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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-29

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

• Yacc is dead
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• WikiLeaked Cables Confirm China’s Politburo Was Behind Google Hacking Incident
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• SQL injection with raw MD5 hashes
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• All officially released cables including content - WikiLeaks
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• Get Satisfaction responds to NYTimes' DecorMyEyes Article
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• The best investment advice you'll never get
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• Programmer Competency Matrix: Do you use it when hiring?
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• Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated inverted pendulum
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• Reddit Founders' YC Application
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• Comcast demands Level 3 pay fee to deliver online movies to their subscribers
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-28

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

• How Ultima Online rares were born
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• Some powerful commands for Linux
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• Make Your Mockup in Markup
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• Further Freedom Attacks
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• How being a bully fuels this trader's profits because of Google
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• OpenDNS says they are being blocked by Verizon
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• Teaching My Daughter To Code
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• Try node.js in the browser
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• Wiki for tools to scrape website data
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• WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-27

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

• 23andMe for $99
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• PyPy 1.4: Ouroboros in practice
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• The Only OS X Shortcut You Need to Remember
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• Ask HN: What advice messed up your life?
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• HN Office Hours
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• Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac
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• The unbearable lameness of web 2.0
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• Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?
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• Why Does Apple Offer Free Engraving?
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• US Government Censors 70 Websites
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-26

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

• Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea
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• Drew Houston's (Dropbox) YC Application
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• Tim Berners-Lee says Facebook is a trap
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• Mathematical explanation of music and white/black notes in a piano
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• Simple kernel attack: Eat 100% CPU, works under guest, no way to protect
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• What I Learned From FarmVille - So You Don’t Have To Play It
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• Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
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• Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
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• U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More
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• Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-25

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

• When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars
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• 1 pixel by 5 pixel font
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• My Y Combinator Interview
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• The Insanity Virus
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• Sony's next-gen application platform built on Objective C/GNUStep
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• Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized
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• Steal This Presentation
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• Matt Blaze: No, You Can't Have My Slides
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• Donate few bucks to Wikipedia (We're all using it on a daily basis, aren't we?)
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• Small startup hits Google paydirt
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-24

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

• How I filled two dumpsters and went paperless
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• Wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods
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• Why we’re really happy with AppEngine (and not going anywhere else)
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• What Android is
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• How much startup stock options are worth
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• Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend
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• Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser
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• Ask HN: Why does no one talk about working or interviewing for Apple?
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• SSH Commands / Tricks
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• How to build discipline and brainwash yourself
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-23

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

• What should a developer know before building a public web site?
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• How to Catch a Cheater
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• Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes
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• Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down
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• Make Facebook Angry, And They’ll Censor You Into Oblivion
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• A Vegan No More
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• North Korea Fires Rockets at South Korean Island
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• Websockets are awesome (you can see everyone's cursor)! Please donate yours
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• Hacker's Guide to Tea
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• I Quit Hacker News
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-22

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

• Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
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• Personal Surveillance Drones are here.
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• My Y Combinator interview.
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• Worst gadget ever? Ars reviews a $99 Android tablet
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• Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch
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• Berners-Lee: Facebook 'threatens' web future
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• What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?
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• Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
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• Google Launches Plugin That Fuses Microsoft Office With Google Docs
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• SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-21

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

• 128-bit storage: are you high?
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• LaTeX coffee stains
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• A Collection of Useful .gitignore Templates
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• Bill Gates: End teacher bonuses based on master's degrees and seniority
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• Instapaper's backup method
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• Prof Gives Lecture to Prove He Knows Students Cheated; Over 200 Students Confess
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• Nude.js | Nudity detection with JavaScript and HTMLCanvas
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• π does not equal 4
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• Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.
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• Goodbye, Google App Engine
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-20

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

• Is there a 4th missing component in the mechanical world?
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• The man who writes your students' papers tells his story
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• Let's Code... an MMO
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• Where Are the Android Killer Apps?
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• A Google Interviewing Story
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• Oregon Senator effectively kills Internet censorship bill
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• Hacking Ikea products to make them personal
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• How I Incorporated My Startup
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• Who is living off their startup fulltime?
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• Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-19

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

• Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
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• Brave New World banned from High School curriculum
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• Paychecks Exposed: Google, Apple, Facebook and More
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• Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cell Phones Searched at Border
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• Playboy Interview with Steven Jobs Circa 1985
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• PG on the cover of Forbes
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• Demo: Pure CSS GUI icons, no images (experimental).
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• SSH scans - I caught one
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• Why the 8 Hour Workday Doesn’t Make Sense
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• Faking it.
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-18

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

• AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Basketball Team
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• Rare Star Trek: The Next Generation Pictures
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• Buddhism and Happiness: Sitting Quietly, Doing Something
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• An Awesome Book
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• Introducing the American Traveler Dignity Act
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• Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
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• Ron Paul: Airport Scanners: Enough is Enough
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• Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser
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• Chance of Dying From Backscatter Radiation Same as Chance of Terrorism
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• The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-17

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

• Incubator Incubator - Making All Your Incubation Dreams Come True
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• EFF: How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly
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• A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"
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• 100 Naked Citizens: 100 Leaked Body Scans
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• Hacking the Kinect - How to hack USB device drivers
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• Hacker News India
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• Reporting a bug on a fragile analysis
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• Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN
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• The guy who ordered the body scanners now works for the company that makes them
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• Open ID Is A Nightmare
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-16

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

• Scott Adams: FaceBook Killer
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• Cracking Passwords In The Cloud: Amazon’s New EC2 GPU Instances
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• Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer
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• GHC 7 is out: Haskell 2010 support; LLVM backend; new optimizer ...
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• Google Hotpot
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• For 18 minutes, China hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic
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• CSS Positioning 101
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• The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders
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• When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.
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• Google Voice for iPhone Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-15

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

• Is OpenTable Worth it?
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• Cause of today's Github outage
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• Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
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• I stood there, an American citizen, sexually assaulted by a government official
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• The Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances
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• Pragmatic Programmers Magazines (Free)
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• Visualizing how BitTorrent works.
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• 18' Canoe from One Sheet of Plywood
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• Why I feel like a fraud
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• How Israel handles airport security
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-14

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

• All the lonely people
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• The Things He Carried
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• The Shadow Scholar
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• CDE: Easily run a program on any linux without thinking about dependencies
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• The Two Things about Computer Programming
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• Tenacious C: Cool C IDE
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• Reddit’s Astonishing Altruism
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• TSA encounter at SAN
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• Budget Puzzle: You Fix the US Budget
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• According to the IRS you are a private contractor employed by Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-13

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

• Why Google can’t build Instagram
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• I broke textCAPTCHA with Python
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• Anic -- Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh
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• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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• How To Mass Export All Of Your Facebook Friends’ Private Email Addresses
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• Multi-tabling poker player plays 120 tables at a time, verified human
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• TextMate finally gets an update
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• Facebook's Paul Buchheit talks about Facebook, Google and his new gig
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• Dear Foursquare, Gowalla: Please Let’s Stop Pretending This Is Fun
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• Atomo, the programmer's programmable programming language
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-12

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

• Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers
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• An umbrella designed using aerodynamic theory to withstand 100km/h winds
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• An Open Letter To Business People
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• Google offers engineer $3.5M to not leave for Facebook
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• The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard
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• Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
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• Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
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• The one true REST explanation
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• Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar
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• Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-11

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

• Python progression path - From apprentice to guru
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• Flash Mob gone wrong
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• Was the Wheel of Fortune One Letter Solve Really a Miracle?
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• Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee
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• How I built 7books in under 4 weeks
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• Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 - Super fluid, beats everyone on sunspider
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• The 3 Programming Languages you need to Know
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• Why are we limited to JS in browsers - would a bytecode standard help?
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• A zombie keyboard, an app-store rejection, a call from Steve Jobs
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• Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you...
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-10

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

• 1.0 Is The Loneliest Number
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• Backbone.js adds Controllers and History
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• Daring Fireball: Apple's Pricing Advantage
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• Wherein I help you get a good job
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• Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
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• Google to give staff 10% raise
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• Battle of the Business Cards
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• Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)
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• Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
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• Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-09

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

• A new way to think about programs
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• We're moving. Goodbye Rackspace.
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• ⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W
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• World's largest association of pilots boycotts body scanners
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• Turns out, it is a river in Egypt
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• Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server
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• 1140px grid system. Time to scrap 960px?
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• When we have money we'll do X
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• Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds
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• The 18 things you must do when launching a new website
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-08

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

• The Scene Will Kill You
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• Full Hacker News database for download (posts, comments, points, date, username)
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• Sailing dead downwind faster than the wind. Impossible, but they did it.
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• Questions you'd be crazy not to ask at the start of your next project
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• Implementing the auto-buying bot from xkcd #576
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• My Android development income report
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• Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website
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• Opera holds the web's most valuable secret
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• What It's Like to Work at Apple
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• Full CSS3 Lightbox - Absolutely no JavaScript
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-07

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

• Paul Graham : uses this.
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• Code icebergs
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• The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine
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• JetMan
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• Amazon to buy Diapers.com for $540 million
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• The Myth of the Immortal Hamburger
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• Google App Engine is now much faster, after latest maintenance
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• The Airport Security Grope
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• "Why I bill hourly"
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• This is why sites choose to stay vulnerable to Firesheep
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-06

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

• Now that you have turned 22 can I please give you some advice...
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• 37signals' Chalk Dissected
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• Cool stuff you can do with netcat
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• Book review: Land of Lisp
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• Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers
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• Need a name for your startup? I wrote a domain name generator in Node.JS
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• Let's Do Lunch
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• Lessons learned from helping over 150 startups with marketing (from my Offer HN)
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• A hell of a time
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• Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-05

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

• What Happened to NewsBlur: A Hacker News Effect Post-Mortem
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• MySQL at Facebook
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• WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain
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• $80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything
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• Microsoft releases F# under Apache 2.0 license
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• Google: Facebook Can’t Import Our User Data Any Longer Without Reciprocity
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• Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland
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• How To Write a Learn X the Hard Way
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• Just buy this one
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• "Please take this down and write your own book." Zed Shaw
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-04

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

• If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft...
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• A latent gift from _why
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• Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense
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• Joe Stump: Your city sucks (And so does mine)
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• Google UX Researcher Explains the Social Networking Gay Bar Problem
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• Oracle nerfs MySQL and charges $2,000+ for 'Standard'
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• Soviet Image Editing Tool from 1987
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• "The web is considered 'public domain'"
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• EPIC Lawsuit to Suspend Deployment of Body Scanners at US Airports
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• S4
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-03

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

• Is user a monkey?
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• Calculus distilled into hours
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• Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web
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• Why airlines tend to be unionized
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• At My Wit’s End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us
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• Why Python rocks for research
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• Thank You, HN
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• Five Google Engineering Management Mistakes
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• Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache
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• The time I hacked my high school
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-02

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

• Cheezburger Network doesn't show new hires the bathroom until they check in code
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• Amazon S3 Price Reduction
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• Good YC Applications, More Interviews
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• Remind HN: Vote
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• A List Apart: Get started with Git
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• Analysis of 50+ requests for my "Offer HN" conversion rate optimization help
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• Pong written in both flash and HTML5. Left side is flash, right side is HTML5.
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• "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
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• Nerds in Mourning: A friend, father, and founder leaves us
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• If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-01

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

• Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook
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• Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)
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• Math prof challenges granting of PhD to unqualified student in court
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• The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.
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• Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders
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• How A Half-Broken Halloween Promotion Smashed Revenue Records
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• 8pen reinvents mobile keyboard
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• Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)
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• Google Sues The US Government For Only Considering Microsoft Solutions
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• The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-10-31

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

• Things Economists Agree On
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• "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
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• Just fucking figure it out
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• Stephen King tells everything you need to know about writing in 10 minutes
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• That mysterious J in emails
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• Why the San Francisco Fire Dept manufactures their own wooden ladders (video)
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• Tell HN: Uptick in mean-spirited comments
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• Are You A Pirate?
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• Life and How to Survive It (2008)
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• Use Vim Like A Pro
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