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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-30

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

• HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols
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• How I'm Bootstrapping a Startup While Raising Three Kids
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• The Mac App Store isn’t for today’s Mac developers
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• Ask HN: Anyone been acquired by Google who can talk about it?
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• For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance
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• Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana
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• The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19
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• Facebook Acquires Drop.io
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• U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents
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• My dalliance with smart drugs - and the lesson I learned
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-29

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

• How to Create a Hit Sitcom
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• Icing PayPal: How We Did It
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• Web page assignment leads to cease and desist letter.
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• A Hidden Genius at the Apple Store
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• Why ReadyForZero (YC S10) Started A Company to Eliminate Credit Card Debt
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• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part One
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• Herding Firesheep in a NYC Starbucks: Do Users Care?
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• Damn you, Arduino...I have no free time for this.
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• Microsoft picks HTML5 over Silverlight for Internet apps
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• How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-28

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

• Ask HN: Visual Design for Hackers
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• Offer HN: Ex-Ivy League admission officer will review your college application
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• Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn't Get About Silicon Valley
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• The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)
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• The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits
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• My Favorite Engineering Interview Question
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• A White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped
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• How can you program if you're blind?
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• Test driven development at Transloadit
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• John Carmack on government
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-27

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

• Why your desk job is slowly killing you
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• Scale of the Universe
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• Firebug Metamorphosis
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• Balloon filled with ground coffee makes ideal robotic gripper
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• Show HN: I asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind
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• Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
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• Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.
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• Tell HN: Please stop offering your services
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• Offer HN now at news.ycombinator.com/offers
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• Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc)
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-26

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

• Compared to you, most people seem dumb
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• 12 Months with MongoDB
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• Nordstrom's 75-word employee handbook
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• Clang (LLVM C compiler) builds a working Linux kernel
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• Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners?
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• NewsBlur: A feed reader with intelligence
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• Firesheep usage leads to Idiocy
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• Todos: a Backbone.js example Single-Page-App (with LocalStorage)
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• WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference
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• Things Paul Graham is wrong about
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-25

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

• Tutorial: How to use Git in a team development environment
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• UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist
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• The State of Jay-Z's Empire
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• Google Chrome Extensions for People Who Build Websites
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• Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox
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• Holla - An open source Campfire
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• Icon search engine
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• "Calling oneself a C Programmer is like saying you're a Hammer Carpenter"
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• A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator
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• Digg To Lay Off 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-24

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

• Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project
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• How to Become a Game Programmer
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• How not to Pitch To Y Combinator (2006)
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• The Crazy Lady Speaks
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• BVP Anti-Portfolio
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• Nasa.gov: Evidence of Climate Change
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• Ask HN: Who Plays Go?
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• SVG-edit: Vector drawing in your browser
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• Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you
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• Offer HN: Will Work For Karma
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-23

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

• Try Arc
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• Stop Looking for a Technical Co-Founder, Learn to Code Yourself
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• Stop the Internet blacklist
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• Amazon to add "lending" feature to Kindle
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• Wikileaks Iraq War Diaries
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• Mozilla pays 12-year-old San Jose boy for hunting bugs in system
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• Coding Horror: The Keyboard Cult
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• "Nah, who needs another search engine?"
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• Tell us your naughty stories
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• Engineer saves man by crashing into him on purpose
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-22

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

• Why complex life probably evolved only once
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• Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0
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• The End of x86?
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• After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?
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• Being Steve Jobs's Boss
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• Email from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X
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• Ewww, You Use PHP?
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• Piknik - my full screen color picker
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• There are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs
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• What We Look for in Founders
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-21

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

• Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect
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• A JavaScript IDE for the iPhone
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• Low Level Bit Hacks You Must Know
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• Reddit Founder: “I Wish I Still Owned Reddit Now”
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• The Disruptor In The Valley
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• Facelette: Chat Roulette for FaceTime
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• Apple deprecates Java
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• The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions
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• Review others websites and they review yours
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• Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-20

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

• Enterprise Javascript is...
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• People who destroy entrepreneurial value are the scum of the earth
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• Apple changes words in order to change the debate
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• Tell HN: The Submissions System is Broken
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• The New Funding Landscape
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• From 0 to 450k, an App Store Success Story - With Charts and Numbers
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• Glibc vulnerability allows any user to get root access
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• Embarrassing Flaws That Made My ‘Weekend’ App Possible
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• Google Groups Data To Be Destroyed
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• Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-19

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

• Phusion Passenger 3.0.0 final released
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• HN-Books
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• Warren Buffett: Buying Berkshire Hathaway Was $200 Billion Blunder
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• How I Pitched TechCrunch And How To Get Press When You Launch Your Startup
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• Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
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• Ray Ozzie leaving post as Microsoft's chief software architect
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• OK, here's the thing: this is only the entrance of the rabbit hole.
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• California Highway Patrol salaries
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• IDE WTF
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• The reverse job applicant
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-18

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

• Stay up late while you can. It pays off
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• Ask HN: Do we no longer support our members?
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• Facebook Apps transmit Personal IDs and Friends' Names to Advertisers
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• Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours
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• PayPal robbed my bank account
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• Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan
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• Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010)
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• Requiem For A Roommate
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• My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups
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• Show HN: Hacker News, automagically organized
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-17

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

• jQuery 1.4.3 Released
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• Startup School 2010
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• What's the shebang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?
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• Design Strategies for a Successful Pricing Table
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• PG: Thank you for putting on Startup School
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• The "ladies' night" strategy
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• Please support Saeed - Web Dev facing death sentence in Iran
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• Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave
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• List of YC Companies
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• GNU Parallel - build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-16

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

• StackOverflow launches chat
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• Lessons Learned At Business of Software 2010 Conference
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• Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?
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• Every day I learn something new... and stupid.
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• Minecraftwiki serving more traffic than Stackoverflow with 4 servers (and PHP)
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• Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010), Father of Fractal Geometry
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• Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP
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• JQuery Mobile Alpha 1 Released
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• 99 Out Of 100 Programmers Can’t Program – I Call BS
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• Android
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-15

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

• Loser-Pays makes lawsuits fairer in Europe. It could work in US, too
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• Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time
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• ZestCash is Not Good.
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• Cult Creation
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• A crash course in how DOM events work
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• Why rebel groups love the Toyota Hilux
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• Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
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• Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping
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• Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee
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• World's Richest Man: 'Charity Doesn't Solve Anything'
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-14

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

• The Long Beard's Revenge
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• Unannounced YC Company seeking first hire (programmer/jack of all trades)
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• Stop Speaking in Bullshit
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• The interruptible programmer
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• Photos from the making of Empire Strikes Back
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• My list of ideas, if you're looking for inspiration
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• John Sculley: The Secrets of Steve Jobs’ Success
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• Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding
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• Stop Googling
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• Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-13

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

• The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists
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• Super-Soaker inventor may have solar-powered fuel cell breakthrough
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• Visualization: Guy-to-girl ratio of every bar and restaurant in SF/NYC
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• EA Artist, Soon To Be Laid Off, Burns EA Management, Discusses Failed MMO
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• Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Success
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• Too Young to Know It Can’t be Done
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• How to Break the Trust of Your customers in Just One Day - Lessons Learned
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• Announcing Backbone.js: Models, Collections and Views in 2.4kb
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• How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers.
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• A/B Testing You'll Actually Use: Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Out of Beta
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-12

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

• The Story Behind "Free Public WiFi" - It's Not
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• Chargify New Pricing
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• Google closes Issue 9
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• No Java 7, The End Game
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• Web Design is 95% Typography
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• Brilliant design: RCA student radically improves the UK plug
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• Java Trap, 2010 Edition
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• A great logo is recognizable in any form
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• OkTrends: Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex
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• The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial screencasts are out
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-11

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

• The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Online Communities
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• Countries ranked by ease of starting a business
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• A sick CEO's full disclosure
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• HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone
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• Google's first employee
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• 1,000 (bad) ideas
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• Impact JavaScript Game Engine for iOS
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• If you build it, they won't come, unless...
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• 'The Simpsons' Explains Its Provocative Banksy Opening
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• How Hacker News ranking algorithm works
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-10

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

• Mexican Senate Unanimously Votes To Remove Mexico From ACTA Negotations
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• What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths
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• Googlebot on a tcp/ip level
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• Wikileaks publishes documents on plan to curb free software in the EU
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• Chmod -x chmod
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• How to Make Visa Obey Your Every Desire: The Credit Card Concierge Experiment
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• My zero-equity co-founders
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• Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
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• Try Ubuntu 10.10 Server in Amazon EC2, entirely on our dime
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• To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-09

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

• Some clients are evil and their work is toxic
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• AsmXml: a fast XML parser/decoder in pure x86 assembler
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• Babbage's heart-warming message for the middle-aged
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• Styled Maps Using Google Maps API Version 3
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• Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge
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• The Duct Tape Architect
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• So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it
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• Lets make November "Launch an App Month", who's with me?
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• Google: What We're Driving At
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• Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-08

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

• Scott Adams: The Social Network, "The best movie I've ever seen"
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• You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerance
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• IE6 effect in HTML5
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• MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem
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• Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition
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• Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups
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• Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back
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• Tell HN: Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now
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• Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.
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• Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-07

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

• Developers blog post: No, I won’t do it. It would not be professional.
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• Memoirs of a Bullied Kid
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• Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman
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• Hacker News Facebook Group
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• Possible Cause of Bee Die-Off Is Found
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• The Gentle Art of Poverty
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• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
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• How to be a freelance web developer, part 2
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• Dear Gap, I have your new logo.
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• Microsoft Buying Adobe?
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-06

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

• How to get a job at a kick-ass startup (for programmers)
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• Founders who can't code
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• So, that was a bummer
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• Ask HN: Underperforming, feeling stuck
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• JQuery Fundamentals
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• The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
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• Google responds aggressively to Oracle Java suit (response detailed)
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• How to become a freelance web developer
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• The best JavaScript guide ever
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• Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information”
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-05

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

• How many of you don't use Google CS Curriculum search?
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• Sparrow - The New Mail for Mac
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• What developers think when you say "Rock Star"
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• How Fake Money Saved Brazil
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• Using canvas to create alpha-channel JPEGs - 33% the size of PNGs
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• Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share
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• Why are technical recruiters so clueless?
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• What's wrong with 2006 programming?
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• The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
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• Man jailed over computer password refusal
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-04

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

• The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job interview with Facebook
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• Ask HN: Am I making too much?
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• I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday
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• Secret Hacker Bookshelf
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• Stop lying on stage
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• The Unofficial HN FAQ
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• Scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight
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• Twitter COO Dick Costolo Takes Over As CEO From Evan Williams
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• Where to submit your startup for some coverage
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• Where to See Silicon Valley
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-03

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

• Homemade spacecraft reaches 100,000 ft, films the whole way
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• MIT Video lectures - Introduction to Algorithms
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• Why I Love the Khan Academy
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• Mark Zuckerberg's Most Valuable Friend
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• Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request
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• Tell HN: Read Maxim and other trashy "guy" rags.
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• Ask HN: Good books?
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• Wheretheladies.at Shows You Where The Ladies Are At
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• Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage
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• Your content is distracting users from ads
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-02

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

• Hacker Monthly Issue #5 - October 2010
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• (How to Write a ((Better) Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
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• Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)
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• Put armor where there aren't bullet holes
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• Modern Perl: The Book: The (draft) PDF
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• 'The Social Network': reviewed by Lawrence Lessig
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• Shocked by online comments, reporter writes profile of hit-and-run victim
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• Thank you, Ubuntu
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• To live forever, break habits
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• Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists'
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-01

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

• The Facebook API: A Case Study in Not Caring About Developers
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• I Can’t Work Under These Conditions
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• Google URL shortener available to the public
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• Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.
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• (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
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• Finally, a source of free, high-quality legal docs to get your startup started
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• Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
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• Stuxnet Questions and Answers
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• Why Wesabe Lost to Mint
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• Where My Money Goes: A visual receipt for your taxes.
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-09-30

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

• Why Germans have higher productivity and longer vacations
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• Linux Kernel Tuning for C500k
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• Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment
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• Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered
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• There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly
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• Beautiful Simplicity
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• Wiretapping the Internet
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• Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
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• Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?
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• Google offers JPEG alternative for faster Web
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