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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-30

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

• React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces
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• EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5
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• Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup
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• Glass
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• Let’s help Airbnb rebuild the bridge it just burned
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• Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS
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• Ubuntu's Bug #1 is fixed
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• The secret button at pedestrian crossings
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• How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90%
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• Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-29

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

• Humble Indie Bundle 8
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• The Unexotic Underclass
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• “This week marks the beginning of my 4th year at Facebook”
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• A Terrifying, Fascinating Timelapse of 30 Years of Human Impact on Earth
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• Secure Boot isn't the only problem facing Linux on Windows 8 hardware
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• Reversal: Australian Govt picks ODF doc standard over Microsoft
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• Plain English explanation of Big O? (2009)
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• How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure?
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• A new Gmail inbox
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• I Sold The Magazine, Too
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-28

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

• Open Source Game Clones
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• Find Your Color Scheme
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• Teacher under fire for informing kids of their Fifth Amendment rights
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• How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
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• 3px of padding makes all the difference in the world
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• Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows
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• Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules
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• Introducing GitHub Sudo Mode
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• Topcoat – CSS for clean and fast web apps
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• Pixar's Chris Horne Sheds New Light on Monsters University
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-27

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

• Unlabeled Object Recognition in Google+
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• How far can you overhang blocks?
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• US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits
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• Chinese DIY Inventions
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• This Is What Winning Looks Like – Afghanistan War Diary
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• Google Java Annotations Gallery
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• You are dangerously bad at cryptography
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• Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa
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• Sucks to be an old engineer
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• Indiegogo fund raises enough money to buy video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-26

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

• Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid
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• HTML5 Features you need to know
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• Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree
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• Google defends dropping chat federation with inaccurate comments
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• Linux To Become Exclusive OS Of The International Space Station
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• The Mozilla Manifesto
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• Rustboot: a 32 bit kernel written in Rust
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• I took the $300K
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• Full Disclosure: PayPal.com XSS Vulnerability
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• 42
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-25

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

• VNC over gif
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• The Fallacy of Money As A Means
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• Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code
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• B go beyond – Quadcopter/RC car combo
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• Yahoo submits bid for Hulu
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• Too scared to write a line of code
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• BitMessage - Bitcoin Inspired Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging
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• Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick
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• Ydiff: Structural Comparison of Programs
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• How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-24

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

• Kiera Wilmot is going to Space Camp
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• Selling Your Software To Businesses - TwilioCon 2012 presentation
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• SQLite improves performance with memory-mapped I/O
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• Massive Number of Vulnerabilities Found in X.Org
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• Free private Github repos for students and edu people
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• Deleted my portfolio, made $30k in my first six months
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• The Girl Who Turned to Bone
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• The Shortest Crashing C Program
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• The Day our investors came to see the office
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• Improving the security of your SSH private key files
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-23

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

• Show HN: WideArea – an expandable textarea
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• My open source API client was taken down by a phony DMCA complaint
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• Greek Yogurt’s Dark Side
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• Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
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• Flickr's redesign makes it a photo service actually worth sharing
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• Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project
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• How to work remotely as a software developer
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• Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging
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• Lying Microsoft Advertising
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• I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-22

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

• Cancer and Startups
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• Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age
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• Pricing Principles
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• The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down
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• Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github
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• Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job
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• Induction powered LED lit engagement ring
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• The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)
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• Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation
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• Tesla Repays Department of Energy Loan Nine Years Early
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-21

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

• Modern GPU
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• What happens after Yahoo acquires you (2011)
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• The One-Person Product
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• Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet
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• New closure allows camping mattress to be inflated in seconds
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• NY official: Airbnb stay illegal; host fined $2,400
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• Our XMPP services at DuckDuckGo
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• Hacker News is depressing
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• Soylent Campaign
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• Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-20

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

• \d less efficient than [0-9]
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• Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap
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• Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully
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• Statistical Formulas For Programmers
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• Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using
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• Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr
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• Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
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• My one talk with Marissa Mayer
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• The biggest merger you didn't hear about today
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• Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1TB free space
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-19

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

• How do GameShark/GameGenie codes work?
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• A Profanity-Laced Video Game Password That Breaks Everything
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• The Three Kinds of Laziness
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• CDN vs S3
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• The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow
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• Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures
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• Docker - Way better than a VM
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• A Hacker News For Ideas
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• The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr
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• Choosing Minecraft over Disney
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-18

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

• Welcome to Google Island
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• The theory of relativity in words of four letters or less
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• Bright Explosion on the Moon
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• NixOS - Declarative configuration OS
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• Reddit’s Pitch deck to Advertisers
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• AngularJS Cheat Sheet
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• Skype backdoor confirmation
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• How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners
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• Tesla Raises $1B from Stock and Bond Sale
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• Evolution of Hacker News
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-17

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

• Not Having A Real Job
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• Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the noise of 802.11
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• D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge
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• Polymer, a Web Components library built by Google
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• Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help
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• A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life
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• Fish shell 2.0
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• Open source is not a war zone
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• Creating Shazam in Java
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• Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-16

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

• Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store
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• Kiera Wilmot, student who caused small explosion, won't face charges
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• Figures: They Speak For Themselves (mildly NSFW)
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• Internet giants, you’re no longer startups, get some customer service
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• Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox
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• Homemade GPS Receiver
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• What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support?
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• Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year
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• Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project
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• Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-15

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

• "Programmer. Come Work For Us"
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• Larry Page posts about his voice
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• Mt. Gox Dwolla account frozen by DHS
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• Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech
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• XKCD 1190 is now more individual frames than there are XKCD comics.
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• Strongbox and Aaron Swartz
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• The New Yorker Strongbox
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• Introducing Android Studio
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• The New Google Maps
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• Send money with Gmail
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-14

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

• The Lethality of Loneliness
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• U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records
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• Terra – a low-level counterpart to Lua
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• Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint”
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• Every odd number greater than five is the sum of three primes
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• The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
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• Https URLs posted in private Skype chats visited by Microsoft
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• Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]
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• Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep
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• Etsy accused me of not assembling my synths by hand and shut down my shop
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-13

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

• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
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• Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is
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• Vector Tiles for MapBox Streets
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• Unbelievable
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• Show HN: Create Javascript charts with one line of Ruby
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• ISS Commander Chris Hadfield Covers ‘Space Oddity’ in Space
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• Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
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• Macros in Python
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• A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch
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• Go 1.1 is released
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-12

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

• Vim Adventures
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• Python's sad, unimaginative Enum
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• Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account
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• A note to myself
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• Tesla: a little bit Apple, a little bit Google, and about to be huge
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• Bezier Curves and Picasso
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• CSS Architecture
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• I Don't Want Your Fucking App
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• 0 second visits according to Google Analytics
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• Samsung is hurting Android
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-11

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

• The Paradox of the Proof
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• PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
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• On Citizenship in open-source software development
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• A Year of MongoDB
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• Nearly full tickless operation in Linux 3.10
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• How to be more productive
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• Ask HN: Google workers, sister is visiting S.J. Can she tour the Googleplex?
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• Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS
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• How zsh is more useful than bash
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• Bug 698544 – Background configuration is missing in terminal profile editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-10

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

• Plans for Vim 7.4
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• RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins
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• Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online
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• 10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out
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• Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
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• Depression Part Two
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• My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
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• Math ∩ Programming
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• Actually eat healthily for £1 per day
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• Why is science behind a paywall?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-09

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

• Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations
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• Your heart attack bill: $3,300 in Arkansas, $92,000 in California
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• Software will not be patentable in New Zealand
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• Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible
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• An Efficient Way to Extract the Main Topics from a Sentence
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• The Onion releases fartscroll.js
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• LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
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• “The Tesla Model S is our top-scoring car”
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• PyPy 2.0 Released
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• A bill in Congress legalizes cell phone unlocking and fixes the DMCA
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-08

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

• Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-2028)
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• Pizza Compass
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• CSS Zen Garden is 10 Years Old Today
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• John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell
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• Show HN: Flattest Route - A web app to help you avoid hills in SF
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• The Freelancer's Guide to Recurring Revenue
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• Dear Apple, let's talk about photos
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• Food Practices Banned in Europe But Allowed in the US
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• Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)
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• Want to Spam Your LinkedIn Contacts and Be Humiliated? Try FounderDating
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-07

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

• Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer
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• I Am a Bad Developer
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• Judge Wright issues Prenda Law order
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• The story around the Linode hack
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• Git? tig
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• Iron Ring
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• Our Solar System Isn't Normal
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• Two.js
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• Tailgating YC
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• Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-06

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

• Pdf2htmlEX – Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format
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• Setting up Sublime Text 2
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• Jekyll 1.0 Released
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• HN supports SPDY
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• Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
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• What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram
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• Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
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• How to Spread The Word About Your Code
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• In defense of <canvas>
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• Linux is not about choice (2008)
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-05

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

• A “simple” 3rd grade problem
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• Geometee
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• The cost of hand-to-mouth living
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• Experiment in paying villagers in India an unconditional basic income
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• ClojureC, a compiler for Clojure that targets C as a backend
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• A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC
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• Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released
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• Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by default
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• Why I Develop For The Mac
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• Lenticular Photo Used To Secretly Convey Hot Line Number To Abused Kids
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-04

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

• YC without being in YC
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• How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C
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• Animated Vector Icons
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• I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks
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• NeXT Computer
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• Help Kiera with her legal bills
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• Today I saw the future
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• JSON API
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• Predicting Google Product Shutdowns
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• Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-03

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

• Show HN: Weekend project - Magnific Popup
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• Year 2038 problem
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• Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo
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• Shenzhen is Like Living in a City-Sized TechShop
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• Portal Released For Steam On Linux
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• Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine
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• I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something
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• Tesla Model S Suspension Walkaround
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• Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the Stuff They've Blown Up
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• How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-02

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

• Go 1.1 RC1 is out
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• “Well, He’s Not Going to Get Very Far”
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• Performance Improvements Using Judy Arrays
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• Adium Redesigned
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• Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?
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• Rails 4.0: Release Candidate 1 released
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• Bayes' rule in Haskell (2007)
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• Manchester City Council
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• Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4
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• Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-01

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

• How to Choose a Profitable Niche
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• Introducing Heka
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• We Need A Standard Layered Image Format
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• What a stupid idea
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• The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas
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• Florida Teen Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad
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• Adobe wants Ninite to stop rolling out crapware-free Flash
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)
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• This page is anonymous
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• Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-04-30

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

• Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5
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• How I attacked a fellow student
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• My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me
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• Black Start
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• Please use git pull --rebase
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• Avoiding Burnout
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• Why SICP Matters
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• Please stay away from rebase
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• Light Table 0.4 released
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• Path texts my entire phonebook at 6am
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