Hacker News on 7 October 2014

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• GitHub Student Developer Pack
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• SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17
• Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders
• Rust means never having to close a socket
• Show HN: Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution
• A replacement for JavaScript's “alert”
• Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012)
• Reverse engineering the binary data format for Star Wars: Yoda Stories