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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-30

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

• Why Use Make? (2013)
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• Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (2011)
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• Ask YC (dang and kogir): How about some transparency?
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• Wrong and Right Reasons To Be Upset About Oculus – with Carmack response
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• How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups
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• Pass: The standard unix password manager
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• Rendering Head in WebGL
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• Good Samaritan Backfire
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• Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents
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• Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-29

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

• Sony Digital Paper e-ink PDF tablet for notes and forms
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• Ink trap
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• Ruby Garbage Collection: Still Not Ready for Production
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• Toward a better programming
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• Warp, a fast preprocessor for C and C++
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• We lost a customer. This is how we found out
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• Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
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• Amazon Is Downloading Apps From Google Play and Inspecting Them
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• A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
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• Meet the People Taking over Hacker News
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-28

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

• Tarsnap now accepts Bitcoin
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• Servo passes Acid2
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• Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game
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• Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
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• I am a successful software dev but I have a serious drinking problem
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• Tesla Adds Titanium Underbody Shield and Aluminum Deflector Plates to Model S
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• Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions
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• Show HN: My Isometric Voxel Engine 6 Months Later
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• Screw stigma. I’m coming out.
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• Introducing Michael Abrash, Oculus Chief Scientist
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-27

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

• We may have witnessed a NSA "Shotgiant" TAO-like action
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• Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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• MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code
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• Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death
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• Why doesn't GCC optimize a*a*a*a*a*a to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)? (2013)
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• “The Mill” – It just might Work
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• Turkish government takes down YouTube too
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• Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up
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• Microsoft launches Office for iPad
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• Whatever goes up, that’s what we do
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-26

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

• Oculus Joins Facebook
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• Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version
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• Virtual Reality is going to change the world
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• Mozilla's low-overhead open source replay debugger
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• What it's like to use Haskell
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• Steve Jobs's response after getting a Google employee fired.
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• Ask HN: Is it me or ...?
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• RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
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• ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text
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• Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-25

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

• Stripe: Marketplaces
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• CSS Diner
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• Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google
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• Why I like Java
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• We’re Fucked, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink
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• Clojure 1.6 released
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• Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public
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• Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
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• IRS Says Bitcoin Is Property
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• Facebook acquires Oculus VR
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-24

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

• Link Bubble - A new browser for Android
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• The Brutal Ageism of Tech
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• WTF, HTML and CSS?
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• PostgreSQL: Jsonb has committed
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• Genetic Algorithms Produce Winning StarCraft II Build Order (2010)
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• Wanelo: The First Million Users
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• Basecamp was under network attack
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• Turkey becomes first country ever to ban Google DNS
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• Gbatteries (YC W14) Launches BatteryBox, A 50Whr Backup Battery For MacBooks
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• Brendan Eich becomes Mozilla CEO
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-23

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

• Ask HN: How do you earn your money?
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• MicroView: Chip-sized Arduino with built-in OLED Display
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• Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime
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• Surfing the Modern Web with Ancient Browsers
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• Visualizing Git Concepts with D3.js
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• What I Learned Negotiating With Steve Jobs
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• Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey
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• Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
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• Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers
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• California police use of body cameras cuts violence and complaints (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-22

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

• Why are roller coaster loops not circular?
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• Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies
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• Npm security post-mortem
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• About that time Google spied on my Gmail
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• It Is Time For Basic Income
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• Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments
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• 8402: 2048 from the other side
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• Pending Comments
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• Flash is dead, long live OpenFL
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• Apple and Google’s wage-fixing involved dozens more companies, over 1M employees
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-21

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

• Inside the Guardian’s CMS: meet Scribe, an extensible rich text editor
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• Hexagon 16384
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• Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)
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• Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak
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• SparkFun: We Hear You
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• Twitter is blocked in Turkey
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• 2048 Numberwang
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• Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins
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• Turkey blocks use of Twitter after prime minister attacks social media site
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• Getting Started with Docker
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-20

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

• JsDelivr – The advanced open source public CDN
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• Crypto 101
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• Variance
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• New RFS – Breakthrough Technologies
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• HN Plays 2048
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• Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation
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• Tesla Can Topple the Car-Dealer Monopoly
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• Hack: a new programming language for HHVM
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• The MtGox 500
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• Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-19

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

• Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework
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• Firefox 28 Release Notes
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• Y Combinator’s New Head
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• What Happens to Older Developers?
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• Full-disclosure – Administrivia: The End
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• Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search
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• New Oculus Rift dev kit goes on sale for $350 today, likely ships in July
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• Welcome to Unreal Engine 4
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• What if you didn't need money or attention?
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• Flappy 2048
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-18

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

• What the Fox Knows
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• 2048 in 4D
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• The Myth of the Non-Technical Startup Employee
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• The Founder Visa (again)
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• Angular 2.0
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• Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
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• Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL
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• Android coming to wearables
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• Moto 360
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• JDK 8 Release Notes
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-17

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

• Popcorn-app
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• Update on Julie Horvath's Departure
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• Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
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• Python 3.4.0 released
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• MH370: A different point of view
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• SaveTheInternet.eu – the EU vote on net neutrality tomorrow
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• Burnout
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• Introducing OneNote for Mac
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• Gravity waves from Big Bang detected
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• “This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old”
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-16

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

• HTML is almost 100% responsive out of the box
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• NYPD counsel rules freedom of information manual is confidential
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• Brick. Webfonts that look good
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• Recruitment Process for a Google Site Reliability Engineer
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• The Gray Zone
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• Dear AirBNB, No thank you for the XXX Freak Fest
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• Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
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• Are Malls Over?
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• The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
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• Google Will Eat Itself
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-15

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

• Linux gets frozen, what do you do?
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• Mt. Gox knowingly traded non-existent Bitcoins for two weeks, filing shows
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• Google gives UK government “super flagger” status for YouTube
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• Fucking Shell Scripts
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• Update on Metro
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• Bootflat: Open Source Flat UI Kit based on Twitter Bootstrap 3
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• Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly
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• GameCube Emulation and Pixel Processing Problems
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• Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment
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• Worse
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-14

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

• Helsinki’s personalized bus service is like Uber for public transit
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• Show HN: My Desk Chair
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• The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean
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• Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation
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• Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit
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• Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites
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• Google Reader announced its shutdown exactly a year ago
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• Denial of Service Attacks
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• Elon Musk: To the People of New Jersey
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• Goodbye Popcorn Time
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-13

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

• Git 2.0 release notes
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• 2048 – multiplayer
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• Samsung Galaxy Back-door
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• How a Light Saber Works
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• Valve's OpenGL debugger open-sourced
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• What Dreams May Come
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• Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA
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• How We Make Trello
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• Save more with Google Drive
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• The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-12

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

• Any Android app can read your WhatsApp database
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• How to create 2D visibility/shadow effects for your game
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• Evicted in San Francisco
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• Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem
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• Why is git pull considered harmful?
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• How the NSA Plans to Infect “Millions” of Computers with Malware
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• Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading
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• Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]
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• Show HN: I've been making one HTML5 game per week. Here's my 10th game
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• MMM Receives Legal Threats
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-11

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

• Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser
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• Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary
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• Stanford bioengineer develops a 50-cent paper microscope
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• Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)
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• Direct3D to OpenGL abstraction layer
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• Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough
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• Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
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• Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress
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• 2048 AI
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• Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-10

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

• Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 makes it clear: we need to rethink black boxes
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• How not to write an API
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• Learn regular expressions in about 55 minutes
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• Kill the Snowden interview, congressman tells SXSW
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• How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven
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• Starcraft reverse engineered to run on ARM
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• Ask HN: What happens to older developers?
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• The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer
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• Edward Snowden SXSW live stream
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• 2048
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-09

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

• Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls
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• How to Think
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• How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak passphrases
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• DEC64: Decimal Floating Point
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• Start-up NY
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• TldrLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English
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• Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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• ONO sells for $9.5 billion and nobody cares
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• Amtrak Residency
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• Mark Karpeles' blog hacked
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-08

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

• Myths about /dev/urandom
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• Did an F-15 airplane successfully land with just one wing?
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• Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
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• Turn a Raspberry Pi into an FM transmitter
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• Open Data Stack Exchange
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• LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboard-only forums
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• Understanding IP, TCP, and HTTP
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• Behind the stick of the SR-71
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• Cunningham's Law
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• Python Language Features and Tricks
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-07

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

• Why Most Unit Testing is Waste [pdf]
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• Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future
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• The Europa mission is real and could very well happen
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• F.lux updated
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• Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto
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• Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
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• Show HN: Find your color scheme
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• Model aircraft operators free to operate commercially in US, rules federal judge
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• Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser
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• Show HN: My current App Store Featured Game was written entirely in Scheme
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-06

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

• Stick bomb
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• Netflix disables use of the Chrome developer console
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• I am not an introvert. I am just busy
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• Exist
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• Yes, The CIA Spied On Congress
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• This website has a lot of unclosed h3 tags
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• The Face Behind Bitcoin?
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• Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight
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• DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS
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• Dark spot under cockpit of A-10s
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-05

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

• LSD, Reconsidered for Therapy
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• Planes Landing in Beijing: Video from Space
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• Peter R’s Theory on the Collapse of Mt. Gox
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• Iconic – An Icon System Designed for the Modern Web
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• Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
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• Glyphr - HTML5 based font editor
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• Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed
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• Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused
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• Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project
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• Stripe Checkout
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-04

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

• Q – A Data Language
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• Help me distribute $100,000 to new entrepreneurs in Africa
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• Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-tagger
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• Confessions of an Intermediate Programmer
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• The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary
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• Engineer's Guide to US Visas
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• Image Background Removal
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• If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel
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• Clear Sans
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• Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-03

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

• Nothing to Hide – Game inspired by government surveillance
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• Ship's cat
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• Mt. Gox Has Been Hacked by People Trying to Find Out What Happened?
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• Apple CarPlay
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• Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges
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• NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says
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• Jurassic Park computer system in the browser
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• Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible
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• All RGB colors in one image
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• Goodbye Academia
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-02

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

• SaaS Club
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• Firefox OS 1.3
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• A brief history of one line fixes
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• Planning Algorithms
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• Snap for Beginners: Haskell Web Development
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• Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream
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• Hum
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• Idaho law criminalizes secretly filming on farms
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• Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface
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• What Did Not Happen At Mt. Gox
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-01

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

• A tcpdump tutorial and primer
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• Npm's Self-Signed Certificate is No More
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• Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits Picked by Its Users
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• Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser
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• How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation
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• Tim Cook Soundly Rejects Politics of the NCPPR
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• Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in Silicon Valley
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• "Free-to-play" misleading advertising in Europe
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• The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-02-28

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

• Obama's Trauma Team: Inside the Nightmare Launch of HealthCare.Gov
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• Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?
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• Apple Explains How Secure iMessage Is
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• How pCell works and why its a bigger deal than anyone realizes
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• Ten Years of Coding Horror
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• Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection
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• Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites
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• Ask HN: Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox?
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• Python Best Practice Patterns
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• A birthday present from Broadcom
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