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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-30

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

• The Inexplicable War on Lemonade Stands
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• Apple acquired mind-blowing 3D mapping company C3 Technologies
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• An Elephant Burial
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• Ubuntu should zig to Apple’s zag
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• Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants
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• Easter Island heads have bodies
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• The LMAX Architecture - 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency
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• Awesome web development productivity tools
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• Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston
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• A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-29

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

• How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas
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• 40 Hour Work Weeks Suck
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• Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley
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• This One Hurts: Dr. Walter Bortz on Dr. John McCarthy
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• IOS 4 vs. 5, Pixel by Pixel (jp)
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• Publicly funded science should be open science
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• Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
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• Git is exploding
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• Addictive and sticky HTML5 experiment
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• Why we think there's a Multiverse, not just our Universe
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-28

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

• Google+ is now available with Google Apps
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• RSS Rant
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• Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license)
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• Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality
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• Hacker News Needs Honeypots
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• On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector
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• My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine
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• Mass-scale Cold Fusion either becomes reality or proved a scam today
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• Why I take sketch breaks instead of surfing the internet
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• Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-27

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

• Two amusing side channel attacks
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• The 99 percent
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• Codify: native coding environment for iPad
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• Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back – And It’s Worse than Ever
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• Starcraft 2 Automated Player
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• Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
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• Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
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• Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
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• Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction
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• Why We Moved Off The Cloud
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-26

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

• What it's like to skydive through a thunderstorm
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• Recruiters are, by and large, a waste of your time
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• Valve: Piracy Is More About Convenience Than Price
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• Lead Bullets
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• A little game to demonstrate timing attacks.
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• How I've Made 200,000$ in the iOS Education Market - Figures
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• Google Street View now includes interiors
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• Richard Stallman’s rider
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• Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS
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• Protect IP Renamed E-Parasites Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-25

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

• Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers (stock drops 28%)
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• The Roots of Lisp
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• John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby
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• Jonathan Ive on Steve Jobs and the fragility of ideas
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• Nest - The Learning Thermostat
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• Dropping out is probably not for you
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• It’s the founding CEO’s job to personally email the first 1000 users
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• Siri meets Eliza
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• Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area
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• GitHub open sources Hubot (chat bot)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-24

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

• The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages
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• How to hire an idiot
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• Ixoth
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• Give this company a child's drawing and they'll make it into a stuffed toy
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• Jeff Atwood On Parenthood
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• Amit Gupta needs you
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• Economics in One Lesson
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• What I learned from raising venture capital
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• Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage
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• John McCarthy Has Died
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-23

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

• An analysis of Steve Jobs tribute messages displayed by Apple
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• How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley
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• Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
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• Canadian researcher traces AIDS to single bush hunter from 1921
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• Will Dropouts Save America?
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• The Food Bubble (2010)
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• It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs
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• Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone
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• Lamer News
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• Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-22

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

• If you can't remember why onions are in there, take 'em out.
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• Who You Are
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• How the R-project is taking over statistical analysis software
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• Massive 15-year Study finds no link between cell phones, cancer
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• Stanford Computer Science '10-'11 Salary Survey Results
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• GitHub Secrets
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• SICP in Python
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• printf("goodbye, Dennis");
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• The Setup: Zed Shaw
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• "Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites, Leak Users' Names
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-21

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

• The coffeeshop fallacy
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• Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations
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• Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. Finish something at Finish Weekend.
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• What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report
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• Walking man animation using only CSS3
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• Steve Yegge: Follow Up to His Accidentally Public Rant
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• Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
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• Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents.
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• The + operator has been replaced.
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• The Dropbox API
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-20

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

• Supreme Court of Canada: No Liability for Linking
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• Lytro cameras are ready for preorder.
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• Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For
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• Jwz: Google's pseudonym support "obvious bullshit"
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• TechStars, Lies & Videotape
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• DuckDuckGo included in Opera
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• New HTTP Codes
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• List.js
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• Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]
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• 2D Game Art for Programmers
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-19

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

• Dropbox Said No To “Nine-Digit” Acquisition Offer From Steve Jobs
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• No TV for children under 2, urge doctors
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• Google to default to SSL version for logged in users
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• Python For The Web
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• How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups
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• RubyMonk - ruby lessons right in your browser
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• Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years
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• We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria
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• Google AI Challenge 2011
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• Signs that you are a bad programmer
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-18

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

• Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3
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• Why Not Haskell?
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• Hacked
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• 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
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• Video: Quantum Levitation
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• FSF: Campaign against windows 8 "secure boot"
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• TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API
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• Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup
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• So you think you know C: the Ksplice Pointer Challenge
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• 24 year old student lights match: Europe versus Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-17

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

• Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
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• Ubuntu and GNOME jump the shark
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• Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released
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• Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal
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• Mobile UI Patterns
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• OpenClassroom: Free video courses from Stanford University
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• Inserting Artificial Objects into Photographs
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• Ask HN: Screwed out of $12.8 million. Being Extorted. No Money for attorneys.
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• Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
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• Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-16

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

• GitLab - an open source clone of GitHub
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• A Programmer’s Greatest Enemy
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• Why Can't We Drink Sea Water?
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• Show HN: Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than an hour
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• Poor Man's Scalability
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• Dizzying but invisible depth
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• Tired of Being Tired
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• Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t).
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• There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe
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• How I retired in 9 years on a corporate programmer salary
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-15

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

• Metroid Source Code Expanded
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• How to Draw a Circle
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• BioCurious, a hackerspace for bio now open to public
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• How I live on $7,000 per year
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• Google Labs no more
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• Dear John Carmack.
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• Who killed videogames?
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• Amazon kindle source code
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• Serving at the Pleasure of the King
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• Government Was Very Involved Helping RIAA/MPAA Negotiate Six Strikes
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-14

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

• Forced Exercise's Effects on the Brain
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• Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released
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• USV invests in Duck Duck Go
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• Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser
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• 250x Speed Improvements with Microcaching (and No New Code)
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• Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On
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• TopCoder: Algorithm Tutorials
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• It takes three years to build a business
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• Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity
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• Google Killing Off Buzz and Code Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-13

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

• Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died
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• Dennis Ritchie
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• The last time I saw Steve Jobs
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• RIP, dmr
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• RIP, Dennis Ritchie, Father of Unix and C
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• Anti-foreword to the Unix haters handbook by dmr
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• Ubuntu 11.10 Released (Online Tour)
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• Bjarne Stroustrup on Dennis Ritchie: They said it couldn't be done, & he did it
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• Lights
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• IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-12

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

• Nginx, Inc. announces its Series A funding
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• How to speed up the Android Emulator by up to 400%
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• How My Popular Site was Banned by Google
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• Why your new programming language won't work
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• Show HN: my 4-y-o son drew a video game. He drew then we hacked together.
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• Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the black mock turtleneck uniform
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• Google Wave and the mythical man month
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• Steve's Google Platform rant
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• I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
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• Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-11

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

• NYTimes Sues US For Refusing To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of Patriot Act
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• Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup
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• Dalai Lama hangs out on Google+ after visa is denied
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• Jewish problems
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• Steve Jobs, BMW & eBay
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• "Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript
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• Photoshop 'unblur' leaves MAX audience gasping for air
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• Steve Jobs, LSD and Drug Freedom
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• Why Dart is not the language of the future.
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• Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-10

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

• Possible Governmental Backdoor Found ("case R2D2")
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• Your number one priority
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• Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project
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• What does "it's a good start" really mean.
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• Dart language
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• Deep C
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• Netflix kills Qwikster
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• Panic of the Plutocrats
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• Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
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• Letter from a psychopath
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-09

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

• Show HN: My network connection monitor for Mac
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• Vimroom
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• PyPy's future directions
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• Nobody Cares
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• HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
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• Hiding your data in plain sight: USB hardware hiding
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• Overtone
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• Guy Kawasaki: What I learned from Steve Jobs
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• Plink, a multiplayer HTML5 music game
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• Businessweek Magazine's Classy Tribute to Steve Jobs
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-08

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

• Programming languages worth checking out
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• Breaking a MacBook in memory of Steve Jobs
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• Why Education Companies Do Not Succeed
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• Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël
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• Time to fork the FSF
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• The Man Who Inspired Jobs
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• Chrome Remote Desktop extension by Google
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• Redditor burnt by Paypal's "Rolling Reserve" feature
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• "He offered the Apple II to Atari... we said no. No thank you."
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• German Chaos Computer Club analyzes and releases government malware
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-07

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

• Stephen Wolfram on Steve Jobs: A Few Memories
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• Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litigation
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• In Praise of Bad Steve
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• 3.5 Inches
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• Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night
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• 16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake
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• Photojojo, Jelly founder needs bone marrow match to save his life
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• Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 years of my life on
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• Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet
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• Colbert tribute to Steve Jobs
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-06

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

• Tim Cook: "No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve's death"
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• Bill Gates on Steve Jobs
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• Larry Page on Steve Jobs
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• Sergey Brin on Steve Jobs
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• President Obama on Steve Jobs: "He Changed the Way Each of Us Sees the World"
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• The Steve Jobs I Knew
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• Apple RIP Logo design
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• 0day vulnerability full disclosure: American Express
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• Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
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• Wozniak remembers Steve Jobs
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-05

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

• Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late
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• Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+
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• Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?
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• Searching for Mark Pilgrim
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• The end of cow clicker
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• Rob Pike comments on Ryan Dahl's rant
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• Impressive html5/css3 clock; no Flash.
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• Why Startup Hubs Work
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• Steve Jobs has died
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• Steve Jobs has passed away.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-04

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

• When "clever" goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices
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• How to get into Y Combinator
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• Patent Troll: Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'
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• The State of the Art is Terrible
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• I Think Your App Should Be Free
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• Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr.
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• Kindle Fire pre-orders exceeding 2,000 per hour
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• Node.js has jumped the shark
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• Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre.
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• Wikipedia shuts down Italian site because of Berlusconi's "Wiretapping Act"
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-03

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

• I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me into acquiring. Help
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• Homemade GPS Receiver
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• Is Haskell the Cure?
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• An open letter to Stripe: please come to Europe
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• Politician Violates His Own Two-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan
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• Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro
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• Bitbucket now rocks Git
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• Adobe acquires Typekit
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• Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server
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• FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-02

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

• Find apartments by commute times
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• VC Decries Airbnb’s Recent Funding for Founder Control and Cashout
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• Increasing Your Luck Surface Area and Yes, the Big Dogs Read Hacker News
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• The Little Book on CoffeeScript
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• Massive data stealing vulnerability found in many HTC Android phones
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• Markdown Editor for web developers, on Mac OS X
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• Facebook claims it does not track users, but files patent to do same
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• Meet the New Super People
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• Seven Minutes in Ubuntu: A Mac user's first impressions
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• Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-01

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

• Amazon in talks with HP to buy Palm
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• Client asks for 100% uptime
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• The Slashdot Effect from the Other Side
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• MIT’s ‘Artificial leaf’ makes fuel from sunlight
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• Sharding and IDs at Instagram
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• Neal Stephenson: Innovation Starvation
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• Mozilla's secure coding guidelines for web developers
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• How the FRA is Regulating Passenger Rail Out of Existence
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• Distrusting git
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-30

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

• Web Designers should all be using this idea by now: Font Icons.
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• Try Ruby
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• Scaling GitHub's Employees
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• "Algorithm" is not a four letter word
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• Mixpanel: We're hiring and here's where we're at.
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• “I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl
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• Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ...
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• Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
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• Build groundbreaking technology at MemSQL (YC W11)
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• Parse (S11) is hiring engineers.
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