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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-29

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

• An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee
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• Maryland Judge finds that it is legal to record police in public
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• Bitbucket Joins Atlassian
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• Mysql "Swap Insanity"
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• Mathematics for computer science (Fall 2010, MIT)
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• IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version
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• Why you should learn at least a little bit of Awk
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• Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way
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• A clever way to fight IE6
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• Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-28

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

• Why Companies Should Insist that Employees Take Naps
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• Python idiom for taking the single item from a list
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• Going Freemium: One Year Later
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• AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch
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• End of the Road for Xmarks
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• LibreOffice - A fresh page for OpenOffice
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• FBI drives for encryption backdoors
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• Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either
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• Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch
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• Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-27

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

• How Universities Work, or: What I Wish I’d Known As a Freshman
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• Is being an introvert okay?
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• AngelGate: Chris Sacca Responds To Ron Conway
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• Intellectual hipsters and meta-contrarians
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• Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in scooter cliff fall
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• I’m done building Facebook apps for clients
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• Newsflash: Founders Don't Really Care About AngelGate
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• Start ups, please don't force me to log in with facebook.
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• First improvement of fundamental algorithm in 10 years
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• What Happens At Y Combinator
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-26

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

• Researchers Map The Sexual Network Of An Entire High School
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• Ask HN: After almost 30 years the romance is over - What now?
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• DuckDuckGo implements HTTPS Everywhere
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• Bouncing Beholder: JS1k winner explained
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• Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
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• Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
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• The sad truth about Facebook
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• The tricks behind nature documentaries
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• September 26th is Petrov Day
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• Sept. 26, 1983: The Man Who Saved the World by Doing ... Nothing
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-25

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

• How to Raise Boys Who Read
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• Encourage the USPTO to stop issuing software patents; deadline September 27
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• Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets
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• Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010?
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• Thanks for the feedback. I've closed the service
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• Why I’m Not On Facebook
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• This is what a Google server looks like [2009]
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• How Twilio screwed us over
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• Let's Build a Compiler
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• Products For People Who Make Products For People
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-24

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

• Jeff Bezos: Regret Minimization Framework
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• Google Translate might not be as good as people thought
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• A blackhat social engineered me by posing as an early adopter of my startup
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• Instapaper Goes From Hobby To Startup
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• Finger-Pointing, Emails, Deleted Tweets, Rage. AngelGate Is Far From Over
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• Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels
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• Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
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• Tell HN: An Observation
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• Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers
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• Ask HN: My startup failed. $9k in debt and need to pay most of it in 12 days.
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-23

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

• DHH: How do I learn to program?
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• A computer virus with an entirely new purpose
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• Ask HN: Offer of Employment retracted
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• $250,000-a-day Minecraft strikes indie game gold
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• Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch
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• Leaving .net
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• Facebook is not worth $33 billion
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• The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
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• Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes
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• I am not who you think I am
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-22

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

• Tumblr CTO Marco Arment Steps Down
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• How I launched a profitable minimally viable product in 3 hours
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• NYC's Underground Grilled Cheese
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• Doing Y Combinator in your 30s
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• Courtney Love does the math (2000)
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• Evercookie: A cookie that undeletes itself from 8 different storages
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• Collusion (Fred Wilson's thoughts on the Bin38 meeting)
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• Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post
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• James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle
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• This temporary site is a placeholder
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-21

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

• Down with fun: The depressing vogue for having fun at work
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• The Opinions of Attractive People
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• PostgreSQL 9.0 Final Release Available Now
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• Coming Home to Vim
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• My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me
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• Mongrel2 Says, "Goodbye Python"
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• Twitter 'onmouseover' security flaw widely exploited
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• Being Poor by John Scalzi
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• Twitter knew about onmouseover flaw a month ago
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• So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-20

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

• Using Zipcar may damage your credit
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• Thomas Jefferson's Letter to His Nephew Peter
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• The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington
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• "We've read your code"
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• Ask HN: What's the big deal with startups anyways...
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• Tell HN: HNdroid, Hacker News android client
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• An obscure kernel feature to get more info about dying processes
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• Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist
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• Apple Approves VLC For iPad
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• So You Wanna Be a Chef - Anthony Bourdain
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-19

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

• Bots playing the market make some bizarre patterns
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• Dark Patterns: User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
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• 102 year old lens attached to digital camera
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• Blind user of the iPhone
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• Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do
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• Autism’s First Child
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• The Case for Single Founder Startups
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• The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998)
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• Facebook Is Secretly Building A Phone
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• PostgreSQL 9.0 Is Now Available
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-18

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

• Coding Horror: YouTube vs. Fair Use
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• 6502 simulated at transistor level in Javascript
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• Why most people don’t succeed – How you can be the exception
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• Implementing Shazam with Java in a weekend
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• Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks
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• Cuil Goes Down for Good
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• NPR bought a toxic asset to watch it die. They call her "Toxie"
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• 4chan DDoS Takes Down MPAA and Anti-Piracy Websites
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• Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness
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• Why I stopped reading HN
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-17

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

• Groupon in Retrospect
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• Usability Tips Based on Research Studies
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• Why We Shut Newstilt Down
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• Confirmed: Intel says HDCP 'master key' crack is real
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• Want To Be A Freelancer? Just Punch Yourself In The Face, Instead
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• A tale of two cultures
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• Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft?
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• Redditors have done it. Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally in DC 10/30/10.
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• How To Go From Idea To Launching With Paying Customers In 8 Steps
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• Trouble with Diaspora
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-16

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

• HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK
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• Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin?
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• Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, play and life.
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• The Most Powerful Colors in the World ...And How You Make The Next Ones
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• Status Of CrunchPad Litigation
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• Diaspora Developer Release
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• The Very Last Thing I’ll Write About Twitter
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• Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product
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• You Negotiate Commodities, But You Seize Opportunities
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• Groupon’s Success Disaster
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-15

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

• Self-Control Matters Far More Than Raw Intelligence
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• How to get a job at Google, interview questions & process
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• Making the URL bar useful again: Where the Breadcrumb should have been all along
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• Google Maps visualization of marijuana prices, with over 800+ entries so far
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• Damning Zuckerberg IMs confirmed
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• Here's to the Next 3 Years (Yehuda Katz Moves On)
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• Google fired engineer for breaking internal privacy policies
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• 'How piracy works' according to Minecraft creator
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• Phusion Passenger 3.0 Public Beta 1 is out
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• Bill Gates, Hero
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-14

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

• How I boosted my Vim
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• Museopen to set classical music "free"
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• Giving up on Google
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• If a file exists, there is torrent of it. If not, it will be burned
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• HDCP master key allegedly posted
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• Zero-day Flash exploit on all platforms, fix two weeks out
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• Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs
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• Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white?
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• Linus Torvalds became US citizen
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• IPhone vs Android? No. We're fighting the wrong fight
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-13

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

• Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews
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• MS Exchange “remote wipe” is a terrible, terrible bug
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• "If you are not paying for it..."
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• What a fig is.
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• How the opening scenes of Blade Runner were made (video)
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• Today is Programmer's Day
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• Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers
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• Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup
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• Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?
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• How two Pythonistas accidentally fell in love with Rails
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-12

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

• PhD or Not PhD: that is the question
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• Google Maps Instant (inspired by Youtube Instant)
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• Structure Synth, an IDE for creating recursive 3D art
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• CPU vs. GPU
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• HN: Let's Try Something Cool - Add Your Spot On The Hacker News Map
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• Texas Hold'em Experiment
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• Drinking the Node.js Kool-Aid
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• Go That Way, Really Fast
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• Getting rejected
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• Hacker News Instant Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-11

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

• The Man Who Makes Your iPhone
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• Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly
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• The Most Useful Objective-C Code I’ve Ever Written
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• Chunking & Gridding - Why parents can't do math today
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• What parents worry about vs what they should worry about
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• OpenSSL is written by monkeys
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• Yosefk - My history with Forth & stack machines
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• Godaddy.com up for sale. Could fetch $1 Billion
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• What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions
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• This is engineering: Army Jeep torn apart and reassembled in 4 minutes
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-10

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

• Apple's secret "wispr" request
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• Ask HN: Best resources to learn SEO?
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• Scott Adams: Future Jobs (and Irreplaceable Skill Sets)
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• How to keep someone with you forever
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• Drawing you a horrible logo for only $5
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• Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.
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• Paypal is holding over 600,000 euros from the minecraft developer
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• Ask HN: We Built Interactive Seating Maps Using Raphael, Please Give Us Feedback
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• Need a Job? Build Something Cool.
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• Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 09, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Are your pants lying to you? An investigation
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• Greeks are sure of one thing: they can’t trust their fellow Greeks.
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• Why Django Sucks, and How we Can Fix it [slides]
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• Why Tumblr Sucks
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• Ask HN: What habits made you a better programmer?
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• Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
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• Android Is As Open As The Clenched Fist I’d Like To Punch The Carriers With
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• Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines
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• Zynga CEO: "Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."
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• I’m a Female Y Combinator Founder and You Can Be Too
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 08, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door
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• Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup
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• Living Efficiently
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• Scaling Disqus (YC S07)
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• Don't make your Android app free for 1 day
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• The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits
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• Some things I love about Hacker News (and a few I don’t)
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• The Real ‘Stuff White People Like’
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• "How hard can it be to implement?"
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• Google Instant Search Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 07, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Patriot missile software failure, 28 soldiers died. Fix: reboot the system
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• Rotating Quine
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• Redis 2.0.0 Stable is out
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• How a startup responds when a giant arrives
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• htty, the HTTP TTY
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• Google.com has an animated logo using an HTML/JavaScript particle simulator
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• Took me more than 2 years to get 200 paying customers for my Web App
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• How I Used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to Validate my Startup Idea
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• What is the Speed of Gravity?
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• Agile Ruined My Life
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 06, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Four Levels of Social Entrapment
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• Matt Cutts gives you a free startup idea
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• Top Myths of Popular Psychology
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• How to Reset Your Sleep Schedule, Seriously
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• Wikipedia lets you create books
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• Jeff Jarvis on the Real Reason the Media is Going After Craig Newmark
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• Using jQuery and node.js to scrape html pages in 5 lines
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• This is a fully working chess program with graphics. In 1024 bytes of JS. o_0
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• DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
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• Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 05, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey
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• Two things every Unix developer should know
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• Xpra is screen for X applications
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• Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down
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• A Problem Course in Compilation: From Python to x86 Assembly [pdf]
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• The MIT Guide to Hacking
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• Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010
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• She tried 960 times
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• "Hello, world" in Assembly.
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• Why the iPhone will fail (2007)
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 04, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Quicklisp - The upcoming solution to Common Lisp's "library problem"
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• Simplicity Is Highly Overrated
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• Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science
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• ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack
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• Duke Nukem Forever.. is back on.
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• Clojure conj registration open
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• Let's just say it: 3D TV is a joke.
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• There is a Horse in the Apple Store
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• DeviantArt Muro
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• How do I write so much, you ask? Well, glad you asked -
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 03, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
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• Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours
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• CSS3 Buttons
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• Craig Newmark: How Being a Geek Made it Hard to Respond to CNN's Ambush
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• India's red rain may contain life not seen on Earth
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• Google Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box"
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• Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung
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• Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)
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• Timing Lessons
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• Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 02, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to set up your own private Git server on Linux
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• Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?
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• Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster With Top Aligned Labels
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• 20 Year Old Founder Jessica Mah Raises Over $1 Million For Indinero (YC S10)
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• Four Minutes in the Morning
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• High Resolution Fundraising
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• Scribd.com Comes to the Dark Side
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• Mongrel2 1.0 released.
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• Your real tax rate: 40%
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• NetFlix: America's Most Underestimated Company
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 01, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• UberCab to disrupt the Taxi/Limo business
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• Productive Programming
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• Clojure or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Parentheses
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• How bathroom posture affects your health.
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• Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?
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• William Gibson: "Google's Earth"
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• Easy Ways to Fail a Ph.D.
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• Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator
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• Welcome Alexis
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• Bribing maitre d' to skip the line
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 31, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What A CEO Does
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• Clicking Facebook "Like" Buttons Gives Owner Permission To Spam You (w/ demo)
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• Email overload? Try Priority Inbox
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• Ask HN: How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery?
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• New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
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• The first step is to start
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• The 99% Rule (nsfw)
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• GitHub launches Pull Requests 2.0
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• Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)
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• Kevin Rose steps down as CEO of Digg
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