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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-29

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

• What Killed My Sister?
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• Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3,500 for prototypes
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• Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
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• Announcing the MIT Bitcoin Project
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• Firefox 29
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• Test-induced design damage
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• Outbox vs. USPS: How the Post Office Killed Digital Mail
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• Google AdSense leak?
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• Vagrant Feature Preview: Docker-Based Development Environments
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• Cakebrew: The Mac App for Homebrew
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-28

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

• The TeX tuneup of 2014 [pdf]
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• Software of the Apollo guidance computer was hand-woven into rope core memory
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• Some thoughts on Go and Erlang
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• The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve
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• SSH Kung Fu
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• Parsing English with 500 lines of Python (2013)
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• The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving
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• Skype group video calling becomes free
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• Leaving Go
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• Follow up to the investigation results
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-27

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

• Show HN: Isomer – An isometric graphics library for HTML5 Canvas
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• The desperate hustle as a way of life
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• Hello, Stranger
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• Go's power is in emergent behavior
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• Go: Best Practices for Production Enviroments
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• FPV with Oculus Rift and a Quadcopter
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• Ask HN: What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved?
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• The user is drunk (2013) [video]
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• Freelancer.com is destroying my life
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• Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-26

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

• How I wrote Game Programming Patterns
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• Porting the Go compiler from C to Go
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• Facebook's git repo is 54GB
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• Marvel Comics API
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• Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website
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• Off-Canvas Sidebar Transitions with CSS
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• Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late?
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• Rust by Example
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• Will you drown?
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• It's Adventure Time
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-25

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

• Core Infrastructure Initiative
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• Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
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• My new favorite vim/tmux bug
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• The Case Against ISP Tolls
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• No Exit
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• Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet
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• Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it
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• The worst year of my life
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• Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL?
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• SpaceX Successfully Soft-Landed Booster Rocket in the Atlantic
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-24

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

• LibreSSL: FIPS mode is not coming back
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• What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell 2.0
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• Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?
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• The Bubble Question
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• Boycott systemd
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• CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired
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• Click – Python library for command-line interfaces
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• The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback
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• Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company
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• Stripe Open-Source Retreat
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-23

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

• How to be a great software developer
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• My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player
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• Goji: a web microframework for Go
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• Do Men Suck At Friendship?
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• OnePlus One – $299 CyanogenMod 'killer' smartphone
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• You have ruined JavaScript
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• TDD is dead. Long live testing.
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• Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
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• “Game Programming Patterns” is now finished
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• F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-22

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

• Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (2010)
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• Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects
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• Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs
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• LibreSSL
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• Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery
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• GitLab – Open Source Git Management Software
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• Parallax effect from Google Lens Blur photos
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• Space Monkey dumps Python for Go
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• Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
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• The New Deal
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-21

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

• Metacademy
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• “Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team
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• The Case for Formal Verification (2013)
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• Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?
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• LibGDX 1.0 released
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• The ticking time-bomb at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
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• Is the Toilet Free?
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• Build Tools – Make, no more
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• Results of the GitHub Investigation: Tom Preston-Werner resigning
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• Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-20

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

• Update on Linksys WRT1900AC support for OpenWRT
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• Delphi – why won't it die? (2013)
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• Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware
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• No, don't enable revocation checking
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• Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
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• The Invention of the AeroPress
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• Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check
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• Man compares his prosthetic hand to a 3D-printed one
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• Ask HN: Idea Sunday
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• SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-19

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

• How to exploit home routers for anonymity
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• Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive?
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• HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game
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• Ask HN: Your favorite YouTube channels?
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• SpaceX CRS-3 Mission
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• MorpHex, a hexapod robot
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• Greed and the Wright Brothers
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• Stock Photos That Don’t Suck
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• The Government is Silencing Twitter and Yahoo, and It Won't Tell Us Why
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• OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-18

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

• British Pathé Puts Over 85,000 Historical Films on YouTube
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• Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)
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• Dropbox acquires Hackpad (YC W12)
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• Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2
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• The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]
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• An Update on HN Comments
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• The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper
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• New axe design uses lever action to make splitting wood easier
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• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
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• Employee Equity
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-17

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

• Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter
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• Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
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• Quantum Entanglement Drives the Arrow of Time
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• Go Performance Tales
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• Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
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• Seznam, a Czech search company, previews 3D maps
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• How Americans Die
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• The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
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• Ubuntu 14.04 released
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• Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-16

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

• Raising a moral child
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• How to be an open source gardener
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• TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns
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• The Worst Part of YC
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• Better bash in 15 minutes
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• Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help
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• Tptacek's Review of "Practical Cryptography With Go"
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• GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll
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• They say “nothing will change”
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• Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-15

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

• Why 9:41 AM is always the time displayed on iPhones and iPads
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• Welcome Kat, Yuri, Patrick, and Elizabeth
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• Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when
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• OpenBSD has started a massive strip-down and cleanup of OpenSSL
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• SF’s Housing Crisis Explained
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• Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA
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• Show HN: Super Planet Crash
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• Introduction to A*
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• Cheap microscopes: Yours to cut out and keep
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• How 'DevOps' Is Killing The Developer
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-14

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

• GitHub Cheat Sheet
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• Willem Pinckaers on Akamai's flawed OpenSSL allocator patch
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• Heartbleed Update v3
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• The MIT Lockpicking Guide
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• Huginn: Like Yahoo Pipes plus IFTTT on your server
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• Sketch 3 released
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• SpaceX CRS-3 launch scrubbed due to helium leak
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• Avow-CI Is No More
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• The Guardian and Washington Post win the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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• Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-13

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

• Ask HN: Math books like SICP?
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• Bret Victor's favourite books
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• Apple Claims Mogenerator's Methods
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• Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say
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• Ask HN: CTO wants me to leave
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• Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday
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• Akamai release source to their custom secure_malloc for OpenSSL
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• Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework for long-running applications, services
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• Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020
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• Ask HN: Idea Sunday
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-12

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

• Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire
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• Amazon Will Pay You $5,000 to Quit Your Job
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• Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders May Soon Be Allowed to Work in the U.S.
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• "Let me know how I can help" – a proposal to HN
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• Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll Intellectual Ventures
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• Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way
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• CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked
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• Learn CSS Layout
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• PyCon US 2014 – Videos
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• Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldman Sachs
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-11

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

• When two-factor authentication is not enough
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• Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?
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• Massachusetts Governor Announces Plan to Abolish Noncompetes
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• Memories of Steve
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• How we got read access on Google’s production servers
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• Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation
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• The Heartbleed Challenge
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• 3rd Circuit vacates Weev's conviction [pdf]
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• NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years
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• “In a typical year the OpenSSL project receives about US $2000 in donations”
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-10

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

• GHC 7.8.1 released
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• Unpythonic Python
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• Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to death
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• LastPass Now Checks If Your Sites Are Affected by Heartbleed
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• Shadow DOM
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• Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding
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• Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
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• Drop Dropbox
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• Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002)
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• Write Code Every Day
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-09

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

• NSA Spied On Human Rights Groups, Says Snowden
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• How I Came to Write D
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• Neel Mehta donates Heartbleed bounty to Freedom of the Press Foundation
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• TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell
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• Free Programming Books
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• "OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure it's exploitable"
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• Heartbleed
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• What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing
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• Giving Away Our Recommendation Engine
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• When Life Gives You Lemons...
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-08

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

• Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital
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• OpenSSL Security Advisory: TLS heartbeat read overrun
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• The Decline of the Mobile Web
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• Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's
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• Python 3.5 to Ship with Matrix Multiplication Operator
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• EU court rejects requirement to keep data of telecom users
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• IE6 is dead
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• The Short Answers To Every Matt Cutts Video
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• Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion
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• Rails 4.1.0 released
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-07

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

• Mailr: an open-source webmail client with Gmail-like conversations
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• Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain
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• Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer
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• Halide, a language for image processing and computational photography
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• Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue
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• Superhero.js – One stop for JS Knowledge
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• Raspberry Pi Compute Module
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• How Zidisha (YC W14) Is Misleading the Public About Its Interest Rates
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• Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source
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• The Heartbleed Bug
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-06

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

• Recreating the THX Deep Note
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• Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
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• Why UPS Trucks Rarely Turn Left
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• How I Hacked a Router
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• Progress Button Styles
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• Flickr: Invitations disclosure (resend feature)
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• Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?
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• WebM support on 4chan
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• The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid
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• Ask HN: Idea Sunday
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-05

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

• Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools
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• The Other Side of Depression
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• American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-trap" is clicked
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• Michael Lewis: shilling for the buyside?
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• The right way to ask users for iOS permissions
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• Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
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• Tesla Model S Ethernet Network Explored
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• Can I delete my Skype account?
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• Primer: Shaders
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• Mathematicians find way to put 7 cylinders in contact without using their ends
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-04

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

• Detecting duplicate images with Python
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• Imgur Raises $40M From Andreessen Horowitz
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• Rust 0.10 released
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• Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown
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• Vatican to Digitize 41 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts
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• Learn C and build your own Lisp
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• Facebook CPC – Don't Waste Your Money
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• Apache Wave
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• My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job
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• Amazon Dash
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-03

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

• -2000 lines of code
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• Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps
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• Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop
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• WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
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• 0^0
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• Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL
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• European Parliament passes net neutrality law
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• What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap
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• Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
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• Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-02

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

• Game servers: UDP vs TCP
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• Why xkcd-style graphs are important
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• Haste language
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• ipython 2.0.0
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• Tarsnap price cut
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• A group of 3,000 citizens is making better forecasts than CIA analysts
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• Zed: The Next Phase
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• Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
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• Amazon Fire TV
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• Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-01

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

• NSA blows its own top secret program in order to propagandize
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• MariaDB 10
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• How the Most Expensive Game Jam Crashed And Burned in a Single Day
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• Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog
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• The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies
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• The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.
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• Coinbase user emails and full names leaked
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
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• Slick – Carousel
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• Portia, an open-source visual web scraper
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-03-31

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

• Big data: are we making a big mistake?
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• Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire [video]
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• U.S. stock markets are rigged, says author Michael Lewis
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• Generational GC has landed in Firefox
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• You Got Your Web Browser in my Compiler
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• Quake III bounty: we have a winner
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• NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: Study
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• Show HN: A sequence of online courses to learn web development from scratch
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• Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed
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• Square Market Accepts Bitcoin
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