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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-30

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

• Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
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• Hacking language learning
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• Forstall Out; Ive Up
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• Why I Program in Erlang
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• Poll: Should we push the YC deadline back by a day because of the storm?
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• Bootstrap 2.2.0 released
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• Introducing the new compose in Gmail
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• Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS
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• Because of the storm we're pushing the YC application deadline back to Friday
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• Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-29

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

• Illegal Numbers
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• I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough
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• I Don't Have Time
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• The lactose-tolerance mutation
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• Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage
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• Always “hover” before you click? Wrong.
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• No, I still don't want to work for Google
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• Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
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• North Carolina teacher's resignation letter
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• Scott Forstall leaves Apple
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-28

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

• Facebook Tries To Silence Blogger To Cover Up User Data Scandal
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• Singularity Chess
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• DuckDuckHack
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• Apple ][+ in HTML5
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• F1 Indian GP in real time with Google Maps
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• 3D CSS Periodic table with three.js
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• Web Design Trends
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• The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't
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• Infinite Gangnam Style
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• Killing Your Startup on a Thursday Night
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-27

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

• Windows 8 Doesn’t Want Your App. Try Again Later
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• Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files
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• Rob Pike: Go at Google
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• AWS outage summary
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• An Alternate Universe (Microsoft Surface)
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• Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake
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• Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application
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• Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT
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• A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best
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• Tell HN: Let's Be Civil
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-26

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

• GitHub Game Off
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• Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
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• The Future of Markdown
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• Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days: Astounding Experiments in Ultra-Learning
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• dl.google.com now served by Go
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• Steam for Linux Beta
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• Is it better to turn up the volume in the software or on the speakers?
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• China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article
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• Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note
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• The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North American and Asia
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-25

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

• Ruby 2.0.0 feature freeze
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• Using python and k-means to find dominant colors in images
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• The most dangerous code in the world
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• "Ruby developers need to stop using EventMachine. It's the wrong direction."
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• Startup School 2012 Videos
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• Career Day - A parent introduces programming at her son's school
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• BootMetro: Metro style web framework
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• Electronic demon costume is surprisingly unnerving
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• Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
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• Windows 8 Arrives
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-24

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

• Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5
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• Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor
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• AnandTech: Microsoft Surface Review
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• UsesThis: Rob Pike
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• Open Source ARM userland
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• How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole
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• My experience with WPEngine
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• The island where people forget to die
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• How I automated the boring parts of life
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• Facebook, I want my friends back
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-23

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

• If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down
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• How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others
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• USPTO invalidates Apple's "rubber-banding" patent asserted against Samsung
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• GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0
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• Amazon reopen wiped Kindle account
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• Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7
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• The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company
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• The Hardware Renaissance
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• Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office
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• iPad mini
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-22

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

• Missing the Point of Promises
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• The physics of baseball as illustrated by Fox's new 5000 fps camera
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• Git 1.8.0
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• Outlawed by Amazon DRM
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• Introducing the USB Stick of Death
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• Early pictures from the days when PayPal was a startup
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• L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists found guilty of manslaughter
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• Makisu - CSS 3D dropdown concept
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• Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others
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• Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-21

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

• The Django Book is getting updated
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• Ubuntu ported to the Nexus 7
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• Single page apps in depth (new free book)
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• Watch YC Startup School 2012 Live
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• FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake
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• Pirate Bay Founder Held In Solitary Confinement
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• How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran (2007)
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• Restoration of defocused and blurred images
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• When A Daughter Dies
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• Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-20

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

• Free Textbooks on Machine Learning
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• Free Online Book: Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
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• Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler
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• How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million - And Still Isn't Profitable
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• How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days
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• Build a Business, Not an Exit Strategy
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• Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.
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• Simplify your life with an SSH config file
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• Billion laughs
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• FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-19

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

• Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust
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• Jon Stewart: Lower entrepreneurial risk
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• XKCD-style charts with D3
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• PayPal Bug Bounty - a lesson in not being a fuckup
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• Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota
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• This Is Why They Call It a Weakly-Ordered CPU
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• Some advice from Jeff Bezos
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• TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports
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• Small
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• Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-18

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

• International Obfuscated C Code Contest Winners
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• Meteor releases authentication, accounts system, and new screencast
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• EC2 I/O
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• Apple Said to Acquire Color
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• Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released
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• Free Flag Icons
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• Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?
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• How cork is made
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• New $250 Chromebook
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• Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-17

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

• A Dragnet for Pee-Wee
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• How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity
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• Data Mining 3.4 billion Web pages for $100 of EC2
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• The Pirate Bay in the cloud
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• Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center
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• Hacker News Data Analysis
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• Making Yourself a CEO
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• Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end patent wars
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• Google's data centers are guarded by stormtroopers
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• Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-16

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

• Master Keys
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• A science committee that doesn’t get science
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• R.I.P. Phil Bagwell
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• Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with a single DMCA notice
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• FiveThirtyEight: Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted
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• Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to the US
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• Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold
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• A new kind of fractal?
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• IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers
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• My son is schizophrenic. The ‘reforms’ that I worked for have worsened his life.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-15

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

• Pattern - Web Mining Python lib
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• Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery
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• Surviving in-flight breakup of an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18
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• Your Startup Is Spam
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• Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech
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• Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site
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• Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM
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• Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander?
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• A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space
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• Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-14

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

• Guido van Rossum's Performance tips for Python
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• Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one
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• Facebook “Promoted Posts” have primarily foreign “Likes”: Why?
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• 0x10c (Notch's new game)
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• Hacking ls -l
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• More people should write
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• Surprisingly undervalued books
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• Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today
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• Exotic data structures
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• Skydiver shatters world record with 24-mile leap
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-13

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

• A Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising (1983)
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• How to beat comment spam
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• Sugar, acid and teeth (2009)
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• The Product is the Byproduct
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• GET /browser.exe
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• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
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• Satellite burns up following SpaceX rocket glitch
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• Sun Goes Down. Up Comes A Mystery
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• The New Oracle
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• How I’m Making Five-Figures A Month Off Bootstrapped Products
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-12

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

• A circuit and PCB editor in the browser
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• Introducing Go by Example
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• Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions
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• AWS Costs Cheat Sheet
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• Building websites in Python with Flask
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• Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app
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• On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal
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• The game of life emulated in the game of life
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• Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
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• If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-11

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

• ISS crew successfully capture SpaceX Dragon Capsule (06:56 EST)
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• Raspberry Pi Colocation
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• Stripe Connect
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• Help find a bright object on Mars
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• Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate
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• Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?
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• Google's Common Lisp style-guide
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• How Linux 3.6 Nearly Broke PostgreSQL
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• The Magazine
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• Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-10

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

• Firefox debuts new developer toolbar
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• Federal Circuit reexamining whether software is patentable
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• Stripe Button (beta)
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• An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra
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• What Pandora Pays Top Artists
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• Indian Railways, live on Google Maps
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• What can I do for Mozilla?
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• Codeq
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• A better Android emulator
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• Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-09

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

• What number is halfway between 1 and 9?
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• How Studying Body Language Changed the Way I Socialize
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• Using the HTML5 Fullscreen API for Phishing Attacks
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• The State of JavaScript - Brendan Eich
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• LLJS: Low-Level JavaScript
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• Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis
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• Be nice to programmers
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• Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket
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• Humble eBook Bundle
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• Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-08

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

• Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.
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• SpaceX's First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to the ISS - Launch Webcast
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• RIP Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer
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• The Patent, Used as a Sword
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• The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures
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• Ask HN: What did the really successful programmers do differently?
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• Programmer Competency Matrix
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• Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org
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• US Air Force’s 1950s supersonic flying saucer declassified
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• SpaceX update: The engine did not explode
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-07

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

• More evidence that Voyager has exited the solar system
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• Anvil - a Mac app for Pow
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• Seven habits of effective text editing
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• Microsoft's HTML5 Games Resource
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• Programmer Time Translation Table
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• Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
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• How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers
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• Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour
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• Adobe's Source Code Pro Font
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• Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-06

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

• How SQLite is tested
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• The best interface is no interface
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• Living in a Van
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• When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?
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• This picture is worth a thousand pictures
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• How To Set Up Your Linode For Maximum Awesomeness
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• Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups
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• Do you really want to be making this much money when you're 50?
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• Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies
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• Hilarious HN Spoof
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-05

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

• Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users
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• LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut and Up to 20x Faster
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• Chrome DevTools could do that?
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• Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js
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• Yale scientists explain how ketamine vanquishes depression within hours
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• Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage
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• Zip Bomb
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• Things you didn't know about Python
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• Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.
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• Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-04

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

• What strips vocals from audio when a 1/8' audio jack is partially unplugged?
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• Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius
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• Mona Lisa in pure CSS
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• An Update from Elon Musk
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• The Windows ecosystem reboot is bad news if you plan to move country
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• Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
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• “I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer
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• Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009)
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• Software Architecture cheat sheet
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• The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-03

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

• The Story of the New Microsoft.com
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• Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It
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• Software on Steam
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• Show HN: I built a stock market game based on the top 50,000 websites
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• Drupal's Golden Handcuffs
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• Keccak wins the SHA-3 competition
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• If Hemingway wrote JavaScript
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• 15 Years after the First Slashdot Post
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• America to immigrants: keep your entrepreneurs
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• Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-02

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

• Linux 3.6 released
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• All Rational Approximations of Pi Are Useless
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• Why does iTunes 10.7 try to contact the domain bogusapple.com?
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• Judge Posner decries "excessive" copyright and software patent protections
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• You are getting sleeeeeeepy ...
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• Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy.
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• Online Python Tutor: Learn programming by visualizing code execution
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• The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled
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• Lockitron: Keyless entry using your phone
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• Racism at a gaming company
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-01

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

• To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets
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• How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system
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• Bootstrap Toggle Buttons
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• Donut math: How donut.c works
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• Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)
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• Why Mozilla Persona is the right answer to the question of Identity
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• Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds
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• The Homely Mutt
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• TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
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• Xkcd style graphs
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-09-30

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

• Flowplayer 5.0.0
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• Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authentication system
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• Slate: Tiling window management for OS X
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• Fog of World
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• How does SSL work?
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• Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics
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• The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them)
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• Amazon now loaning capital to sellers
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• Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?
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• Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It?
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