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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-29

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

• Spaced repetition for study and learning
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• My time with the Steam Controller
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• Underscore Price Dynamics
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• UTF-8 – "The most elegant hack"
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• Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
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• Day 180: Finished
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• Keypress: A Javascript library for capturing input
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• Create diagrams in the browser
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• SpaceX Launch - Official Webcast
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• Free HTML Starter Templates for Bootstrap
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-28

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

• A simple git branching model
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• Decoding Vibrations From Nearby Keyboards With Mobile Phone Accelerometers [pdf]
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• ARM64 and You
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• The Future of AngularJS
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• How to build great products
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• Crowdfunding for Typed Clojure and ClojureScript
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• Choc: Bret Victor's 'Learnable Programming' implemented in Javascript
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• Why we're supporting Typed Clojure
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• Thoreau 2.0
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• N.S.A. Examines Social Networks of U.S. Citizens
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-27

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

• Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients
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• Git concepts simplified
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• Call me maybe: Cassandra
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• NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover – I am setting them free
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• Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers
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• Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the Internet’
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• Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?
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• JustFab.com JustFabulous Class Action Lawsuit (2011)
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• New UNIX implementation (1983)
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• Steam Controller
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-26

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

• Show HN: Drawingboard.js
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• VLC 2.1.0
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• At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was dead
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• FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
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• PayPal Acquires Braintree for $800M
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• Reveal.js
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• The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked
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• Dolphin Emulator and OpenGL drivers - Hall of Fame/Shame
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• Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer
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• Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-25

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

• Urbit: A clean-slate functional OS
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• How we tripled our revenue by adding one button
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• Requests v2.0 Python module released
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• Mozilla's New Fira Typeface
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• Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views
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• The shittiest project I ever worked on
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• Solved By Flexbox – Cleaner, hack-free CSS
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• Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup
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• SteamMachines
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• Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-24

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

• 10x Engineer
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• This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
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• iMessage for Android
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• Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens
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• Nvidia to release documentation on Nouveau project
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• The Banality of Systemic Evil
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• Starting an Airline
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• Confusing UI in iOS7
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• Nvidia seeks peace with Linux, pledges help on open source driver
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• JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-23

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

• The Free Software Foundation is even more relevant now than before
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• Why The New Gmail Sucks
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• Google timer
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• Rainyday.js
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• Metadata Equals Surveillance
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• Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
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• Microsoft’s Hardware, Round 2: Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2
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• SteamOS
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• Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry
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• How to Hire
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-22

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

• Why I'm Planning to Kill W3Schools
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• The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History
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• The Ph.D.-Industry Gap
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• Spy Files 3
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• Trader Joe's Ex-President To Turn Expired Food Into Cheap Meals
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• LinkedIn sued by users who say it hacked their e-mail accounts
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• Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer
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• How to tell your mother and bosses why they should protest surveillance
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• BackgroundCheck
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• Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-21

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

• Einstein and the Great Fed Robbery
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• How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches
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• US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961
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• Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung
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• Cmd.fm
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• Apple’s iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices
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• Temperature chart for the last 11,000 years
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• The Real Reason The Poor Go Without Bank Accounts
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• Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer
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• CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-20

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

• Joe Armstrong on Programmer Productivity
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• Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL
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• Edward C++Hands
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• Apple iOS 7 surprises as first with new multipath TCP connections
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• Mozilla Labs: TogetherJS
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• Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition
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• My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me
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• FreeBSD 10′s New Technologies and Features
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• Less is exponentially more (2012)
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• A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-19

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

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
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• The Dribbblisation of Design
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• Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction
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• Moot: Full House
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• DivX Now Installs Malware
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• Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs
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• Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85
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• Go Pro on a soaring eagle [video]
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• Command-line tools for data science
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• I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-18

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

• Nodeschool.io
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• The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people
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• iOS 7 before and after screenshots
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• The iPhone 5s Review
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• A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
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• Verizon, caught red-handed
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• The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million Air Miles
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• Cyanogen raises $7 million to build a better version of Android
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• Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being
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• Children are suffering a severe deficit of play
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-17

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

• Show HN: goworker – a faster, Resque-compatible background worker
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• Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed
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• Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit
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• Starlite
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• Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big
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• jor1k: OR1000 Javascript Emulator Running Linux
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• Smart Things Jeff Bezos Has Said
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• OpenZFS launch
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• How to Raise Money
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• GitHub announces 3D File Diffs
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-16

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

• Data Mining and Analysis: Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms [pdf]
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• Why Is Zambia So Poor?
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• Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS
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• Dear USA, my data has left your building
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• UAV Provides Colorado Flooding Assistance Until FEMA Freaks Out
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• Bump (YC S09) has been acquired by Google
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• Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits
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• Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched
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• Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon
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• My Friends and I Bought an Island
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-15

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

• Why Phonebloks Will Never Happen
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• SICP translated to JavaScript
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• Realtime pixel tracking with nginx, syslog-ng, and Redis
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• How I sent 300k emails through Github's API in a matter of minutes
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• Django Security Release - 1.5.4
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• Where my mouth is
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• How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad
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• A Course in Machine Learning
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• How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (1993)
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• World
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-14

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

• Drug addiction: The complex truth
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• Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI
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• E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths)
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• No more CSS and HTML, just JS
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• NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption standard
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• Being poor changes your thinking about everything
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• Securing a Linux Server
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• Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong – lies typographers tell about history
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• Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen
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• Civet coffee: why it's time to cut the crap
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-13

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

• Cocktails for programmers
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• Bruce Schneier has changed his PGP key to 4096 bits
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• Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal
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• How is Docker.io different from a normal virtual machine?
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• Happy Programmers' Day
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• USB Condoms
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• Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world
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• New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services
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• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I
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• FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-12

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

• Black Perl
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• Putin: A Plea for Caution From Russia
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• "I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb."
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• H2 {position: sticky} [video]
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• Shot tower
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• Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app
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• Dropbox opening my docs?
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• Voyager 1 has been traveling for about a year through plasma between stars
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• First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature
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• Twitter Files For IPO
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-11

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

• Client-side full text search in CSS
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• Why BuzzFeed Should Pay My Invoice For Copyright Infringement
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• Why you should not trust emails sent from Google
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• Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya
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• Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encryption Standards
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• Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition
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• Fucking Sue Me (2011)
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• NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
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• Steam Family Sharing
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• Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not enough?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-10

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

• (λove (print (eval (read))))
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• The Student Loan Bubble is Starting To Burst
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• Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs
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• Statement of Condemnation of U.S. Mass-Surveillance Programs [pdf]
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• To my daughter's high school programming teacher
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• How to Advertise on a Porn Website
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• Don't trust me: I might be a spook
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• Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier
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• Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
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• Manipulating objects in photos in 3D (video)
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-09

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

• Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)
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• JPEG image glitching / corruption
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• Hacker News All-Time Top Links
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• Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers
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• Groupon India sells Onion. Traffic crashes site.
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• Python API
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• Postgresql 9.3 Released
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• (Trying To) Face Down The Evil At TechCrunch Disrupt
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• Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
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• The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-08

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

• Easy 6502
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• Speculation on "BULLRUN"
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• Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10
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• John Gilmore: NSA obstructed development of IPSEC Crypto in Linux Kernel
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• Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
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• Why hardware development is hard: Verilog is weird
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• You are committing a crime right now (2012)
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• Quark: A secure Web Browser with a Formally Verified Kernel
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• Theranos
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• Left with Nothing
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-07

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

• Logo, Bullshit & Co., Inc.
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• 16 Major Firms May Have Received Early Data From Thomson Reuters
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• Sweden 'a close partner' in NSA surveillance
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• Rambling On [PHP] Internals
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• Tesla Model S Outperforms Aston Martin
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• Adafruit's Trinket
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• Linode SSD Beta
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• Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying
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• Infectious disease doesn't care why you're unvaccinated
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• London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-06

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

• Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection
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• How to remain secure against NSA surveillance
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• How Advanced Is the NSA's Cryptanalysis, and Can We Resist It?
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• The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet
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• Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges
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• Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
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• 0 A.D., an Open-Source Strategy Game
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• Nginx Is Taking Over the Internet
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• YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too
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• NSA Codebreaking: I Am The Other
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-05

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

• AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to Build Modern Web Apps
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• School is a prison and damaging our kids
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• How a Car Engine Works
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• NSA Spying Documents to be Released As Result of EFF Lawsuit
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• PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds
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• Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned
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• A new breed of Chrome Apps
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• Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
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• N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
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• The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-04

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

• Two-factor Authentication
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• HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game
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• Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
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• The New AWS Command-Line Interface
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• How not to check the validity of an email address
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• Warning: Google Authenticator upgrade loses all accounts
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• KitKat's new website
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• Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars
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• N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section
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• Android is for startups
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-03

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

• Google is defragging Android
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• Microsoft to acquire Nokia
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• Nokia acquired by Microsoft
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• Easy Steps to a Complete Understanding of SQL
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• Our Newfound Fear of Risk
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• Start Using Emacs – A Thorough Guide for Beginners
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• Lanyrd acquired by Eventbrite
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• Android KitKat
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• Kindle MatchBook
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• Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-02

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

• We Need a Basic Income Guarantee
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• Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you
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• What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?
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• Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove Eclipsing N.S.A.’s
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• Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing
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• Startup - Bill Watterson, a cartoonist's advice
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• English has been my pain for 15 years
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• Developers are the autoworkers of our generation
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• Favicon Cheatsheet
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• Progressive Enhancement Is Dead
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-01

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

• Grace Hopper
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• ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up, fully open-source
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• Man accused of teaching people to beat lie detector tests faces prison
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• Ember.js 1.0 Released
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• Welcome to the United States: Discriminated, detained, searched, interrogated
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• Brilliant or insane code?
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• How to Choose Colours Procedurally
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)
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• 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction
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• The Worst Programming Environment in the World?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-31

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

• Basics of Neural Networks with example codes and illustrations
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• Ignored by big companies, Mexican village creates its own mobile service
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• Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
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• How Poverty Taxes the Brain
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• It's a Dumbphone, But It's the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy
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• No-fly list ruling in Portland comes close to declaring it unconstitutional
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• Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests
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• Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t
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• Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can you help me recover it?"
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• We Let Our Employee Set Their Own Salaries
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