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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Functional thinking: Why functional programming is on the rise
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• Your Credentials Are Worthless Here
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• Aaron Swartz
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• Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe
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• Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server
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• Julian Assange to run for Australian Senate
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• Rubygems.org compromised
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• Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?
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• The sound of the dialup, pictured
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• Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day and Growing
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• When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
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• Sublime Text 3 Beta
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• Brython, Python in the browser
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• Amazon Elastic Transcoder
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• For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
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• Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi's to UK Schools
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• Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
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• How the EVE Online Servers Deal with a 3,000 Person Battle
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• 64 GB Surface Pro will only have 23 GB free
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why do game developers prefer Windows?
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• The 50 million dollar lie
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• Building Firefox OS
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• Mark Zuckerberg's Hoodie
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• Show HN: My Weekend Hack - Stack-Ed: Learn from the best on StackOverflow
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• 30 pounds in 30 days
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• How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?
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• Step by step from jQuery to Backbone
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• Mozilla Recognized as Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy
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• Pixels don’t care
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems
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• How Hotel Reservations Work
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• Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
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• Jonathan Coulton strikes back by re-releasing his own song
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• MySQL - Do Not Pass This Way Again
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• A farewell to bioinformatics (2012)
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• Python Shortcuts for the Python Beginner
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• We don't know why lithium batteries work
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• Github SSL replaced by self-signed certificate in China
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• How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Easy way to build product tours with Bootstrap
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• The Bicycle Barometer
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• Google has also indexed thousands of publicly accessible Panasonic webcams
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• Triumphant motel owner slams Carmen Ortiz
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• A note from Keith
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• Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says
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• Ask HN: How do you stop regretting?
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• OXO, Crooks and Robbers?
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• United States Sentencing Commission website hacked
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• Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How an unsigned rapper changed music
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• Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website To Punish United States
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• Aleksey Vayner Has Died at 29
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• Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux
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• Adioso is reinventing travel search. Check these never-before-possible searches
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• Aaron's Army
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• Blowing the Whistle on the Mortgage Bubble
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• Fuck it, I'll Do This Alone
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• Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
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• Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Almost Flat Design
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• Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven
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• Lemmings 404 page
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• Namecheap Makes $44,000 Donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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• What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
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• I'm sorry
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• An Amaz-ing Resume
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• "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
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• Alan Cox leaves Linux and Intel
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• Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S.
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Finishing what Aaron Swartz started with PACER
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• Dear brilliant students: Please consider not doing a PhD.
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• What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
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• How do keys work? Explained in one Gif
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• Actual Facebook Graph Searches
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• Megafail
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• Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan
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• Turning the Raspberry Pi Into an FM Transmitter
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• Don’t believe everything you read
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• A Whole New Code Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ortiz says suicide will not change handling of cases
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• Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here
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• The End of Ragequitting
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• iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility
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• The joys of having a Forever Project
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• Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to
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• Valve starts promoting Steam for Linux to Windows users
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• A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates
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• Getting Started with Django
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• It’s time all clinical trial results are reported
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why the Fuck?
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• Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding security flaw
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• Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?
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• When Haskell Is Not faster than C
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• Taking payments online in Europe in 2013
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• Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson
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• How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp
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• Programmer Interrupted
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• What we discovered about InstallMonetizer
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• Tron Legacy (2010)
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Send a Facebook message to anyone's inbox, for free
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• MIT Legal repudiated Xbox hacker too
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• Some Notes About Time
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• We expect too much of geeks
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• Another Ortiz case
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• Microsoft hires designer behind "The Next Microsoft", Andrew Kim
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• Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate your forms
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• So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
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• Edward Tufte’s defense of Aaron Swartz and the “marvelously different”
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• Leiningen version 2.0.0 released
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing
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• Nokia releases 3D printing files for Lumia phone cases
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• Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads
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• ML researcher replies to request to review paper for closed journal
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• Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World
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• O'Reilly donating ebook "Open Government" as a tribute to Aaron Swartz
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• I ported LaTeX to Javascript
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• Mega has launched
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• Sophie In North Korea
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• Carmen Ortiz Strikes Out
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SSH client in Google Chrome
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• Our Django Book is Launched
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• Handling Growth with Postgres
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• Follow up to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C"
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• A cry for help
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• Linus says Carmen Ortiz is lying
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• Twice
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• A time for silence
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• Stripe Checkout
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• U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The If-by-whiskey fallacy
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• Squash
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• Introducing HelloSign for Gmail
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• What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?
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• Thorium Reactors
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• My Top Sublime Text 2 Plugins
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• U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swartz Case
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• A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark
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• I sent a balloon up to capture 360x180 degree imagery/video from 100K feet
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• What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal
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• Aaron Swartz: The Book That Changed My Life
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• What No One Told You About Z-Index
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• Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network
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• Aaron Swartz's Lawyer: MIT Refused Plea Deal Without Jail Time
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• Rep. Zoe Lofgren Introduces Aaron's Law [pdf]
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• Prosecutor pursuing Aaron Swartz linked to suicide of another hacker
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• iOS Development Tips If You're Just starting Out
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• US employee 'outsourced job to China'
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• I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Japanese Kids Learn To Multiply
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• Remembering Aaron Swartz: Commons man
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• Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
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• In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law
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• The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
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• Design Books Every Hacker Should Read
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• Plea Bargaining and Torture in light of the Aaron Swartz case
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• Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows
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• California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills
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• Introducing Graph Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide
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• MIT President on Aaron Swartz
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• Did porn warp me forever?
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• Petition: require free access to publicly-funded research
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• A Sad Irony: The Federal Judiciary's PACER Pricing Is Illegal
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• Why Am I So Upset About Aaron Swartz's Suicide?
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• The Conscience of a Hacker
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• An Advanced Guide to HTML and CSS
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• John Carmack's comment on Doom 3's code style
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• Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Aaron's domain registration runs out in Sept. We should archive it in his memory
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• Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26
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• JSTOR torrent
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• My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved
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• The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime"
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• Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz
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• Aaron Swartz, American hero
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• Jonathan James
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• 1/13 noon at MIT: Protest wrongful prosecution of Aaron Swartz
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• Academics posting their papers online in tribute to Aaron Swartz
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For
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• Aaron Swartz commits suicide
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• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
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• Let's black bar HN
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• Cory Doctorow: RIP, Aaron Swartz
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• If I get hit by a truck...
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• Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did
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• Prosecutor as bully
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• Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee
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• Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free
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• Google Flu Trends
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• Nokia: Yes, we decrypt your HTTPS data, but don’t worry about it
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• Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390
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• Safari is released to the world
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• Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003)
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• How to implement an algorithm from a scientific paper
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• Bitcoin exchange hacked via Rails exploit, funds stolen
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• Devops/Sysadmin Cheatsheet
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• I want the world to scroll this way
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Codecademy introduces API lessons with YouTube, SoundCloud, Parse, and more
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• Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps
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• Young People Are Screwed: Here's How To Survive
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• Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing
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• Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away
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• How to Fold a Julia Fractal
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• Save your eyes, start using f.lux
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• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
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• Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP
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• IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Howdoi – Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line
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• How To Make Trillions Of Dollars
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• Systemic traffic jams caused by small groups of drivers, study says
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• The Best of Kickstarter 2012
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• The Story of the Ping Program
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• When EC2 Hardware Changes Underneath You
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• How Lisp is Going to Save the World
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• Never Lie About Who You Really Are
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• Doom3 Gangnam Style in WebGL
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• Your life's work
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• No office, no boss, no boundaries – rise of the nomadic rich
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• Battlecode: MIT's longest-running hardcore programming competition
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• Favorite Unix Commands
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• How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency
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• Introducing Contributions
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• A letter to my daughter, Augusta, in ruby
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• How I Hacked Facebook’s Secure Files Transfer Service for Employees
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• Trello celebrates One Million Users
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• Getting Started With Clojure
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• Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A year without caffeine (part 2)
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• Power surges in Britain caused by millions of people making tea [video]
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• Another awesome US immigration experience
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• Amazon's top selling laptop doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, it runs Linux
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• Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week
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• Host me in California
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• Here’s what I learned hanging out with Jason Fried
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• 2012 Personal Annual Report
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• Show HN: Our alternative to recruiter spam
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• Web Developer Checklist
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Junior - A Native-Looking and Feeling Mobile HTML5 Front-End Framework
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• Deconstructing K&R C (2010)
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• The "well-calibrated interviewer" curse
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• Why I Program in Go
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• My Father's "Eviscerated" work - Son of J.R.R. Tolkien finally speaks out
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• Math notes to take you from one year of college calculus to grad student level
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• _why's site is back up
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• Memorizing a programing language using spaced repetition software
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• Behind the scenes of the Pirate Bay trial
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• Mosh: the mobile shell
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mega Man 2 (NES) password algorithm and code
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• Free SVG and PNG Icons Easily Customizable For Games
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• Scala 2.10 now available
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• Entropy generator to provide significant lag reduction in Android
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• Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby
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• Django 1.5 release candidate available
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• Who wrote the 'Death Note' script?
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• How My Start-Up Failed
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• English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited
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• Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute zero
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Are Designers Crazy?
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• Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
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• Black and Whitey: How the feds disable criminal defense
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• Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
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• Warren Buffett Buys World's Largest Solar Project from SunPower for $2.5 Billion
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• Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "he now praises the ipad"
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• America's Real Criminal Element: Lead
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• Keeping Safari a secret
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• Minimal wireframing tool - for free
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• An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?
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• Patent trolls want $1,000 per employee for using scanners
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• The physics of that ‘kickalicious’ kick
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• Python: The Dictionary Playbook
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• Why did a Train Carrying Biofuel Cross the Border 24 Times and Never Unload?
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• Fitbit, why can’t I have my data?
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• Rails SQL injection vulnerability: here are the facts
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• Vigil: A programming language with eternal moral vigilance
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• Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format
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• A New Look for Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pinterest Cut Costs from $54 to $20 Per Hour With Automatic Shutdowns
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• The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Arduino
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• No bullshit guide to math and physics
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• A world without power
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• Avis acquires car sharing company Zipcar for $500 million
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• Make the Metric system the standard in the United States
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• Regexper: Beautiful regexp visualizations
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• Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones
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• Ubuntu for phones
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• SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails; affects all versions
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• PlaceIt by Breezi - Generate Product Screenshots in Realistic Environments
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• How to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Rock Star
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• How multi-disk failures happen
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• How and why I run my own DNS servers
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• John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been released
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• A Pickpocket's Tale
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• Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites
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• How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic
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• A tiny language called Z
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-31

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

• How I got a $3,500 USD Facebook Bug Bounty
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• Why I Gave Up A Million Dollar Consultancy
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• JavaScript: Clarifying The Keyword ‘this’
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• ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police”
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• FreeBSD 9.1 Release Announcement
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• Getting better and finding happiness through cycling
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• Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other Titles
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• Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released
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• Fixing the computer guy posture [pdf]
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• I’m Bored. What’s Next?
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