| 1. | | Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek (nccgroup.com) |
| 439 points by ontoillogical on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 111 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family (adobe.com) |
| 386 points by robinhouston on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 67 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything (noexcuselist.com) |
| 378 points by joelrunyon on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 91 comments [ext] |
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Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe) |
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429 points by pex8279 19 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
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| 4. | | Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars (latimes.com) |
| 266 points by api on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 100 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | Fasting & Programming (mahdiyusuf.com) |
| 177 points by mccarthyjm on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 174 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | The U.S. Senate has blocked the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. (zdnet.com) |
| 172 points by Empro on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 77 comments [ext] |
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A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com) |
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488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
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| 7. | | The Differences Between Germany and the United States (uni-paderborn.de) |
| 167 points by kumarski on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 158 comments [ext] |
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| 8. | | Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing (hanselman.com) |
| 141 points by MarlonPro on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 25 comments [ext] |
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| 9. | | Don Knuth releases Volume 4, Pre-fascicle 6A [gzipped ps] (stanford.edu) |
| 141 points by dhruvbird on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 47 comments [ext] |
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How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com) |
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443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 10. | | Mountain Lion seems to have addressed the memory management issues in OS X (workstuff.tumblr.com) |
| 135 points by fields on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 119 comments [ext] |
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| 11. | | 400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year (bgr.com) |
| 134 points by kemper on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 79 comments [ext] |
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| 12. | | Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows (extremetech.com) |
| 127 points by mrsebastian on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 69 comments [ext] |
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When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev) |
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380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
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| 13. | | Today is Goof Off at Work Day (codinghorror.com) |
| 126 points by MarlonPro on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 50 comments [ext] |
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| 14. | | Facebook has more than 83 million 'fake' users (bbc.com) |
| 121 points by iProject on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 93 comments [ext] |
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| 15. | | Monk creates a new Tibetan Unicode font (tibetangeeks.com) |
| 116 points by luckystrike on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 20 comments [ext] |
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The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph) |
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222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
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| 16. | | DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters (adainitiative.org) |
| 108 points by simcop2387 on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 98 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | 1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD (bitcoincharts.com) |
| 106 points by mrb on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 125 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | We are Colorblind (wearecolorblind.com) |
| 104 points by bpierre on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 49 comments [ext] |
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Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com) |
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215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
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| 19. | | How low (power) can you go? (antipope.org) |
| 98 points by cstross on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 30 comments [ext] |
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| 20. | | Why you should never use GoDaddy ever again (even for a domain search) (zensavona.com) |
| 94 points by zensavona on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 53 comments [ext] |
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| 21. | | Facebook loses 3 more executives (venturebeat.com) |
| 93 points by chrisacky on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 42 comments [ext] |
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Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe) |
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229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
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| 22. | | Authy (YC W12) launches two-factor auth as a service (techcrunch.com) |
| 93 points by danielpal on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 34 comments [ext] |
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| 23. | | Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer (scientificamerican.com) |
| 91 points by tokenadult on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 66 comments [ext] |
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| 24. | | Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Time (dzone.com) |
| 90 points by jpro on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 118 comments [ext] |
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Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph) |
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344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
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| 25. | | Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers (docs.google.com) |
| 88 points by jamesbritt on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 67 comments [ext] |
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| 26. | | Heroku announces support for 17 new Postgres extensions (heroku.com) |
| 87 points by selenamarie on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 28 comments [ext] |
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| 27. | | LuaJIT maintainer's take on Apple/Clang (osdir.com) |
| 86 points by zachwill on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 21 comments [ext] |
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The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com) |
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436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
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| 28. | | Faster Zombies (valvesoftware.com) |
| 85 points by phenylene on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 16 comments [ext] |
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| 29. | | Hacker Dojo auctions its members to raise funds (hackerdojo.com) |
| 83 points by bluehat on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 29 comments [ext] |
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| 30. | | Show HN: Makr.io, a creative and collaborative way to play with images (makr.io) |
| 78 points by mbs348 on Aug 2, 2012 [ext] | 32 comments [ext] |
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Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com) |
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