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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-29

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

• Tesla wins in North Carolina, paves the way for direct-to-consumer sales
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• Facebook Android app sends phone number to Facebook servers without consent
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• CIA Agents Were Embedded With NYPD And Had “No Limits”
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• Clojure core.async Channels
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• Refactoring GitHub's Design
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• U.S. Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for World Democracy
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• A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game
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• Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us
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• 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand
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• U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-28

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

• Go read: fast Google Reader clone in AngularJS with Go on App Engine
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• Memories of Stasi color Germans’ view of U.S. surveillance programs
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• New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data
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• The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner
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• The Criminal N.S.A.
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• DevDocs
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• Sublime Text 3 Public Beta
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• Making the web fun again
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• In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again?
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• An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-27

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

• Firefox 22 released
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• Google Gay Marriage
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• How I Structure My Flask Applications
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• Inside An Illegal Party In An Abandoned Subway Station Deep Under NYC
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• Pandora and Royalties
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• The Strange Case of Barrett Brown
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• WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI
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• Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits
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• Lorem Ipsum translated by Google
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• Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-26

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

• Learn Git Branching
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• SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow
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• IE11 to support WebGL
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• HTML5 Genetic Cars
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• Snowden distributed encrypted copies of NSA docs around the world
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• Our web development workflow is completely broken
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• Opt Out of Klout Now
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• How to properly plagiarize a website
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• Richard Stallman Inducted Into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame
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• Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-25

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

• Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA, but almost no one uses it
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• My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89
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• Learn Lua in 15 Minutes
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• PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0
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• USA must not hunt down whistleblower Edward Snowden
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• Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh
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• Two Senators Say the NSA Is Still Feeding Us False Information
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• Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail
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• My Startup has 30 Days to Live
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• Rails 4.0: Final version released
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-24

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

• An Apology to my European IT Team
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• What every web developer must know about URL encoding
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• Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was eliminated
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• America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012)
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• Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
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• Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
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• Foundations of Computer Science
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• Only the Lonely
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• Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign
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• Abandoned island in the middle of NYC
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-23

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

• Statement by Julian Assange after One Year in Ecuadorian Embassy
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• Ask PG: Please consider a resurrection vote for the undead amongst us
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• The Physics Behind Traffic Jams
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• Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams
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• Snowden Leaves Hong Kong on Commercial Flight to Moscow
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• HKSAR Government issues statement on Edward Snowden
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• Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong
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• U.S. Seemingly Unaware of Irony in Accusing Snowden of Spying
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• Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
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• Bitcoin Foundation Receives Cease And Desist Order From California
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-22

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

• How to travel around the world for a year
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• NSA whistleblower Russ Tice goes on record with new revelations
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• How to know when someone is in trouble in the water
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• NY auto dealers trying to shut down Tesla Motors in NY
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• On Confirmed Assumptions or, Not Trusting Google is a Good Idea
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• A useful program, 0 bytes long
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• A list of front end development resources
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• Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures
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• Snowden: US hacks Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data
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• Demonstrations to protest NSA spying planned for July 4th
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-21

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

• One cost engineers and product managers don't consider
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• Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub
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• The NSA can store communications of US citizens for up to 5 years, sans warrant
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• Battery Swap [video]
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• Antiprism
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• How I Got Fired from the Job I Invented
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• Prince Of Persia Code Review
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• NeoCities
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• Newly disclosed papers give rules for NSA surveillance without a warrant
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• U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-20

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

• MySQL man pages license change is a bug
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• Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video
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• The most telling part of “1984″ is the appendix
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• Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One
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• NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy
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• The Internet Just Made Microsoft Kill a Car for a Faster Horse
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• Hair
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• In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
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• Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America
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• This is a web page
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-19

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

• Want to File a Motion in the FISA Court? First You Have to Find Them
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• Facebook Is Not Blocking Tor Deliberately
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• Bruce Schneier: Has U.S. started an Internet war?
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• MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
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• Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking
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• OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic data for the world
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• DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal
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• Maybe buses should be free
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• Nginx for Developers: An Introduction
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• A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-18

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

• I Know What You Think of Me
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• How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one
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• Buying the new MacBook Air
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• Journalists Need To Start Asking About Storage, Not Access
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• Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
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• Facebook is Blocking Connections from Tor Network
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• Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata
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• The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies
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• Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims
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• Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-17

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

• Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
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• Linux has better hardware support than OS X
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• NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower [video]
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• Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data storage using Norwegian laws
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• Edward Snowden Q&A
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• Bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 Assembly
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• European roaming charges will end in 2014
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• Skrollr - parallax scrolling for the masses
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• Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last
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• Repository Next
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-16

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

• NSA's Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance
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• Woz talks iOS 7 and PRISM in an off the cuff airport interview [video]
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• Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure
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• Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped
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• NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
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• Algorithms from the “Book”
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• Terms of Service; Didn't Read
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• San Francisco
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• AngularJS versus Ember
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• Choosing Hong Kong Is a Brilliant Move by Edward Snowden
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-15

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

• Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain
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• Does America need a Pirate Party?
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• 57% Fear Government Will Use NSA Data to Harass Political Opponents
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• T-Shirt Printing API
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• An encrypted message to Edward Snowden
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• Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests
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• Project Loon
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• The IRS has upgraded its technology to track virtually everything you do online
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• Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home
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• Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-14

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

• Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented
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• There's a map for that
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• Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac
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• PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever
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• "Microsoft engineer" on Xbox1
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• Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
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• The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
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• Reddit co-founder on NSA snooping [video]
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• Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them
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• Congressman requests subpoena of NSA’s White House, IRS phone logs
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-13

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

• Changes in rankings of smartphone search results
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• Civil Liberties Groups Are Suing the NSA
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• We Should All Have Something To Hide
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• More Americans see man who leaked NSA secrets as 'patriot' than traitor
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• Warrant Canary
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• Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense
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• Music to Let you Concentrate
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• German Parliament says: Stop Granting Software Patents
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• Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synthetic DNA Is [pdf]
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• Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-12

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

• A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program
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• Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit
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• Norwegian lawyer had visa withdrawn after private chat with client on Facebook
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• Fertile Ground
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• Mozilla, EFF, Reddit And 83 Other Organizations Launch StopWatching.Us
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• Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero
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• Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government
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• Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU
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• iOS 7
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• In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-11

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

• Obama, NSA, Verizon and DoJ sued for $3B over PRISM
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• Apple Literally Stole my Thunder
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• Dutch secret service 'also has access to information from PRISM'
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• Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides.
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• Stop Watching Us
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• Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
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• The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun
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• Court found NSA surveillance unconstitutional in 2011
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• Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national security request data
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• German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook Messages
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-10

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

• Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
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• I'm Ready To Help NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seek Asylum
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• Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry?
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• Why we can't go back to business as usual post-PRISM
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• Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?
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• Mozilla should move Persona out of the US
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• Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere
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• The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror
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• Mac Pro
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• NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-09

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

• Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks
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• Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011)
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• Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Must Stay Secret
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• NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes
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• People with nothing to hide
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• How three pacifists were convicted as terrorists
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• Tor and HTTPS
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• Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59
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• Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
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• Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-08

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

• AngularJS Learning Resources
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• Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link
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• Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (2001)
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• Burner Phone
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• The Insane Law That Lets Authorities Read Any Email Over 180 Days Old
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• Hacker Who Helped Expose Steubenville Could Get More Prison Time Than Rapists
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• Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X
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• Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM
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• Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveillance program
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• Cowards
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-07

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

• President Obama’s Dragnet
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• NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
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• The NSA story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is important
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• Donate to the EFF
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• Google tried to resist FBI requests for data, but the FBI took it anyway
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• What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know
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• Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go
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• Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008)
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• The Internet Is a Surveillance State
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• Larry Page addresses PRISM
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-06

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

• Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader
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• Stephen Fry reveals he attempted suicide in 2012
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• NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily
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• U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls
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• Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans
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• Are coders worth it?
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• Snapchat, You've Made a Huge Mistake
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• Stellar Wind (code name)
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• NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying Story (2012)
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• US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-05

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

• IBM to Acquire SoftLayer
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• Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
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• Bitbucket passes one million users
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• Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
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• Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
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• Buttons with built-in loading indicators
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• Exhibit A – the “child pornographer”
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• Send payouts with Stripe
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• Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone
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• Seriously.js
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-04

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

• Tetris Printer Algorithm
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• The Cost of an ACL Injury
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• Kim Jong-il's Sushi Chef
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• Why I Dislike EC2
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• Free Python ebook: Bayesian Methods for Hackers
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• Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
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• Build your own Google TV using Raspberry Pi, Node.js and Socket.io
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• “Warning” signs at historical sites tell visitors to relax and enjoy themselves
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• Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M
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• A founder-friendly term sheet
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-03

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

• Researcher decodes prairie dog language
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• GTA4 Google Map With Street View
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• QR Code in shopping cart handle
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• The Facebook experiment has failed
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• Removing garbage collection from the Rust language
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• R.I.P Atul Chitnis : The Man Who Changed the Open Source World
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• “Accounts merged and now my files are gone”
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• Negative SEO: Looking for Answers from Google
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• Startup advice
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• Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-02

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

• CUDA grep
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• The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’
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• I Wasn’t Prepared to Work
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• Apple betrayed by its own law firm
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• A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
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• You can't impress developers
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• What is Happening in Istanbul?
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• Learn C
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• A 17 Year Old with Severe Autism and His Six Completed Coursera Courses
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• Hexagonal grids for games
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-01

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

• High-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds
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• A Week with Elixir
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• Why 3 MIT Grads Want to Send You an Empty Box
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• Show HN: Logos in Pure CSS
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• Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
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• Oculus Rift co-founder killed by gang trying to escape police
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• RMS lifestyle
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
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• Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?
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• SQL injection search
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-05-31

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

• Good Old Games: gog.com and the DRM-Free Revolution
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• The Central Limit Theorem Visualized with D3
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• Letter from Loretto - A Prison Letter from a CIA Whistleblower
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• Camino browser reaches its end
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• Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons
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• We Think We Know What Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is
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• My Latte is Worth It - No Fun Allowed
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• ASUS Launches Monitor with 3840 x 2160 IGZO Display
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• Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands
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• A Personal API
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