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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• If your client has a problem with a site, send them here and ask for details
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• Tim O'Reilly: Really, Google is evil now? Let's Get Real. How About Apple?
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• The Five Stages of Hosting
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• Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong
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• US bars friends over Twitter joke
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• The /bin/true Command and Copyright
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• Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think
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• Fixing the Python subprocess interface
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• GUM: A better CLI for Git
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• Ryan Dahl steps down
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google web fonts directory
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• Why Every Professional Should Consider Blogging
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• Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little Brother. Politely
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• What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
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• Stack Overflow answer explaining JS in the "Wat" talk
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• 25 Startup Ideas for 2012
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• Sorry, this blog post is not available in your country.
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• Ritalin Gone Wrong
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• Single-block collision for MD5
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• The ethics of brain boosting
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify
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• PyPy funded to begin support for Python 3 and Numpy
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• On switching to Arch Linux
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• Coding Horror: Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats
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• How I Develop Things and Why
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• Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees
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• Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org?
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• Paulo Coelho advertises on Pirate Bay front page
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• IcedCoffeeScript
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• YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable
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• How to Make It on Craigslist
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• Hackers have a twisted sense of humor. Watch this: if you laugh, you're one
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• Graphene: The perfect water filter
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• Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
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• What I Learned From Opening a Bookstore
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• This is what 864GB of RAM looks like now
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• How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?
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• Facebook to File for IPO Next Week
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• Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google at GitHub
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• Lisp in 32 lines of Ruby
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• HP open sources Enyo javascript framework from webOS, now cross platform
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• The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition
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• Reddit: 2012 State of the Servers
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• Show HN: my database engine for GPU
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• Cars kill cities
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• Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result
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• Scaling GitHub
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• Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding cycle
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mobile shift: You’ve probably underestimated just how big this is
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• Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback
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• Show HN: Craigslist Car Search
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• Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
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• Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit
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• Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit
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• Average Is Over
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• UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
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• Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each patient, advances to Stage 1 clinical trial
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• Google is FUBAR
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The New French Hacker-Artist Underground
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• Command and Conquer – Programming an RTS game in HTML5 and Javascript
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• Let's make TCP faster
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• Mozilla releases version 0.1 of the Rust programming language
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• Welcome Garry and Aaron
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• Hastebin
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• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
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• Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this
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• Is My MacBook Pro Always Listening?
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• Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My idea to "Kill Hollywood"
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• Amazon studios
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• Waking up at 5am to code
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• The Noun Project: Icons for everything
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• Stallman: Facebook is Mass Surveillance
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• Html5please
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• Udacity and the future of online universities
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• How Can A Free Conference Call Be Free?
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• Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking
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• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Reddit went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force
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• We are sorry to inform you
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• Fields medalist Tim Gowers: Elsevier — my part in its downfall
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• Polish Internet community goes nuts against ACTA
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• Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up
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• Google's "free food" is not free
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• ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content
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• Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement
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• Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Digital Devices
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• US customs blocking DVDs that depict "insurrection against the US"
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Haskell web programming (a simple tutorial)
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• Joel Spolsky's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup.
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• SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill
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• MPAA lied to Congress about the jobs number
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• Jonathan Coulton on MegaUpload and piracy
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• The Secret Document That Transformed China
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• Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood
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• Can we kill the music business too?
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• MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing Checks
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• How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Playing chicken with cat.jpg
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• Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress
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• The Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA
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• Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music
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• Vim ported to iOS
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• Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
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• Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game
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• Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload
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• The next SOPA
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• Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS
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• Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident
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• I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows
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• Sal Khan explains SOPA / PIPA
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• The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA
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• Maddox - I hope SOPA passes
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• Death sentence for Iranian web programmer
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• The Trello Tech Stack
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• A Word to the Resourceful
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• Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What the first web blackout looked like, 17 years ago
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• SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"
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• Wikipedia blackout page
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• Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page
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• Why I'm a Pirate
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• Stop SOAP
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• The Daily WTF goes white to "support" SOPA
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• No New Accounts Today
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• Congressman blacksout official .gov website
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• Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nearly 1000 of NY Tech protesting Senators on PIPA this Wed - join us, Valley
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• JSON will be a core type in PostgreSQL 9.2
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• What It’s Really Like to Work at Google
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• SOPA is a Red Herring
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• Elsevier = Evil
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• Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap [Not a comprehensive post]
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• Natural Language Processing with Python, free online
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• Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free
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• Google will protest SOPA using home page
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• SOPA not Dead. Hearings to Resume in Feb.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Learn C The Hard Way
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• Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000
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• Zappos.com customer database compromised
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• Login to your Google account by scanning a QR code
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• SOPA 'shelved' until consensus is found
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• Website outages and blackouts the right way
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• Making Love to Webkit
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• Trust is Fragile
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• On the Usability of Codecademy
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• Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Remain Diligent: SOPA and PIPA Must Be Squashed, Not Changed
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• Show HN: A visual explanation of Fisher–Yates shuffle
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• Search: .lenght - Github
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• This Is Why You Don't Go to the Gym
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• British student may be extradited to US on copyright charges
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• Don't submit to the SSL cert racket. You can get one for no charge
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• Schlep Blindness
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• Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA
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• Programming prodigy passes away at 16
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• Alexis Ohanian vs NBC - Debating SOPA
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA
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• Twitter Bootstrap Generator
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• Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation
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• Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
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• Google responds to the Mocality blog post
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• The Rise of the New Groupthink
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• Bill Gates Gives Away More Money Than The Entire US Foreign Aid Budget
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• Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
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• The White House's Response to SOPA
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• Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How rel=nofollow Works
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• Android Design
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• The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents
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• Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices
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• Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds
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• Google, what were you thinking?
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• Google's Kenyan ripoff?
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• DuckDuckGo gets a new look
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• New York City gets a Software Engineering High School
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• My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams
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• Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
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• ClojureScript One
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• Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
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• Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI
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• Ask PG: could you add the subdomain next to the article title?
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• Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit
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• Twss.js
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• Jon Stewart Talks SOPA, at Last
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• The author of SOPA is a copyright violator
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Don't write on the whiteboard
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• JavaScript Needs Blocks
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• Raspberry Pi: We’ve started manufacture
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• Introducing the Backbone.js Boilerplate
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• Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA
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• This Photograph Is Not Free
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• I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.
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• Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
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• This photograph is free
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• Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The $40 Standup Desk
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• Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates
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• True Scala complexity
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• Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky will address Congress on Jan 18th
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• Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
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• Why I Hate Android
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• How France’s Free will reinvent mobile
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• The anatomy of a ripoff
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• WordPress has left the building
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• How to nap
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Philosopher invents clever iPhone case
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• Feynman on explanations
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• Introducing "Python for Android"
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• Hacked memo leaked: Apple, Nokia, RIM supply backdoors for government?
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• UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed
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• Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes
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• A simple guide for getting started with git
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• In 1951 there was a children's U-238 Atomic Energy Lab playset for $50
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• Reddit successfully pressures Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to back off support of SOPA
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• The New Web Typography
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Man Embraces Useless Machines, and Absurdity Ensues
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• Facebook intimidates developer, bans him and his code for life
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• WebGL Nyan cat
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• Bootstrap for Facebook apps
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• CNN covers SOPA on homepage
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• Tools I Use - tmux
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• NGINX takes 2nd place in Web Servers from Microsoft IIS
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• Android app scans products, reveals SOPA support status of creator
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• Tell HN: Frustrated and feeling pretty useless at this point.
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• List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• GAGA-2
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• Minimum Viable SEO
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• Quick Salary Tip for Software Engineers
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• Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012
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• Al Gore Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA
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• Hackruiter (YC S10) Launches Hacker School
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• Open Source Visitor.js
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• This is why I don't give you a job
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• The Art of Unix Programming
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• Color Thief, script for grabbing the color palette from an image
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Web Giants Consider 'Nuclear Option' Blackout to Fight SOPA
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• Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
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• App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14.1 million entities
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• Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes
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• Visitor.js
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• SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren't Covering SOPA
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• How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body
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• Free Programming Ebooks
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• How Trello is different
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• Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social Network Analysis
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why do we pay sales commissions?
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• I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do?
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• Top TED Talks of 2011 To Inspire Tech Startups
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• Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”?
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• The Future of CouchDB
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• A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students
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• Nokia Maps 3D (WebGL)
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• Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers
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• Spain threatened with trade blacklist for not passing SOPA style law
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• California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Awesome but Useless
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• IE6 Usage Falls to Under 1% in U.S.
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• How to Participate in Hacker News
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• PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute
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• A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of
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• Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor
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• A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.
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• Why the Movie Industry Can't Innovate and the Result is SOPA
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• Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet
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• Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I am done with the freemium business model
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• What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
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• Show HN: How I built a self-driving (RC) car.
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• TileMill — an application for making beautiful maps
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• Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome
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• IPhone 4 in pure CSS3
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• Python for Humans
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• Resolutions for programmers
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• Poll: As a freelancer, how much do you bill per hour?
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• TVs are all awful
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to date a supermodel (or get dealflow or find cofounders)
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• How I Wrote and Self-Published a Book: Step by Step
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• Occupy Portland's Dec 3rd Tactic to Neutralize Police
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• Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations
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• The way people copy each other's linguistic style reveals their pecking order
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• New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
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• Belarus makes browsing foreign web sites a criminal offense
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• The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See
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• A Happy, Flourishing City With No Advertising
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• Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The best things and stuff of 2011 by Fogus
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• Happy New Year!
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• Full color laser TV
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• Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers
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• Best Papers in Computer Science up to 2011
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• Avoid Apress
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• Turning off Google search results indirection
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• There's no shame in code that is simply "good enough"
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)
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• Show HN: Scrollorama
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-12-31

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

• Stop reading this blog and learn something
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• I made progress bars using only CSS3. You can use them for free.
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• Facebook no longer supports IE7
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• The Magna Carta Essay
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• Download Entire Wikipedia for Offline Use With an HTML5 App
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• Sony, Nintendo, EA hide behind PR move. Still support SOPA
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• Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence?
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• Apple design chief Jonathan Ive awarded knighthood
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• Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation
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• Stop whining and start hiring remote workers
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