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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-29

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

• Collection of the best fonts for programming
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• Get that job at Facebook (2012)
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• I made an example app to show how Google map URLs should look
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• Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy
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• The //* /*/ //*/ comment toggle trick
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• How I coded in 1985
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• Older Is Wiser: Study Shows Software Developers’ Skills Improve Over Time
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• Google Now on your iPhone and iPad
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• Hurricane on Saturn
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• Google releases Glass source code, declares platform open to hackers
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-28

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

• Elixir, a functional metaprogramming-aware language built on the Erlang VM
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• Lessons learned defying Joel Spolsky with Django
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• Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51
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• Why I am building a product with a tiny market
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• Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
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• After 25 years in jail, the Internet blew my mind
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• If this were a pill, you’d do anything to get it
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• Here is today
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• Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament
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• Skype account hijack technique may affect all users
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-27

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

• Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression
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• This is what a DDoS attack looks like
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• Killer escaped prison after being issued picture of master key
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• JQuery Annotated Source
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• Is this what it’s supposed to feel like?
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• How D3 Selections Work
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• Creating a Radial Menu in CSS
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• Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30
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• The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
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• Obsession
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-26

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

• Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
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• Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Exam
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• Massive deposit of lithium found in Wyoming could meet all U.S. demand
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• Speed up your sites with PageSpeed for Nginx
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• Soylent Month Three
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• CISPA 'dead' in Senate, privacy concerns cited
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• The next generation of Instapaper
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• Uber Stockholm throw a PR-tantrum when refused unfair advantages
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• I knew exactly how she felt
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• #ifihadglass I would jailbreak it and modify the software
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-25

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

• Nginx-1.4.0 stable version has been released
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• Everything you need to understand to start with AngularJS
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• Aaron Swartz Documentary – The Internet's Own Boy
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• Failed Startup's Final Income Statements Reveal Grave Error
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• Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians?
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• Shame.css
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• “What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand?”
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• Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released
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• Twitter Should Shut Me Down
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• Facebook buys Parse
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-24

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

• TraceGL: JavaScript code flow visualisation in WebGL
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• Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Here's a Tool to Help
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• My First Year in the App Store
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• Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence
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• The W3C's plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal for all web users
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• The AI Systems of "Left 4 Dead" [pdf]
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• Show HN: Usability checklist – catch common problems before user testing
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• Wish I was here by Zach Braff
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• Introduction to Position Based Fluids
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• Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-23

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

• Papers, Please: A Dystopian Document Thriller
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• Grad Student Who Took Down Reinhart and Rogoff Explains Why They're Wrong
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• Dumped by Google
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• Netflix now bigger than HBO
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• Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
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• The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away
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• SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High
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• “Right click and save as” needs to go away
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• Postgres on the GPU
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• BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-22

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

• In India, 'no frills' hospitals offer $800 heart surgery
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• The Clown Car Technique for Responsive Images
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• Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial (2006)
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• Expunging Google
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• What Broke My Father's Heart (2010)
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• “Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere”
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• Geeksphone's Firefox OS smartphones go on sale tomorrow
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• Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform
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• Sleep: Everything You Need to Know
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• Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-21

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

• Razer will not cancel 90%-off test coupons
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• Mystery Aircraft Parts and Atomic Clocks
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• Breaking News is broken
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• Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think
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• Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits
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• Show HN: jsdares – learning programming visually
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• The Last Question
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• What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?
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• Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
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• VSRE: very short reply expected (netiquette)
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-20

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

• _why's complete printer spool as one book [pdf]
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• We've Open-sourced Rendr
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• Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge
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• Ack 2.0 has been released
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• You are not Steve Jobs
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• Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
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• CipherCloud used DMCA Takedown on StackExchange discussion of their cryptography
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• Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?
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• Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine
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• Linux on an 8-bit micro
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-19

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

• I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100
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• Obama threatens veto of CISPA bill
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• JQuery 2.0 Released
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• The Matasano Crypto Challenges
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• Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
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• Transcript of meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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• I Knew a Programmer Who Went Completely Insane
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• What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space [video]
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• Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt?
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• Bing doesn't support SSL
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-18

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

• Ember 101: Learn Ember One Video at a Time
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• The most useful thing in bash
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• Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web
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• Things I Wish I Had Known About Django Development Before Starting My Company
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• How to become Internet famous for $68
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• The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator
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• "Asswipe," replied Yahoo's server. That's when I knew I had it
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• Reddit co-founder calls out Google, Twitter, Facebook over CISPA
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• Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project
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• CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-17

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

• What is the rule for adjective order?
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• New GitHub Logo
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• Your First iOS App – 100% Programmatically
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• The bomb that changed my life (2011)
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• 1Password GPU brute-force with 3M hash/s
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• Data journalism busts speeding cops, wins Pulitzer
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• What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?
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• If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today
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• How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business
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• Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-16

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

• Scaling Pinterest - From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years
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• Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It
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• Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions
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• If you're in Boston without phone service, use this website to call your family
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• The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On
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• Webcam Pulse Detector
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• Security incident update
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• If I Made Another Monkey Island...
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• Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer
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• Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-15

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

• Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games
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• News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
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• Gitmo Is Killing Me
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• You should blog even if you have no readers
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• Show HN: I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system
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• How to work with Software Engineers
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• Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men
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• Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
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• How much usage can a Lego piece take before it loses its 'clutch power'?
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• Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-14

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

• Exposed Webcam Viewer
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• Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram
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• What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are Slow")
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• Hal Finney: Bitcoin and me
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• Show HN: vim-multiple-cursors - True Sublime Text style multiple selection
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• Mozilla TowTruck – real-time collaboration on any site
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• The Queen’s stylesheets
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• Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
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• What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell
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• Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-13

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

• AppGratis Is Nothing More Than A Black Hat Marketing Company
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• Quake 3 engine in Rust
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• Console.log with style
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• The exploding toilet
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• Keeping People
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• We used to sleep twice each night
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• Single page apps in depth
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• Want to Block Common Passwords? Sorry, That is Patented
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• Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities
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• India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-12

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

• I've got 10 btc for the best CoffeeScript/JavaScript Nodewar bot
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• Amazon Coins Launching
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• How Dave Goldberg Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM
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• My Startup Failed. Fuck.
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• Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous
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• Poll: What is your age?
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• StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs
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• Abolish The Patent, Vanquish The Troll
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• My Time at Lehman
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• _why's site is updated
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-11

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

• IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant
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• The Tyranny of Taxi Medallions
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• Github turns five
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• I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
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• Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]
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• A non-mathematical explanation of one way functions
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• How I got robbed of 34 btc on Mt.Gox today
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• Stolen From Apple
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• Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone
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• You know, Google, the web already had this feature
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-10

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

• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (2001)
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• XKCD: Time
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• AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network
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• How can we get Google Support?
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• Obfuscated C Code Contest 2006. Please explain sykes2.c
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• Lulu: Sexist gossip about men you know, anonymously, without their permission.
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• Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover
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• Csscss: a CSS redundancy analyzer that analyzes redundancy
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• Bitcoin falls from $266
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• Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-09

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

• Realtime Bitcoin Stats
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• The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown
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• Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server
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• How to share your data effectively
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• Firefox 23 will block non-SSL content on SSL pages by default
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• New Persona Beta: Millions of Users Ready to Log In using Any Browser
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• Dear YC companies, I responded. You could do the same.
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• Google Fiber’s Next Stop: Austin, Texas
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• AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here’s the full story
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• Linode NextGen: RAM Upgrade
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-08

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

• GoPy – Extend CPython by writing Go
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• How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
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• Wikileaks release "PlusD": Database of 1.7 million diplomatic cables
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• Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
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• Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
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• Git koans
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• Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
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• From Selling Scoops of Ice Cream to Founding ZeroCater
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• Disney have stolen my artwork
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• Hoodie: very fast web app development
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-07

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

• Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
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• What can I do for Mozilla
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• Google Paid This Man $100 Million
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• How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craigslist
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• Why does this png display differently in Chrome/Firefox than in Safari/IE?
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• Donating my Xbox
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• Our tiny jQuery/Bootstrap rich text editor is now open-source
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• Lessig: Why Washington is corrupt
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• Geocities Bootstrap Theme
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• Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-06

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

• Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is?
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• Introduction to x64 Assembly
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• In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree
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• Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps
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• Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler
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• Extracting Audio from Pictures of Gramophone Recordings
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• Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop
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• My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie
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• French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into deleting a Wikipedia Article
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• Don't use Linksys routers
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-05

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

• The new sandbox: open-source and self-hosted
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• Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance
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• Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
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• Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (2008) [pdf]
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• Media Queries are a Hack
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• Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy
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• Are Bitcoins The Future?
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• The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide
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• URLs are for People, not Computers
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• New GitHub Pages domain: github.io
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-04

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

• Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
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• Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance
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• The Jellyfish Entrepreneur
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• Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine
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• Stop externalising your life
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• Valve's GDC Talk: Porting Source to Linux [pdf]
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• PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released
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• Facebook Home
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• Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
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• Why Rackspace Is Suing The Most Notorious Patent Troll In America
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-03

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

• Explicit vs. Clever
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• Show HN: Cap'n Proto, by the ex-maintainer of Protocol Buffers
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• Comcast injecting JS
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• A Personal Statement from Iain Banks
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• Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the DoJ, You May Be a Criminal
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• Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine
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• Disney Shuts Down LucasArts
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• Stop working so hard
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• Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project
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• If the Earth were 100 pixels wide
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-02

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

• Interns: Everything you need to know about a summer in the Bay Area in one place
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• Appeals court upholds legality of Aereo’s “tiny antennas” scheme
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• A game when games were new
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• Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders
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• Check you're wearing trousers first
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• Netcat – The swiss army knife of networking
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• We call ourselves innovators, but most of us are really just iterators
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• I'm disappointed by Instacart
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• Helios
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• Tesla Unveils New Finance Product
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-01

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

• Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention
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• Listen to Bitcoin
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• Kiln
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• Google Maps One-Hand Zoom on iPhone
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• Tell HN: Flag PR "April fools pranks"
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• Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target
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• India Supreme Court rejects Novartis' right to patent new version of cancer drug
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)
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• Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC
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• Making a Physical Product
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-03-31

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

• Standups are Not Poisonous
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• Effective Django
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• Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional
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• Problems with the TSA
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• Building Photoshop 1.0
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• What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths?
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• PostgreSQL as Schemaless Database [pdf]
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• Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure
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• The Ivy League Was Another Planet
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• Google Maps: “Treasure Map” mode
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