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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8
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• Play on Heroku
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• Why no Steam, Notch?
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• How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?
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• Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear
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• Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
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• VimConf
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• Why must you laugh at my back end?
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• Early Photos of Y Combinator
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• ZeroCater is looking for people to talk to restaurants.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-29

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

• Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers
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• H-P's One-Year Plan
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• The "overlearning the game" problem
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• Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised
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• Learn Vim Progressively
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• Mixpanel: We're hiring and here's where we're at.
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• Applications Open for Winter 2012 YC Funding
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• Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody
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• Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this certificate
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• Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-28

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

• Rational Home Buying
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• How Apple Works
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• AT&T Now Charging You an Extra $2/Month For Not Using Enough Long Distance
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• Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Example
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• Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
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• Why I do not want to work at Google
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• Keymaster.js: painless keyboard shortcuts for javascript
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• Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News
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• Hacker News Like Button
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• Engineering role open at E la Carte (restaurant tablets, YC S10)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-27

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

• Why Clojure doesn't need invokedynamic
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• Backbone.js Screencast - Introduction and Views
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• Online course: Build your own simulated computer, assembler, lang, OS, & game
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• Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months
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• iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer
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• What is the exact difference between a terminal, a shell, a tty and a console?
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• 15 uncoupled simple pendulums of increasing lengths dance together
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• Pentium-III autopsy
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• Experiments Show Gravity Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon
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• History made in India: Govt agrees to anti-corruption bill
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-26

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

• Happy 20th birthday, Linux
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• Verbling: The instant way to practice and learn a language
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• Dev-Team to Steve Jobs
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• Heroku for Java
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• A Short Rant About Hosting
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• Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.
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• What does $1265 of bugs look like?
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• How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA
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• New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer
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• Walking on a cube-shaped planet
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-25

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

• Peter Norvig on a 45-year-old article about a checkers-playing program
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• Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
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• What does 0^0 equal? Why do mathematicians and high school teachers disagree?
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• Steve Jobs' Best Quotes
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• Resigned
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• Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
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• Icon Ambulance
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• Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot
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• If I Launched a Startup - Cheat Sheet
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• To my fellow Hacker News contributors
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-24

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

• China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets
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• Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up
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• How Karma Should Be Measured
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• Russia plans $65bn tunnel to America
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• If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?
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• Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating via LDAP
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• When Not To Quit: Man Revived After 96 Minutes
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• Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow
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• Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
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• Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-23

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

• Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
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• Best algorithms book I ever read
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• Goodbye, shitty "Car extends Vehicle" object-orientation tutorial
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• Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours
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• Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached
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• A letter from _why
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• How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela
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• Introducing WebAPI
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• Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations.
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• Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-22

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

• List of vim plugins I use - with mini tutorials
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• GroupMe acquired by Skype
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• Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy?
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• Notch's 48-hour game: Prelude of the Chambered
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• Ask HN: What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?
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• Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
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• Your Code is My Hell
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• This is CoffeeScript
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• Mixpanel: We're hiring and here's where we're at.
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• Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-21

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

• Nym Wars (Google+ "real name" rules)
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• Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good
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• Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle In the USA
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• What is in your .vimrc
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• I am nothing
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• Notch is coding live again
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• HN now comes with HTTPS?
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• Why Arabic is Terrific
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• Is That Review a Fake?
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• A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-20

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

• How To Become A Better Programmer By Not Programming
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• IE9 deletes stuff
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• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
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• Apple phasing out developer access to the UDID in iOS 5
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• 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD + F)
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• Marc Andreessen on Why Software is Eating the World
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• Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious.
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• Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21
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• If PHP Were British
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• Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-19

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

• Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface
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• Dead Man's Switch
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• "Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process."
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• PyPy 1.6 Released - Full Python 2.7.1 Implementation
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• Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys
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• Please confirm your email address
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• 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
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• The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees
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• Twitter Bootstrap
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• (YC S11) Senior Rails developer needed with a whole lot of polyglot in them
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-18

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

• I'm a phony. Are you?
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• Federal Circuit case renders many broadly written software patents invalid
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• How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous
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• Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For?
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• A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
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• The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Starring Morton’s Steakhouse
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• Updated US immigration rules: H1-B can work for own company
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• Spin.js, a pure JS spinner
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• It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
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• Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-17

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

• 58,000 Sign Up for Stanford AI Course
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• $80 Android Phone Sells Like Hotcakes in Kenya, the World Next?
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• The Arduino Solution to Selectively Mute Over-Exposed Celebrities
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• Fast-growing YC S11 startup (3M monthly uniques) looking for 1st employee
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• Wolfenstein 1D
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• The 50 Best Websites of 2011
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• How Browsers Work
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• How DuckDuckGo got in Time's best websites
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• Hey, Bethesda Let’s settle this
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• Payments Company Seeking Front-End Engineer
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-16

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

• YC NYC, September 26
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• You can list a directory containing 8 million files But not with ls..
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• Mixpanel: We're hiring and here's where we're at.
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• Stanford Fall 2011 - Introduction to Databases
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• Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning
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• SpaceX to fly to International Space Station in November
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• Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)
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• Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free
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• SSH productivity tips
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• Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-15

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

• False confessions
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• Issac Asimov: What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
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• A writer leaves Microsoft Word
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• Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich
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• Dear procrastinator
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• Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
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• Google to acquire Motorola
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• Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say
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• Joyent Open Sources SmartOS: Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM
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• Edit like an Ace
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-14

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

• Silence: Because I talked so rarely, people took the time to listen to me
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• The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization
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• Hyperpolyglot: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
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• Requests: HTTP for Humans
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• Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful?
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• 2005 Zuckerberg Didn't Want To Take On The World
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• The quick website launch checklist
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• Perlis Languages
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• WebGL Water Simulation
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• Head of Marketing (Employee #1) @ YC Startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-13

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

• The Shapes of CSS
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• Algorithms to enhance or transform images
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• Welcome to the Cloud - "Your Apple ID has been disabled."
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• PicPlum (YC S11): Beautiful Prints, Automatically Mailed for You
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• MobileWorks (YC S11) is a Hands-Off Mechanical Turk
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• Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger
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• YC-backed digital publisher looking for an early backend engineer
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• C++ 11 Approved
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• [Jobs] Interviewstreet (YC S11) looking for marketing geeks
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• Command line tools for web developers
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-12

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

• Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey
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• Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement
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• Ask HN: Help, I think Amazon is stealing my ebook
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• How to put your logo in a QR code
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• AeroFS - File Sync Without Servers
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• Summer 2011 YC company seeks CoffeeScript drinking frontend engineer
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• Use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad
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• Why you don't steal from a hacker.
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• YC S11 Company seeks Rails Architect
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• For the love of God, YC companies-to-be stop posting ambiguous job description
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-11

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

• DEF CON 19 - hackers get hacked
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• The Price of (Dev) Happiness: Part One
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• I Like PHP
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• Death to the 'noreply' mailbox
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• Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies
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• Xkcd Password Generator
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• Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.
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• New leukemia treatment "exceeded our wildest expectations"
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• 2011 Startup School
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• Google releases Games for Google+
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-10

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

• Gamification is bullshit
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• Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator
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• Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.
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• Jonathan's Card revealed as viral marketing campaign
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• 535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript
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• The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is live
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• Captchas To Keep Idiots Out Of Comment Threads
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• Detroit in Ruins
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• Winter is coming
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• HTML5 Boilerplate v2.0 released
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-09

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

• Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You
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• Mark Cuban: What Business is Wall Street in?
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• Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming
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• Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage
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• Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and other JS Languages
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• Fastest-growing YC S11 startup (3M monthly uniques) looking for 1st employee
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• Fastest-growing YC S11 startup (3M monthly uniques) looking for 1st employee
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• NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space
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• How to Level Up as a Developer
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• 5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-08

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

• Some People Understand REST and HTTP
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• The demise of the low level programmer
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• Lessons from a Design Legend (a before-and-after)
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• Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages
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• Retiring a Great Interview Problem
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• The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication
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• Redesigning the browser window
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• Why GNU grep is fast
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• Kicksend (YC S11) Launches To Make Sharing Big Files A Breeze
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• YC S11 Company Seeks Front-End Hacker
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-07

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

• Scott Adams: The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do
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• Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
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• DEF CON: The event that scares hackers
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• Mark Cuban: If you want to see more jobs created -- change patent laws
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• 10 people who don't matter (2006)
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• Who stole the Mona Lisa?
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• Groupon is the next Madoff, except big iBanks helped it rob investors
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• Top Gear caught faking another electric car "failure"
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• Just the Facts: S&P's $2 Trillion Mistake
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• Jonathan's Card
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-06

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

• Martin Fowler on Software Patents
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• Designing command-line interfaces
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• My Name Is Me - Supporting your freedom to choose the name you use online
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• Why Facebook and Google's Concept of "Real Names" Is Revolutionary
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• We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future
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• Give 100 Percent?
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• United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
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• How and Why Mixpanel Switched from Erlang to Python
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• A Brief Explanation of Microsoft's Anti-Google Patent FUD
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• Life on the Command Line
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-05

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

• Show HN: My weekend project - preview TV sizes on your wall
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• Groupon’s Strikeouts Reveal an Unspoken Truth
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• Parse (YC S11): A Heroku For Mobile Apps
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• Poll: Have you read SICP?
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• “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
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• How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit
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• What's a Closure?
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• Hackers Can Kill Diabetics w/ Insulin Pumps? Facts vs. Fear Mongering
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• Hacker puts a video cam on an RC truck and saves the lives of 6 soldiers
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• Are you a Facebook employee?
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-04

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

• Why I Quit My Job to Start a Tech Company
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• Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far
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• SICP is Under Attack
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• Free icons for any object in the world
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• Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
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• Why "Coupon Code" Should Not be a Field on Your Payment Form
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• Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile
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• $1 chip tests for HIV in 15 minutes, fits in your wallet
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• Zed Shaw: The wonderful Rob Sobers did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby
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• Cloudant (YC S08) is looking for a Lead Front-End Engineer
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-03

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

• 9800 Feet Underground at Kidd Creek Mine in Northern Ontario, Canada
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• How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code
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• How to remove yourself from all background check websites
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• Scalability
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• Update: Internet Explorer IQ story was bogus
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• Working Remotely
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• See what Google knows about you
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• Payments Company Seeking Front-End Engineer
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• That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story.
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• When patents attack Android
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-02

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

• Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple
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• Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook
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• Game of Thrones CGI
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• Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better
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• My experience with a 'negative review' scammer.
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• ViTunes
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• Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core
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• The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good
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• The Mother of All Interview Questions
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• PyPy is faster than C, again: string formatting
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-01

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

• My Standing Desk Experiment
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• Show HN: Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?
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• I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences"
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• I don't know how to IE6
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• Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
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• An iOS Developer Takes on Android
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• The future Firefox UI
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• Freshplum has d64a84456adc959f56de6af685d0dadd 8d8a1b73876ca678cc3afa372e5199de
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• Our Commitment to Trust & Safety
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-31

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

• Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM [video]
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• Plot thickens in Airbnb vacation rental horror story
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• Ask HN: Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions
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• Why God Hates German Words
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• A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency
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• Flame from Bill Gates Re: Windows Usability
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• A game with a windfall for a knowing few
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• Understanding the Git Workflow
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• I am an HFT Programmer
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• Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”
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