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PredictionIO – A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm

Obama said the NSA Over Data Collection

NSA collecting phone records for his defense How to Be Upside-Down

GMail: designer arrogance and the $580 Million Black Hole

Contains a New Type of Employee You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors

How to solve it

Google disables AdSense account of Coinpal shut down a product? Open source dynamic body physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator

Google to acquire Nokia

Serving at the Pleasure of the plot

Watch YC Startup with Paying Customers

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of the storm we're pushing the YC application deadline back to Firefox 4 that makes you a better background pattern for your games.

Goodbye Basecamp, This Is All Your Email

37signals invests in synthetic beef

Groupon is a GitHubber

The first Django site to run for Australian Senate

Single page apps in the lab: Apple is back

Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted - last backup one year of college calculus to grad student level

Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the Family of Neil Armstrong on Programmer Productivity

Some advice from Jeff Bezos on Post purchase

Is Google building a TC alternative.

Will you post an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News, what else you read?

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post #185

Design Books Every Hacker Should Read (At Least Twice) I could swear I've read that post (at least twice).

There was a real post called "Papers Every Hacker Should Read (At Least Twice)" and another called "Design Books Every Hacker Should Read"

The program spliced them together.

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post #159
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate myself for posting these, but I cannot resist (I am silently shaking from laughter fighting hard not to wake up my newborn): Show HN: Let's Be Civil (I think his was a real post but with Tell HN -- the small change is hilarious) Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the Post PC Era Firefox now only has one big flaw I feel I am a programmer Web Intents - the future of spam in Windows A new Python web framewo…

So hard to stop posting... When I Stopped Eating For 2 Years in Production How Github uses Github to build a windmill Ask HN: Who is Sick Apple's Role in Japan stopped having sex? Show HN: I love you, dad How to write shitty software Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the process Ember 101: Learn Ember at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video] Google breaks 2005 promise never to implemen…

>Ember 101: Learn Ember at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

Incredible.

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These had me on the floor:

My husband is a JavaScript library for capturing input

Ignored by big companies, Mexican village creates its own encryption standard

“I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl steps down

U.S. Government to Force Facebook into Handing-Over their Secret Tracking Data

Show HN: Learn Math the Hard Way

Valve hired their first Github repo

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I was inspired by this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813162 I find that lookback of 2 generally creates more entertaining titles. Lookback of 3 usually seems to just splice together two titles (which can be hilarious, and is usually more grammatically correct), and lookback of 1 tends to generate more nonsense. Some fun ones I found just now: The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Teenage Hacker H…

I threw together a little app that lets you vote for the funniest ones of these: http://headline-generator.herokuapp.com/

(I also really want to update it to also do Upworthy-style headlines. And maybe combine the two?)

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I was inspired by this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813162 I find that lookback of 2 generally creates more entertaining titles. Lookback of 3 usually seems to just splice together two titles (which can be hilarious, and is usually more grammatically correct), and lookback of 1 tends to generate more nonsense. Some fun ones I found just now: The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Teenage Hacker H…

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