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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 29, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Flask 0.7 Released (Python Web Framework)
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• Revisiting 'Zork': What We Lost in the Transition to Visual Games
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• Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
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• Hipmunk now indicates which flights have Wi-Fi
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• Google Takeout: Download your data from Picasa, Contacts, Buzz and Profiles
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• Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products
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• New Google Web Fonts Interface
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• Dotjs — hack the web
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• First Night With Google Plus: This is Very Cool
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• Guide to Programming Clojure For Beginners
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 28, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Looking for designer number 1
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• Groupon leaks entire Indian user database
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• How (not) to sell your iOS app
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• How to take advantage of Redis just adding it to your stack
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• Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5
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• Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
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• Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good
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• Google+ Demo
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• Designing GitHub for Mac
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• Newly acquired Fanvibe (S10) looking for System Administrator lead
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-27

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

• Things you (probably) didn't know about xargs
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• Hacked Gmail Account
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• Why founding a 3-person startup with 0 revenue is better than working for GS
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• Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (TCP over 3G)
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• Testing Benford's Law
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• Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released
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• Paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting
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• Excited about iOS 5? Join Nowmov (YC W10) to unleash the potential of AirPlay
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• SearchYC is shutting down
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• Our office is too big -- we need some badass hackers to fill it up.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-26

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

• AT&T's Rube Golbergian Web Form
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• Solar-Powered 3D Printer that Prints Glass from Sand
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• LulzSec: 50 Days of Lulz statement
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• Hacker CS: The Khan Academy of Computer Science.
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• Lulzsec/gn0sis/AnonOps dox'd
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• I Spent A Coin (And I Liked It) — How I Bought Lunch in Manhattan with Bitcoins
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• JavaScript is Dead. Long Live JavaScript
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• Skype’s Worthless Employee Stock Option Plan: Here’s Why They Did It
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• Don't be rich, Live rich
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• Show HN: My weekend project, QR-codes for everybody
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-25

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

• Jeff Bezos commissioning a giant clock to last 10,000 years.
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• Profiling Go Programs
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• Loser-Pays makes lawsuits fairer in Europe. It could work here, too.
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• Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End
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• Bank of Canada: The New $100 Note
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• Research into hallucinogenic drugs begins to shake off decades of taboo
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• Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter
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• Making a Ponyo boat
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• OS X – Safe, yet horribly insecure
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• Sam Altman will clean your house for $5
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-24

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

• Porting Node to Windows With Microsoft’s Help
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• Google switches GTalk's VOIP protocol to Jingle
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• LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents
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• Team Fortress 2 now free forever
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• The Origin of the word Daemon
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• How to Make Text Look Interesting: Minimalist Web Design
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• 10000 things all CS students should do before graduating
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• Facebook autobot going berserker
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• Skype options turn out to be worthless
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• TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-23

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

• Why a*a*a*a*a*a cannot be optimized to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)?
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• Scaling with MongoDB (or how Urban Airship abandoned it for PostgreSQL)
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• The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes.
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• Optimizely Open-Sources Guiders.js, a Library to Help You Guide New Users
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• Q: Why can I access an out-of-scope C++ var? A: So you rent a hotel room...
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• Echoprint: Open-source music fingerprinting
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• Hackers needed to help build the “Wikipedia of everyone, ever” at 1000memories
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• Kind of Screwed
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• Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars
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• The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-22

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

• Edsger Dijkstra's note on starting array indices at 0 (pdf, 1982)
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• Please, make yourself uncomfortable
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• F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline
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• Revolutionary "Light Field" camera tech - shoot-first, focus-later
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• Michael Abrash on Quake: "Finish the product and you’ll be a hero."
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• GitHub for Mac
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• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
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• Ten apps is all I need
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• Poll: What database does your company use?
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• Be Employee or Intern #1
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-21

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

• Google discontinues support for IE7 in Google Apps
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• Dropbox Cofounder & CTO Arash Ferdowsi responds to yesterday's bug
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• You don't understand something until you think it's obvious.
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• Coding Horror: Performance is a Feature
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• EFF and Bitcoin
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• Nokia N9
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• Chrome dev on WebGL security and Microsoft bullshit
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• LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census
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• Firefox 5 is now officially released
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• Pinboard.in service limited - FBI raided hosting company and pulled equpiment
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-20

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

• Google reminds users to "Call Dad", makes users angry
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• Fish don't know they're in water
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• ICANN Approves generic top-level domains
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• Own Our Product Design.
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• DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
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• New security issue at Dropbox
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• Why I've built an alternative to Github
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• Join Nowmov (YC W10) to unleash the potential of AirPlay in iOS 5
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• Become first engineering hire at "most sought after" YC company
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• I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-19

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

• Chrome at 20% market share, IE9 less than IE7
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• Geeky Stats About Magic Mushrooms
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• Amen: the world's most famous sample and the rise of the musical copyright
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• Google Already had a Like Button (and other redundancy)
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• TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
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• Why Your Form Checkboxes Need to Have Label Tags
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• MIT professor's hack to recruit students
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• The story of the Gömböc
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• 500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash
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• Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-18

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

• Why you shouldn't start a startup
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• Apple’s iCloud Icon Uses The Golden Ratio
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• US Senators ignore unintended consequences of criminalizing embedding videos
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• An Open Letter To LulzSec
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• Facebook PR: Tonight We Dine In Hell
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• Software Businesses In 5 Hours A Week
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• High school grad builds 8-bit computer from scratch
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• JSON users: Avoid CSRFs by not using top-level arrays
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• The alternative Internet, WiFi based
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• Join Nowmov (W10) mobile team to replace your cable box with your iOS device!
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-17

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

• Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%
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• Instant Company
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• I don't program in my spare time. Does that make me a bad developer?
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• Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve Lives
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• Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?
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• The Clock in the Mountain
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• JavaScript mp3 decoder allows Firefox to play mp3 without flash
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• LulzSec: Why we do what we do
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• Jedberg leaves reddit
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• AOL Exposed: A Former AOL Employee Speaks Out
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-16

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

• Fantastic summary of some of the math pertinent to theoretical computer science.
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• A Look Inside the Process of One of the World’s Most Efficient Studiers
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• CSS Lint
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• CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility
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• Pdf.js: Rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript
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• Our office is too big -- we need some badass hackers to fill it up.
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• Ooops.
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• UseTheSource: a job board for hackers
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• Our office is too big -- we need some badass hackers to fill it up.
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• Advice From An Old Programmer
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-15

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

• What to Say To Someone Who is Sick
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• Troubled Startup Color Loses Cofounder Peter Pham
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• DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels
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• How Hackers Stole 200,000 Citi Accounts Just By Changing Numbers In The URL
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• Sleep Sort
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• Myths About Introverts
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• PDF Reader in JavaScript
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• ORM is an anti-pattern
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• "Most likely to succeed" YC W11 company is looking for its first engineer.
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• We've got 99 problems but traction ain't one
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-14

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

• What the hell is happening to rails?
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• ASCII diagram creator
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• Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive
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• If you develop web apps, don't do this.
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• ResizeMyBrowser
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• WTH is happening to Rails? I'll tell you.
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• Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade
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• What’s Up With All These Changes in Rails?
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• Bump (YC S09): Come To Our Magic Show!
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• Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-13

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

• Python idioms
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• Scala: The Static Language that Feels Dynamic (Bruce Eckel)
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• Aha Moments When Learning Git
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• Facebook users drop in the US and Canada
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• Why Google Earth Can't Show You Israel
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• Why I won't be using Groupon again.. A consumer perspective.
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• Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse
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• It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
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• Welcome Sam, Garry, Emmett, and Justin
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• Love startups but not a developer? We need biz dev hustlers.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-12

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

• Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users
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• After Three Months of Using a Standing Desk
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• Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS
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• Permanent home for Les Paul Google Logo
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• Detroit DIYer cooks up stronger, lighter steel, shames scientists
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• The Reduceron, a CPU designed for functional programs
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• Steve Jobs: Thank you for disobeying me
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• All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad
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• Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.
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• Tower Bridge bot killed by Twitter, replaced with marketing
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-11

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

• The man who screwed an entire country
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• Coding tricks I learnt at Apple
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• The checkered past of Groupon's chairman
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• How I Learned to Live Google-free
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• Taking Cold Showers
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• Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson's Turing Award speech)
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• War on Urchin
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• How we got the unusual symbol used for the Mac menu command key
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• The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop
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• 1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-10

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

• Code Quarterly's Interview with Rich Hickey
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• Done, that was easy. Keep your money, we do it for the lulz
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• Facebook Acquires Sofa
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• Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.
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• A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System
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• Protolol Jokes
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• For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation
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• How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper
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• Redditor Explains Why Apple Continue Making Frail Power Cables
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• CampusCred Seeking First Hire Engineer to Change the College Marketplace
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-09

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

• Normalize.css: An alternative to CSS resets
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• Git Tutorials for Beginners
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• Richard Dreyfuss' dramatic reading of the iTunes EULA
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• Advanced Computer Science Courses
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• Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday
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• My life in Accenture before startups
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• Apple copies rejected app
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• Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions
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• My Email Canary
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• Meanwhile, just East of Silicon Valley, in Tupelo Mississippi...
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-08

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

• iCloud’s Real Purpose is to Kill Windows
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• Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for very long periods of time’
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• Anonymous message to NATO
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• IPv6 Day Has Started
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• The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck.
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• Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus
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• "My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing."
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• The Dangerous Mr. Khan
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• Evernote Peek, The First iPad Smart Cover App
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• Failed entrepreneur, broke, unemployed, now taking care of aging parents. Help.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-07

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

• LulzSec Exposed
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• Mysterious number 6174
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• What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper
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• Reject the PROTECT IP Act
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• RSA finally comes clean: SecurID is compromised
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• How to steal a Russian airport
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• HTML Email Boilerplate
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• Hello Backbone.js - A step-by-step tutorial
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• Greplin hiring Javascript hacker - web, extensions, mobile, and Node
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• An eruption from the Sun that happened today
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-06

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

• Show HN: Log.io (Realtime log monitoring, powered by node.js + socket.io)
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• Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options
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• A brief Sony password analysis
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• What agile means to me (and why it never really works)
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• Piracy: are we being conned?
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• Intel significantly speeds up graphics under Linux (X.org)
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• Lessons From a Coffee Entrepreneur
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• Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29
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• Apple's iCloud will automatically store, sync data for free
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• Chart.io hiring engineer to disrupt enterprise analytics.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-05

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

• Hate Java? You’re fighting the wrong battle.
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• Suspension, Ban or Hellban?
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• How a 3 week business trip to the US got reduced to 3 hours
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• Fire the workaholics (2008)
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• HNSearch API Contest
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• Andrew Mason’s "I'm not answering that" technique
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• I moved to Singapore
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• Sony Music Brazil hacked
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• Ask HN: My Startup is Going to Die Because I Messed Up
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• Show HN: Google Charts done in Canvas, side project
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-04

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

• Google acquires Postrank.com
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• The depth and breadth of Python
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• GitHub, Collaboration, and Haters
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• Groupon is a straight-up Ponzi scheme
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• Google to offer for-pay Translate API
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• Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (2000)
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• How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code
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• LulzSec versus FBI (We Challenge You, NATO)
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• Kids who spot bullshit, and the adults who get upset about it
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• Hacker News Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-03

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

• Action and habit
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• Safari extension to hide Bitcoin stories on HN
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• Where Did Groupon’s Billion Dollars (Series G) Go?
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• How Perceptual Hashes Work
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• Google paper comparing performance of C++, Java, Scala, and Go [PDF]
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• Anonymous releases 10,365 e-mails from the Iranian government
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• Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour
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• $100k Revenues in One Month
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• Try to digest the Groupon story
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• Groupon is Effectively Insolvent
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-02

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

• Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
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• Google uncovers major account-hijacking campaign targeting senior US officials
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• Previewing Windows 8 (Video)
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• The Quora post that killed Bitcoins. Please discuss if his arguments are valid.
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• Skype protocol reverse engineered, source available
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• Alternative jQuery Documentation
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• The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk: webcomic copyright fight gets personal
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• Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer web
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• Groupon files for IPO
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• SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-01

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

• Productivity tips for the easily distracted
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• The Matt Cutts Debunking Flowchart
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• Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web
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• GitHub: Block the Bullies
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• Enough Is Enough
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)
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• Battleships: a ridiculous but awesome idea
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• Blunt and necessary review of programming language books.
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• Open source remakes of games you're still loving
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• Y Combinator Numbers
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-05-31

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

• How to send and reply to email
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• Firefox 6 - WebSockets are back
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• I will build your prototype
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• Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP
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• What I Learned From Fixing my Laptop's Motherboard
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• New Algorithm Impressively Depixelates Pixel Art
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• You don't get shit you don't ask for
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• The Revolutionary Birth Control Method for Men
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• How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company
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• This Guy Has My MacBook
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