ̖͇͈͍̱̭̌͂͆͊_C͈OM̱̈́͛̈ͩ͐͊ͦEͨ̓̐S̬̘͍͕͔͊̆̑̈́̅ (mikegroseclose.github.io)

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Exploit Mitigation Techniques (2013) (www.openbsd.org)

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RFC 3092: Etymology of "Foo" (www.ietf.org)

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How Did Dread Pirate Roberts Acquire and Protect His Bitcoin Wealth? [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)

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CutJS – Fast 2D HTML5 rendering engine for game development (cutjs.org)

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Cubli: Building cubes that can jump up and balance (www.idsc.ethz.ch)

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Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) (lowendmac.com)

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Simple Binary Encoding (mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com)

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Sell your S.F. street parking spot for $20? (blog.sfgate.com)

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Paperpile (https://paperpile.com)

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Moving On (www.paypal-community.com)

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#AmazonCart - Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart without leaving Twitter (www.amazon.com)

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Physicists design quantum triggers that can be activated by a photon (news.harvard.edu)

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A Shock-Absorbing Wheel for Bikes and Wheelchairs (www.wired.com)

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Learning to Automatically Solve Algebra Word Problems [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)

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Mink is a 3D printer for makeup (techcrunch.com)

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How to: code JavaScript using Twitter bootstrap best practices (www.theodo.fr)

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Hire from your user base (blog.alinelerner.com)

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Show HN: Music for Squirrels (new iOS app) (news.fiddlewax.com)

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Minecraft Griefers Demolish 1:1 scale model of Denmark (www.gamenguide.com)

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Show HN: iOS Motion Library – detect a backtap, knock and wave in your app (http://www.kiwimotion.io)

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2 Cool Things You Can Do with the Facebook Graph API (www.sitepoint.com)

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Why Sweden has so few road deaths (www.economist.com)

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Moves – Updated Privacy Policy (moves-app.com)

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Harvard scholars may have been duped by a forged ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Saving Network Neutrality Will Require a Culture War on Corruption (jeffreifman.com)

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Do More and `make` Less with GNU Make and Less.js (www.thumbtack.com)

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Occulus CEO talks selling to Facebook (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: GigYard - My first side project (http://gigyard.com)

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Ask HN: single founders – how do you do it? (item?id=7699872)

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Unit Test (martinfowler.com)

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How I killed Mailcloud’s 21,000 users today. (malcolmbell.net)

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Is that photo legit? Izitru offers an answer (www.cnet.com)

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After Years, Michigan’s Attempts To Build A Startup Ecosystem Bear Fruit (techcrunch.com)

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Testing your full software stack with cwrap (lwn.net)

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The one statistic you never hear about drugs (alexkrupp.typepad.com)

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Hate your co-workers? Start using unicode whitespace css classes (jsbin.com)

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Is Bitcoin the Future of Money? (www.thenation.com)

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About the processor_set_tasks() access to kernel memory vulnerability (reverse.put.as)

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Show HN: I'm writing a book to teach beginner Django web app programming (item?id=7699291)

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Decisions (paulmckellar.com)

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Ask HN: I don't have CS and feel flustered (item?id=7702762)

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Offer HN: Dale Carnegie Book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (item?id=7700553)

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AMD is working on K12, brand-new x86 and ARM cores (techreport.com)

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Show HN: Embeddable Skulpt – Python in the browser for teaching the basics (trinket.io)

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SPKI: Simple Public Key Infrastructure (2013) [pdf] (www.net.in.tum.de)

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Ask HN: Post-Mortem for "Who wants to be hired" (item?id=7698119)

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Tobacco Body – Visual Effects of Smoking (tobaccobody.fi)

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Show HN: Throne Room, my iOS 7 shuffler app for all you Dominion players (www.throneroomapp.com)

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Show HN: AndroidFocus – an OmniFocus client for Android (androidfocusapp.com)

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A Crash Course In Modern Hardware (www.infoq.com)

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Ansible 1.6 adds 30+ new modules (www.ansible.com)

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Target CEO Steps Down After Massive Data Breach (mashable.com)

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Do Your Homework on Open Source (www.quartzmo.com)

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A good idea with bad usage: /dev/urandom (insanecoding.blogspot.com)

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The Effects of Backtest Overfitting on Out-of-Sample Performance [pdf] (www.ams.org)

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The Greatest Girl Scout Cookie Salesperson Ever (priceonomics.com)

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MIT scholar fights malaria with magnets (www.bostonglobe.com)

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Ask HN: How to Monetize Online Bartering? (item?id=7699387)

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Target CEO steps down (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Best resources for hackers to learn marketing? (item?id=7700433)

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Building a no-compromises after-market NES for $500 (arstechnica.com)

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The Norwegian Army is using the Oculus Rift to drive tanks (www.theverge.com)

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Why We Can't Remember the Future (physics.aps.org)

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Sam Altman (Reluctantly) Says Y Combinator Has An Accelerator Monopoly (techcrunch.com)

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The NRA wants to take America's smart guns away (www.theverge.com)

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UPS Just Delivered a $400,000 Drone to Some Dude by Mistake (gizmodo.com)

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Each new Y Combinator class worth more than a billion dollars, president says (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Ask HN: Listen to HN articles as radio. (item?id=7698145)

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TeamPostgreSQL 1.07 – PostgreSQL web interface (http://www.teampostgresql.com)

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Why Eve Online's economist thinks Bitcoin could be a scam (www.polygon.com)

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Tachyus is Hiring a Correctness Engineer (medium.com)

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Sam Altman on Y Combinator's Success: It's a Monopoly (www.inc.com)

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A brand new blog (www.lighttable.com)

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Coin Demoes The Tech That Scored A $15.5M Round Led By Red Point (techcrunch.com)

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Mithril : lessons learned from AngularJS (lhorie.github.io)

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Why I’ll Never Apologize for My White Male Privilege (time.com)

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Most Americans Make It To The Top 20 Percent (At Least For A While) (www.npr.org)

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Ask HN: what do you listen to when you want to be productive? (item?id=7702644)

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OlegDB 'Cartwheeling Trespassers' Released (olegdb.org)

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Why and how we put our Terms of Service on GitHub. (medium.com)

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Would you download a car? Man 3D prints life-size Aston Martin DB4 (www.independent.co.uk)

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Prototypo Will Let Anyone Design Original Fonts (mashable.com)

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No seriously, there’s no such thing as arts entrepreneurship (aarongervais.com)

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First Principles (blog.percolate.com)

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Scheme2c – A compiler for a kernel of Scheme (bitbucket.org)

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Google brings Play Music streaming to Canada (www.cbc.ca)

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By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company, Google And Facebook Will (techcrunch.com)

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SPKI/SDSI: A 1999 alternative to X.509 and PGP (crypto.stackexchange.com)

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Simply Grid Is Putting Clean, Easy Power Where People Need It (techcrunch.com)

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Bee v1.7 is out (Native issue tracker for GitHub, JIRA, FogBugz) (www.neat.io)

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My Biggest Problem with Siri on iOS 7 (www.taigeair.com)

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Eurovision Song Contest predictions from a statistical model (mewo2.com)

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Blink shows 110,000 videos in first week of launching (arcticstartup.com)

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Resumes Are Mostly Useless (2008) (thecodist.com)

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Writing a Game Loop in Haskell (www.thesoftwaredevelopmentlifecycle.com)

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Mozilla offers FCC a net neutrality plan–with a twist (arstechnica.com)

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Is RoR community really that great: Lesson learned from Code Ping Pong with DHH (netguru.co)

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Newsreader for the workplace launches with backing from New York Times (recode.net)

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MLKSHK Shutting Down (mlkshk.typepad.com)

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Not quite another OpenSSL erratum (marc.info)

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Cecily McMillan's guilty verdict reveals our mass acceptance of police violence (www.theguardian.com)

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Open Sourcing Viewfinder (corner.squareup.com)

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What is Alibaba? It is a marketplace, a search engine, and a bank all in one (projects.wsj.com)

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Vurb’s Contextual Search Engine Blows Away Those Stupid Lists Of Links (techcrunch.com)

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Oculus wants to build a billion-person MMO with Facebook (www.theverge.com)

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Learning Notes – Beginning Objective-C Programming (eugenis.org)

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Introduction to Linear Algebra (mine-control.com)

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Square open sources Viewfinder (thenextweb.com)

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Polio’s Return After Near Eradication Prompts a Global Health Warning (www.nytimes.com)

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First-class Runtime Generation of High-performance Types using Exotypes (theory.stanford.edu)

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Take It to the Limit (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Simple, Plain, Customizable JS Dialogs. (github.com)

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Making money flipping items through technology (item?id=7703339)

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Firebase (YC S11) is hiring a Developer Advocate for Mobile (www.firebase.com)

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Be the first PM hire at ZenPayroll (YC W12) (boards.greenhouse.io)

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Rescale (YC W12) is looking for a platform software engineer (item?id=7702352)

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