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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 27, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Life Without Photoshop
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• Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters 2010 [pdf]
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• Super Mario Brothers GameBoy (and all GameBoy games) ported to HTML5
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• Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)
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• The joys of maintenance programming
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• I Don't Want to be a Teacher Any More
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• BitMate - BitTorrent For The Less Privileged
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• This is what it's like for an innocent man to spend thirty years in jail
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• Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?
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• Beautiful Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Lake Tahoe
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 26, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dear Google, I Have More Than 10,000 Contacts
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• Neat Algorithms - Flocking
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• You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations)
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• Why does Adobe Reader need so many updates?
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• Crawl Bank Accounts with the Ghost of Wesabe
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• The Unofficial Guide to Migrating Off of Google App Engine
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• Why didn't the Romans have hot air balloons?
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• IPhone 4 films final Discovery launch from 30,000 feet up.
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• Japan Airlines' CEO pays himself less than the pilots, takes the bus to work
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• Free Kindle This November
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 25, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault
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• Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics
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• JQuery 1.5.1 released, includes full IE 9 support
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• Redditors earning $100k+ a year, what are your secrets to your success?
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• Google Forecloses on Content Farms with "Farmer" Algorithm Update
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• Google rolls out algorithm change in the US
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• Anonymous vs. HBGary: the aftermath
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• The Colour Clock
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• Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret
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• I'm a cargo cult programmer, help me
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 24, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Eth0 no more?
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• Breakup Notifier Shut Down By Facebook
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• Cappuccino 0.9
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• JQuery Waypoints - execute a function whenever you scroll to an element
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• Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account
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• Why We Stick With PHP (and don't move to Ruby or Python)
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• Pattern: A web mining & natural language processing system for Python
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• New MacBook Pro series
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• Thunderbolt
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• Calculus Revisited - a complete self-study calculus course from MIT OCW
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 23, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How We Made Github Fast (2009)
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• Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse
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• How HackerNews ruined my morning
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• What happens after Yahoo acquires you
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• Solving The Hacker News Problem
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• Rate my startup - Slowcop - measure your website's speed
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• Buying VMWare Fusion: A lesson in how to drive customers away
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• How to Sell your Company
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• WordPress names their 3.1 release: Reinhardt
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• What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 22, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• TinyGrab abandons iOS because of new App Store rules
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• Changes to my life as a result of just four weeks of daily meditation
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• Redis at Disqus
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• HelloFax (YC W11): Sign And Send Faxes From Your Browser, Without The Hassle
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• You Owe it to Yourself to be Old-School
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• Show HN: HackerBooks.com
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• We Are the App Store
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• Fabric Python with Cleaner API and Parallel Deployment
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• Show HN: Remote Jobs (our answer to "Who Is Hiring Remote Workers?")
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• Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 21, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Quora vs. StackExchange: Why, Joel, Why?
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• Libya Shuts Down Internet
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• Why I don't care very much about tablets anymore
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• Python 3.2 Released
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• Show HN: Breakup Notifier
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• Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light
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• An Open Letter to Apple on the Readability App rejection
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• The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2
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• Homeowner forecloses on Wells Fargo office, becomes folk hero
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• Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 20, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A rare look into North Korea's famed Propaganda School
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• Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
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• Are founders really 1000x more valuable than their employees?
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• Bother Me, I'm Thinking
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• Ask HN: Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?
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• I finally understand why I'm not allowed to use Lisp
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• Ask HN: Is TDD/BDD hampering your startup's agility?
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• Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price
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• Geohot seeking donations for legal defense against Sony.
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• Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 19, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Modern Browsers Ship
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• When to Use PayPal vs. Merchant Account
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• MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
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• How reddit became reddit - the biggest smallest community online
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• 12 new file formats in the Google Docs Viewer
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• Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
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• Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government
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• Once again, praise kids for effort, not for 'smarts'
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• A practical use for space-filling curves
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• "It'll never work": a collection of failed predictions
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Can’t Tablet Makers Just Freaking Ship?
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• What Google knows about you
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• Real Life Model of M.C. Escher’s “Waterfall”
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• Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3
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• Show HN: What Do You Think Of My Resume?
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• Nissan Leaf
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• Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US
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• How to become Batman
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• Is Scheme Faster than C?
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• Goodbye to academic research
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google releases OnePass, a payment system for publishers
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• The Technology Behind Convore
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• Why are you people defending Apple?
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• The Cognitive Style of Unix
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• Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows
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• Langton's ant
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• Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone
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• It’s Not a Bubble, People; It’s a Pyramid Scheme
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• Poll: Tech Bubble?
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• The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All (Sockpuppet Management Software)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed?
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• How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night
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• Middle-earth according to Mordor - The Lord of the Rings retold
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• Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.
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• Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
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• IE9 vs. Firefox 4 (done in canvas)
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• Reminder: "Broken gets fixed, but shitty lasts forever"
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• U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’
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• Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson
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• I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I have seen the future and I am opposed
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• What would Feynman do?
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• Formula for love: X^2+(y-sqrt(x^2))^2=1
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• The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much
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• Nokia Plan B
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• The Sweden Solar System
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• C++ in Coders at Work
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• Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
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• Is IE9 a modern browser?
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• How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Get a Raise
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• Yes, The Khan Academy is the Future of Education
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• Nerd Fort
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• EFF Finds Evidence Of Over 40,000 Intelligence Violations By The FBI
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• Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
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• Christopher Monsanto gives up trying to delete PL articles
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• Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg
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• Lemmings is 20 years old today
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• IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight
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• New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Continuous Deployment
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• Stackoverflow: Are there any famous one-man-army programmers?
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• Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I’m Glad We Did It Anyway
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• Man places his genome in public domain, on Github
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• Acetaminophen and the War on Drugs (2009)
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• Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
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• Stephen Elop is the 7th biggest individual shareholder of Microsoft
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• Stuxnet is now on GitHub
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• Why Non-engineers Think Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups
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• HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• BBC To Delete 172 Websites Due to Budget Cuts, Geek Saves Them for $3.99
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• Pervasive myths about older software developers
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• GroupOn, LivingSocial engaging in questionable practices
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• Khan Academy and BitTorrent Partner to Distribute Educational Videos
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• Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?
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• Reddit AmA: Director of the first ISP to challenge the USA Patriot Act
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• Toyota, The Media Owe You an Apology
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• New string search algorithm
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• White House: What's Blocking Innovation in America? My Answer: IP Laws
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• Standalone sandboxed IE6, IE7, IE8 executables (Recovered after a takedown)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Office comparison: 37signals vs Zappos
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• Advanced sign-in security for your Google account
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• The Zen of Python by Example
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• Introducing the File Finder
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• TechCrunch Tours Dropbox Offices
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• Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team
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• Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0
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• 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
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• Hosni Mubarak finally steps down
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• How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sustainability
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• How The FCC Plans To Destroy GPS – A Simple Explanation
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• The Next Six Months
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• Full Instapaper API now available
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• How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
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• Broken Links
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• Why business analysts and project managers get higher salaries than programmers?
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• IBM's "Watson" finally ready for prime-time Jeopardy
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• Mubarak to step down tonight
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• Google Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication For Everyone.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to be 100% sure your startup idea is good
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• JQuery 1.5 released: .sub(), ajax rewrite, speed improvements, more
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• Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"
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• House Fails to Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers
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• Breaking the web with hash-bangs
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• The most common phone number: 214-748-3647
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• UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison
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• Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
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• Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet
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• HN now serving a million page views on weekdays
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Android Patterns
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• How My School and District Failed its Students
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• The Google I/O freebie I'm hoping for: Nothing
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• Airplane Mode
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• What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week
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• Random Startup Generator
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• How Much Money I Made From Side Projects In 2010
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• Startup America -- Dead on Arrival
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• Ditch Starbucks and work at the library
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• Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Oracle "sanitizes" Hudson's creator from wiki
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• Using git to manage a website
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• When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
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• AOL buys Huffington Post for $315mm in cash
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• Treesaver.js - JavaScript library for creating magazine style layouts
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• Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
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• The unfortunate math behind consulting companies
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• Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts
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• Brutal New York - 1965/95
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• "You've angered the hive"
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What is the most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?
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• Things to Never Say While Negotiating
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• Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
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• Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released
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• The Knack for Getting Money
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• How to Beat Procrastination
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• Why do programmers write apps and then make them free
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• Github Resume Generator
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• HackerBuddy
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• The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky Way Galaxy
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The git parable
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• Why PostgreSQL doesn't have query hints
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• XMPP creator's "Locker" -- personal social media aggregation platform
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• Show HN: my new project, an anti-snub dating site
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• Front-End Engineer wanted at Tutorspree (YC W11)
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• Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe
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• Google open sources "Contracts for Java"
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• Bing search results showing up in Google
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• Super Awesome Sylvia shows super simple Arduino
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• This may be the best resume I have ever seen
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.
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• 'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.'
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• What can you do in 2k LOC of C?
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• Why charging $12/year converts higher than $9.99
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• I pitched YC, was rejected, just closed a multi-million dollar round.
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• Ode to the App Review team
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• I'm graduating with a CS degree but I don't feel like I know how to program
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• Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook
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• The Type of Employee You Really Want: Porn Star
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• E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers
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• Rands in Repose: The Noise
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• Bing sets the record straight on recent accusations
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• Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson)
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• Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable
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• Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success
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• UBB overturned - Canada no longer biggest internet loser.
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• IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries
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• Poll: How old are you?
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• I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works
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• Apple responds: we want a cut of Amazon, Sony e-book sales
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• Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
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• What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate)
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• Why is Google so hysterically hypocritical about Bing using its public data?
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• Paypal's fraud prevention routine does it again
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• Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid
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• What it's like in Egypt: An email from my mom
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• Cached OkCupid Article: Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating
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• The 4-Hour Dentist
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-02-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The NYC subway system as a string instrument
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• Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
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• Tell HN: There is a Scammer Amongst Us
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• Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad
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• Readability's new service
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• Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308
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• Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
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• Free, Public Data Sets
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• Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impossible
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• Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Got Hacking? Git Hacking.
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• Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?
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• Plenty of Fish Hacked
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• Skype 5 for Mac blocks all webcam access by Flash. Skype says it is "by design"
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• Plenty Of Fish Hacked – Chris Russo’s explains how he did it
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• Farewell
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• Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (February 2011 Edition)
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• So Long and Thanks for all the Bits
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• JQuery 1.5 Released
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• Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
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