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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Jb’s story about how he nearly lost his Twitter handle
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• Show HN: Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products
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• AWS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
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• The NHS is selling your private data – here's the price list [pdf]
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• Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
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• A 33-Year-Old NPR Story Convinced Me Google Glass Will Stop Looking So Dorky
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• Academic Torrents
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• Interactive SICP
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• Introducing Paper
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• You might not need jQuery
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We're Shutting Down and I'm Scared
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• AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100
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• IE7 users, we need to talk…
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• How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
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• Let banks fail: Iceland’s plan looks to be working
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• Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue
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• Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria
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• Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize
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• 1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256..
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• Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• King Candy Crushes Developers, The Saga
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• The Great Code Club
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• Two "WontFix" vulnerabilities in Facebook Connect
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• Square thinks I don’t exist
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• The descent to C
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• Vinod Khosla Wants Californians To Keep Out of Martins Beach
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• Facebook can now read your texts
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• There Are Only Four Billion Floats – So Test Them All
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• Eve Online wages largest war in its 10 year history
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• Open for everyone
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Did this Tor developer become a victim of NSA's laptop interception program?
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• Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
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• Animated Engines
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• HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations)
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• If You Used TorMail, the FBI Has Your Inbox
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• Show HN: Random Street View
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• What is really happening in Ukraine
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• Hackathon Starter – Boilerplate for Node.js web application
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• US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests
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• Tesla Completes L.A.-to-New York Electric Model S Drive Chargers
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Making GIFs From Video Files With Python
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• Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt
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• What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google
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• Introducing Backer: crowd funding for features
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• Christ, I hate Blackboard
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• 3 Enemas Later, Still No Drugs
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• Revolution in Kiev
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• Linux server monitoring tools
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• A RESTful Micro-Framework in Go
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• Dogecoin market manipulation?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'
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• Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics
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• UK porn filter blocks League of Legends update
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• Where do you find the time for side projects?
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• Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
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• The hardest computer game of all time
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• “We Just Can’t Have You Here”
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• How Long Have I Got Left?
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• Framed For Selling Crack, Surveillance Video Helps Him Sue Police
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• Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tarkovsky Films Free Online (2010)
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• HTTP Security headers you should be using
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• Almost Everything in "Dr. Strangelove" Was True
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• How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages
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• Thirty Years of Mac [video]
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• King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls with a Double Standard?
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• Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster
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• Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
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• Gmail was down
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• Gmail Glitch Is Causing 1000s Of Emails To Be Sent To One Man’s Hotmail Account
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dogecoin and the Appeal of Small Numbers
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• Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club
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• Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End
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• Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information
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• Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion
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• Emacs, naked
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• Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter
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• Startup developing HIV/AIDS vaccine is 2nd nonprofit accepted into Y Combinator
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• Why I'm Betting On Julia
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• Debunking Princeton
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding
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• Why Bitcoin Matters
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• Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1)
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• How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love
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• Docker Raises $15M
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• Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password
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• “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”
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• Best reply to a Pull Request ever?
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• Google Video Quality Report
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• We spent a week making Trello boards load fast
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Code is not Literature
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• Rosetta: ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ wakes up from deep space hibernation
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• AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user
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• Your best passive income? (2014)
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• Fake Name Generator
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• What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
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• 2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor
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• New Year, New CEO for GitHub
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• Today my startup failed
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• Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Your most important skill: Empathy
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• Asciiflow
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• What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?
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• Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+?
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• Dad gets OfficeMax mail addressed 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash'
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• Romanian saves OpenBSD?
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• Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world
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• Linux 3.13
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• Build Git – Learn Git
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• Intel's "cripple AMD" function (2009)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Conquer Tensorphobia
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• Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates
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• The Death Of Expertise
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• How Radians Work in 30 Seconds
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• Cities and Ambition (2008)
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• Python and Flask Are Powerful
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• Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
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• FreeBSD 10.0 is here
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• For the Love of Money
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• "Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me. "
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
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• Ask HN: How to find part-time developer work?
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• Obama’s Changes to Government Surveillance
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• Dropbox raises about $250 million at $10 billion valuation
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• Chrome Is The New C Runtime
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• What are the lesser known but useful data structures?
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• Ask PG: How would you fill out a YC application with YC as your idea?
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• Windows 3.1 written in JS/HTML
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• Cookie Bomb or Let's Break the Internet
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• Success at Work, Failure at Home
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Value is created by doing
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• Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)
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• Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF
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• Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down
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• JavaScript: The Right Way
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• What Happens When the President Sits Down Next to You at a Café
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• Go by Example
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• I never finish anyth
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• Building an open source Nest
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• Spotify position in support of systemd in the default init debate
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful on Windows
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• Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems
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• Coming soon: Stripe CTF3, distributed systems edition
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• World’s most photographed places
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• Tell HN: Server Status
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• Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying
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• OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on
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• UTF-8 Everywhere
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• Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA
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• NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Public speaking is tough
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• The Great Firewall of Yale
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• Mother
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• Why Are There So Many Pythons?
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• Blackphone
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• VC Pitches in a Year or Two
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• Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation
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• The Next Phase of Node.js
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• Super successful companies
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• Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The World’s Best Bounty Hunter Is 4-Foot-11. Here’s How She Hunts
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• Super Mario World "Executes Arbitrary Code" [video]
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• PSA: Back Up Your Shit
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• Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
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• Why 'Her' will dominate UI design even more than 'Minority Report'
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• US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by patent troll
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• Project Euler
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• Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules
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• AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution
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• PSD to HTML is Dead
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Money can buy happiness
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• Best development book I've read, has no code in it
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• India Manages to Free Itself of Polio
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• The "Window Resizer" extension for Chrome now contains malware (2013)
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• A member of our community is missing, help find him
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• How the NSA Threatens National Security
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• Quick tip for developers who use OS X
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• Adrian and Jacob retiring as Django BDFLs
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• A 30 minute introduction to Rust
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• Google to Acquire Nest
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Teeworlds for Mac, Windows, and Linux
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• Trust but Verify
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• Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator
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• How to stop feeling lonely
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• Awful app review trend among Turkish users
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• Goodnight. Sleep Clean
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• A 1,600-Year-Old Viking War Game
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• Meanwhile, at code.org
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• ARM immediate value encoding
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• Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Malicious Use of the HTML5 Vibrate API
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• We stopped advertising on Facebook
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• Simple git workflow is simple
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• FFmpeg and a thousand fixes
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• Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides
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• Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013
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• Down The Rabbit Hole We Go: Mind-Expanding Documentaries
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• Tortured by the Japanese in WW2, a former POW met his tormentor 50 years later
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• A Clojure Crash Course
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• Not Wanted
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lessons from working 6 months on a math problem and failing
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• Implementing a JIT Compiled Language with Haskell and LLVM
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• Rust 0.9 released
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• Lost city in Darfur
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• 4K is for programmers
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• Building an Open Source Laptop
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• Money and wealth
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• An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow
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• The Day We Fight Back
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• Female Founders
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• To Stop Procrastinating, Look to Science of Mood Repair
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• Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead
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• London's first pay-per-minute cafe
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• In memory of Aaron, bulk XML of every federal and state law and court ruling
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• T-Mobile CEO: “This industry blows,” biggest carriers offer “horseshit”
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• How's my SSL?
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• Poll: What level of math is programming roughly analogous to?
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• Software in 2014
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• Frameworkless JavaScript
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• Overstock.com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• New algorithm can dramatically streamline solutions to the ‘max flow’ problem
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• Get Facebook WiFi for your business
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• Scaling Mercurial at Facebook
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• CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
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• The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (2007)
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• Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699
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• Amusing ourselves to death
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• Another go at Go failed
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• Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001)
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• Light Table is now open source
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We've Open-Sourced Everything
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• Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
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• Python code to solve xkcd 1313 by Peter Norvig
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• Ask PG: Postmortem of the outage?
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• Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap
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• Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
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• At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything
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• Will Work for Food and Lodging
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• The Rise and Rise of Television Torture
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• The new Photosynth
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3
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• Indian GSLV successfully lofts GSAT-14 satellite
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• Git: the NoSQL Database (2012)
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• Lol my thesis – Summing up years of work in one sentence
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• Lacing Shoes
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• Why Everyone Seems to Have Cancer
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• Where designers go to find photos and graphics
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• Techbrats do not represent the tech industry
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• Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe
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• My 2014 resolution: stop my country from becoming a surveillance state
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples
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• An 8086 PC emulator in 4043 bytes
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• Why we have to boycott RSA
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• Anatomy of a cheap USB-to-Ethernet adapter
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• NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress
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• Paths to being a kernel hacker
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• Why the world needs OpenStreetMap
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• Evidence my ISP is making money from tracking its customers
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• My Nerd Story
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• Silent Technical Privilege
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses
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• Growing From $5,000 to $25,000 in MRR
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• How printers and Photoshop detect and refuse to process images of currency
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• Docker on Linode
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• The Builder's High
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• How I reverse engineered my bank's security token
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• Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant
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• Rap Genius is Back on Google
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• If you move your mouse continually the query may not fail. Do not stop moving
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• Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hyperloop: Not so fast
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• Lock Picking – A Basic Guide
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• Gate Tower Building
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• “Vacations are for the weak”
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• Business Ideas for 2014
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• Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death
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• David Cameron's Internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep
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• Show HN: Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby
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• Fired? Speak No Evil
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• Toshiba says they made a mistake but they still cannot help me
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• React: Another Level of Indirection
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• Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014
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• Show HN: Use any text as a domain name
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• Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers
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• Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
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• Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture
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• Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
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• Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move
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• Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz" equivalent?
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• How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The RIAA forced me to shut down a successful website/apps I built in high school
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• Why I'm Interested in Bitcoin
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• The Mac Pro Review
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• I fought my ISP's bad behavior and won
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• Watch pg write an essay in real time
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• Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked
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• Court Rules No Suspicion Needed for Laptop Searches at Border
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• What Snowden really revealed
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)
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• The Lost Art of C Structure Packing
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-12-31

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

• A Short Story for Engineers
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• Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
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• I flew on a plane without going through security. It was amazing and no one died
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• Don't want your laptop tampered with? Just add glitter nail polish
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• The Disinformation
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• The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
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• How to write a great research paper [pdf]
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• Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and 0 revenue
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• Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow
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• What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014
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