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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-29

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

• British aerospace company claims biggest engine advance since the jet
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• Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)
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• Alertify.js
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• APIs that will transform the Web in 2013
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• The EC2 firewall is broken
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• B&N Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires
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• Tor exit node operator raided in Austria
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• Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook
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• Syrian Internet Is Off The Air
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• Staples Announces In-Store 3D Printing Service
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-28

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

• Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files
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• Poll: Do you select text while reading?
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• Show HN: Telescope, an open-source social news app built with Meteor
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• How to travel around the world for a year (2011)
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• How to set up a safe and secure Web server
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• JPL director: Curiosity may have found organic, not biological molecules
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• The Great Python.org Redesign
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• Meet the Obama campaign's $250 million fundraising platform
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• List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources
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• Amazon Announces new Data Warehousing Product
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-27

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

• I’m writing my own OS
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• Why we can't process Emoji anymore
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• Doom 3 BFG Edition source code released
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• Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING"
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• Einstein's list of conditions for staying together with his wife
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• Redis crashes - a small rant about software reliability
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• Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
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• The Worst
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• Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias
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• The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-26

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

• D3, Conceptually - Lesson 1
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• Stripe's 22-Year-Old Irish-Born Founder Is Just Getting Started
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• Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
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• Kickstarter, Trademarks and Lies
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• Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth
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• On 81st birthday, Oregon man gives company to employees (2010)
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• Redline Smalltalk V1.0
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• Cosmo: A free Metro-inspired theme for Bootstrap
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• Apple's Module proposal to replace headers for C-based languages [pdf]
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• The YC VC Program
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-25

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

• Do not ask me personal details when calling me
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• Twitter Boostrap Goodies
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• Google Apps Disabled My Domain
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• Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs
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• Avoiding "the stupid hour"
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• McAfee’s Third World Travel Guide
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• Skills Don’t Pay the Bills
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• X-editable: In-place editing with Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI or pure jQuery
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• Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All
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• An ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-24

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

• Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4
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• Your Smartphone's Dirty, Radioactive Secret
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• Debian, FreeBSD and CentOS now supported by EC2
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• Linux brings over €10 million savings for Munich
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• Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate
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• Dotcom: "We've hit the jackpot"
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• Show HN: Docverter, the hosted document conversion service, is now open source
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• Changing times for web developers
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• News about Mark Crispin (author of the original IMAP specification)
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• Hacking my Vagina
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-23

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

• A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript
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• Elon Musk - The Future of Energy and Transport [video]
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• Introducing the Rails API Project
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• Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women
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• Google's campaign for a free and open internet
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• Introducing GNU Guix
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• Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design
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• I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Ecosystem
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• Nobel Prize winning biochemist says all biofuels are nonsense
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• Everlane Closed on Black Friday
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-22

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

• Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
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• Everything Technical in F1
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• Extremist Programming
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• Scientist Creates Self-Filling Water Bottle
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• Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it's getting shut out
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• Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl
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• PyPy 2.0 beta 1 released
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• Leaving Microsoft
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• Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?
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• Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-21

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

• Apple Broke My iPhone, and Their Policies Prevent Them from Fixing It
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• Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
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• Pickadate.js
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• The last day
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• You are committing a crime right now
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• Elon Musk and the Hyperloop
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• TL;DR — Faster News
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• "Your criticisms are completely wrong": Stallman on software patents
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• Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved
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• A Better Twitter Bootstrap Modal
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-20

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

• The official Blog of John McAfee
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• Chris Dixon Joins Andreessen Horowitz
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• How to Get Startup Ideas
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• Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
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• Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines
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• Jail Looms for Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails
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• EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation
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• Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants
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• US patent chief to software patent critics: "Give it a rest already"
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• Airport Security Is Killing Us
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-19

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

• How To Package Your Python Code
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• The Web engineer's online toolbox
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• The Quiet Ones
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• Cisco Acquires Enterprise Wi-Fi Startup Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash
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• Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users
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• Q: “How much does an app cost?” A: “About as much as a car.”
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• Mumbai girl arrested for Facebook post
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• Elon Musk: 'Europe's rocket has no chance'
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• Refining Ruby
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• How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-18

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

• NVD3 Erased From Existence
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• Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure
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• Twitter's descent into the extractive
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• You can do it alone
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• Hollywood Kills Republicans' Copyright Reform
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• The entire win32 API in JavaScript
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• Man Arrested At Airport for Unusual Watch
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• Entrepreneurshit
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• Thank HN: Our friend is Safe and Sound
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• Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-17

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

• When the Nerds Go Marching In
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• A breakdown of how I was talked out of $100
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• Configuring Sublime Text 2
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• Twitter is Pivoting
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• Ron Paul’s Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big Government
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• Republicans Repudiate 40 Years of Tougher Copyright Laws
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• Silk — Interactive generative art
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• Fast JVM launching without the hassle of persistent JVMs
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• They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside
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• The Year 2512
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-16

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

• Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game
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• Engineers suck at finding the right jobs
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• Migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js
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• Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5
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• WordPress.com accepts Bitcoin
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• Show HN: Instant Google Street View
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• Netflix on Ubuntu Is Here
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• Internal FBI risk assessment of Bitcoin network [pdf]
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• Chrome gets date and time pickers
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• What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-15

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

• Rob Pike on Object Oriented programming
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• Brian Harvey: Why SICP matters
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• Glitch Is Closing
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• Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE
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• "Why don't you sell Triple Town for 99 cents and make tons of money?"
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• VLC Core is LGPL
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• Animated Factorisation Diagrams
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• Why Coke Cost A Nickel For 70 Years
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• Prototyping iPhone apps on paper with POP
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• Facebook Pages: Why I don’t like Nest thermostat or anything else anymore
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-14

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

• Commercial freedom
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• Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug
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• Understanding Like-gate
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• OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing
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• Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps
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• Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email
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• Algorithms [pdf]
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• Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?
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• What do 100,000 stars look like?
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• CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-13

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

• My favorite regex of all time
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• LuaJit 2.0 is out
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• Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript
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• Motor Trend Car of the Year: Tesla Model S
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• Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
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• Show HN: An IDE for poets
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• A SSD in Your Pocket
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• Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts
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• Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
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• Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-12

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

• Python for Humans
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• Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time
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• InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonPainter
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• Alone Together, Again
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• A billion dollar software tech company is founded every three months in the U.S.
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• Python Libraries you should know about
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• Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters
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• Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin
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• Y Combinator interview decisions postponed to November 15
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• Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For All Developers
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-11

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

• The Best Groupon Deal Ever: 86.2% Off On GRPN at NASDAQ
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• The Emails That Got My Unsexy Start-Up Covered By TechCrunch
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• Go turns three
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• The amount of crap Windows users have to put up with is incredible
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• Show HN: LaughMatch
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• PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe
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• Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
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• Non-hiring Practices
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• Smuggling USB Sticks
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• Show HN: RewindHN - Go back in Hacker News history
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-10

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

• Eight Years of Firefox
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• Objective-C in The Cloud
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• An inside look behind Romney's loss: An epic failure of its Orca big-data app
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• How to Detect a Toxic Customer (2010)
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• Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs and more
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• Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown
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• The Nature of Lisp
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• The UK Court Sanctions Apple, Hopes "Lack of Integrity" Is Not "Typical"
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• The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago
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• Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-09

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

• The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing
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• NASA May Unveil New Manned Moon Missions Soon
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• I am a terrible programmer
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• Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B
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• Buildy, a real-time HTML5 building game - come build in our biggest world yet
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• The People's Bailout
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• How to get your IP unbanned on HN
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• Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries
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• Uses for cURL
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• RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-08

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

• Entrepreneurs Tell What They Wish They’d Known before Founding First Startup
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• Firefox OS – video presentations and slides on the OS, WebAPIs
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• Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces
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• The Best
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• GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes
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• Jam With Chrome
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• Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
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• More HTML5 APIs
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• Photo of a Nuclear Explosion Less than 1 Millisecond After Detonation
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• Amazing: Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-07

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

• Steam for Linux Beta Now Available
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• The perfect email
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• Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states
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• Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes
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• Obama Wins The Election. Here’s His Technology Agenda.
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• Washington voters approve legalized marijuana
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• Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win
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• The definitive guide to forms based website authentication
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• Why is Rick Santorum Using a Picture of 4Chan Founder Moot on His Website?
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• Great design from Apple on an interaction with Siri
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-06

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

• Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS
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• The Waiting Place
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• Perfectum Dashboard
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• "I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style"
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• Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
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• Bonsai.js: A New Graphics and Animation Library
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• How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading
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• Meet the new Light Table
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• Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
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• Sergey Brin Calls On Politicians To Abandon Political Parties
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-05

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

• I fixed a bug in Python
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• The Mathematics Behind xkcd: A Conversation with Randall Munroe
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• Show HN: Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI
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• Ghost — rethinking WordPress
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• Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1
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• Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript
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• Don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday
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• Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Khosla fund LightSail Energy in $37M Deal
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• Git add -p: a powerful git feature
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• MongoDB Gotchas and How To Avoid Them
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-04

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

• Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver
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• Google Address Sanitizer ("compile-time valgrind") to be part of GCC 4.8
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• The Background Noise Was Louder than I Realized
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• Show HN: I built a thing
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• Linus Torvalds: Is Engadget really that stupid? Just corrupt? Trolling us all?
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• ‘Creepy Cameraman’ pushes limits of public surveillance
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• Ask HN: Help, HN'er in trouble, we need a laywer in Delhi immediately
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• Skype hands 16-year-old's personal information to IT company
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• My IQ
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• The Fight
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-03

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

• Nobody’s going to steal your idea
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• Escape from Callback Hell: Callbacks are the modern goto
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• Start Something Small
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• A life less posted
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• Not one Microsoft product on Kaspersky’s top 10 vulnerabilities list
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• Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
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• 512 Paths to the White House
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• US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time
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• Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix
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• Apple script resizes iPad banner and pushes Samsung verdict out of view
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-02

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

• Mario 3 recreated with CSS3 animations and media queries
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• Why you should take your 20's seriously
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• Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong
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• Goldeneye 64's inspirational startup story
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• Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.
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• Richard Stallman: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents
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• Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech
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• More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed
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• A Slower Speed of Light
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• Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-01

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

• 12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons to help scientist dad with his research
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• Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves
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• My entire entrepreneurship story in 10 minutes
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• Kim Dotcom's new Mega project
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• Do You Wanna Touch
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• Man faces 3 years in prison for tweeting about finance minister in India
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• Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on front page until Dec 14th
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• Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)
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• Programming is a Pop Culture
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• 2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-10-31

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

• How Zappos' User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked
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• REST framework 2 released: Simple, beautiful, browsable Web APIs for Django
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• Quantum entanglement shows that reality can't be local
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• WebScript.io: Just choose a URL and type in a script. No servers, no deployment
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• The Horrible Future of Social
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• The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design
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• Joey Hess' minimal approach
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• Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution
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• C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python
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• The Next 1,000 Start-Ups
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