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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-30

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

• Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit
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• Girls Who Code
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• The most Kafkaesque paragraph from today’s NSA ruling
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• We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality
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• Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
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• DigitalOcean leaks customer data between VMs
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• 30C3 Recordings
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• I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote
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• About Python 3
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• What I Didn't Say
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-29

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

• How Blender started, twenty years ago
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• A Soft Murmur – Ambient sounds to wash away distraction
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• Rust is surprisingly expressive
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• Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics
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• How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google
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• The Rust standard library no longer has any scheduling baked into it
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• Ask HN: How to increase self-discipline as a self-employed person?
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• Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises N.S.A. Toolbox
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• I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
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• On Hacking MicroSD Cards
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-28

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

• Why some people respond to stress by falling asleep
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• Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules
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• Great books about mathematics
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• Analysis of SSD Reliability during power outages
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• Happy new year and goodbye bzip2
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• Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet
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• How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries (2010)
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• A glimpse into a new programming language under development at Microsoft
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• Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion
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• Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-27

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

• Don't Support Information Architects
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• Ubuntu HTML5 SDK
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• Chicago makes Computer Science a core subject
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• Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers
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• New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-U.S. Clause
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• ”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”
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• Investment increases your risk
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• Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
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• The best things and stuff of 2013
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• T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-26

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

• 4 apps, one weekend
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• Lamdu - towards the next generation IDE
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• The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People
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• Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE
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• Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors
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• Dell Ultra Sharp 24" 4K display
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• Uruguay is the Economist's Country of the Year
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• What is it like to be a geek in a prison?
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• Steve Jobs Danced To My Song
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• Bill Gates: Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-25

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

• Why use Clojure?
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• Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO
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• Unicorn Jobs
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• So, you want to crypto
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• Unprofessionalism
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• Essays from the funniest man in Microsoft Research
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• 0 A.D. Alpha 15 - Osiris
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• How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (2006)
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• Ruby 2.1 Released
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• Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-24

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

• Data looks better naked
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• The case against Kim Dotcom, finally revealed
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• How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates - then went and played for them
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• RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed
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• An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA
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• Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing
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• Code != computer science
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• Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished
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• The real use of money is to buy freedom
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• Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-23

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

• Lavabit Proceedings Unsealed [pdf]
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• Knossos: Redis and Linearizability
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• Blackmail fail
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• Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
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• Interviewing as a Front-End Engineer in San Francisco
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• AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94
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• Cameron's Internet filter goes far beyond porn - and that was always the plan
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• OpenEmu 1.0 Released
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• Californians: Ashamed of Senator Feinstein's lies on surveillance? Join Us
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• Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-22

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

• Show HN: Vector - A High-Level Programming Language for GPU Computing
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• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
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• How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
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• Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop
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• Telegram protocol defeated. Authors are going to modify crypto-algorithm
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• A Solar Boom So Successful, It's Been Halted
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• White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts
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• Netflix uses FreeBSD 9.0
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• Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue
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• Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-21

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

• Telegram’s Cryptanalysis Contest
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• GnuPG - 16 Years of protecting privacy
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• N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite
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• After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source
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• Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone
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• An update on Truecrypt
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• Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
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• Snowden ally Appelbaum claims his Berlin apartment was invaded
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• A basic guide to when and how to deploy HTTPS
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• Having a Servant Is Not a Right
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-20

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

• I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed
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• Protesters charged with 'Terrorism Hoax' for too much glitter on their banner
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• Gluglug X60 Laptop now certified to Respect Your Freedom
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• What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies
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• Letter From A Psychopath
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• Regex Golf
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• Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review
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• “WarGames” Magazine Identified
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• Canada's top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution
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• Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-19

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

• Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning
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• Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid
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• $200,000 to the first person to break Telegram
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• Bill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa
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• Koa – Next-generation web framework for Node.js
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• Sent $10,701.03 to Coinbase. Still missing bitcoins.
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• My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report
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• Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer
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• A Crypto Challenge For The Telegram Developers
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• The Future of JavaScript MVCs
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-18

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

• High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network
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• From carpool to deadpool: Ridejoy’s startup journey
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• We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
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• Tech firms push back against White House efforts to divert NSA meeting
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• A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation
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• Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
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• RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis
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• Data Structure Visualizations
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• oDesk to merge with Elance
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• Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-17

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

• Amazon's German Workers Strike
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• The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction
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• Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Bulk Collection of Phone Data
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• Surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT
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• Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts
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• CSS animated loading indicators
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• We Need to Talk About TED
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• Geneva drive
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• I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
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• Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-16

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

• CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly
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• My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS
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• Decline of ‘60 Minutes’ Continues With This Week’s NSA Whitewash
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• Telegram - secure, free messaging
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• A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack
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• If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet
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• NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses"
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• Water seems to flow freely on Mars
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• RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A
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• NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-15

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

• Adaptive Backgrounds – A jQuery plugin for extracting dominant colors
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• Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's space program (2009)
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• How to send DMs on Twitter without permission
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• Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214
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• Wil Shipley: My “Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories
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• 404 - File not found
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• Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone
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• Don't Distract New Programmers with OOP
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• DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
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• The NSA: An Inside View
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-14

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

• About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight”
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• British Library has released over a million images onto Flickr Commons
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• Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills
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• SteamOS: It's here
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• 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible in High-Res Detail
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• Google Acquires Boston Dynamics
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• Inverted totalitarianism
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• The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf]
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• China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon
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• Robinhood: $0 commission stock brokerage
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-13

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

• Yogaglo Patent Issued
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• Hacker news for data scientists
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• Scientists discover second code hiding in DNA
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• The Best Books I Read in 2013
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• Oculus VR raises $75M
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• Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim
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• Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental
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• 300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android
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• Tell HN: How we bootstrapped to the #1 rated mattress on Amazon.com
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• Email Introduction Etiquette
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-12

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

• Why was this secret?
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• How AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are working together to screw you
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• Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
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• How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web
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• Caltech Announces Open Access Policy
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• News is bad for you
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• Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?
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• The microhydro plant
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• Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers
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• Pirate Bay founder is being held in solitary confinement without a warrant
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-11

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

• Doom released 20 years ago today
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• Linear algebra tutorial in four pages
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• Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
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• EFF has 2x matching donations until Dec 17th
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• Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram
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• Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis
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• NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
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• Vim3D – A new 3D vi clone [video]
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• New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline
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• H5N1
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-10

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

• The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face
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• OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again
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• Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm
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• Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online
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• Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server
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• New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
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• “We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say
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• Firefox 26 is released
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• The Criminalization of Everyday Life
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• An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-09

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

• Baby's First Garbage Collector
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• CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007)
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• Archive.org donations matched 3:1 until 2014
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• Reform Government Surveillance
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• Your location history
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• Spy agencies in covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online gaming
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• Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013
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• Guardian Frontend – Source for the Guardian's responsive site
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• Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list
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• President Obama calls on every American to learn code
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-08

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

• Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks – Part 1
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• Nobody builds nuclear reactors for fun anymore
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• Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame
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• A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining
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• No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim
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• Further improving digital certificate security
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• NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say
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• Arvind Kejriwal: I am a fortune teller and I can see India's future
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• Airbnb says this man does not exist. So I had coffee with him
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• David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-07

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

• Personal Fresh Air Desk
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• The Internet mystery that has the world baffled
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• The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From the CIA
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• Experiments to do with your baby
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• BayesDB - a Bayesian database table
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• Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system
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• Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
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• German Patent Ruling Threatens Microsoft's Windows Phone Earnings From Android
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• Killing cancer like the common cold
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• A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-06

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

• Real Men Go to Sleep
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• How can C Programs be so Reliable? (2008)
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• FuckIt.py - The Python Error Steamroller
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• What the Fluck
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• Bank of America's Research Report on Bitcoin [pdf]
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• An HTML/CSS/JS code editor in 230+ bytes
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• Schoolchildren ordered indoors as air pollution cloaks Shanghai
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• People Don’t Actually Like Creativity
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• Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes
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• How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-05

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

• Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics
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• Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing
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• Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?
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• A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility
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• After 5 days, my OS doesn't crash when I press a key
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• Functional programming books review
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• Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
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• Multiprocess Firefox
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• Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
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• South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-04

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

• World of Mathematics
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• SpaceX Successfully Completes First Mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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• Kicktrolling
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• Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry
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• Sheerwind
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• Valve joins the Linux Foundation
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• Kima15: $150K for 15% in 15 days
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• Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
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• NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
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• DHS stalls no-fly list trial by putting witness on no-fly list
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-03

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

• How reddit tried to solve the "new link" problem. Why HN doesn't need a new algo
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• Dell introduces 28" 4K Ultra HD Monitor for under $1K, shipping early 2014
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• Why You Can't Build a Smartphone
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• Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?
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• Meet the BRCK
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• My Roommate's a Genius
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• Linux Voice
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• IntelliJ IDEA 13 is Released
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• I found Prezi's source code
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• Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-02

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

• How to Make a Computer Operating System in C/C++
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• Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases
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• Go 1.2 is released
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• Scala – 1 Star – Would Not Program Again
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• Amazon Prime Air
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• Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you
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• Show HN: Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life
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• Explain Shell
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• First Victim of Amazon Drones: The Credibility of CBS and 60 Minutes
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• Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless domain
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-01

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

• Vermeer’s Secret Tool: Testing Whether The Artist Used Mirrors and Lenses
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• San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid
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• The Mystery of the Creepiest Television Hack
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• Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars
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• GTFO of my menu bar
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• Why Vagrant?
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• Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)
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• Satoshi Nakamoto is probably Nick Szabo?
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• Thoughts on Bitcoin
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-30

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

• Nimrod: A new approach to metaprogramming
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• Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
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• Facebook reveals friends list even when it’s set to private
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• Announcing Scala.js v0.1
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• 'Learn Ruby on Rails' is free today
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• RJS leaking vulnerability in multiple Rails applications
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• Powerchair: A dad hacks a wheelchair for his disabled 2-year-old son
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• Fold the DOM like paper
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• Combine your Wi-Fi, Ethernet and 3G connections to increase your download speed
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• Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
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