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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-30

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

• The Ouya works, it’s here, and it’s heading your way
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• Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion
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• "Attrition is a group statistic. It doesn't apply to me."
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• The Lie Hollywood Loves to Tell
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• Two Letters from Steve Jobs
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• If Only I Knew This Shit in College
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• What Major World Cities Look Like at Night, Minus the Light Pollution
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• Introduction to Guitar
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• Lessons Learned from YouTube’s $300M Hole
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• Worst CAPTCHA Ever
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-29

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

• Extra security measures for next week's releases
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• Why Asm.js Bothers Me
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• Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads
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• Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of Python
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• What Being a Handyman Has Taught Me About Male Insecurity
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• A new blog dedicated to Emacs
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• ZFS on Linux 0.6.1 released: Ready for wide scale deployment
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• Mystery Malady Kills More Bees, Heightening Worry on Farms
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• tmux 1.8 Released
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• Ask PG: Did the "apply to YC without an idea" experiment work?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-28

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

• Rails' Insecure Defaults
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• Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack
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• Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem
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• DARPA gives $3M to Continuum Analytics to improve Python for big data
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• Three.js editor
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• Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speaks up
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• Web Framework Benchmarks
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• The language of Vim
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• Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented
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• A Note from one of Cloudflare's upstream providers
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-27

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

• Persona is distributed. Today.
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• 21 Nested Callbacks
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• A lot of free programming ebooks
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• Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night
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• Dashing - A dashboard framework
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• Take pride or fuck it
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• Global Internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'
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• The DDoS that almost broke the Internet
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• Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web
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• Ƀ — Universal Bitcoin Logo Alternative
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-26

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

• Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies
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• Show HN: Framebase.io, Video for Developers
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• An idea for non-technical co-founders: try a service-first business
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• Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories
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• Introduction to Go 1.1
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• The Summly deal makes no sense
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• How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
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• The power of the RSS reader
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• What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly
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• Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-25

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

• Introduction to Machine Learning
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• Python data tools just keep getting better
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• Why Use Nginx?
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• Poll: Do you meditate?
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• Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?
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• Learning JavaScript - my experience and advice
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• Checkout github pull requests locally
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• ‘Functional Programming Principles in Scala’ starts today
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• Can We Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?
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• How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-24

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

• Show HN: Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on
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• Brains of the Animal Kingdom: Research shows we've underestimated
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• Blocked Sites is discontinued
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• Linus on Oregon HB 2748 and US education in general
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• How to solve the problem that the topmost comments get all upvotes
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• Chrome Inspector Detector
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• Too Perfect a Mirror
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• The Flask Mega-Tutorial
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• A scientific accident that could change the world
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• I Bought A Firetruck
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-23

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

• Hacker News For Africa
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• Google killed me
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• Tell W3C: We don't want the Hollyweb
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• Gitlab 5.0 released, Gitolite now gone
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• The Rejection Book: Good luck, bad luck, who knows?
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• How To Hire Me (or any other programmer)
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• Changes to the Blog
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• Dirt may explain why richest countries suffer diseases rarely seen anywhere else
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• Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry
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• Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-22

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

• Wherein SFPD is still going surveillance-nutty
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• HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
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• Asm.js in Firefox Nightly
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• Orin Kerr: Why I Am Representing Auernheimer Pro Bono on Appeal
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• What really happened at PyCon 2013
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• Fork My Dongle
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• Why Ruby?
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• Schema Migrations for Django
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• Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
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• Unfit for work
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-21

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

• Voyager 1 has left the solar system
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• Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself
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• Chrome World Wide Maze
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• PyCon Code of Conduct changed to avoid public shaming
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• I’m done with the web
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• Official comment from HN on dead threads
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• What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you
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• SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
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• Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
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• A Difficult Situation
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-20

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

• Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme (NSFW) (2011)
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• Free works
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• Diamonds Are Bullshit
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• Announcing Backbone.js 1.0
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• "Getting started with Ember.Js is easy." - No it isn't
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• Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually
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• You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?
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• Users don't like social login
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• Benefits matter, or why I won't work for your Y Combinator startup
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• The PyCon Incident
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-19

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

• Async I/O for Python 3
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• EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down
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• Two Months of Soylent
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• US Treasury Guidance on Virtual Currencies (aka Bitcoins)
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• Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
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• An apology to open source
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• Why I left Google (2012)
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• Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks
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• Chart.js is back online
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• Goodbye, Malcolm
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-18

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

• Computer Science in Vietnam
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• So You Want To Be A Breaker, Part 1: Web Security
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• Three Months to Scale NewsBlur
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• Chart.js - open source HTML5 charting library
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• Bills seek end to farm animal abuse videos
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• First-person Tetris
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• Future of Firefox DevTools
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• Checkboxes that kill your product
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• Fizz Buzz: Enterprise Edition
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• Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-17

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

• The danger of the trailing dot in the domain name
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• The Internet is a surveillance state
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• Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
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• Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector
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• The 3-year old "Implement RSS natively in Chrome" bug just changed to "WontFix"
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• The Matrix in JavaScript in less than 600 bytes
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• ViziCities Dev Diary #1: Visualising Cities in 3D using WebGL
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• TechCrunch Pump n Dump
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• Python.org Redesign Preview
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• I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-16

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

• Dropbox Acquires Mailbox
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• What it’s like to die
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• Programming Cheat Sheets
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• Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?
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• Google is about to learn a tough lesson
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• Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls
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• Google Kills Its RSS Subscription Browser Extension Too
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• What do grad students in math do all day?
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• My Amazon bestseller made me nothing
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• More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-15

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

• Bulletproof demos using Chrome's playback mode
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• Not Lisp again (2009)
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• Google: Do what you want with Reader, but don't kill CalDAV
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• Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader
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• Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes
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• The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping
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• Procrastination is Not Laziness
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• Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js
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• Mailbox Is Joining Dropbox
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• Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-14

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

• Code Reads
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• Civil Liberties Groups Speak Out Against CISPA in Lead Up to Hearings
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• How I Hacked Any Facebook Account Again
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• SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All
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• Yes `yes no`
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• Wealth, risk, and stuff
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• What I Learned from a Sex-Crazed Short-Order Cook
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• Google removes AdBlock for Android from Google Play
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• Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson
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• The Handshake Deal Protocol
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-13

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

• First 5 Minutes Troubleshooting A Server
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• Clojure: All grown up
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• Come and help save Posterous from oblivion
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• How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
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• Maxis Insider: SimCity Servers Not Necessary
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• Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5
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• Update from the CEO
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• This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again
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• We'll Be Circling Back
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• Google Reader shutting down
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-12

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

• LinkedIn is a Virus
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• Python at Netflix
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• Node v0.10.0 (Stable)
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• Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits temporarily suspended
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• Ask PG: Comments are not working?
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• Confessions of A Job Destroyer
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• What's up with HN?
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• Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant
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• O’Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul
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• Official Hacker News T-Shirt
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-11

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

• Web Scraping 101 with Python
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• Zombie Startups
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• Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario
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• Men who spy on women through their webcams
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• The Fireplace Delusion
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• Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
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• Why I'm switching back to Firefox
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• Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Meteorite Fragments
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• Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome
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• Show HN: Incorporate your startup online with YC's forms (built by two lawyers)
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-10

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

• 30 Weeks of Game Development
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• Here come the encryption apps
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• Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore
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• On being a girl in computer science - a confession
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• Why I created Comic Sans
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• Require companies to use the term "licensing" instead of "buying" with DRM goods
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• Bootstrap 3 preview
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• Chess CAPTCHA
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• The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation
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• WebGL Terrain Flyover Demo
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-09

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

• How to "open" a microchip and what's inside?
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• Flat UI, mirrored
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• Coding Cloud Heroku May Face Lawsuit Over Bait-and-Switch Claims
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• 9th Circuit Appeals Court: 4th Amendment Applies At The Border
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• Extreme debugging - a tale of microcode and an oven
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• Physicists Discover a Whopping 13 New Solutions to Three-Body Problem
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• Hacking Github with Webkit
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• Apartments So Small They Can Only Be Photographed From Above
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• Some dark corners of C
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• Thank you HN, sorry HN
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-08

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

• Google Docs makes it easy to do market research
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• Why are payment forms so complicated?
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• Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling
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• Facebook's New Feed
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• EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban
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• Flat UI DCMA Takedown
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• The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble
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• Days since last known Java 0-day exploit
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• Lord British launches “Shroud of the Avatar” on Kickstarter
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• SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-07

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

• Fix the DMCA
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• EmberJS Confuses Me
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• Rand Paul filibustering over drones
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• Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library
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• Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients
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• Unix tricks
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• Salary Negotiations: What is Possible When There's no More Money
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• Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)
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• Linode Nextgen: The Network
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• Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-06

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

• A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist
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• Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise
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• The Humble Bundle with Android 5
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• Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers
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• Play by Your Own Rules
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• Letter from Steve Wozniak to a high school student in Korea
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• Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written
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• Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
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• LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI
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• Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-05

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

• JS roguelike game: The Royal Wedding
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• CoffeeScript 1.6.0 released with support for source maps
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• Adderall Addiction: The Last All-Nighter
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• Making the travel site people want, even if it’s impossible
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• Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
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• Namecheap now officially accepts Bitcoin
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• Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?
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• Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa
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• Vim Git Gutter
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• Hacker News Parody Thread
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-04

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

• How Ink Is Made
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• SpaceX Dragon successfully docks with International Space Station
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• HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of AIDS Drugs
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• Programming Is Not for Everybody
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• How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server
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• Commit that changed my life
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• Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3
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• The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea
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• Ubuntu will switch from X window server to Mir
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• White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-03

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

• Postgres: The Bits You Haven't Found
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• What Coke Contains
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• Bradley Manning’s Statement
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• Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
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• How not to send password reset notification email
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• What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years
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• (Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design
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• What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear
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• Today's Outage Post Mortem
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• The Apprentice Programmer
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-02

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

• Phishing Has Gotten Very Good
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• Clojure 1.5
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• How Search Works
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• Show HN: Tiled Text – a Different Approach to Editing Text
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• The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee
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• The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
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• The Rise Of The Artist
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• Why Watching DVDs on Linux is Illegal in the USA
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• Evernote hacked
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• The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-01

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

• Resurgence of Neural Networks
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• Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers
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• The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient
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• Zurb Launches Foundation 4
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• Hackathons are bad for you
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• Stripe launches beta in the UK
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)
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• Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are Slow
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• Heroku Fucking Console
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• Establishing secure connection
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-02-28

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

• Help Fight Patent Trolls – Support the SHIELD Act
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• Politicians want “loser pays” rule for patent trolls
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• Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success
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• HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks
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• Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video
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• WebKit for Developers
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• A new Light Table experience
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• Why was my email leaked?
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• We Found Our Son in the Subway
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• Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO
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