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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-27

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

• Digital audio signals and how they really behave [video]
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• Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go
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• Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam
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• Aerial photography ban proposed for all but government
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• Simple user styles for popular websites
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• Code.org – Dedicated to growing computer programming education
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• Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video
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• Issue 8788 - Every day around 9 AM Brussels time, huge drop in GAE performance
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• Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5
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• How I Fired Myself
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-26

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

• Three CSS features you need to know about
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• Ruby on Rails 4.0.0.beta1 released
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• Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router
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• Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
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• How Valve hires, how it fires, and how much it pays
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• Aaron Swartz Was Targeted by Feds Over His Activism
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• DOJ Admits Aaron's Prosecution Was Political
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• Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
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• Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'Barely Legal Teens'
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• Django 1.5 released
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-25

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

• How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube
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• Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time
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• The MS Surface Pro
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• Literate CoffeeScript
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• Is speed reading really possible?
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• No more remote work at Yahoo
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• The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
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• How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing
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• The best programmers are the quickest to Google
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• A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-24

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

• Saturn's North Pole Is A Hexagon, And No One Knows Why
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• Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app
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• TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
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• Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?
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• Drone ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Now Has A Name: ARGUS
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• Ruby 2.0.0 Released
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• Bootstrapping a Software Product
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• Stop Writing REST API Clients
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• Mobile Operators Announce Commitment to Firefox OS
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• Why Use Make
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-23

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

• Go as an alternative to Node.js for Very Fast Servers
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• John Carmack: Latency Mitigation Strategies
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• Debuggex: A visual regex debugger
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• Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research
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• Yahoo CEO Mayer Now Requiring Employees to Not Be Remote
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• The Next SourceForge
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• Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.
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• "River" detection in text
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• The Serenity of a 5pm Bedtime
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• If you ever feel alone in this...
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-22

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

• The Play Framework at LinkedIn
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• Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters
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• X86 MMU fault handling is turing complete
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• The Net Is a Waste of Time (1996)
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• LaTeX Templates
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• The Department of Homeland Security Stole My Boat Today
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• Domain Knowledge or a Lack Thereof
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• Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks
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• The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures
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• Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-21

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

• The StarCraft path-finding hack
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• Dolphins Call Each Other By Name
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• HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning
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• The Truth about a Failing Startup
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• LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now Worthless
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• How To Make a Quick Buck
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• Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
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• Google has killed Android (the brand)
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• Petition to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures
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• The Chromebook Pixel
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-20

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

• Good sleep, good learning, good life
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• Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
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• Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
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• A Most Peculiar Test Drive – Follow Up
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• How we hacked Facebook with OAuth2 and Chrome bugs
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• Google Glass - If I Had Glass
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• Google Glass
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• Business in a Box
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• Firefox introduces PDF viewer
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• I'm a shut-in. This is my story
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-19

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

• Diablo in JavaScript
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• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
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• Using Silk Road
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• Sergey Brin, Please Pick up your Paychecks
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• AWS OpsWorks - Flexible Application Management in the Cloud Using Chef
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• Hello. I'm a compiler
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• What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
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• Vim After 11 Years
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• Nginx now supports Websockets
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• Ubuntu on tablets
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-18

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

• There Are Giant Camera Resolution Test Charts Scattered Across the US
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• What it's like to uncover a $1 billion fraud
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• Money Trees – Rap Genius Response to Heroku
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• So what happened to the HN server?
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• Why I Retired From Apple
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• Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
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• A nice, little known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations
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• Why HN was down
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• Making $1 million from affiliate links on "Ad-Free" blog
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• WebSocket proxy support added to nginx trunk
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-17

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

• QEMU 1.4.0 released with 95% of native IO performance
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• Mega update: Dotcom's service now accepts Bitcoin
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• Solve the Problems Your Parents Have
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• Bankers now Too Big to Jail
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• Browser Wars, the game
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• A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks
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• The Free Universal Construction Kit
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• Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
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• Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
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• Halo Creator Unveils Its Next Masterpiece, a Persistent Online World
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-16

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

• Russian meteor largest in a century
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• Posterous will turn off on April 30
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• Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
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• Obama Calls for Patent Reform to Topple Trolls
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• HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers
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• Death in Singapore
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• Heroku Blog: Routing Performance Update
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• BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger
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• BBC demands DRM for HTML5
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• Learn Git Branching
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-15

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

• The United States Redrawn as Fifty States with Equal Population
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• The Street Kids of San Francisco
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• Official Steam client for Ubuntu released
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• That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn’t
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• Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance
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• Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Pornstars and Their Careers
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• Meteorite crash in Russia
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• Why Mozilla Matters
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• Ten predictions (2004)
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• Introducing Boxen
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-14

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

• Inventing Chromebook
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• 16×16 Pixel Art Tutorial
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• Psilocybin shows success in medical trials
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• Why It's Time to Break the Code of Silence at the Airport
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• I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea
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• I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
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• A Most Peculiar Test Drive
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• Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
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• Python trademark at risk in Europe
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• Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-13

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

• Incredible Secret Money Machine
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• Email transparency
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• Stupid, Stupid xBox
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• DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland—that quickly disappeared
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• Opera moves to WebKit
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• Introducing The Paper Bay
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• It is cheaper to fly to US than buy Adobe software in Australia
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• WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines
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• Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text
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• Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-12

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

• The Best Entrepreneurs Are Older, Have Less Ego
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• Flat Pixels
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• Yours vs. Mine
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• Write More Classes
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• Bitcoins can now be used to pay for Domino’s Pizza
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• Web Development: A Crazy World
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• Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks
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• Google Fails the Turing Test
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• A warning to college profs from a high school teacher
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• Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-11

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

• Rel="logo" (2011)
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• The Importance of Excel
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• Why Discourse uses Ember.js
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• At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life
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• It's all who you know?
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• The Promise of Firefox OS
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• Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam
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• In 2005 Motorola Tried to Sue Me For Unlocking Phones
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• I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
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• Elon Musk calls NYT review of the Tesla Model S ‘fake,’ citing vehicle log data
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-10

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

• I’m Sick of Tiny, Tiny Type
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• Meet Kirsty Nathoo, Y Combinator’s Secret Financial And Operational Weapon
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• Star Wars Traceroute - How I did it
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• How to Learn JavaScript Properly
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• Pixel Art Tutorial
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• I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored
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• A ‘frighteningly ambitious’ way to improve email
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• Why I Like Go
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• 75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.S. Supreme Court
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• Mathics - A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-09

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

• Don Rosa: Why I Quit
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• Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers
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• Airbnb Annual
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• Herd Immunity Demonstration
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• Applications open for summer 2013 YC funding
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• I made $200K and PayPal locked my account
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• Curiosity images strange metallic-looking object on Mars
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• Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This
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• The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173
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• CSS 3D Clouds
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-08

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

• Civil Disobedience
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• Farewell, neighbors
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• Wizard Modals for Bootstrap
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• Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space?
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• The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses
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• Mercator Puzzle
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• Bootstrap 2.3 Released
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• Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)
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• Steve Heymann Should Be Fired
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• Balancing text for better readability
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-07

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

• Play framework 2.10 released
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• Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web
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• First impressions of Leap Motion
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• Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014
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• Multicolor image search
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• Easy 6502
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• Why don't websites immediately display their text these days?
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• What happened with LEGO
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• Go and Assembly
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• jQuery.payment
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-06

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

• Our path to $1M in sales
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• Tesla's ingenious strategy
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• Host webpages on Google Drive
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• Four Hours of Concentration
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• Site plagiarizes blog posts, then files DMCA takedown on originals
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• Employees leave managers, not companies
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• Remember when people tracked bugs?
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• In the future, all space marines will be Warhammer 40K space marines
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• Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
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• Packets of Death
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-05

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

• Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak
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• Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
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• Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON responses?
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• Someone Just Leaked Obama's Rules for Assassinating American Citizens
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• GoDaddy deletes my domains and charges me to restore them
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• YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion Engine for Vim
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• Petition: Stop bundling crapware with Java
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• 48th Mersenne prime found
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• Announcing MoSQL
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• Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-04

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

• We should only work 25 hours a week, argues professor
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• No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app
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• Speaking up
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• Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS
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• Massive glacier collapse
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• Use long flags when scripting
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• I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
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• Group of Men Have Played Game of Tag for 23 Years
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• Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling
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• Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-03

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

• How a Boat-Plane Hybrid Shattered the Sound Barrier of Sailing
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• Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go
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• How A Pull Request Rocked My World
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• What to do about GNU?
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• Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll
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• Why police lie under oath
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• AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-Contract "Smart" Phone
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• On Python security amidst recent Rails/YAML vulnerabilities
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• C++ containers that save memory and time
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• The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-02

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

• OpenSource Nano Quadcopter Kit
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• Apps? No root? Your device serves others, warns Berners-Lee
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• MIT can honor Aaron Swartz by fighting to make journals open to everyone
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• Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
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• Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely
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• How to land an airplane if you are not a pilot
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• Twitter Hacked – 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised
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• Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
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• Blank screen if kids yell too much
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• Docracy Terms of Service Tracker
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-01

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

• The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF
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• Flight: A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework from Twitter
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• Trello uses an icon font and so can you
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• Should we talk about the fact that founder Jody Sherman didn't just die?
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• Starting a Bike Shop
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• LLVM Tutorial
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• Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
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• Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks
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• Egghead.io - short screencasts about AngularJS
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• Mojang's Monster Profits
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• High Performance Networking in Google Chrome
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• Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles
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• Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers
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• The stupid cookie law is dead at last
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• Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda
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• A Short Rant About Working Remotely
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• That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer
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• What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup
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• Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early
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• Amazon's homepage was down
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