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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-27

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

• Dear first world dev, I am going to live your nightmare
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• Density.io
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• A rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia
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• The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion
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• Meditate in front of your computer with Calm
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• Vagrant Share
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• To close or not to close – Void HTML elements
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• Yanukovych leaks
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• GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide
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• We Have Luxurious Jobs but We Are Not Aware of It
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-26

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

• Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Model S The Best Car Of 2014
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• Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user
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• Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner
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• Why I stopped being a voluntourist
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• GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
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• I Still Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem
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• Thirty Percent Feedback
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• An Early Retirement
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• Depixelizing Pixel Art
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• Atom
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-25

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

• Flappy Bird Ported to C64
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• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive
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• Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?
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• The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted
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• Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of Mt. Gox
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• Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
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• MtGox.com is offline
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• App-pocalypse Now
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• Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix
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• Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-24

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

• Bram Moolenaar responds to Neovim
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• Comcast’s deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete
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• Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat
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• Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones
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• What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced
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• Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21
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• Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency'
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• A Star in a Bottle
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• Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying
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• The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-23

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

• Show HN: Google Music for Mac
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• Applications open for the summer 2014 YC batch
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• Here is a thing that happened
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• On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM
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• This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All Small Businesses
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• Yamaha's Latest Silent Brass
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• How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To
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• Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right
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• Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam
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• One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-22

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

• Tmux 1.9 released
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• My children’s book on technology raised 100k within 24 hours – here’s how
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• Radiation-hardened quine
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• German tank problem
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• VAXen, my children, just don't...
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• Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds
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• About the security content of iOS 7.0.6
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• Go Ahead, Let Your Kids Fail
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• America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998)
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• Apple's SSL/TLS bug
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-21

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

• Who helps your Linux distribution run smoothly? Thank a packager today
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• Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (2012)
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• Bitcrypt broken
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• Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots
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• LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
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• Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
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• It's time to break up the NSA
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• Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science
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• Neovim
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• Sam Altman for President
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-20

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

• AI
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• “Facebook turned me down” (2009)
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• I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility
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• Questions People Ask When I Tell Them I Own an Airplane
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• Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
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• So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
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• Jim Weirich's final GitHub commit
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• Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
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• Banking Startup Simple Acquired for $117M, Will Continue to Operate Separately
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• Project Tango
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-19

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

• Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves
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• Irrational Games (Bioshock Infinite) is shutting down
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• A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work
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• WRT120N fprintf Stack Overflow
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• I Am A Ukrainian, This Needs To Go Viral
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• Machines are better referees than humans but we’ll be sued if we use them
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• Putin on the Ritz
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• WebGL Water
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• The future of Fiber
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• Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-18

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

• Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge
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• By The Time You Give Them a Raise, They’re Already Out The Door
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• Why we left AngularJS
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• Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows?
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• Snowden Documents Reveal Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks
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• There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
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• I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
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• Complaint-Driven Development
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• Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide
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• The Engineer Crunch
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-17

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

• Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users?
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• HTTP 308 Incompetence Expected
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• The Man Who Built Catan
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• The C10M problem
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• Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly
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• Frequency
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• Drawing as a programmer
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• Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?
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• As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes
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• Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-16

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

• Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says
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• Disney Accelerator
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• Was Y Combinator Worth It?
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• Why Loneliness Matters in the Social Age
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• Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format
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• Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning
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• Letter to MIT community regarding support of students behind ‘Tidbit’
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• Prefer mercurial to git
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• Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s
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• 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-15

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

• Servo Layout Engine: Parallelizing the Browser [video]
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• The Insecurity of Secret IT Systems
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• Show HN: A simple IP address API
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• Solo.im – A single founder peer group
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• Cryptic Crossword: Amateur Crypto and Reverse Engineering
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• Why I Dropped Out Of YC
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• The French way of cancer treatment
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• What did Persona get right? Why did Persona fail to gain wide adoption?
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• A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour
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• Important Kickstarter Security Notice
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-14

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

• Why Python Runs Slow, Part 1: Data Structures
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• Technical Details Behind a 400Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack
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• Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
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• Keybase.io
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• Moon
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• Flappy Space Program
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• The Star Trek Economy
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• De La Soul to Make Entire Catalog Available for Free
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• Losing graciously
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• How the US Treasury imposes sanctions on me and every other "Stephen Law"
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-13

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

• Show HN: Siri-as-a-Service Speech API
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• Saying goodbye to Python
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• Tell HN: My Brother Died Last Week. His Death Will Not Be In Vain
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• We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
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• Comcast Acquiring Time Warner Cable In All Stock Deal Worth $45.2 Billion
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• The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life
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• Plan 9 released under GPLv2
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• Ron Paul Launches Snowden Clemency Petition
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• How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help
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• Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-12

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

• The Book of Graham
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• How does Facebook disable Developer Tools?
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• How to Burn Out Programming
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• The Day the Internet Didn’t Fight Back
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• Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
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• Massively multiplayer online Flappy Bird
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• The anonymity I know
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• Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
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• CandySwipe Open Letter to King regarding trademark
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• Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-11

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

• Things We Forgot to Monitor
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• Mbox – A lightweight sandboxing mechanism
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• Did English ever have a formal version of “you”?
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• Today is The Day We Fight Back
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• Why Indie Developers Go Insane
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• 135 new currencies at Stripe
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• Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water
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• Toward Go 1.3
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• Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’
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• Curse Of The Gifted (2000)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-10

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

• Flappy Bird by the Numbers
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• Godot Engine open sourced
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• The Intercept
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• The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
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• Flappy Bird Typing Tutor
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• Why Mt. Gox is full of shit
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• Why don’t software development methodologies work?
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• Facebook Fraud [video]
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• Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit
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• Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-09

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

• Total security in a PostgreSQL database
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• Your Progress As A Programmer Is All Up To You
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• The Egg
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• The Weight of Rain
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• Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system
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• Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature
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• The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield
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• Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty
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• Girls and Software
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• That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-08

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

• The Stupidity of Computers
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• How I learned to stop giving advice
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• Why Programming is Difficult
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• GoPro Files For IPO
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• Introduction to the Mill CPU Programming Model
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• What happened when the CEO of a Boston burrito chain became an Uber driver
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• Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts
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• Show HN: JS library to make your website instant
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• Transparent Bitcoin Ponzi scheme
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• Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-07

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

• Money for Nothing
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• Simple Dynamic Strings library for C
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• Stanford Scientists Put Free Text-Analysis Tool on the Web
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• Show HN: I built this game alone – design, code, music, sound, marketing
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• Flappy Bird is proof that no one knows what the audience wants
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• Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings
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• Brackets, a code editor
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• FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List
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• NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent
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• How I hacked Github again
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-06

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

• Torus-Earth
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• The Ocean is Broken (2013)
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• “The working group should not agree to freeze whatever syntax Chrome ships”
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• Docker 0.8: Quality, new builder features, btrfs, OSX support
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• EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers
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• Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (1986)
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• How I Learned to Stop Procrastinating, and Love Letting Go
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• IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments
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• Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web
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• Why I Did Not Go To Jail
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-05

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

• DEA redacts tactic that's more secret than parallel construction
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• Scenes from a militarized America
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• The first congressman to battle the NSA has died
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• Two big announcements
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• Microsoft, Past and Future
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• 37signals becomes Basecamp
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• Life is a game, this is your strategy guide
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• Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
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• How to Save 90% on your S3 Bill
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• Show HN: thedaywefightback.js
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-04

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

• A Reintroduction to JavaScript
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• Turn It Off: NSA's Achilles' Heel
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• Put.io
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• After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him
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• Indian School Girl Creates Washing Machine That Runs Without Electricity
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• Sheriff Fires Cop Who Threatened to Arrest Me for Taking Photos of Cops
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• Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
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• Firefox 27 Released
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• ASK PG: Why HN killed a reasonable complain about YC company
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• Don't End The Week With Nothing
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-03

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

• The complete guide to centering a div
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• Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball rack
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• Nvidia submits patches to open source driver
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• Google permanently bans popular application from Play for not using IAP
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• Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government
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• Why we love Mozilla Persona
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• It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map
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• A letter from Paper (FiftyThree) to Paper (Facebook)
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• AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started
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• Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-02

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

• The Only Interview Question That Matters
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• School ditches rules and loses bullies
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• Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol
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• We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer
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• Honest Android Games
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• /u/161719 tells us all why surveillance is not OK
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• US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview
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• Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever
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• An immutable operating system
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• iOS holding my phone number hostage = the worst bug I’ve ever experienced
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-01

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

• Nightwatch.js
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• PayPal Mafia
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• New YC Partner Investment Policy
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• Breaking Madden: The Super Bowl, in which the machine bleeds to death
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• Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5
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• Mystery signal from a helicopter
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• Microsoft please clean your store of junk
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• How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry
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• Big changes to Erlang
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We are not normal people
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• Python Idioms [pdf]
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• Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink
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• Bootstrap 3.1 released
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• Boeing #12
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• Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush With Other "Candy" Games
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• The Magic of strace
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• Printable True Bugs Wait Posters
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• The email line that's client repellent
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• Confessions of an ex-TSA agent
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