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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-29

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

• Goodbye Facebook.
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• Google Chrome now works on iOS
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• Chrome for iOS
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• RIM announces $518 million loss, 5,000 job cuts, delays BB10 to 2013
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• It's a long life in the small Valley
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• JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
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• Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity
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• I’m Done Developing for Twitter
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• PHP Addiction
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• Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-28

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

• A visual Git reference
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• Valve Releases Source Filmmaker Beta
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• WakeMate Update
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• You're not the CEO - You're the Fucking Janitor
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• There is no retirement
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• Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works
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• Dotcom search warrants declared illegal
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• Google Now
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• Mega-victory: Kim Dotcom search warrants “invalid,” mansion raid “illegal”
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• Google launches Compute Engine
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-27

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

• NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js
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• Handsontable - Excel-like table editor in HTML & jQuery
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• The Recruiter Honeypot
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• Bridge is a new RPC framework for building modular services
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• Going Colo
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• A day in the life of a startup founder
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• Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business
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• Google I/O 2012
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• Nexus 7, Made for Google Play
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• Sergey Brin Demos Google Glass At I/O
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-26

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

• The fanless heatsink: Silent, dust-immune, and almost ready for prime time
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• Introducing Prose: A Content Editor for GitHub
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• Less is exponentially more
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• Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site
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• We know what you're doing
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• Brackets: The Open Source Code Editor for the Web
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• YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
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• EU Commissioner Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By EU Parliament
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• Sublime Text 2.0 Released
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• MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-25

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

• Java 8 Lambdas
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• I work for The Internet now
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• Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
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• Cool URIs don't change.
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• Wikipedia founder steps in to help UK hacker
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• Apple Quietly Pulls Claims of Virus Immunity
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• Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out
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• It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released
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• FuckItJS: Runs your javascript code whether your compiler likes it or not.
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• Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-24

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

• Judge throws out entire Apple/Motorola case
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• Google maps cut prices by 88%
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• Data Mining Exec Pays For Burgers In Cash To Avoid Insurance Company Snooping
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• Cool hack to take a photo of yourself on every commit
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• Craigslist, LinkedIn, Netflix, and others don't owe us anything.
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• Boxopus lets you download torrents to Dropbox anonymously + w/o a Torrent client
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• Why are Europeans White?
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• Perspective - 2D/3D puzzle platformer
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• Dear Microsoft: fsf.org is not a "gambling site"
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• Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here”
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-23

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

• Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2
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• Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere
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• Haskell powered companies
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• Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist
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• Interactive visualization of commute times for all US cities
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• Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
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• Save Padmapper: Craigslist is wrong to shut them down. An open letter to Craig
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• Where has all the money in the world gone?
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• Alan Turing's Suicide in Doubt
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• Leadership, Strategy and Qt
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-22

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

• Download.com wrapping downloads
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• Woman Who Couldn’t Be Intimidated by Citigroup Wins $31 Million
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• Why do you think people are poor?
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• Peity - Little charts for little projects
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• Show HN: vi in your browser - edit files directly from Dropbox, etc
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• I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech
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• The Scam Wall Street Learned from the Mafia
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• We will try to stop fixing bugs in PHP
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• Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning
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• Bye Bye Craigslist
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-21

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

• Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
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• Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than programmers?
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• Why I'm Doing It All Wrong
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• How Reddit's cofounders built Reddit with an army of fake accounts
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• Mihai Pătraşcu 1982–2012
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• Vim clutch
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• Show HN: The Bastards Book of Photography
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• I introduced my 5yo and 2yo to startx and xmonad. They’re delighted.
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• Twitter Completely Down
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• Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-20

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

• City of Ruins
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• NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You
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• What They Don't Tell You About Public Speaking
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• UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board
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• A standing desk for $22
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• If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you are an idiot
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• Experiment: Unit testing isn't enough; You need static types, too
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• Introducing The New IFTTT
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• Why go out?
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• Why Your McD's Burger Doesn't Look Like the One in the Ad
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-19

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

• Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router
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• I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me.
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• Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time
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• Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet
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• A better git log
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• Backbone UI
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• The Great German Energy Experiment
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• Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
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• The Little C Function From Hell
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• Leaked Documents Show the U.N.'s Internet Power Grab...
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-18

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

• Ghost.py - a webkit web client written in python.
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• You Are the Exception to the Rule
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• Show HN: Redis Dashboard
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• List of Unexplained Sounds
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• I don't "get" art
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• You Should Downvote Contrarian Anecdotes
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• Netflix Quietly Smothers 3rd Party App Ecosystem
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• Why you need your own company
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• iOS App Store - Fake Microsoft Word 2012 Approved
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• Two New YC Partners: Kirsty Nathoo and Carolynn Levy
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-17

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

• Actually using Ed
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• Ask HN: How do you learn to develop exploits?
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• Sebastian Thrun AMA on reddit
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• Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds
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• How we gave colors names and it messed with our brains (part II)
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• How we reduced our cancellation rate by 87.5%
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• Youtube claims I don't own my own film
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• Orrick's Legal docs for startups
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• Ask HN: How to setup a company in U.S. without being there?
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• How I Store My 1's and 0′s: ZFS + Bargain HP Microserver = Joy
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-16

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

• Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
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• Announcing SPDY draft 2 implementation in nginx
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• How 30 days without social media changed my life
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• The Slow Web
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• THN Magazine Stole Our Code and Design
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• Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown)
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• Tech press misses Google/Amazon name grab
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• How Depressives Surf the Web
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• Using a Square Reader with a reel-to-reel
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• Zero-day Exploit Price List
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-15

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

• How SoundCloud built its new single-page main website using Backbone.js
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• Voyager 1 this close to leaving solar system
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• Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser
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• It all began with a strange email
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• Yammer agrees to Microsoft's $1 billion acquisition offer
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• 9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians
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• A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison
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• The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
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• The Oatmeal's lawyer responds to FunnyJunk
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• How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-14

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

• Using unix as your IDE
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• Newegg: No, We'll Totally Take Returns After You Install Linux
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• Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major anti-spam move
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• Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
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• DRM in the cinema
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• C vs GO
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• Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy
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• Lawyer attacking The Oatmeal shocked by big mean Internet’s reaction
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• Skype 4.0 for Linux
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• June 30th 2012 will be 1 second longer: 23:59:60
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-13

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

• HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources
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• I know someone whose 2-factor phone authentication was hacked...
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• Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots
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• My first month freelancing
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• Why Smart People Are Stupid
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• The Silencing of Maya
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• Linus Torvalds: Linux succeed thanks to selfishness and trust
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• DragonBox: Algebra beats Angry birds
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• Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
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• Rockstar condemns Max Payne 3 cheaters to play only against each other
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-12

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

• Chromium Blog: A Tale Of Two Pwnies (Part 2)
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• Mac Pro gets half-assed “update”
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• Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000%
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• The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
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• Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations
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• Flame is Lame
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• Civ II game a decade old
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• Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user installed Linux
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• I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.
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• Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-11

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

• How to overcome resistance to work
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• Try Haxe
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• I am a developer, yet I outsource the development of my startup
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• Little Big Details
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• Betteridge's Law of Headlines
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• Learn C The Hard Way by Zed Shaw
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• Eric Raymond: Why I think RMS is a fanatic, and why that matters
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• PointerPointer: points to your cursor
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• How I manage 40 people remotely
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• MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-10

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

• Visas for entrepreneurs
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• Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs
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• My experiences at a woman's programming workshop
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• Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
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• Why you should never use hash functions for message authentication
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• Taxi Medallions: New York's taxi system makes fares higher and drivers poorer
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• GNU Emacs 24.1 released
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• Lessons learned from cracking 2 million LinkedIn passwords
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• The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy
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• Anonymous Austria leaks 2.8 GB Scientology Emails
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-09

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

• In Math You Have to Remember, In Other Subjects You Can Think About It
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• Flame Malware Makers Send 'Suicide' Code
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• Camera+ turned down acquisition offers and says no to VC money
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• Show HN: Script Excel with Python
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• Gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 brings direct programming, indirect lighting
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• Long Exposure Photographs Shot from Orbit
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• The Rules of Storytelling According to Pixar
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• Magenta - "It is fully binary compatible with iPhone OS 5.0"
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• Doom 3 Source code review
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• Neal Stephenson wants to revolutionize sword fighting video games
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-08

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

• Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API
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• Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border
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• Jetpants: a MySQL toolkit for managing billions of rows and hundreds of DBs
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• Designing GitHub for Windows
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• Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists
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• Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Lone Survivor Added to Humble Indie Bundle V
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• The $4 Million Complaint Call
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• Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
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• Hang Around with People who Get Shit Done
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• Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional”
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-07

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

• Hacking an ATM
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• John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset
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• LeakedIn
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• Storing Passwords Securely
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• Why Django Sucks
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• Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery)
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• Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned
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• 5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion
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• SPDY Review by Opera Software
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• Dear Heroku: Quit blaming all of us when you fail. Do this instead…
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-06

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

• On{X}: The Coolest Thing to Happen to Android. Courtesy of… Microsoft Israel?
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• The Tesla Gun
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• Gmail security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks
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• Loading half a billion rows into MySQL
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• Buttons that morph out of the surface of the device.
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• Take my money, HBO
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• Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
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• 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked
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• R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
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• Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-05

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

• Long range WiFi antenna from Illy coffee can
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• The Microsoft Update mechanism has been used to spread malware
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• Valve Says "Yes" To Steam Linux This Year
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• The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack
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• Mathics - A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica with support for Sage
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• Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies
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• Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
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• Fred Wilson's response to "Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies"
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• Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests
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• Salt, We Misjudged You
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-04

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

• Password Rules
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• A Quiz About Integers in C
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• Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World
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• Heroku Isn't for Idiots: developer time and comparative advantage
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• Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe
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• /dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them
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• What programming languages were used by the Soviet Union's space program?
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• The DOD had two "better-than-Hubble" space telescopes just sitting around.
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• Michael Lewis: Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie
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• Google buys Meebo
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-03

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

• A Boggling Return to C
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• Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
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• Valve hired their first wave of Linux developers, hiring more
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• Prostate cancer drug so effective trial stopped
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• Folly - The Faceboook open source library
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• JQuery Transit - CSS3 animations for jQuery
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• I was the worst coder in the room...
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• Judge Alsup knows how to play a bluff
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• Why Multi-armed Bandit algorithms are superior to A/B testing (with Math)
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• Oh, the Places You'll Go
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-02

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

• SQL Injection Vulnerability in Rails
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• Your Startup Needs a Dashboard
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• A room so quiet, no one can spend more than 45 minutes in it
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• Nookd
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• New Garbage Collector
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• Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API
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• What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.
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• WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
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• Gmaps.js the easiest way to use Google Maps
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• Why three prongs?
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-01

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

• Google Blockly - a visual programming language
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• My GF learned to code in 3 months. This is what she came up with.
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• Things I Should Have Known at 20
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• Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
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• US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it
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• Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)
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• I Up Vote Every 'Show HN' Post and You Should Too
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• Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business
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• Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
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• A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-31

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

• Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
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• How To Do A Startup On The Side And Not Lose Your Family
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• Chromebox
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• Megaupload Demands Return of Millions of Dollars From U.S. Govt.
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• Latency numbers every programmer should know
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• Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming"
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• The girl with the ANSI tattoo
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• Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown
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• Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games
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• Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright
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