top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-02-18

Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive

http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210

14 years ago

The Julia Programming Language

http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

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Chrome connects to three random domains at startup

https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random-domains-at-startup

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Open Source VLC media player 2.0.0 is out

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html

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MusicForProgramming();

http://www.musicforprogramming.net/

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Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/robotic-bee/

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Lisp: It's Not About Macros, It's About Read

http://jlongster.com/2012/02/18/its-not-about-macros-its-about-read.html

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Mozilla to Certificate Authorities: no subordinate CAs for traffic interception

http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2012/02/17/message-to-certificate-authorities-about-subordinate-cas/

14 years ago

CyanogenMod Needs Your Help

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help

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US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17154217785/congrats-us-government-youre-scaring-web-businesses-into-moving-out-us.shtml

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Can guys in coffeeshops compete with celebrity entrepreneurs?

http://remarkedly.com/2012/02/18/can-guys-in-coffeeshops-compete-with-celebrity-entrepreneurs/

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Friendly for business

http://raganwald.posterous.com/friendly-for-business

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Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/17/apple-removes-x11-in-os-x-mountain-lion-shifts-support-to-open-source-xquartz/

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$900 DNA sequencing USB stick announced by OxNano

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21495-usb-stick-can-sequence-dna-in-seconds.html

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Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation

http://io9.com/5886178/why-mass-effect-is-the-most-important-science-fiction-universe-of-our-generation

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Ask HN: Have you taken 6 months to 1 year break to do self study?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3606827

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Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/f-commerce-trips-as-gap-to-penney-shut-facebook-stores-retail.html

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Academic publisher Elsevier hit with growing boycott

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/02/17/science-elsevier-journal-boycott.html

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Hacking job interviews

http://mycareerstack.com/

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You can no longer click on the Google logo in chrome (only in Firefox, IE, etc.)

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&tok=kL505PDeuR090bF5sMy8lw&cp=4&gs_id=j&xhr=t&q=hacker+news&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&pbx=1&oq=hack&aq=0p&aqi=p-p2g2&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=82fc1a7cbf0487f4&biw=1440&bih=732

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