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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-30

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

• HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0
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• GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X
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• TechCrunch is a bully
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• Lobsters
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• John Hunter [matplotlib.sourceforge.net] has died.
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• No Email
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• Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes
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• PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps
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• Robot cars on public roads? California says yes
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• Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-29

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

• Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it
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• How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat
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• Damn Cool Algorithms: Homomorphic Hashing
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• Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database
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• Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds
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• Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion of Food
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• Walking out of an interview
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• 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady
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• What killed the Linux desktop
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• AMA with Barack Obama
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-28

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

• The Hidden Truths about Calories
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• Twitter Removes 'Via' Stamp From Web Client
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• The Worst Argument In The World
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• Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News
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• A tale of the supreme competence of Neil Armstrong
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• PG: The Art of Funding a Startup is now free on Amazon
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• HBO No Go
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• Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak
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• What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?
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• What it’s like to work for Stripe
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-27

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

• Best Open Python Books
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• My Evil Undead Credit Card
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• The coming civil war over general purpose computing
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• Dropbox Introduces 2-Factor Authentication
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• NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites
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• Show HN: Business.txt - Standard Proposal
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• Move your feet
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• Look at yourself objectively
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• Who inherits your iTunes library when you die?
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• Learning C with gdb
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-26

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

• Doodle Jump Recreated in HTML5 ...with source
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• JsPlumb
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• Jury in Apple v. Samsung Goofed, Damages Reduced; What's Wrong With this Picture
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• Statement from the Family of Neil A. Armstrong
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• The App Store Nightmare
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• TPP treaty (ACTA all over) provisions leaked.
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• Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
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• Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions
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• A device with a touchscreen and few buttons *was* obvious
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• Vanilla JS, fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework!
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-25

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

• Backbone has made me a better programmer
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• Some web development tips from a former Digg developer
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• A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed
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• A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer
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• Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes
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• The Tim Cook memo: line by line
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• Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is.
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• The fall of Angry Birds
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• Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today
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• Confused by lawsuit, Apple consumers switch to Samsung
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-24

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

• The innovations of Internet Explorer
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• Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method
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• Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS
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• How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life
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• Why you should not be displaying relative dates.
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• The White House just open sourced their first Github repo
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• Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
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• Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, Not Very Securely.
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• Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y
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• Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-23

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

• Family trees: Tracing the world's ancestor
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• Show HN: SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects
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• '; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live
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• Typing Practice for Programmers
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• Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr
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• Black Widow
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• Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
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• John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering
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• A Faster Facebook for iOS
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• Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-22

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

• What A Hacker Learns After A Year In Marketing
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• How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers)
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• Show HN: I mixed selling t-shirts with a little bit of game theory
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• Tesla Museum Gets Funded
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• Ghosts in the rom
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• I'm Not Japanese
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• Leap
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• Why Ratings Systems Don't Work
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• Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard
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• Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-21

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

• Thanks for your patience about all the (YC S12)
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• The morning mail is my enemy
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• The Bozo Event Horizon
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• Never again be thwarted by restrictive “guest” wifi (e.g. on buses or airplanes)
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• Bootstrap 2.1 released
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• How to Get a Job as a Developer in Less Than Six Months
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• Amazon Glacier
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• Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings
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• Build Your Own Home Automation w/ Pusher, Twilio, and Arduino
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• Your startup is not a startup, it’s just a website.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-20

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

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre Entrepreneurs
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• Be More Productive. Take Time Off.
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• Things I do to be consistently happy
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• The Textbook Industry & Greed: My Story
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• Stranded Jet Skier Breaches Multimillion Dollar Security System At JFK Airport
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• Why don't they just..?
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• Tim Berners-Lee's Original Announcement (1991)
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• A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
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• Believe you can change
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• Show HN: A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-19

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

• RIP Open Source MySQL
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• Ben Horowitz: A Good Place to Work
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• Github just hit 2 million users.
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• Why time appears to speed up with age
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• How to write a Linux device driver
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• Why Waiting Is Torture
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• Your Words are Wasted
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• Dear Apple: Please set iMessage free
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• Show HN: BigVideo.js
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• Programming Languages Have Social Mores Not Idioms
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-18

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

• The Tata AirPod: a car that runs on compressed air w/150-200km range
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• How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle
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• OnLive assets acquired by newly formed company
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• Blessings: a pythonic answer to curses
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• A Proposal To Improve Hacker News
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• Google Sues Apple, Seeks To Block iPhone, iPad & Mac Imports To U.S.
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• Garry Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police
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• Sleepbox
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• Delegate or die: the self-employed trap
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• How Instacart (YC S12) Hacked YC
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-17

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

• Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy
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• Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limits rates
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• Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
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• I Have 50 Dollars
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• Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
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• This is how Visa works
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• Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..
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• Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
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• A Tor of the Dark Web
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• Light Table reaches 0.1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-16

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

• Germany: Facebook must destroy its facial recognition database
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• The Making of Warcraft, Part 2
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• Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative)
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• 256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id
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• Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999
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• Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.
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• Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
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• Font that creates charts
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• Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
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• Square introduces monthly pricing
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-15

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

• The Mystery of the Encrypted Gauss Payload
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• Rich Hickey: The Value of Values
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• Uber Boston Has Been Served
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• What I Hate About Working At Facebook
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• Steve Wozniak: Internet should not have gatekeepers or regulators
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• Single Element MacBook Pro with CSS
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• The first Django site to run on Python 3
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• Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud
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• Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
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• Fly to 6 Continents in Style
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-14

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

• Show HN: HackerNews reimagined without tables or center elements.
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• Tarsnap now takes credit cards (switching from Paypal to Stripe)
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• Twitter acquires Clutch.io
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• What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All'
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• United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And Didn't Care
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• Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2
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• Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh
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• Thoughts on being a programmer
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• John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy
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• Khan Academy: Computer Science
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-13

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

• The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned
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• Erlang programmer’s view on Curiosity Rover software
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• Dalton Caldwell: We Did It
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• Pixar open sources production animation code, patents
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• Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone
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• Shit HN Says
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• Back up your precious files on ordinary paper
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• Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model
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• How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community
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• This is a bit f'd, Quora
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-12

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

• Show HN: A fix for the .bash_profile .bashrc .profile madness
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• Quake Video Game Industry Legend Paul Steed Has Passed Away
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• A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr
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• Pricing Experiments
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• Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doctors
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• Leaving Github
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• Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU
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• Essential C
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• Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.
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• App.net funded with $500,000.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-11

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

• Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures
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• Russ Olsen: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got
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• You'll never be Chinese
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• Entrepreneurs Tell The White House To Focus On Innovation, Not IP Enforcement
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• Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s
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• How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours
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• How you eat corn on the cob predicts whether you're an analyst or algebraist
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• Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies
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• Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by DDOS Attack
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• White House Deletes TSA Petition (just short of 25,000 signatures)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-10

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

• Mars rover camera project manager explains 2MP camera choice
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• The effect of typefaces on credibility
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• Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees' Families for a Decade
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• JQuery 1.8 Released
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• Bitey: Import LLVM bitcode directly into Python
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• Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus
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• Write any javascript code with just these characters: ()[]{}+
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• Things I didn’t know about the WebKit inspector
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• New York Underground
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• Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-09

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

• How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad
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• Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop
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• Grid (YC S12) Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age
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• Show HN: We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done
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• Nokia sells Qt to Digia
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• Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker
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• Soviet Venus Images
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• Textmate2 Goes Open Source
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• Textmate 2 on Github
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• Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-08

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

• Veteran NYTimes Photographer Arrested & Allegedly Beaten by NYPD
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• Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents
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• Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked
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• Starbucks Chooses Square for Payments
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• Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square
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• Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job
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• Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers
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• Some performance tweaks
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• Design Tip: Never Use Black
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• First full-resolution images of the Martian surface
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-07

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

• How the Curiosity Rover's Nuclear Battery Works
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• How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
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• This is what Curiosity saw as it landed on Mars
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• 4chan: Beyond one billion
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• Please turn on two-factor authentication
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• HN statistics
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• The weakest link by far is Apple
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• ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
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• Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
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• Wikipedia Redefined
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-06

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

• Principles of UI design
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• An Unexpected Ass Kicking
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• NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing
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• One Thousand Dollars an Hour
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• Mars Curiosity's first images
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• A Man Walks into a Bank
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• Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune
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• Photo shows Mars rover descent
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• Github: Notifications & Stars
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• Great work Visa, now I hate you
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-05

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

• Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch
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• GHC's new cutting-edge dataflow-based code generator
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• In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time
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• OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'
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• What I Hate About Git
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• Eugene Kaspersky: What Wired Is Not Telling You
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• What's all this fuss about Erlang?
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• Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account
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• Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?
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• CopBlock.org Founder Faces 21 Years in Prison for Reporting Police Brutality
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-04

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

• MySQL now includes memcached, and a plugin that allows fast NoSQL-style access
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• Warsow 1.0 Released
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• Letter to John Carmack
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• One Bad “Policy Change” Email Can Kill Company Culture
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• Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?
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• Pie charts in your favicon
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• B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It
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• Student Is Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site
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• Yes, I was hacked. Hard.
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• "The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors"
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-03

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

• Fasting & Programming
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• The U.S. Senate has blocked the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.
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• Microsoft abandon Metro name due to legal challenge
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• Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles
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• Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously
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• Why Men Can't Have It All
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• Google crackdown catches innocent devs in the crossfire
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• Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for..
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• One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse
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• SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-02

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

• Don’t Lie On Your Resume, But Lie Like Hell During Your Exit Interview
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• Instacart (YC S12) wants to be Amazon with 1 hour delivery
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• Homeland Security Issuing Its Own DMCA Takedowns On YouTube To Stifle Speech
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• This file's a Win Executable, PDF, Java executable (or Python script), and HTML
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• Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills
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• Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows
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• The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything
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• Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek
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• Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars
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• Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-01

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

• Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen devices
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• New straighforward approach to teaching quantum mechanics
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• Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow
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• Craigslist now asks for exclusive license when posting
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• Bruce Schneier: Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events
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• The new Digg
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• Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game
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• Do you have a secret?
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• Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)
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• Dear Mark Zuckerberg
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-31

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

• Sam Soffes open sources Cheddar for iOS
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• ASCII Google Streetview
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• Codecademy now has Python lessons
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• 10-year-old problem in theoretical computer science falls
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• A global decentralized encrypted datastore with anonymous publishing
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• The year 2000 illustrated in 1900
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• Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
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• How I made $10k in one day with Facebook Ads
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• Blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.
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• Let my Wi-Fi go: FCC rules Verizon can't charge for Wi-Fi tethering
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