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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-29

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

• Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
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• Runtime.JS – Operating system kernel built on V8
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• Why I’m No Longer a Professor
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• OpenStreetMap node density map 2014
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• How I Start: Erlang
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• The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz [video]
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• The Day We Set the Colorado River Free
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• What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
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• Candy Japan crosses $10K MRR
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• Why use www?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-28

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

• Debunking the LZ4 "20 years old bug" myth
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• World Cup Follow-Up: Update of Winning Probabilities and Betting Results
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• Dart 1.5
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• Tell HN: My startup is making money and I don't know what to do
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• Undefined behavior can result in time travel
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• Apple to Cease Development of Aperture and Transition Users to Photos for OS X
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• The Ghost in the MP3
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• Lisp implementation in sed
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• Top designers react to Google’s new ‘Material’ design language
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• Minecraft clone in Python with Pyglet
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-27

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

• Introducing Ampersand.js
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• Awesome Sysadmin: Open-source sysadmin resources
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• Masters of Love
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• This CEO is out for blood
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• Migrating From AWS to FB
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• Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations
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• Recovering SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Ocean Landing Video
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• Android without the mothership
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• µg: Open-source replacements of Google Apps and API on Android
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• Commencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-26

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

• Best of Vim Tips
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• Google I/O 2014
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• Google Design
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• Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
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• Cayley – An open-source graph database
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• Epoch – A real-time charting library
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• Blink
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• Merge Pull Request Considered Harmful
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• Visualizing Algorithms
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• How I got a medal from the Army for writing code
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-25

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

• Programming on a Piano Keyboard
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• The YouTube Contract for Indies
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• Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem
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• The Death of the Urdu Script
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• Paint.NET 4.0 is now available
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• V8 Optimization Killers
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• Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf]
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• Supreme court: Warrantless cell phone searches illegal [pdf]
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• Gmail API
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• Google Cardboard
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-24

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

• For $10,000, your car can drive itself – Cruise (YC W14)
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• The Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
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• Goodbye Heroku
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• I Can’t Afford a Bachelor’s Degree, So I’m Making My Own
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• Works With Nest
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• Cargo, Rust's Package Manager
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• Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native JavaScript functions
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• Workaholism in America Is Hurting the Economy
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• A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
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• Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-23

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

• Real-time lightning map, worldwide
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• Inside the Mirrortocracy
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• NodeBB: Node.js-based forum software
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• Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges
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• A Laser Message from Space
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• WebIDE lands in Firefox Nightly
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• Lotus, a web framework for Ruby
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• My startup failed, and this is what it feels like
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• Google Domains
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• We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-22

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

• Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex
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• A Sound You Can't Unhear (And What It Says About Your Brain)
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• The Lambda Calculus for Absolute Dummies (2012)
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• U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement (2013)
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• Passwords in plain text
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• RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons
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• The Feature Google Killed The + Command For Is Now Dead
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• We Have No Idea If Online Ads Work
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• Employees That Stay In Companies Longer Get Paid Less
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• Tell HN: I want out
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-21

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

• Webkit.js
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• Mario Maker: Create Your Own Super Mario Levels
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• Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
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• Valuations
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• The first stable release of PyPy3
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• Nest is acquiring Dropcam
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• Go support for Android
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• The Ocean Cleanup
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• Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014
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• Eigenmorality
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-20

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

• Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times and Washington Post
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• Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python
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• CubeSlam
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• Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court
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• Cops hid use of phone tracking tech in court documents at feds’ request
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• 8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1
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• Euclid: The Game
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• What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel
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• Java Pain
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• The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-19

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

• Introducing the Web Audio Editor in Firefox Developer Tools
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• Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE
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• The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds
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• Go 1.3 is released
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• Facebook is down
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• Supreme Court rules on software patent case Alice Corp v. CLS Bank [pdf]
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• A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game
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• Call me maybe: Elasticsearch
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• Twitter's GIF hack
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• Web Starter Kit
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-18

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

• YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service
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• The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says
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• Om Sweet Om: functional front-end engineering with ClojureScript and React
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• Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS
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• The Abstinence Method – Dutch farmers say no to antibiotics for livestock
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• Dear Marc Andreessen
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• Docker container breakout?
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• Negative SEO Does Exist
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• Suicidal Software Developer
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• Amazon Fire Phone
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-17

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

• The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever
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• No Money, No Time
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• The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte
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• Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules
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• Literally worse than EA
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• UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance
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• The Man Who Saves You from Yourself (2013)
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• Show HN: We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car
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• Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
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• The co-designer of the F-16 on why the F-35 is a failure [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-16

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

• Window into Airbnb’s hidden impact on SF
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• Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers
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• Solar plant has generated “supercritical” steam
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• How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?
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• An even slimmer pdf.js
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• How to Fold a Julia Fractal
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• Announcing Internet Explorer Developer Channel
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• 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan
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• The Pivot
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• Penny Arcade – Surface Pro 3 update
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-15

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

• Vanadium: The metal that may soon be powering your neighbourhood
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• Spreadsheet-like programming in Haskell
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• Pixel Art + Star Trek = Pixel Trek
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• Ikea C&D's 8-year old Ikea furniture hacking website
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• The Largest Black Hole in the Known Universe
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• Have You Hugged a Concrete Pillar Today?
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• Jq: A lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor
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• Zelda: The Wind Waker – Tech and Texture Analysis
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• I’m Just Now Realizing How Stupid We Are
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• Smashing Swift
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-14

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

• Priceline to Buy OpenTable in Deal Valued at $2.6 Billion
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• Deaf and following the World Cup? We're streaming live captions
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• Wilson's Algorithm
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• A Programming War Between 545 Wizards
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• LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
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• HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
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• Open-source game development assets
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• Only Apple
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• Rm -rf remains
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• Kingston and PNY using cheaper components after good reviews
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-13

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

• Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour (2010) [pdf]
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• Firefox OS Apps run on Android
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• Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions
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• PGP released its source code as a book to get around US export law
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• Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core
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• Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism
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• Math for seven-year-olds
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• How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution
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• It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork
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• Founder Depression
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-12

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

• Ars tests Internet surveillance by spying on an NPR reporter
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• Bret Victor: Seeing Spaces [video]
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• Share: The Icon No One Agrees On
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• Why we're suing the CIA
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• Amazon orders subject to replacement fraud (still)
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• Amazon Prime Music
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• Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils
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• 3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?
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• All Our Patent Are Belong To You
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• For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-11

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

• Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property
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• I hate stacked area charts
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• HFS+ Bit Rot
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• Trashing Chromebooks
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• Microsoft fights U.S. warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server
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• Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript
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• Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
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• Expedia Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Hotel Bookings
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• Response by Ray Kurzweil to chatbot Eugene Goostman “passing the Turing test”
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• With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-10

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

• Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing
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• Finding the perfect house using open data
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• Docker Misconceptions
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• An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
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• Netflix responds to Verizon
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• Tell HN: The site was offline. What changed?
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• Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
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• Firefox 30.0
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• Firebug 2.0
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• Facebook open sources Haxl
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-09

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

• Turing Test Success
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• Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)
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• Fake Friends with Real Benefits
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• How mistakes can save lives: one man’s mission to revolutionise the NHS
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• Troubled welds on the Bay Bridge
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• Tailspotting: Identifying and profiting from CEO vacation trips
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• A Year of Functional Programming
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• The Several Million Dollar Bug
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• Docker 1.0
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• Apple begins rejecting apps that offer rewards for video views, social sharing
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-08

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

• RFC 2616 is dead
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• PyParallel: How we removed the GIL and exploited all cores
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• Show HN: Create pretty resumes in HTML, Latex, Markdown from a single JSON
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• Free SSL Certificate for Open Source Projects
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• Patent troll on the verge of winning 1% of iPhone revenue
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• Call me maybe: RabbitMQ
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• Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality
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• Valve sponsors Mesa development
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• iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks
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• Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-07

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

• The Last Line Effect
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• An Important Tech Job That Doesn't Exist
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• The Red Hourglass: Self-Experimentation with Black Widow Bites
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• AirType
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• HippyVM
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• HTTP/1.1 just got a major update
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• Ever Wished Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? He Just Did
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• Google+ broke our trust
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• Harry Eng – Master Bottle Filler
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• JavaScript as an alternative to AppleScript on OS X Yosemite
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-06

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

• Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
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• Tickets for Restaurants
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• Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
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• Native GUI library for Go
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• Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything
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• A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
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• Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps
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• Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
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• Python to OCaml: Retrospective
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• I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-05

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

• NFL players: height and weight over time
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• Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?
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• At
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• Introducing Mapbox GL
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• Tor Challenge
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• TorCoin
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• OpenSSL Security Advisory
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• Shrturl: Faking the web since 1942
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• The Music Suite
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• Netflix replies to Verizon cease and desist letter
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-04

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

• Chris Lattner on Swift
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• A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS
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• Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing
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• Judge Releases Information about Police Use of Stingray Cell Phone Trackers
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• Gittip, Year Two
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• Contiki: The Little-Known Open Source OS That Rules the Internet of Things
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• "We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday."
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• UK government's password checker sends plaintext password in the URL over HTTP
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• U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU
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• Show HN: Card – An interactive CSS3 credit card form
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-03

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

• Making Everyone Go Away
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• Healthkit
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• Metal – Apple’s new graphics API
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• “Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies”
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• Safari to Include DuckDuckGo as a Built-In Search Option
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• Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer
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• Flappy Bird in Swift
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• Alexander Shulgin has died
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• Micro Python – a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3
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• End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-02

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

• The boy who stole Half Life 2 source code (2011)
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• Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability?
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• Runnable – jsfiddle for everything
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• Thank HN: You guys helped me land my dream job.
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• Common Server Setups For Your Web App
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• OS X Yosemite
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• Apple Introduces iOS 8
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• Introducing Swift
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• Introducing Swift
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• HomeKit
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-01

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

• How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python
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• Justin.tv ending archiving, deleting all archived videos after June 14
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• How to get business ideas – remove steps
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• LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly
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• Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but can’t become vocational schools either
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• N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
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• The People Behind the Wayback Machine
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• Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi
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• Strongest chess player, ever
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-05-31

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

• Apache Spark 1.0.0
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• OpenGL Is Broken
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• PirateBox 1.0
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• Pollen: the book is a program
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• Show HN: Mighty Spring – Passive job search
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• The Unitedstates Project
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• Logic Gates as Pulley Systems [video]
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• The story behind football's innovative yellow first down line
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• Who or What Broke My Kids?
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• Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden
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