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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-30

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

• GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it.
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• My First Passive Income Project, One Year Later
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• Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later
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• The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men
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• Canada ditches the penny
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• SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork
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• Infinite Copyright Is Killing Culture
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• 10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server
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• I am very real
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• Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-29

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

• Shitter: Toilet Paper of Tweets
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• Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu
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• Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Rockets
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• Kickstarter: rails.app
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• Batman's Real Story
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• Paper
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• DuckDuckGo is blowing up
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• From MIT, a cure for all viruses?
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• Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?
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• A Woman’s Story
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-28

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

• How To GitHub: A Complete Guide to Forking, Branching, Squashing and Pulls
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• The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades
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• A Pinterest spammer tells all
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• Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
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• Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literally
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• Please do not take down the Sality botnet
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• Agile is a Sham
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• Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot
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• Go version 1 is released
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• Wind Map
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-27

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

• Rainbow.js - code syntax highlighting in 1.2kb
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• Girls and Computers
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• 16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft
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• Announcing Backlift: Deployment and Hosting for Backbone.js
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• 99Dresses (YC W12) wants to give women an infinite closet
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• Red Hat becomes the first open source company to amass a billion dollars
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• 10,000 People Sign Petition to Honor Alan Turing by Putting Him on the £10 Note
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• Turning down Zynga: Why I opted out of the $210M Omgpop buy
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• There's no speed limit (2009)
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• Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-26

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

• Always a starter, never a finisher.
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• A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure
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• Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend
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• Notepad++ 6.0 Released
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• "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
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• Redis persistence demystified
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• Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here’s Why
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• 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes
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• The universe is big. This big.
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• Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-25

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

• Consistent Hashing
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• How to explain your game to an asshole
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• "BitC isn't going to work in its current form"
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• Show HN: Tired of entering map directions on iPhone? I've streamlined it
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• Startups, Fix Your "From" Field
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• XBMC 11 is released
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• The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
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• How a language can be faster than C
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• Legit. Git for humans
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• James Cameron begins deepest dive
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-24

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

• agentzh's Nginx Tutorials
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• Show HN: KytePhone turns any Android into a kids-friendly phone
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• Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 22nm essentially worthless
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• ZeroVM: lightweight containers based on Google Native Client
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• Why I quit medicine
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• Show HN: Q&A for HN users
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• Pair (YC W12) is a Path for the Two of Us
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• 'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students
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• Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
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• Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-23

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

• Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis
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• Tacocopter - Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To You
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• Show HN: A Way To Hack HN's Karma
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• Show HN: This up votes itself
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• Frustro: The Impossible Typeface
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• Codename: Obtvse
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• MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons
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• Facebook: Legal action against employers asking for your password
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• Django 1.4 final released
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• Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-22

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

• All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards open source
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• Looks Like Zynga Just Bought OMGPOP For $200 Million
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• Rails is just an API
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• New OpenStreetMap tiles from Stamen: water color, black and white, terrain
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• You're crap and paid too much for the little work you actually do
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• What's that?
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• Apple's domains
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• To the Pirate Bay: a modest proposal
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• How To Get Media Coverage For Your Startup: A Complete Guide
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• Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-21

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

• Open-plan offices must die
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• Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor
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• Step by Step UI Design
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• Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3)
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• Man Successfully Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings
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• How to Apologize
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• Time Zones
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• Body Hacking: Thoughts Regarding My Magnet Implant
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• Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot
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• "Lighten up"
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-20

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

• The one interview question I always ask
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• Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era
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• All of Einstein's writings are now online
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• I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone
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• The Starter, the Architect, the Debugger and the Finisher
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• Functional Programming For The Rest of Us
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• Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996
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• Aziz Ansari releases DRM-free standup special for $5
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• From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)
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• Mailcheck.js - How we decreased sign up confirmation email bounces by 50%
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-19

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

• Have a .com web address? Know the legal risks
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• Ever heard of "Low orbit server stations"?
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• Go is amazing, period.
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• 60 Minutes: Elon Musk and SpaceX [video]
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• Why I Don't Want to Learn Go
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• Why is the DOS path character "\"?
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• Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program
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• Square open-sources Tesseract: fast filtering for coordinated views
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• Git project seeks discussion on "push" change
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• Fluid windows
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-18

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

• Sad but true: Napster '99 still smokes Spotify 2012
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• Linux Directory Structure (File System Structure) Explained with Examples
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• A Guide to Python's Magic Methods
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• The C Conference
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• Help Reddit build a recommender
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• Video shot from the Space Shuttle during launch
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• Megaupload Seizure Order “Null and Void” Says High Court
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• Writing and Speaking
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• About those vector icons
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• Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-17

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

• A+ for O'Reilly Customer Service: Keep the books and donate them
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• What you could do if you were Google and had their databases
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• Audacity 2.0 Released
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• EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
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• The myth of the overnight success
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• Ingo Molnar on what ails the Linux desktop
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• An entire Mobile OS built using HTML, CSS and JS - by Mozilla
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• Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix
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• Ambient bus arrival monitor from hacked Linksys WRT54GL
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• Stop writing classes...
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-16

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

• JQuery Scroll Path - Scroll a page along a custom path
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• Single Page Web Apps with Backbone.js
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• Militarizing your backyard with Python, Arduino, and computer vision.
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• How Y Combinator Started
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• ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
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• TED Talks joins Netflix's stable of streaming content
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• Shutting down a product? Open source it.
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• The New iPad's Screen Under the Microscope
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• The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists
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• This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-15

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

• No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto
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• Arch Linux turns 10
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• 88% there: "Don't Mess With The Internet" billboard in Lamar Smith's district
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• Peter Norvig to teach 'Design of Computer Programs' at Udacity
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• The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
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• Vector based UI design tool that generates ObjC
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• Where’s _why?
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• No way I am calling you for a price
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• Diablo III coming May 15
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• Kevin Rose Will Join Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-14

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

• Play Framework 2.0 Final released
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• Google I/O 2012
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• I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook
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• After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
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• New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea
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• Django's future, and Python 3
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• Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
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• Man finds his way home using Google Earth - after 25 years
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• Poll: Do you test your code?
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• Dear "Landlord"
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-13

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

• Show HN: I decided to document and share my high-level CSS best practices
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• Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per minute
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• Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
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• Intro to Social Hacking: How we lowered our cancellation rate by 90%
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• Our 3d printer is better than yours
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• Arm unveils 1mm x 1mm 32bit chip: "years of battery life"
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• Indian Government uses special powers to slash cancer drug price by 97%
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• Yahoo Crosses The Line
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• Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to challenge fossil fuels
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• Why I Left Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-12

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

• PSN automatically "roots" your Facebook, no permission granted.
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• The Caging of America
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• Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam
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• Rabbit holes: Why being smart hurts your productivity
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• A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop
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• A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children
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• The freedom to drink coffee
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• Defining Property
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• Paypal Does it Again
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• Posterous acquired by Twitter
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-11

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

• Is Intelligence Self-Limiting?
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• French comic-book artist "Moebius" dies
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• Interactive map of Linux kernel
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• Pycon 2012 Videos
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• Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?
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• It's not a talent shortage, it's a hiring problem
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• Paul Graham PyCon 2012 keynote
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• Time.is
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• Go to Trial - Crash the Justice System
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• Khan Academy iPad app launched
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-10

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

• Loopt acquired by payment card provider for $43.3m in cash
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• Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40
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• The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap
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• Eight years today
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• Transfer of Wikipedia sites from GoDaddy complete
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• Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
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• Hidden gems in Mac OS X
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• An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple's iPhone 4S webpage
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• Successful people are successful
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• Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-09

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

• The Evolution of a Python Programmer
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• Live ships map
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• New Reddit CEO reporting for duty
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• Kaspersky: Duqu Trojan uses 'unknown programming language'
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• A fresh new Dropbox on the web
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• Linus Torvalds: Programs exist for their users
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• Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay
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• Kara Is Self-Aware
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• Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
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• Paul Graham Keynote at PyCon
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-08

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

• Bsnes has emulated every SNES DSP
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• Great, Another Bootstrap Site
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• Why Bootstrap might be very important
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• Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?
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• Pinterest, We Have a Problem
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• Viral Video About Body Scanners
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• Advice From An Old Programmer
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• OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple
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• Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
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• TSA Threatens Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-07

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

• Colleges and Employers Demanding Facebook Passwords
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• Git Magic
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• Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'like')
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• Why Are Lawyers So Expensive Even With The Excess Supply Of Lawyers?
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• $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog
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• How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies
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• I’m an Engineer, Not a Compiler
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• SSH Key Audit on Github (required)
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• Apple releases Ipad 3
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• A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-06

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

• Docracy - Free (community curated) Legal Documents
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• A single tweet page is 2.0 MB
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• Learning to Code: The Roadmap I Wish I Had Been Given
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• Induction: A Polyglot Database Client For Mac OS X
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• Sometimes the bug isn't in your code, it's in the CPU
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• How to Hire a Programmer
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• Dropping Prices Again-- EC2, RDS, EMR and ElastiCache
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• Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter
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• Google Play
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• Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-05

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

• Dude, it's a laptop you want, not an iPad
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• Facebook uses bgsound to see if you have opened an email
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• GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.
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• How github was hacked
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• Responsible Disclosure Policy
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• Square Register
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• Mari0=Mario + Portal ..Open source game
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• How Homakov hacked GitHub & the line of code that could have prevented it
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• Rich Hickey's new project: datomic.com
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• There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-04

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

• How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In European Parliament
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• Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
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• Torvalds: More bitwise tricks
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• Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France
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• Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program
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• How I built a Hacker News mobile web app
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• Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub
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• Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from me.
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• "Egor, stop hacking Github"
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• Did GitHub Suspend Egor Homakov account?
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-03

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

• StackOverflow
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• Danish Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident
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• Aerial robots swarm the stage at TED [video]
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• Why is nobody using SSL Client Certificates?
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• Illinois judge: law barring recording police is unconstitutional
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• What HN users don't mean to be
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• Why you’ll always think your product is shit
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• Valve working on 'Steam Box' gaming console with hardware partners
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• How to contribute to an open source project: look for TODOs in code
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• Mercedes uses LEDs and a Camera to make "invisible car" for marketing
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-02

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

• About 33 bits
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• PHP 5.4.0 released
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• Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen
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• NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
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• Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to his employees
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• Linode Manager Security Incident
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• Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression
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• Grace Hopper on nanoseconds
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• Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “infinitely”
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• A violently true depiction of what war really is
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-01

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

• How To Be Happy Anywhere
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• Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers
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• How Not To Sell Software in 2012
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• Why upgrading your Linux Kernel will make your customers much happier
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• Save My House From Apple
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• Free your technical aesthetic from the 2010s
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• Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)
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• Show HN: Streak.com - Do sales, support and bug tracking all inside Gmail
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• Give it five minutes
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-02-29

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

• Key Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice
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• About normalize.css: a modern, HTML5-ready alternative to CSS resets
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• Submarine Cable Map
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• Ask HN: Help a Hacker Out
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• Comparing PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby
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• Raspberri PI Release Announcement
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• Standing invitation: if you want to talk software, I want to talk to you
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• Windows 8 Consumer Preview released.
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• Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar
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• TSA: Fail
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