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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-29

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

• Steve Wozniak: Windows Phone is more beautiful and intuitive than Android
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• How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes
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• Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger
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• IBM 1959 Job Post
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• The Dawn of Haiku OS
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• Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
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• My Prime Factorization Sweater
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• DNS tools for developers
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• How Geniuses Think
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• The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-28

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

• European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon
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• List of those who voted for and against CISPA
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• At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero
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• Rails 4 will establish a new background job queueing API
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• Your Bash Prompt Needs This
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• Cargo Cults and Interview Questions
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• Skype IP Lookup
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• Name: Illegitimate
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• Django is now (officially) on GitHub
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• Big Data's Big Problem: Little Talent
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-27

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

• Classic maths books reset with LaTeX on Project Gutenberg
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• Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.
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• Functional Programming in C++
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• The House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168
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• Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator
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• GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism
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• A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company
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• Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg
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• An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app
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• Incredibox - Background music for programming.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-26

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

• How I Collect Passwords
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• True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5
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• Introducing the New GitHub Graphs
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• Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity
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• If We Told You That, We Would Have to Shoot You
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• Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
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• How I Tricked Myself Into Being Awesome
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• Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service
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• A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2
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• "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-25

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

• Cubism.js: time series visualization
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• Firefox 12 released
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• Hasbro offers free merchandise to blogger, sends lawyers instead.
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• Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter
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• Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix
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• Descriptive Camera: A camera that prints a description, not an image
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• Is Psychology About to Come Undone?
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• Apollo program source code
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• How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals
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• How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-24

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

• Amazon Supply
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• I have no idea what I'm doing
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• One-line Tree In Python
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• Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled
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• We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m
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• "That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."
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• Pwning a Spammer's Keylogger
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• Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews. Here’s How You Fix It
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• Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
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• Google Drive
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-23

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

• Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft
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• Time for a return of the Cypherpunks, Crypto-Anarchists & Techno-Libertarians?
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• Instagram
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• The Average Font
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• Learning VIM while playing a game
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• The Underpants Project
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• Something is deeply broken in OS X memory management
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• Python Deployment Anti-Patterns
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• Modern Web Development - in-depth guide to web development tools
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• How to read Korean in 15 minutes
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-22

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

• The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia’s Source Code From Digital Death
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• Solving FizzBuzz with C++ compiler error messages
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• Let’s Build a Future Without Cars
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• How to cope with the Gmail redesign
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• The ugly side of Kickstarter
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• LightTable detailed critique: Concept vs Reality
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• This Homemade Headphone Amplifier is a Work of Art
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• Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything
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• Technical = Coder. Non-Technical = Non-Coder.
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• On concepts and realities
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-21

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

• IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight lithium-air battery
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• Linus talks about Apple laptops, Linux distributions, his work
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• Polygonal Map Generation For Games
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• HN Podcast #1: Kickstarter, Raspberry Pi, And Instagram
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• Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Judge Says
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• Hacker News Redesign
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• Meteor is now MIT licensed
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• Valve Employee Handbook
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• This Is 2016 Not 2012
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• The Top of My Todo List
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-20

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

• I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How
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• Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads
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• Amazing optical illusion or "glitch in the Matrix"?
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• The origins of the blink HTML element
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• "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."
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• FBI seizes riseup.net server
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• An actual PHP hammer with the claw on both sides
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• Pacman running on DCPU-16
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• Cook something or get out of the kitchen
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• NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-19

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

• Company backed by James Cameron & Google founders may mine asteroids
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• Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future
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• Stripe Gallery
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• Free beautiful UI elements for developers
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• AWS Marketplace
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• Digramly - build diagrams online with great ease for free
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• Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
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• The War On RSS
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• HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows
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• Redesign: Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-18

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

• The 501 Developer Manifesto
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• Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)
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• Pricing in reverse: use a product's price to figure out what you need to build
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• Make Your Email Hacker Proof
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• Man flies 737 from his garage
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• Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter
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• Sergey Brin's Clarification on Guardian article
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• I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer
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• The SpaceX cost record - By Elon Musk
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• Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-17

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

• Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.
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• Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
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• I have 404,772 users. Now what?
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• Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly)
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• IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes
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• A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1
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• Going With the Flow: Google’s Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
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• Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement
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• Semicolon: A language of semicolons
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• Light Table is on Kickstarter
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-16

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

• A great list of command-line tips
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• Ice
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• No I won't sign your NDA, here's why.
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• Unemployed game designer creates mind-blowing solar system explorer app
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• Kickstarter Is Totally Disrupting Consumer Electronics, Probably By Mistake
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• Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next
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• From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
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• Getting around the London 2012 branding police
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• What it takes to build great machine learning products
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• Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-15

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

• How I created and launched a website from the Internet café in Zimbabwe
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• How To Train Your Robot
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• CSS3 Scroll Effects
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• Phrack Issue #68
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• Atari Sketches of Laptops and Wikipedia from 1982
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• Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code”
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• Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
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• UK moves to restrict Internet freedom
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• Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine
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• "The infernal semicolon" by Brendan Eich
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-14

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

• Facebook supports horrible proposed Internet bill CISPA
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• Life's too short to write shitty software
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• Concurrency is not Parallelism (it's better) - A talk by Rob Pike
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• Fire Me, I Beg You
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• The Most Dangerous Gamer
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• Abrash on Valve: How I Got Here, What It's Like, and What I'm Doing
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• How I lost access to my Google account today
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• Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim
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• Awesome jQuery File Upload
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• Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. (2008)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-13

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

• ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data
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• The JOBS Act will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market
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• Pebble E-Paper Watch Raises $1M In 28 Hours
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• Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox
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• A Guided Tour through the Fundamentals of Git
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• Demonstrating responsive design to clients.
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• Don't tell me how to enable JavaScript
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• Light Table - a new IDE concept
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• Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s
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• A Year with MongoDB
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-12

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

• This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
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• When will I ever use math?
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• Rendering the world
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• Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes
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• Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
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• 500px Terms of Service
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• Backbone.js Fundamentals
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• Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend
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• A Baseline for Front-End Developers
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• Try right clicking GitHub's logo
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-11

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

• Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
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• Are People Finally Getting Bored with the Tech-Blog Circle Jerk?
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• "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader
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• 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
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• Google+ gets a redesign
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• How a computer boots up
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• Show HN: Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
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• Testing like the TSA
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• Groupon Kidz Club
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• 9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-10

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

• Yesod 1.0 - a robust, friendly, high performance web framework for Haskell
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• Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support
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• The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars
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• Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids
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• PHP: A fractal of bad design
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• PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter
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• Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times
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• Take Over The Galaxy with GitHub (DCPU16 support)
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• Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation
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• PHP Sucks But I Like It
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-09

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

• Exploit Linux Machines Through Fun Challenges
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• EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools"
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• An Emacs conference
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• All The Cheat Sheets An Up To Date Web Designer Needs: CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery
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• YC Facelift: EXEC
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• Why haven't we cured cancer yet?
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• Facebook acquires Instagram
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• Instagram is acquired by Facebook
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• Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83
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• Mosh: SSH for 2012
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-08

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

• Facebook Unsocial Reader
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• Digital Design Principles from the UK Gov
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• 3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up
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• Quora’s Demise
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• Experiment: Living Without A Home Internet Connection
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• Surf Air: Unlimited Flights for $1k/mo
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• The Apps are Too Damn Big
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• Getting Things Done For Hackers
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• Did everybody see what just happened? The pendulum has swung.
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• Github is making me feel stupid(er)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-07

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

• Speed Hashing
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• Why Users Don’t Fill Out Sign Up Forms
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• Google Maps Floor Plans
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• The Lisp Curse
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• Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000
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• Richard Stallman: How I do my Computing
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• Burnout - How it happened to me
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• Static analysis of an unknown compression format
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• When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what FB sends the cops
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• Notch live coding 0x10c
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-06

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

• You should be using Google Analytics to log your startup's client-side errors
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• A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering
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• How To Count A Billion Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory [Probabilistically]
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• Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours
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• Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection
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• Go: Severe memory problems on 32bit Linux
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• Save the Internet from the US
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• One hiring filter that works
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• The Obama administration is still voicing support for SOPA.
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• Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-05

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

• You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors
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• Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?
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• Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts
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• Just how big are porn sites?
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• What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Couldn't See Your Tweets?
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• Show HN: Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly
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• Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting
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• The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US
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• Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup
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• I don't hire unlucky people
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-04

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

• A turning point for GNU libc
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• Instagram for Android — Available Now.
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• Dear Y Combinator, we bet you we can solve a problem of yours in 72 hours.
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• I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code
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• Mozilla: Are We Slim Yet?
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• Notch's Specification for the In-Game DCPU-16
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• Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads
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• The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin
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• Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses
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• Google Announces Project Glass
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-03

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

• Ask HN: Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?
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• How my comment on TechCrunch got me a Facebook Cease and Desist
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• Leisure Suit Larry
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• Love hotels and Unicode
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• In praise of... text files and protocols
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• How Not To Sort By Average Rating
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• Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
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• C.S. Lewis on Writing
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• Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores
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• Notch's next game is an MMO
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-02

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

• MMO Asteroids
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• How to Train Your Brain to Remember Everything
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• The Photographic Science of Detecting Fake Lottery Tickets
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• The Future of Python HTTP
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• Poll: What is your primary operating system
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• Poll: How long have you been programming?
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• "Linux switch saved city millions and reduced user complaints"
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• Poll: Is the number of polls getting out of hand on HN?
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• Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages
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• I hereby resign
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-01

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

• Spooning by bitbucket
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• All April Fools' Day Jokes on the Web Are Here (so they don't clutter HN)
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• Paperfold CSS
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• MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, graphs it
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• Show HN: A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system
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• OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)
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• Maps TD - Google Maps-based Tower Defence.
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• Xkcd's mindboggling April Fools comic
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• Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-03-31

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

• Java 9 with GPU processing, Java 10 will be all-OOP without primitives
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• Introducing Grunt
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• How we came back after being shut down in four days
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• #1 CSRF Is A Vulnerability In All Browsers
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• Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
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• 5 + (-sqrt(1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))*cos(30*((1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2)))
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• Confessions of a car salesman
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• OSX For Hackers
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• Charlie Stross on Girls Around Me
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• Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps?
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