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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-30

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

• Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report
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• US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers
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• Interesting Data Sets for Statistics
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• The Makings of a Great Logo
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• Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast
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• TrueCrypt must not die
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• Write your first Linux kernel module
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• Java 8 Features
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• How LEDs are Made
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• Sistine Chapel
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-29

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

• RubyMotion 3.0 Sneak Peek: Android Support
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• Git 2.0
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• Absolute Zero
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• For Hire: Dedicated Young Man With Down Syndrome
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• True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’
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• Google's XSS game
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• The Man Who Single-Handedly Converted a Washed-Out Land Into a 1,360 Acre Forest
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• Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps
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• How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name
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• We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-28

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

• Headroom.js – hide your header on scroll
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• HN Hiring
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• PHP Next Generation
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• Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries
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• Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
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• How Apple Cheats
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• Bring Reading Rainbow Back
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• Introducing Socket.io 1.0
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• TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
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• Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-27

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

• The Internet With A Human Face
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• Python 3 can revive Python
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• Build your own drink mixing robot
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• Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web
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• A Hacker’s Guide to Git
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• You shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work
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• Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Critic, Is Now Building Azure
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• Pre-orders start today for Flame, the Firefox OS developer phone
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• Massimo Vignelli, 1931-2014
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• HipChat making a comeback. Free for unlimited users
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-26

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

• So You Want to Write Your Own CSV code
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• What does a neural network actually do?
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• End Mass Incarceration Now
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• HTTP/2.0 – Please admit defeat
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• Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites
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• Python 3 is killing Python
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• The Scroll Up Bar
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• School spyware in coursebooks
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• Whitewood Under Siege: Wooden Shipping Pallets
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• Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-25

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

• Responding to the Explosion of Student Interest in Computer Science [pdf]
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• Tehran tracked, captured, studied, copied RQ-170
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• From Gmail to Fastmail
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• Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy
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• Meet the algorithm that can learn “everything about anything”
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• I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome
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• Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox
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• US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe
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• Scribd and Quora considered harmful
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• The Design Of SQLite4
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-24

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

• Panda 4.0: Why eBay lost many of its organic rankings
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• Privacy Badger
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• The Fourier Transform and its Applications
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• Browserify handbook
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• Developer Anxiety, we’re not alone
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• Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation
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• The new VirginAmerica.com
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• Why Online Communities Decay Over Time
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• Stay Classy Makerbot
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• Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-23

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

• BPF: The Forgotten Bytecode
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• A Tour of Machine Learning Algorithms
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• Containers on the Google Cloud Platform
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• What does GCHQ know about our devices that we don't?
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• Don't mess with Newegg
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• Animals in the wild found to use running wheel if given the choice
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• Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
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• Why TLS is called "TLS", not "SSL 3.1"
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• Understanding web pages better
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• Surface Pro 3
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-22

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

• Go Read: One Year with Money and App Engine
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• Dragon’s Lair – An Arcade Story
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• PDFium: Chrome’s PDF rendering engine is now open-source
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• Some of the work we did at Danger
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• Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
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• 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
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• Osmo
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• My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment
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• An open letter on feminism in tech
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• Send money to debit cards
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-21

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

• The desktop and the developer
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• How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark
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• Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful
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• Questions for Donald Knuth
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• Erlang and code style
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• Pixel graphics in terminal
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• eBay customers’ personal data was compromised in March
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• The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)
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• Guide to Landing Page Optimization
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• Arrakis
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-20

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

• Making Your Writing Work Harder For You
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• What are common mistakes that new or inexperienced managers make?
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• How did we get so busy?
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• When AES(☢) = ☠ – a crypto-binary trick
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• China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers
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• New DuckDuckGo design
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• Using the wrong dictionary
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• Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3
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• Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
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• Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-19

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

• New York City photographed with the Game Boy Camera in 2000
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• Don't Become a Scientist (1999)
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• AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion
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• Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
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• Solar Scare Mosquito
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• Laravel Forge – PHP Platforms On Linode, DigitalOcean, AWS, Rackspace
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• OpenStreetMap is now navigation-ready
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• Hoodie – Fast web app development
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• The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas
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• State of MetaFilter
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-18

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

• A Critique of “Don’t Fuck Up The Culture”
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• Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (1999)
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• LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement
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• Hello from 1978
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• What If U.S. Cities Just Stopped Participating in the War on Drugs?
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• So You’re Not Desirable
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• Why I Don’t Do CrossFit
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• Basics of Machine Learning
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• Google is Breaking the Internet
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• YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-17

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

• Baidu Hires Andrew Ng
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• The Multiple SQLite Problem
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• TDD your API
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• Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition
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• Practical Tmux
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• Claude Shannon demonstrates Theseus, a magnetic maze-solving mouse [video]
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• New algorithm shakes up cryptography
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• How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn
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• Dual-touch smartphone design concept
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• Pain we forgot
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-16

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

• An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 3: Web Development
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• What Do Animals See in a Mirror?
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• Mac keyboard shortcuts
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• The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the British Pound
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• Tremor-cancelling spoon for Parkinson's tremors
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• Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work
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• Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
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• The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later
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• I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee
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• “A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-15

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

• An Introduction to Programming in Go
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• AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose
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• Dropbox Webhooks
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• Network Neutrality
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• Maze Tree
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• OS X Command Line Utilities
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• Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial
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• FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM
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• FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
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• The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-14

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

• Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
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• MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source
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• Source code of ASP.NET
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• Octotree: the missing GitHub tree view (Chrome extension)
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• Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
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• Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
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• Introducing Moto E and Moto G with 4G LTE: Smart phones priced for all
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• AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
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• Articles Every Programmer Should Read
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• Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-13

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

• Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for everyone
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• Introducing ASP.NET vNext
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• Realistic terrain in 130 lines of JavaScript
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• Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling
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• Xeer
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• Computers are fast
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• ‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead
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• Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet
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• Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome
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• iMessage purgatory
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-12

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

• Google offering $1M prize for a much smaller power inverter
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• Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus
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• Mkdown
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• Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours
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• Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days
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• The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win
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• "Show us the legal case for executing a United States citizen without a trial."
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• Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
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• Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
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• Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-11

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

• ‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’
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• We scraped the World Bank's website
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• Reverse Engineering for Beginners
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• Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet
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• Scammed
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• How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment
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• What Happened at NewsGator
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• Tell HN: Call your mom
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• Transform any text into a patent application
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• Poll: What database does your company/you use?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-10

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

• Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
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• CoreOS Beta Release
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• Haskell tutorial for C programmers
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• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python
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• Jsfmt – Like Gofmt, but for JavaScript
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• Wayback Machine Hits 400,000,000,000
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• Brain.js Demo – Train a neural network to recognize color contrast
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• Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background
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• Google Maps Has Forsaken Us
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• Are you paid to look busy?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-09

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

• Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms
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• How fast is PDF.js?
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• Flux Application Architecture
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• How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux
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• How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
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• Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
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• All of Bach
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• WhatsApplebee's: the premiere Applebee's-based social chat app
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• Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf]
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• Quora in the next YC batch
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-08

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

• The Scraping Problem and Ethics
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• Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose 'net neutrality' plan
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• The logic of Buddhist philosophy
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• Free Your Android
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• Bootstrap 3 Tips and Tricks
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• Common Python Mistakes
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• An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 2
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• Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API
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• We are throttling the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth
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• The future of Unreal Tournament begins today
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-07

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

• How to talk to an open source project as a large scale or interesting user
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• Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack
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• App.net State of the Union
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• Show HN: Turn an email to a web page
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• Jekyll 2.0.0 is released
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• The Day I Started Lying to Ruth
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• The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb
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• Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers
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• Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
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• Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-06

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

• The Case for React.js and ClojureScript
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• Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork
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• NES Dual Port RAM Interface
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• RSS: What Not Dying Looks Like
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• Fat JSON
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• We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed pasting
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• 2048, success and me
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• Atom Is Now Open Source
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• When a bad day gets worse – getting hacked twice in one day
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• Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-05

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

• Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
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• Magic mirror: One way mirror with a monitor behind it
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• Betty – English-like interface for the command line
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• Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden
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• Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
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• Startup School is going global
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• Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster
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• Minimum Viable Block Chain
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• Observations of an Internet Middleman
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• The next version of DuckDuckGo
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-04

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

• Truthcoin: Trustless, Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Marketplace
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• Does Google Have A Secret “Translate” Service?
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• PostgreSQL partitioning explained
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• Ask HN: Idea Sunday
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• What Writing and Selling Software Was Like in the 80s
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• Chrome's experiment of hiding the URL is great for security
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• Chinese Number Websites
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• The Meaning of Life
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• Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
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• Zombies once destroyed Japan's economy, now they're infecting China's
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-03

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

• ‘Solar’ jet fuel made out of air
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• Thinking in Types
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• Washington state sues Kickstarted game creator who failed to deliver
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• A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster
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• Global heatmap of cycling and running routes
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• With IPO Hopes Fading, Square and Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products
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• Why I won’t work for Google
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• Shit HN Says
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• SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year.
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• Programming Is a Dead End Job
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-02

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

• One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos
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• Gimli Glider
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• Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands
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• Hamming, "You and Your Research" (1995) [video]
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• Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy
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• Common LibreSSL porting mistakes
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• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
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• Headphones and Earphones Benchmarking Test Files
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• How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch
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• It's Different for Girls
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-01

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

• Web Fundamentals: A handbook for best practices
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• Designer Duds
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• Burying the URL
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• The New Aaron Swartz Documentary Looks Powerful. Here's the Trailer
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
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• The slow death of purposeless walking
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• The cost of Linux's page fault handling
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• An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1
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• My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal
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• How a Florida kid’s “stupid app” saved his family’s home
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-04-30

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

• Divide Your Rent Fairly
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• What's New in Mercurial 3.0
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• Tails 1.0 is out
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• Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
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• A Motion-Sensing Keyboard
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• The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business
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• Poll: Were you banned by AdSense? When in the cycle were you notified?
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• The Absurdity of LinkedIn
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• Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns
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• Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login
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