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I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code

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A Primer on Shooting in Manual Mode: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO [video]

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Plant trees while you search the web

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Data-as-a-Service: Running DaaS Companies

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Animated Knots: Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation

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About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown

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Mail a Letter Online

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Bauhaus at 100: its legacy in five key designs

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Canada's New Food Guide

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Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

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Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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SigSpoof: Spoofing signatures in GnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools and python-gnupg

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Show HN: Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron

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Void Linux project leader has disappeared

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Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Comparing AWS Lambda performance of Node.js, Python, Java, C# and Go

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Google Flutter and AWS Lambda for a serverless mobile app

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Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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The hidden costs of serverless

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NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2

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The Lego Storage Guide

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The Vanual – Guide to Living in a Van

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Benefits of a Lifestyle Business

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Waze for Android Auto

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Cybersecurity Humble Book Bundle

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What is an Initial Coin Offering and How Does it Work?

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Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

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Tesla Model S and Model 3 comparison

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Top 20 Most Sold and Most Read Books of the Week

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Remove United from your flight results

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LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing

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FedEx is offering $5 off web orders to enable Flash

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Effectively Using Android Without Google Play Services with Gplayweb in Docker

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“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Ian's Shoelace Site

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Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

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Unsplash – Beautiful photos free to use under the Unsplash License

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USPS Discrimination Against Atheism? A Study by Atheist Shoes (2013)

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How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)

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Amazon Vehicles

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Humble Book Bundle: The Joy of Coding

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Show HN: Gping.io – Like TinyURL for your car

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Movie recommendations based on your personal taste

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Pexels – Free stock photos

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The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl?

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Crash Course – Educational course videos on YouTube

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The 4$ smartphone

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Show HN: AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people

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Non-Unique SSH Host Keys Ed25519 on Hetzner

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REI to shut on Black Friday to have employees go outside

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Data Infrastructure at IFTTT

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Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M

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LibreStock – do-whatever-you-want stock photos

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Reasons to work from home

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Building Street Fighter II in Ruby [video]

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The Umbrella Reinvented

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Kubernetes: The Future of Deployment

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“We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

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Unprocessed Foods Cut into Precise 2.5cm Cubes

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Show HN: A random startup generator

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A Startup That Wants to Build Cities

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Life as a Product Design Intern at Khan Academy

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A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords

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Skiplagged sued by United and Orbitz

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How Products Are Made

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Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Indexing JSON data with jsonb data type

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Consider the Lobster (2004)

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All About Batteries

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Tesla selects Nevada for battery plant

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3D Printed Sugar

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3D Printing Store

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Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z

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Meditate in front of your computer with Calm

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The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted

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Evolution of words frequencies in porn

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New brand site for Sony uses rendered JPG frames for 3D parallax scrolling

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Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

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Searchable catalog of Udacity, edX, Coursera, etc.

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iPad from T-Mobile with free monthly 200MB data for life

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How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes

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Where do Github users live? WebGL visualization

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Why The New Gmail Sucks

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A Rally Against Mass Surveillance in Washington, DC

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Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer

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Kindle MatchBook

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Funniest reviews

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Amazon launches Amazon Art marketplace

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Straws And Cups That Detect Date Rape Drugs

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Hetzner Servers Compromised

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Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Fitbit for Dogs

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Amazon India is now live

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Stop Watching Us

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Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

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A rant about some of the nice things in the NT kernel

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Manchester City Council

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Show HN: Pinterest for text

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The Queen’s stylesheets

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What does one trillion dollars look like?

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Amazon's homepage was down

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Building Firefox OS

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Aaron Swartz NYC Memorial Service

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Typing "Sell" in Google Finance redirected to Apple Inc.

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Show HN: We built a simple way to accept payments through Stripe

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Show HN: an alternative to AdSense

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More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed

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Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage

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Formlabs: High Resolution 3D Printer

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Show HN: 5000 best movies

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MySQL vs PostgreSQL

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Tindie: like Etsy for electronics

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Oracle spreading FUD about CentOS

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Why Your McD's Burger Doesn't Look Like the One in the Ad

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FB down 8% at opening

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Comparing Titanium And PhoneGap

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How to thrive as a solo non-technical founder

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Groupon Kidz Club

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Intro to Data Science at UC Berkeley taught by Jeff Hammerbacher

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How to find a short domain name

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Collection of Richard Feynman talks on the scientific method, learning, and CS

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PaperKarma - take a photo, eliminate junk mail

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The Ultimate Steve Jobs Collection

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Show HN: my database engine for GPU

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Be careful what you put in an email

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FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post

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Samurai: New Payment Gateway from FeeFighters

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Show HN: PickHealthInsurance.com

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Verbling: The instant way to practice and learn a language

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Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated

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Brubeck: A new Python web framework running on mongrel2

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Automatoon: A HTML5 animation service on GAE written in clojure

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LNKD IPO opens huge at $83

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Google Tech Talks: "All Questions Answered" by Donald Knuth

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Standalone sandboxed IE6, IE7, IE8 executables (Recovered after a takedown)

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I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.

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What does one trillion dollars look like?

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The DC Startup Community

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Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

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Introducing Word Lens

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A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Enterprise Javascript is...

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Bribing maitre d' to skip the line

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We Built Interactive Seating Maps Using Raphael; Please Give Us Feedback

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6pm.com's 1.6 million dollar pricing mistake

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The world's only immortal animal

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Climate center's server hacked, revealing documents and emails

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Review my Webapp: How to make ______? (food)

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Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon

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Work smart, not hard: The seven habits of highly effective slackers

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How to get into the Hottest Restaurants in Town

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Find bilingual baby names

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Retro.directory

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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

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Tree of Life Explorer

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Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine

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Website search hurts my feelings

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Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break

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Do It Yourself Blind Repair

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Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories

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Fictional Brands Archive

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Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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Matty Benedetto Designed and Prototyped 350 Inventions in 3 Years

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Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

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Sharing Your Netflix Account

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Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

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Offsec.tools – A vast collection of security tools

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MuscleWiki: Find exercises that work specific muscles

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Kagi – Paid Search Engine

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Geodesic domes made simple

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Show HN: Pomodoro with friends

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Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category

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The Anatomy of SaaS Pricing Strategy (2017) [pdf]

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Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

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How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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Earth is now our only shareholder

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Reddit's favorite products in one place

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I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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Wizz Air now charging some travellers a strange extra fee (2020)

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Learn to sew your own outdoor gear

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Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Archive of Visualized Concepts

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Show HN: Find out where your supplements are made & sourced

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To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

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Open Food Facts – a food products database made by everyone, for everyone

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Show HN: Oldest Search – Search for the oldest result on internet

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Snap launches its first drone

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Remotewide – Find remote jobs with location independent pay

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Show HN: I built a website to find nearby cafes to work remotely from

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Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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System – A resource that aims to explain how everything in the world is related

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Show HN: Visualization tools for bicycle wheelbuilding

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Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

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Vestaboard – A smart display to connect and inspire

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To Don't – The reverse to-do list

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WaterBear – A free library of documentaries and shorts

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Welcome to Nestflix

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Neeva Announces Public Availability of Its Ads Free, Private Search Engine

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Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

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"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio]

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Amazon Sidewalk

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Show HN: Save, annotate and organize podcasts, blog posts, newsletters, videos

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All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Unsuck It (2010)

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31.2˝ Color EPaper Display

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Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs

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Opening Up the Samsung Q60 Series Smart TV (2019)

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Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees

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Mojeek: Independent search engine with its own spider

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Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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What it’s like inside your plane’s hidden ‘crew rest’

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Improving breast reconstruction surgery with a web-based survey

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Dan's online motorcycle repair course (1999-2020)

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Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images

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Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

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MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Google’s search monopoly complicates a mental health crisis

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1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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“Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada

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Entire Google search result pages are now ads

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An Illustrated Guide to Masked Wrestlers

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Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling

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Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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All about Birds

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Show HN: Art Resources and Tutorials Website

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Uniquely Canadian Stock Photography from CIRA

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Milled: A search engine for email newsletters

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The 40% Keyboard

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