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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 30, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Russian scientists have created a breed of domesticated foxes (costs $6K)
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• Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
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• Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition)
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• How grep got its name
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• Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator
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• High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay
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• Rooms irc app removed after 4 minutes in app store
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• Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
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• Apple starts patenting mobile app ideas
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• You should blog even if you have no readers
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 29, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
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• Crime Visualization of San Francisco
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• Microsoft Street Slide: Street view will never be the same
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• Why 37signals advice is irrelevant and unhelpful
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• Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong
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• Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.
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• Kindle is OK
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• Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it
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• GazeHawk (YC S10) Does Eyetracking With Web Cams
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• Richard Stallman answers reddit's top 25 questions.
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 28, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Reality: Old Spice sales are actually up 107% in the last month
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• Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
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• Pokémon Black
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• Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large
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• Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding industry
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• User-mining: Start at the gym, end up at a bar?
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• What's wrong with 1975 programming
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• If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?
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• Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell
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• Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 27, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Focus
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• How we buy plane tickets and why it's ruining air travel
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• Rails 3.0: Release candidate
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• Reddit costs $33k/month to operate?
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• Big Bang Abandoned In New Model of the Universe
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• Guido van Rossum: Thoughts about Python Future
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• What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D
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• Apple Magic Trackpad
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• Ask HN: Please, help me understand what I am doing wrong.
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• If You Build It, They Won’t Come.
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 26, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job [in the US]
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• Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures
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• The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents
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• Are you suffering from burn-out?
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• You Can’t Take It With You
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• A cure for Hacker News overload
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• Experimenting with Node.js
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• Now legal in the U.S.: Jailbreaking your iPhone, ripping a DVD for education
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• Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.
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• The Acceleration of Addictiveness
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 25, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lost in Translation
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• Roadmap for Learning Rails
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• Poll: Are you a Programmer?
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• Tweet Less, Kiss More
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• GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects
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• Poll: When do you usually go to bed?
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• XOR patent ended CD32, and Commodore-Amiga (1994/2005)
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• -2000 lines of code
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• Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do?
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• Old School Color Cycling with HTML5
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 24, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Digg does continuous deployment
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• Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet
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• Step 1) Install pyre2 2) import re2 as re 3) 10x faster regex
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• How to Build a Data-Driven Startup
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• Is The Game Industry A Happy Place?
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• Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
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• Desperate Perl Hacker
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• New York governor approves short-term apartment rental ban in NYC
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• Developing and Deploying a Simple Clojure Web Application
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• A few git tips you didn't know about
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 23, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass
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• Dammit, MySQL
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• Guy crafts a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months
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• Why the Mythbusters won't do RFID (2008)
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• Peter Norvig's Library
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• Xcode 4 public preview - Single window, LLVM 2.0, streamlined editing
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• Will it optimize?
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• 1099 will end the world in 2012
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• For God's sake, follow your dreams
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• Too many laws, too many prisoners
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 22, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page
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• Google takes the FTC to school
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• Useful things you can make SSH do
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• Misfit Entrepreneurs
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• Looking for a cool job? Forget job boards, talk to angel investors
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• Zuckerberg admits working for man claiming Facebook ownership
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• Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?
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• I know your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5)
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• Wanna have zillions of google profiles?
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• Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 21, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• They Will Steal Your Idea. They Cannot Steal What Really Matters.
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• Why I hate frameworks (2005)
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• Apple Obliterates Q3 Earnings Estimates: Best Mac Sales Ever, Huge iPad Numbers
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• LightSquared: new national 4G network under construction, no telcos involved
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• Flipboard: A social magazine for your iPad
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• I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)
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• Let's End Programmer Bigotry
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• A Case Study of “Designed By Developers”: Stack Overflow
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• A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business
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• The Top Idea in Your Mind
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 20, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• "Top Secret America": The Washington Post's contracting investigation
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• High Ground Maneuver (Scott Adams on the iPhone 4 press conference)
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• We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.
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• The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions
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• How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer
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• Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Museum
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• Do I really want to be using a language where memoize is a PhD-level topic?
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• Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police
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• One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen
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• "Uh-oh. I didn't know conversation had rules."
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 19, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
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• Makani Power, a Google funded wind energy startup, comes out of stealth
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• 70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement
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• Openstack: Open source cloud computing software
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• Abandoned open source projects
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• The worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill)
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• Startup Competitive Advantages that Work
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• Shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My advisor rewrote himself in bash."
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• Google pulls plug on Nexus One
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• Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 18, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Password crack [affecting OAuth and OpenID] could affect millions
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• I created a bookmarking service you can love.
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• SEO for Software Companies
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• A re-introduction to JavaScript
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• Google JavaScript style guidelines
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• My experiment with smart drugs (2008)
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• AppsAmuck: iPhone development examples
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• Ask HN: Music while coding
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• To retire comfortably, under-40 workers need to seriously bulk up savings
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• This is how you pitch a new piece of technology.
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 17, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Brother to replace AA & AAA with shake-to-wake batteries
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• Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users
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• Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned
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• Damn Vulnerable Linux - The most vulnerable and exploitable distro
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• PagerDuty (YC S10) Makes Sure Your Team Knows When A Server Goes Down
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• Have you partnered with thieves and robbers?
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• RIM on Apple's claims of Blackberry Bold signal loss
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• CoffeeScript -- You Are Totally Gonna Hate It
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• All image-editing software gets scaling wrong
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• You’ve Either Shipped or You Haven’t
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 16, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Full Trailer For Facebook Movie ‘The Social Network’ Hits The Web
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• Reddit reveals their traffic numbers, compares to Alexa/Compete etc
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• The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government Regulation
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• Zed Shaw on C++
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• My Google Interview
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• Plain english explanation of Big O
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• Paul Allen commits majority of his wealth to philanthropy
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• Show HN: HackerNewsers,com, find other hackers near you
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• Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase)
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• Apple's insanely cool antenna testing lab
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 15, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• QuickFuse
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• Obsessed with putting ink on paper or What's wrong with computer music notation?
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• How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made
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• Software will be unpatentable in New Zealand
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• Droid X actually self-destructs if you try to mod it
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• Dilbert on 'FU Money'
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• HN yellow pages (Google docs)
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• Blogger Finger
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• Mathematics for Computer Science - Lecture Notes
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• A prescient footnote
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 14, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What every programmer should know about memory
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• OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution
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• The pros and cons of 'fuck you' money.
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• Hidden features of Python
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• Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist
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• RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000
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• Hacker News Daily (announcement)
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• CouchDB 1.0
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• Want to bounce around an idea? Need a proxy desk neighbour? Call 714.881.1119
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• The Men Who Stare At Screens (why going to the gym might not be good enough)
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Higher-Order Perl is available for free as a PDF
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• Man claims to own 84% stake in Facebook - judge grants TRO in his favor
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• In defence of SQL
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• Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications
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• Guide to where your cofounders should live in the SF Bay
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• What people want (according to Google Suggest)
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• It’s Faster Because It’s C
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• Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?
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• Everything You Already Know About SEO
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• Amazing marketing by Old Spice
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 12, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lessons from 150 startup pitches
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• Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours
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• How to be a Programmer
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• HTC 1
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• App Inventor for Android - Android Software Development for Everyone
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• World War II was totally unrealistic
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• Out Of Nowhere, The iPad Has A Real Competitor
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• No, that is not a competitive advantage
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• Nuke’em Till They Glow – Quitting My First Job
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• My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Reddit needs help
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• What were the key decisions that Page and Brin made in the early days of Google
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• Brazil to penalize anyone who "hinders or impedes" fair use rights
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• How Coca-Cola won the war
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• Guacamole is an HTML5 + JavaScript (AJAX) viewer for VNC
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• The Turn (1993)
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• Google co-created video of an entire ride of the Trans-Siberian Railway
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• Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games
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• In what language do deaf people think?
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• A couple neat things about using chemical elements as hostnames
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