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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-28

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

• Amazon Prime members buy twice as much, don't compare on price
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• Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after Ruby on Rails
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• Dear Github, please fix the Watch-Button
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• I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave: Inside the online-shopping shipping machine
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• Linus Torvalds on C++
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• Why I Don't Do Unpaid Overtime and Neither Should You
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• Thinking different. - A look into the mental illness of a hacker
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• Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
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• The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
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• Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-27

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

• Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle
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• If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source
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• YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music
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• WikiLeaks begins publishing 5 million emails from Stratfor
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• Gigabit Internet for $80
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• How To Build a Naive Bayes Classifier
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• Modafinil and Startups
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• Open Web Device
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• Balsamiq integrates with UX.StackExchange.com
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• A Classic Startup Horror Story
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-26

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

• Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?
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• iBooks DRM has been cracked.
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• The Freedom and Perils of Living Alone
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• Interesting Windows Desktop UI Concept
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• Israel to destroy Palestinians' solar panels
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• Right versus pragmatic
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• The Shy Connector
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• Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy
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• Rails 4.0: PATCH will replace PUT as the primary HTTP method for updates
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• Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-25

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

• Redis 2.6 is near
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• PHP: v8.js
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• Tesla responds to "bricking" issue
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• The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks
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• Don’t lie to me, Argentina. Imagine a world without statistics
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• Best of Vim Tips
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• Learn Regex The Hard Way
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• Kill Math
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• Teller Reveals His Secrets
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• What Happens to the Coke in Coca-Cola?
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-24

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

• If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
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• Visual Studio '11' Announced
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• US Appeals Court: Forced Decryption Is Self-Incrimination
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• Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?
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• Woz on Creativity: Work Alone
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• Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
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• Microsoft needs Wizards: A 1984 Microsoft job posting
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• “What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen?”
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• A Senseless Conversation
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• TV is broken
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-23

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

• Rapportive (YC S10) Has Been Acquired By LinkedIn
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• Paul Graham: Why Y Combinator Replaces The Traditional Corporation
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• Faster-than-light neutrino result may have been due to bad connection
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• Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag
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• EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database
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• A neat way to fold a sheet of paper
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• The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (1991)
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• Tesla: Not so easily bricked
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• Why Do Some People Learn Faster?
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• The Internet Made Me Sad Today
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-22

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

• Facebook and many other sites also bypass Internet Explorer privacy controls
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• Agile: 5 years later and you're still doing it wrong
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• Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End
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• "It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem
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• Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
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• Sublime Text 2 Build 2181
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• How Exercise Fuels the Brain
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• Flash For Linux Will Only Be Available For Chrome
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• Cogs bad
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• The myth of the eight-hour sleep
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-21

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

• How to Acquire a Domain Name (That Someone Already Owns)
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• Do Things, Tell People.
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• Aussies' fix for 'stagnated' email
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• Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)
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• Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years
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• The US recording industry is stealing from me
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• New version of Apache HTTP Server released
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• Please Steal These webOS Features
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• How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%
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• Ubuntu for Android
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-20

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

• Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide
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• The Great Web Framework Shootout – On GitHub
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• Hackathons are nonsense
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• How to Make and Use a Transparency Grenade
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• The shutdown of library.nu
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• Why I Still Use Emacs
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• Amon - server monitoring, simplified logging and error tracking for web apps
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• Splash screens == sloth
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• From the IE Team: Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings
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• Twitter to move away from Hashbangs
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-19

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

• Mozilla to Certificate Authorities: no subordinate CAs for traffic interception
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• Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book
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• CyanogenMod Needs Your Help
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• Can guys in coffeeshops compete with celebrity entrepreneurs?
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• Lisp: It's Not About Macros, It's About Read
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• Chrome connects to three random domains at startup
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• How key-based cache expiration works
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• Online Python Tutor
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• Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes
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• How Forbes Stole a New York Times Article and Got All The Traffic
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-18

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

• Sloppy Reporting on the Self Driving Car
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• Redesigning the Windows Logo
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• "White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail
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• John Nash's Letter to the NSA
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• I would rather drink piss like Bear Grylls than log in with Facebook
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• Forget Self-Improvement
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• MusicForProgramming();
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• Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing
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• Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive
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• Open Source VLC media player 2.0.0 is out
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-17

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

• Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day
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• Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
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• How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
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• Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax
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• Hacking Hacker News
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• Designing better user interfaces
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• Canadian Digs Out Basement Using Only Radio Controlled Scale Tractors and Trucks
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• How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
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• Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
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• Did You Hear We Got Osama?
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-16

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

• Books every self-taught computer scientist should read
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• Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content
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• All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately
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• Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site
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• * { box-sizing: border-box } FTW
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• Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing
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• Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
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• Iranian Web Programmer’s Death Sentence to Be Carried Out Any Moment
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• Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to abandon the Mac App Store
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• Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-15

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

• How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?
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• Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’
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• How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his senior thesis
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• Can’t monetize free users? Try threatening them with legal action
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• Unix as IDE
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• The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia
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• Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site
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• Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to address books
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• The machine's view of time, if nanoseconds were seconds
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• 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-14

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

• I had no idea how to make custom maps, so I learnt by doing. You should too.
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• Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
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• Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool
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• BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV
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• Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists?
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• Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
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• Rediscovering the Rsync Algorithm
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• How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
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• Show HN: Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books
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• Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-13

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

• Why Concatenative Programming Matters
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• Why I use DuckDuckGo and You Should Too
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• The Fifty is awake again
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• MITx Opens First Course for Enrollment
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• Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
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• Build a house for less than $5000
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• The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
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• The story of the hardest platform game ever
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• Reddit takes a new direction
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• Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-12

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

• It's 2012 and your kids have an iPhone - Do you know where they are? I do.
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• Using HTML5/Canvas/Javascript to take screenshots
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• Coding tricks of game developers
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• Hijack - iPhone Sensors Thru Audio Jack
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• A "Moneyball" statician predicted Jeremy Lin's success 2 years ago
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• Podcasts for Hackers
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• Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs...
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• Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?
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• Ask HN: What are the good old ideas that still make money on the web?
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• What I've Learned About Smart People.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-11

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

• PyPy 1.8 - business as usual
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• I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist
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• Rules of a Zen programmer
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• 99 Problems But Money Ain't One
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• GitHub: About This Week's Availability
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• Dreamliner spells out "787" & Boeing logo over US during test flight
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• Web Standards
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• Tor project needs volunteers to help Iranian users access the internet
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• Show HN: Themes for Bootstrap
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• Why Python is Important for You
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-10

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

• Why I Don’t Host My Own Blog Anymore
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• Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram
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• Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap
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• Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Trolls’ Claim To Own the Interactive Web
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• Stripe raises $18 million from Sequoia
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• Double Fine raises $1m in less than 24hrs on Kickstarter
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• V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous - by Alan Moore
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• Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol
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• Germany refuses to sign ACTA (for now)
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• The Story of 2 $1 Million Projects in 24 Hours
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-09

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

• Fast enough VMs in fast enough time
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• Star Trek as a purely symbolic artifact of past times
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• Advanced Data Structures MIT
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• Stealing Your Address Book
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• The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition (full draft)
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• I have a bad feeling about this
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• Announcing Wolfram Alpha Pro
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• The FBI's files on Steve Jobs
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• Craig Silverstein, Google Employee #1, Leaving for Khan Academy
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• Show HN: Github for Designers
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-08

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

• You're solving the wrong problem
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• Ruby Trick Shots
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• LinkedIn Is Acquiring Contacts Start-Up Rapportive (YC S10)
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• A $5000 Chair
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• Hipster (like Path) uploads your address book emails to its servers
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• Vim University - Screencasts and Articles for Serious Vim Students
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• Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch
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• BBC confronts Facebook troll
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• Amazing ASCII interactive fluid animation
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• We are sorry
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-07

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

• The cause for all your Mac OS X mouse annoyances
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• What Happens When You Swear At Your Users
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• You Can’t Copyright Porn, Harassed BitTorrent Defendant Insists
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• Apple’s great GPL purge
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• Show HN: Favicon alert bubbles
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• Romanian Prime Minister Admits He Has No Idea Why Romania Signed ACTA
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• Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu
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• Introducing Chrome for Android
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• Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
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• Vim anti-patterns
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-06

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

• The sociology of drinking
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• Turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
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• Let's Build an MP3 Decoder
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• btjunkie says goodbye
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• 1k Rose - How a 3D Rose was made in under 1K of javascript
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• Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus
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• Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on()
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• Honeywell Files Patent Lawsuit Against Smart Thermostat Developer Nest
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• Suffering-oriented programming
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• Farewell Stack Exchange
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-05

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

• Silicon Valley’s engineering salaries are finally getting fair. Thank Facebook
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• Why French Parents Are Superior
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• Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co?
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• The Tesla Valve: One Way Flow With No Moving Parts
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• "I haven’t been drunk in 3 years... and I’ve been partying way more than you."
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• More damaging evidence on open plan offices
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• Facebook Is Using You
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• Udacity to offer entire CS curriculum, certifications to obtain a degree online
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• Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time
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• Producer vs. Consumer
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-04

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

• Polish Prime Minister suspends the ACTA ratification
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• Mac OSX Lion's scroll breaks the web
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• Why Facebook Connect Shouldn't Be Your Only Sign-in Option
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• Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic
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• "They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story
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• Never Make Counter-Offers
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• ShareLaTeX
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• How I Learned to Program
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• From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
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• Richard Stallman's Computer Setup
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-03

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

• Wikipedia's list of lists of lists
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• UK chemist on Elsevier's ban on textmining
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• Jobseekers Invited to “Apply Via API”
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• Reuters totally clueless about the meaning of "hacking"
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• My U.S. Border Nightmare
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• Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe
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• Anonymous intercepts confidential conference call between FBI and Scotland Yard
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• MusicForProgramming();
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• Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours
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• Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-02

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

• Free course on developing iPad applications from CMU's HCI institute
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• Inside Stripe
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• Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
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• Facebook's S-1 Filing
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• You're Overthinking It
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• France convicts Google Maps for unfair competition
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• Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi?
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• Handwriting to LaTeX maths
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• SSH tricks
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• Why I signed ACTA
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-01

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

• Yahoo Lays Off Flickr Support Staff
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• The Humble Bundle for Android (and Mac / Windows / Linux)
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• Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery
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• Why Lua?
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• Id Software Open Source releases on GitHub
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• Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter
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• Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies
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• Year of the storm
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• The Pirate Bay Moves to .SE Domain To Prevent Domain Seizure
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• Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret
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• Backbone 0.9.0 released
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• Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
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• No longer loving Google
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• I Was Just Told “You would not have made it through the weekend”
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• Tesla Model S Options and Pricing
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• Netherlands makes net neutrality a law
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• I Wasn't Paid
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• Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work
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• Hacking the Used Car Purchase
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