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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-29

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

• Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
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• Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent
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• WTFM - Write The Freaking Manual
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• WebGL Car Viewer
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• Use Zsh
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• Patio11 launches his lifecycle emails course
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• Alligator Eggs
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• Stripe partners with Chilling Effects
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• Bootstrap Maintainers Leave Twitter
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• Python 3.3.0 released
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-28

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

• Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)
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• Google Search Referrers Disappear In iOS 6
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• What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier
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• NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface
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• Want To Disrupt An Industry? Try Actually Working In It First
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• Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California
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• Notch: "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along."
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• California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation
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• Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing
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• A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-27

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

• Mathematics at Google
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• MMO in loving tribute to xkcd-1110
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• Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" for systems programming
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• A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD
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• Beta Late Than Never (Steam Linux Beta)
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• “iCloud Backup”
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• How a random bug in Deep Blue may ultimately have led to Kasparov's defeat
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• How to build a windmill
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• Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona
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• StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-26

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

• Show HN: Ejecta, A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas Implementation for iOS
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• NoPassword
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• Did Blowing Into The NES Cartridge Really Work?
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• Turn your 404s into lost children alerts
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• Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps
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• Subtle Patterns
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• Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993)
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• OStatus: like Twitter, but open
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• Formlabs: High Resolution 3D Printer
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• Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-25

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

• Leak shows EU's plans for large scale surveillance of all communications
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• Nigerian scammer gets a laptop from me
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• Myspace previews complete redesign
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• Meeting A Troll
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• Tesla reveals Supercharger network, Free Fill Ups
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• Entire field of particle physics is to switch to open-access publishing
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• USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigged from a HTML page
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• Does everyone hate MongoDB?
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• “grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon”
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• Jetstrap for Bootstrap
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-24

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

• Why I’m not leaving Python for Go
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• Firefox turns 10 years old today (Phoenix v0.1)
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• New Zealand PM requests inquiry into illegal Megaupload wire tapping
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• The Pendulum Swings, Again
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• I Am Worried About The Future Of Python
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• SHA-3 to Be Announced
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• Websockets 101
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• Why American Phone, Cable and Internet Bills are so High
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• Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In
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• Adobe Edge Web Fonts
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-23

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

• How to stop hospitals from killing us
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• Rethinking Sleep
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• DC Taxi Commission Proposes New Rules to Shut Down Uber
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• Thank you Apple
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• Vim Koans
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• Rescuing Resque: Let's do this
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• Torvalds' quote about good programmers
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• Show HN: Online C/C++ to assembly visualizer [Weekend Project]
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• The Last PC Laptop
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• Apple's HTTP POST caching is a bug
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-22

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

• VirtualBox hotfix now available for OS X 10.8.2 problem
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• Licensing of Titanium chaotic and unclear
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• What are imaginary numbers?
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• Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More
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• Show HN: 5000 best movies
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• Show HN: Learned Objective C as a high schooler and made this iPhone game
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• Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name
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• Startup = Growth
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• The man who singlehandedly carved a road through a mountain
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• Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-21

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

• Everything that's wrong with Java in a single class
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• Google has an iOS 6 Maps app awaiting approval
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• Pandora doesn't hash their passwords
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• Kickstarter is Not a Store
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• Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design
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• Google Maps' advantage over Apple Maps
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• My Brush With a Patent Troll
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• Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation
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• What Business is Wall Street In?
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• Tent v0.1
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-20

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

• John Carmack on Static Code Analysis
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• Makerbot announces new 3D printer: Replicator 2
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• The Lost Chapter
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• iOS 6 Breaks the App Store
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• Github redesigns Profiles
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• New Apple maps app under fire from users
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• AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
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• The Amazing iOS 6 Maps
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• Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac
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• IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-19

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

• German government urges public to stop using Internet Explorer
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• Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay
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• Stock Android Isn't Perfect: Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean
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• The Apple Reaper
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• Xkcd: Click and Drag
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• Xkcd's world - pieced together with AngularJS (warning: big images)
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• Web Design is 95% Typography
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• Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface
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• iPad and Linode: 1 Year Later
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• Stripe in Canada
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-18

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

• Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB
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• Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client
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• Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
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• How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
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• Analysis of bank PIN numbers
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• Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)
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• Yahoo Removes Registered Trademark (R) From Logo
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• A Letter from a Scared Actress
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• Kickstarter vaporware of the day, Lifx edition
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• Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-17

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

• How can one manage thousands of IF…THEN…ELSE rules?
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• Sh.py
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• iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas
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• Everything's broken and nobody's upset
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• 52 Hertz: The Loneliest Whale in the World
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• Hardware is dead
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• Android can be beautiful
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• Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways
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• CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability
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• Introducing the Command Bar
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-16

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

• Facebook explains what's wrong with the mobile web
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• Fast Inverse Square Root
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• Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database
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• The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead
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• Little-Known Awesome Algorithms: Fenwick Range Trees
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• Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer
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• The Probability and Statistics Cookbook
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• Aaron Swartz "JSTOR" case indictment revised/expanded
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• The lightbulb reinvented
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• Things I've quit doing at my desk
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-15

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

• Room Temperature Superconductivity Found in Graphite Grains
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• The UK has an entire IPv4 /8 that it isn't using
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• We Need a Warby Parker for Mattresses
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• Elon Musk: "I would like to die on Mars"
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• Cost of the Uniloc Lawsuit
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• Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)
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• GitHub availability this week
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• Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip
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• U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs
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• The Pirate Bay - 9 years and still bloody runnin
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-14

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

• Nootropics – The Facts About “Smart Drugs”
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• Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)
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• OSX password script for everyone to know
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• Anonymous Donor Pays for College of Every Student in Kalamazoo
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• Ideas
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• Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?
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• Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap
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• Pdf.js: PDF Reader in JavaScript
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• Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
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• WhatsApp is broken, really broken
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-13

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

• Why I'm done with Scrum
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• Zynga: forget games, let’s just do viruses
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• Xiki: A shell console with GUI features.
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• Understanding C by learning assembly
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• Ancient flower lives only on two Spanish cliffs, and uses ants to survive
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• There is something magical about Firefox OS
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• Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5
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• Google's "Bacon number" search
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• Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: ‘I hate it and I don’t agree with it’
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• Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-12

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

• Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Was Betting Too Much On HTML5
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• Amazon's Play
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• Depression lies
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• RIP Vile Rat, EVE Online Diplomat, IRL State Dept Rep Killed In Benghazi
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• Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On?
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• Journalist goes undercover making the iPhone 5 at Foxconn
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• Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5
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• Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL exploit coming?
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• Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding
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• iPhone 5
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-11

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

• How I Learned to Defrag My Brain
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• The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week
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• Obama Admin Pursuing Executive Order to Enact CISPA-Like Cybersecurity Language
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• Skeuomorphism
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• Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers
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• The XX shared their new album with only 1 fan to see how it goes viral.
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• Dear Programmer, I have an idea
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• Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots
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• The World's Lightest Electric Vehicle
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• Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-10

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

• DIY quest for a 6 watt high-end desktop computer
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• The Tiniest GIF Ever
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• Black Swan Farming
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• Lessons for uncultured web developers
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• Revel, high-productivity Go web framework modeled on Play Framework
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• PostgreSQL 9.2 released
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• Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this
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• I feel I am building a new Google Wave
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• HP introduces new Apple iMac
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• GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-09

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

• 4 geeky laws that rule our world
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• How Dangerous Is Your Couch?
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• Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In
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• Tray.io - powerful email assistant
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• Ask HN: How did you hack the press when you launched your startup(s)?
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• Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn
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• Stanford announces 16 free online courses for fall quarter
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• Show HN: MemStash - Commit things to memory
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• Tell HN: Login to unsubscribe is against Federal Law
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• Arch Linux Handbook for Kindle rejected by Amazon
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-08

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

• Show HN: My first Mac app, Foreman, free and on Github. Would love feedback
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• The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made When Learning to Code
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• Dan Weinreb passed away
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• Tough times on the road to Starcraft
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• Kevin Rose Interviews Elon Musk
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• Russia in color, a century ago
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• A love letter to MIT
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• The "Wash my Ferrari" Problem: A Meditation on Risk
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• So I Made A Mashup, And Then…
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• PayPal CEO writes personal response
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-07

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

• How Google Builds Its Maps
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• Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex
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• Ask PG: If Viaweb hadn't worked out, what would you have likely done next?
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• Y Combinator Founder Paul Graham Issues New Warning to Start-ups
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• Rich Hickey: extensible data notation
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• Chinese company uses leaked photos to copy, patent iPhone 5 design
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• A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post
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• Things I, as a designer, wish more tech startups knew
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• Damn Cool Algorithms: Cardinality Estimation
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• Twitter is the Benjamin Button of startups.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-06

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

• Introducing the 4chan API
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• Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day
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• No app store? No problem: Grooveshark rolls out full HTML5 site for all devices
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• Faced with a Five-Page Limit, Lawyer Files Cartoon Amicus Brief
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• Nokia faked the still photos too
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• Why You Should Start Using a VPN
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• The Linux Graphics Stack
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• Good riddance, PayPal
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• Raspberry Pi moves manufacturing to the UK
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• Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-05

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

• What's a $4000 Suit Worth?
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• Google Search is only 18% Search
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• 2012 Startup School, Oct 20 at Stanford
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• Neat
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• Realtime Three.js Coding
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• Dear ICO, Sue Us
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• World wide wasteland
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• How Tesla is Circumventing Dealerships
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• Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia
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• How we keep GitHub fast
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-04

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

• I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned
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• Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop
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• I quit my job, and am building Tindie fulltime
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• Cable lacing on the Curiosity rover
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• AntiSec leaks 1,000,001 Apple UDIDs, Device Names/Types
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• Free Book: An Introduction to Programming in Go
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• An apology to readers of Test-Driven iOS Development
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• 37signals invests in The Starter League
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• Why Tarsnap doesn't use Glacier
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• Tomorrow Theme
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-03

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

• Heading Out on Your Own: 31 Life Skills in 31 Days
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• Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
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• Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox respond to Miguel De Icaza on Linux Desktop woes
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• Apple Never Invented Anything
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• Reddit's database has only two tables
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• Left Alone by Its Owner, Reddit Soars
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• A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC
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• Yakuza
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• Glances - an easy CLI overview of your system (CPU, mem, I/O)
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• How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-02

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

• Accurate remake of Pac-Man in JavaScript
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• Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00
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• Understanding Ego Depletion
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• How to get that native iOS feel with PhoneGap
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• Live air traffic of the world
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• Avgrund.js
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• Show HN: My Github résumé
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• Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing
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• Baking Pi - Operating Systems Development
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• Samsung flew bloggers to Berlin, then threatened to leave them there
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-01

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

• What powers Etsy
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• It's More Important to Be Kind Than Clever
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• Flynn’s IQ
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• Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook
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• Amazon S3 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing Support
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• Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
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• Tacocopter Basics
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• Members of Congress Demand Answers for the Unjust Domain Name Seizures
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• Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)
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• Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-08-31

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

• Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April
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• Amit’s Thoughts on Grids
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• Why Johnny can't stream: How video copyright went insane
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• New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
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• HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe
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• Just Scroll
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• "100% of our production system is now running Go"
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• The Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down
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• Probabilistic Many-to-Many Relationships (with Bloom Filters)
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• Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
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