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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-30

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

• Finally Redis collections are iterable
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• Dotcloud becoming Docker
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• Profit affects doctors' treatment decisions
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• Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed
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• /dev/null as a Service
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• Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
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• Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack
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• Does life end after 35?
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• NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
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• Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-29

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

• Russia: Hidden chips 'launch spam attacks from irons'
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• Particle effects in JavaScript
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• Surface Pro 2
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• Things that suck in AngularJS
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• Here's how I deal with users who steal
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• Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara
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• Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information
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• Stupid Programmer Tricks and Star Wars GIFs
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• 9/11 Suspects Can’t Mention being Tortured during Trial because Classified
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• Firefox 25 is released
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-28

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

• Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity
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• Phishing with Linkedin's Intro
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• Run Windows 1.01 in your browser
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• Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser
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• April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox"
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• Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer
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• Fish shell 2.1
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• Winter is coming
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• Wow, or from the When-Apple-Became-the-Borg Department
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• Discoveries Ten Years Later in Zelda Speedrun
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-27

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

• Mod_python - the long story
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• Show HN: A Github for writers?
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• Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London
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• Clojure from the ground up
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• Startup School 2013 Videos Now Online
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• US bugged Merkel's phone from 2002 until 2013, report claims
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• My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
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• Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy
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• C--
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• Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-26

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

• Mozilla Lightbeam – Relationships between third parties and the sites you visit
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• Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters
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• An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
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• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
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• A 140-Acre Forest Is About to Materialize in the Middle of Detroit
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• Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea
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• Ask HN: Why can't I see downvote or upvote arrows anywhere?
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• Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam
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• Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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• Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-25

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

• New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen
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• How I compiled TrueCrypt 7.1a for Win32 and matched the official binaries
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• LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity
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• Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion
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• NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders
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• Gzip + poetry = awesome
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• EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appeal
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• Seagate just reinvented the disk interface using Ethernet
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• In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars
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• Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-24

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

• Show HN: Sketchology
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• Pixelmator 3.0
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• Snap – A JavaScript SVG Library
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• CodeCombat in Y Combinator
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• Finally, A Bill To End Patent Trolling
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• So You'd Like to Make a Map using Python
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• The best patent troll-killing bill yet
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• Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results
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• The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones
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• Off
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-23

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

• How to Tango with Django: A Python Django Tutorial
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• Russian programmer fights Goldman Sachs and wins one round
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• Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?
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• Pure CSS3 dancing Bender
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• Deep C and C++ (2011)
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• French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol
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• Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone
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• Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
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• Font Awesome 4 released
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• LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-22

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

• CryptoSeal (YC S11) Shutting Down Private VPN
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• Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts
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• Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin
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• How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
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• USB Implementers Forum Says No to Open Source
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• Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
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• Amazon's minimum order size for free shipping is now $35
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• 37signals Works Remotely [video]
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• Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free
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• OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-21

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

• This is a valid ipv4 address
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• Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
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• Poll: Where are you currently living?
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• Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service
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• Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code
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• How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
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• Learn Haskell Fast and Hard
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• Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?
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• Startup School 2013 Doodles
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• How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-20

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

• Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did
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• Startup School 2013 – Live Stream
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• From China, With Love
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• Facebook CSRF leading to full account takeover (fixed)
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• Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For
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• Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
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• Google Checkout Closing Down on Nov. 20th
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• The Ocean is Broken
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• The genius and folly of MongoDB
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• What’s New In Python 3.4
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-19

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

• What Do Cats See?
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• The Navy’s newest warship is powered by Linux
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• Want people to trust you? Try apologising for the rain
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• Nvidia's G-Sync: Attempting to Revolutionize Gaming via Smoothness
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• PredictionIO – A machine learning server
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• Every position of Rubik's Cube can be solved in twenty moves or less
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• Why I moved to Miami
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• Uptime Robot
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• Macaw – Code-savvy web design tool
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• What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-18

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

• To an alarming degree, science is not self-correcting
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• You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
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• Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain
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• Only a few countries are teaching children how to think
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• Sir Trevor Editor
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• You don't need millions of dollars
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• Interactive Resume
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• Oboe.js: reacting to Ajax/Rest quicker by not waiting for it to finish
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• Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings
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• Why we revert to original titles
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-17

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

• Reproducibility Initiative gets $1.3M grant to validate 50 cancer studies
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• Introducing TogetherJS
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• FlyKly Smart Wheel
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• Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)
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• Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences
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• Visual Studio 2013 released to web
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• Wireshark is switching to Qt
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• Lessons Learned Going from Zero to $30k/Month in a Year
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• TSA Admits In Leaked Doc: No Evidence of Terrorist Plots Against Aviation in US
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• Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-16

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

• Things I learned at YC
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• MathGifs
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• Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian
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• GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
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• Square Cash
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• f.lux has been updated to a new version
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• Debugging a Live Saturn V
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• Coding Interview Tips
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• No More Callbacks: 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, 10,000 Spaceships
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• See Your Folks
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-15

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

• Ggplot2 for python
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• How the .0001% Made Its Money
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• The Russia Left Behind
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• Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here
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• Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
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• Baidu now accepts Bitcoin
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• Free Font: Norwester
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• Hacker News is a social echo chamber
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• Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses
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• Introducing government.github.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-14

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

• Cypherpunks 2.0
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• Stanford Ovshinsky: the greatest scientist you've never heard of?
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• Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (1974)
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• On being the right size (1928)
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• Ghost Launches to The Public
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• Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?
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• Scott Adams: How to Be Successful
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• The San Francisco Exodus
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• Why Android SSL was downgraded from AES256-SHA to RC4-MD5 in late 2010
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• Google Fiber now allows servers for non-commercial use
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-13

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

• Linux only needs one 'killer' game to explode, says Battlefield director
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• Hostnames
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• Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash are an Effective Form of Aid to the Poor
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• Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor
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• The Workman Keyboard Layout
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• TSA loudspeakers threaten travelers with arrest for joking about security
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• Zoomquilt
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• T-Mobile Rocks
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• Edward Snowden wins Sam Adams award [video]
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• Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-12

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

• Rather than savage cuts, Switzerland considers “Star Trek” economics
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• Why Registers Are Fast and RAM Is Slow
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• If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
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• Valve demonstrates Steam Controller [video]
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• America knows everything
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• TextTeaser – An automatic summarization algorithm
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• Why Microsoft Word must die
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• Because it needs to be said
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• Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
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• I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-11

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

• Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name
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• Full archives of Game Developer magazine
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• Wikileaks internal memo on "The Fifth Estate"
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• Iconic: Advanced icons for the modern web
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• Demands on Lavabit violated Fourth Amendment, lawyers say
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• Facebook is using D in production starting today
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• Formula 1′s Leading Team Has a Big Secret
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• Air Gaps
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• ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf]
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• A list of free programming books
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-10

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

• You can increase your intelligence
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• A public TrueCrypt Audit
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• T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts
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• Should we stop believing Malcolm Gladwell?
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• We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404
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• IKEA or Death-Metal
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• Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
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• This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight
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• “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
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• The myth of NASA's expensive space pens
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-09

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

• Aren't you glad you didn't cite this webpage?
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• The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages
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• What I've been up to for the past year
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• Pinay traumatized by horror trip to US
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• Open-Source Graphics Processor
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• Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word “linux” as the constant “1”?
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• Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization
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• Experiment in booting Linux fast
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• What I learned from getting my side project acquired
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• Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-08

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

• Animation to Explain CSS Triangles
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• Piercing Through WhatsApp’s Encryption
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• Frequency-shaped background noise generators
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• Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness (1932)
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• Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
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• How Lavabit Melted Down
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• Nest introduces their Smoke Detector
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• Whatever happened to due process?
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• Introducing Login and Pay with Amazon
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• Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-07

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

• Bedrock Linux
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• FastMail’s servers are in the US – what this means for you
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• Javascript apps can be fully crawlable
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• NY Attorney General hits AirBnB with subpoena for user data
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• FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk Road founder
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• Why the Tech Industry Needs to Deal With Its Ageism Problem
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• The Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in CS is now accepting applications
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• A Big List of D3 Examples
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• Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marketplace
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• Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-06

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

• Preventing 'layout thrashing'
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• I emailed the CEO of T-Mobile and he killed my contract
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• How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File
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• Ethiopian Binary Math
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• A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area
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• Interview of Glenn Greenwald [video]
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• Open Source made me the man I am
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• Archiving URLs
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• How to get your first 10 customers
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• Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my youth?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-05

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

• Show HN: Introducing Harp – A static web server with built in preprocessing
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• And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’
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• Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows
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• You Must Try, and then You Must Ask
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• Show HN: govuptime.com
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• Boston Dynamics Unleashes Wildcat, the Sprinting Quadruped Robot
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• Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
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• Rubinius 2.0 released
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• Maven is broken by design
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• Appmaker
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-04

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

• The Hacker News Generation (Afraid of Hard Work)
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• Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at highest for 300m years
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• Stanford researchers to open source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis
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• Center of the universe
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• Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
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• MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation
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• Melatonin
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• Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity
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• 'Tor Stinks' presentation – read the full document
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• Model S Fire
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-03

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

• MTurk + Google News API = press
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• PostgreSQL Studio
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• Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial
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• Lmctfy: Google's Linux application container stack
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• Mark Cuban makes Shark Tank remove equity clause in contract
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• Lavabit founder Ladar Levison's promised big announcement
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• Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
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• So I’m the guy who sent the t-shirt out as a thank you
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• After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
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• W3C OKs Adding DRM into HTML5 Spec
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-02

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

• JavaScript Allongé is free
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• Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs
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• Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation
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• How to make $100k in Open Source by working hard
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• HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
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• Tom Clancy has died
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• FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner
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• Criminal Complaint against Ross Ulbricht aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" [pdf]
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• Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed
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• Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-01

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

• App Store Pricing: Worth Less than a Cup of Coffee
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• BitTorrent Chat - Private instant messaging via secure, distributed technology
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• RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET
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• Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages
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• NSA critics Ilija Trojanov: German writer must not enter the U.S.
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
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• How traffic actually works
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• A 3D printed toothbrush for all your teeth
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• Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords
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• Show HN: "Who is hiring" mapped
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-09-30

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

• Tessel: The end of web development as we know it
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• A negative captcha
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• How to get bias into a Wikipedia article
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• Programming is a Terrible Job
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• Codebreaker found in bag attended US security conference before death (2012)
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• Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep emails private
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• French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"
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• Google Web Designer
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• NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show
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• A friend died nearly 2 years ago. I had no idea
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