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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-30

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

• You Should Self-Publish
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• Rails 3 Cheat Sheets from Envy Labs
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• The Hot Girl Effect and Networking
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• "Space Jam" movie website, untouched since 1996
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• The (Real) Hot Girl Effect and Networking
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• Ask HN: I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?
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• 1960s IT department
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• Dead End Jobs: Are You Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?
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• Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison
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• Cambridge university refuses to censor student's thesis
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-29

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

• “Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" - nearly double the conversion rate.
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• Python - How to sort my paws?
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• Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon
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• Complete Noobs Guide to Hacking Nginx
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• The Ulam spiral: hidden structure among the prime numbers
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• Touching Your Junk: An Ontological Complaint
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• Woman with Immortal Cells
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• The Oatmeal (online cartoon) earns ~$1000/day
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• Sacked by a Google algorithm
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• Why your child's school bus has no seat belts
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-28

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

• Y Combinator-backed Humble Bundle sells $1.8M worth of indie games
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• How not to design a landing page: Tazo Tea
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• Low Skills Cause Procrastination
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• Why are restaurant web sites so bad?
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• Caring for your introvert
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• What Microsoft gets for $2 billion
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• Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor
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• Build apps not businesses.
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• After correcting for demographics, US schools fare better than EU/Asian schools
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• VimGolf.com - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-27

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

• UNIX/Linux Sysadmin Tutorials
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• Day in the life of a Googler (Matt Welsh)
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• 4Chan user survey results. Not many surprises.
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• Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers
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• Meld - a great visual diff and merge tool for linux
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• How to hide thinking at work so that the non-programmers don't suspect slacking
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• On Depression & Getting Help
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• The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired
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• Putin Orders Russian Move to GNU/Linux
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• RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-26

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

• Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM, Rails, and You
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• A response to "Erlang - overhyped or underestimated"
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• Income Inequality and the 'Superstar Effect'
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• Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money
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• Kod.app is open source
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• Windows-NT vs. CP/M
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• Heroku founder Adam Wiggins: The Legacy of the Self-Made Man (2008)
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• Lisa Zhang, Facebook Data Intern: Things I learned
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• The progress bar illusion
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• Show HN: Radi, my HTML5 content creation app (Mac)
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-25

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

• Skype Outage – I run a supernode and here’s what I think happened
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• The Internet is a public commons erected on private property
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• Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer
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• Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
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• What is Traitorware?
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• Mapping Income Distribution by Religious Belief
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• Zombie.js -- headless full-stack testing using node.js
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• Today you, tomorrow me [from 1982]
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• Merry Christmas, HN. Hackety Hack 1.0 is here.
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• Prof. Ross Anderson's response to a takedown request about security research
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-24

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

• The $20 Starbucks Test
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• Spelling Corrector in 21 lines of Python
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• Unicode Snowman for You
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• The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman
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• Who Writes Wikipedia?
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• 1k 3D Christmas tree in Javascript
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• Google Engineer bails out student in jail
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• If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
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• Write code like you just learned how to program
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• CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-23

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

• Zinc: a low level language between assembler, C and C++ with Ruby-like syntax
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• More Mistakes Discovered In DHS's Domain Seizures
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• VirtualBox 4.0 released (link to changelog)
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• Hipmunk demos at Travel Innovation Summit (video)
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• Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited
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• DotCloud (YC S10) Mix and Match Cloud Platform Launches
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• My conversation with AT&T
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• Why Businesses Can’t Stand Free Markets
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• Merry Christmas HN
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• Pixel Art Scaling Algorithms
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-22

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

• WakeMate review
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• Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts (YC W10)
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• Theo de Raadt summarizes the OpenBSD IPSec "backdoor" situation
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• Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink
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• Schneier on Security: Recording the Police
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• Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
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• Paul Buchheit: Four Reasons Google is still Awesome
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• Homeland Security Proves It Knows Little About The Internet - Or The Law
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• The Simple Software That Could--But Probably Won't--Change the Face of Writing
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• How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-21

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

• Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness
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• Realtime encoding - over 150x faster
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• Title Junk
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• Startup Title Junk
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• Getting shot by a handgun
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• Mark Zuckerberg is Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?
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• I didn't really enjoy Y Combinator
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• Comic Sans Criminal
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• How to Become a Software Contractor
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• Netflix: Culture of Fear
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-20

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

• Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector
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• Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python
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• Conceding Defeat - The Internet is Stronger Than I Am
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• Flirting Social Network Likealittle Hits 20M Pageviews In 6 Weeks
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• How an Engineer Does Pizza
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• Kevin Smith’s Secrets To A Successful Life
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• Impact HTML5 Game Engine released
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• Pandora, Angry Birds, other apps selling private info to advertisers
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• You don't really want a million dollars
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• Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-19

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

• Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla’s Free School of Webcraft
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• The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
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• Paul Buchheit: The Cloud OS
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• Man deposits fake check in ATM, gets to keep the money. (1995)
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• Kod is a new Node.js scriptable code editor for OSX
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• WakeMates are ready
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• Minecraft developer streaming live while coding
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• A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning
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• Why I love math
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• Mathematics: The Most Misunderstood Subject
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-18

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

• Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and Google
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• Write your passwords down
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• An urgent appeal from git-scm.com maintainer Scott Chacon
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• Stored XSS Vulnerability in Amazon (or How to hack Amazon with a book)
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• How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea
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• FitFu (YC W11): Stay active anywhere
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• Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone
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• Bingo Card Creator (etc) Annual Report
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• A Physicist Solves the City
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• YC W11 Startup Social Network, 20M Pageviews in 6 Wks, Hiring Hackers/Designers
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-17

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

• Opera 11 goes final
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• Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
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• Introducing Word Lens
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• The Largest Prison Strike In American History Goes Ignored By US Media
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• Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam.
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• Dropbox hits 1.0
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• Delicious's Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire
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• What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript
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• Governments shouldn’t have a monopoly on Internet governance
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• What’s Next for Delicious?
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-16

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

• Paypal's logo designed to look like a recommendation?
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• Winning Isn't Normal
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• The MacGyver Approach to Winter Biking (Zip Ties)
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• Why You Need To Work For A Big Company
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• Down the 'ls' Rabbit Hole
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• BMW Burns Logo onto Cinema-Goers’ Eyes
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• Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (YC W09)
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• Google Body Browser
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• Netflix: Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS
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• Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-15

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

• Leaving .Net
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• Vmail - A Gmail client in Vim
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• Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC
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• If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming
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• How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You
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• For the First Time in History Man Cured of HIV
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• Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for being faster
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• What will kill Facebook?
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• Software Patents Shutdown RunwayFinder
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• Developer responds to allegations of FBI backdoor in OpenBSD IPSec
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-14

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

• Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
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• Database development mistakes made by application developers
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• A pink $16 pocket spectrum analyzer
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• The Hacker's Path
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• Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: "I Don't Think We Can Survive This Winter"
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• Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map
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• Today you, tomorrow me
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• How To Safely Store A Password
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• Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out
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• Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-13

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

• The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points
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• Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent
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• The War on Cameras
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• Check if your email is amongst those compromised in Gawker break-in
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• HN: We're starting a "Move to Silicon Valley" wiki. We could use some help.
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• What if we tested laws before passing them?
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• Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate
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• Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees
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• The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page
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• FreeBSD/EC2 lives
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-12

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

• No Jobs? Young Graduates Make Their Own
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• New US cybersecurity bill could threaten free software
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• The Viral Me: Inside Y Combinator
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• Comparing Compiler Optimizations
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• Terminal app for the Kindle
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• What's really wrong with BlackBerry
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• Why choose Tropo over Twilio
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• The Day MAME Saved My Ass
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• SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
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• Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-11

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

• 2600 Magazine condemns DoS attacks
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• Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users
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• OOP practiced backwards is "POO"
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• Using the Google Cr-48 for Coding
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• Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild Antikythera mechanism
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• How to impress Joel Spolsky
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• Anonymous sends a press release, but the author doesn't clear his metadata...
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• Ask HN: How do you cope with loneliness?
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• My crazy boss sold everything, bought a boat, and is sailing for an entire year
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• The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is...No.
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-10

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

• Kinect finally fulfills its Minority Report destiny
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• Engineering Is Not Science
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• How to reject a job candidate without being an asshole
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• What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.
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• Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science
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• Unladen Swallow is dead
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• A reminder for us all: The Hacker News newcomer welcome page.
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• Peter Seebach: How I learned C
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• Web Programming Is Hard
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• I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-09

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

• Stanford CS Book: Mining of Massive Datasets [pdf]
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• I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command
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• Visa.com Now Also Down Under DDoS
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• Copyright troll lawsuit blows up in face of Righthaven
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• Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Give Away Fortune
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• Paypal.com appears to be unavailable
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• Dropbox for Teams
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• How to detect a toxic customer
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• How to Fly 35,000 Miles, Visit 4 Continents, 9 Countries, and 15 Cities for $418
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• The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-08

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

• Home - Chrome OS
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• The Tree Slider - GitHub
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• Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash
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• PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal"
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• Tips for Intermediate Git Users
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• MasterCard under DDOS, can't process SecureCode online payments
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• Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
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• This is experimental. However, it could start a revolution in information access
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• EFF: Say No to Online Censorship
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• How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-07

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

• Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm in JavaScript
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• Google announces eBooks
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• AeroFS - Unlimited P2P File Sync
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• DecorMyEyes Merchant Vitaly Borker Arrested After NYT Piece On Google Rankings
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• Introducing Apache Wave
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• Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies
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• Assange arrested in London (BBC)
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• Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth
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• Learn Clojure
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• Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-06

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

• Introducing the New Profile
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• Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
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• Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
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• MathJax, beautiful math in all browsers
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• Developer Income Report #5 (Gave up a day job)
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• Appointment Reminder Launches
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• Android 2.3 Platform
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• Nexus S
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• Founder Control
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• "Whale Fail" - Google Books' Error Page
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-05

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

• How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves
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• Sick Linux Commands
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• Paypal alternatives
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• EFF: Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary
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• I'm a YC Winter 2011 startup looking for a(nother) technical co-founder
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• "Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own time." (Snap framework)
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• Plea HN: Any work?
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• With Domain Name Seizures Increasing, It's Time For A Decentralized DNS System
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• There is no talent
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• Captain Crunch needs your help
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-04

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

• Google Buying Manhattan Office Building for $1.9 Billion
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• Protect yourself from FireSheep with Amazon EC2 + OpenVPN for $0.50 a month
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• How an RC airplane buzzed the Statue of Liberty, with no arrests
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• Node.js vs Erlang: SyncPad's Experience
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• The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain what went wrong
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• Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up
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• Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
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• The first serious infowar is now engaged
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• Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing
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• It All Changes When the Founder Drives a Porsche
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-03

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

• Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? Take a Look
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• Happy Holidays from the App Engine team - 1.4.0 SDK released
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• You must learn JavaScript
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• It's not an arsenic-based life form
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• Code Fearlessly
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• MIT Entrance exam (1869)
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• Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations
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• Today's Coding Interview Game
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• The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker
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• The dark side of open source conferences [about women being harassed]
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-02

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

• Amazon Bows To US Censorship Pressure: Refuses To Host Wikileaks
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• Thanks HN: Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs
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• Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest
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• Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website
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• I just need a programmer
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• Bitly News
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• Microbes use arsenic in their DNA: Proves phosphorus is not required for life
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• Close the Washington Monument
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• The Full Stack, Part I
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• Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So “Readable”?
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-12-01

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

• Scale of the Universe
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• Thank HN: Design for Hackers
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• Main GNU source repository server compromised
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• Excellent analysis of Assange's Wikileaks motivations (from the horse's mouth)
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• BankSimple Launches Preview Site
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• Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)
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• The Best Free and Open Source Data Mining Software
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• Tablets
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• Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
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• Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-11-30

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

• How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment
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• The Truth about California: It's actually saving the rest of the USA
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• Google Beatbox
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• 140 Google Interview Questions
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• My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
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• Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
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• Sleep hacks
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• BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures
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• Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)
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• The only script in your head
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