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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-30

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

• The seL4 microkernel
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• Pinboard 2014 Expenses
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• Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case
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• Nukes of Hazard (2013)
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• Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in
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• Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition
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• What was your best passive income in 2014?
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• UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
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• Announcing a specification for PHP
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• Sprint Will Sell a $12 Wireless Plan that Only Connects to Facebook or Twitter
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-29

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

• Why cans of soup are shaped the way they are
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• Facebook Flux – Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
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• Black Swan Seed Rounds
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• How to take over the computer of a Maven Central user
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• Google Startup Launch
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• Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?
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• Show HN: Markov chains explained visually
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• Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone
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• My iOS Indie-Game Numbers
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• I created my own MMO and lost 100 pounds
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-28

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

• The TTY demystified
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• Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour
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• How to find your Uber passenger rating
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• Mojolicious – Perl real-time web framework
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• Banned for Life
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• Zillow to Acquire Trulia for $3.5B
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• Dear Instagram
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• NPR One
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• We Experiment On Human Beings
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• Terraform
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-27

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

• Mystery in the Perseus Cluster
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• Diary of an atomic bomb technician
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• A Traditional City Primer
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• How I ended up conducting successful tech interviews with just 1 question
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• Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go
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• Ten Thousand Years
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• The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization
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• Rand Paul introduces bill to reform civil asset forfeiture
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• Government Surveillance and Internet Search Behavior
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• Game about squares
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-26

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

• Emacs and Vim
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• ICFP Programming Contest 2014
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• How odd is a cluster of plane accidents?
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• Proposal For An Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming
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• Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect tasks
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• Diversity and Startups
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• Service drains competitor's Adwords budget
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• EFF Asks Judge to Rule NSA Internet Backbone Spying Techniques Unconstitutional
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• GCC 4.9 is doing “some seriously crazy shit” according to Linus Torvalds
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• “Learning to Read” excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-25

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

• Trello, Inc
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• The new Cloud9 development environment
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• Ray, the self-driving forklift that is parking cars at a German airport
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• Washington, Minnesota officially endorse a “safer, faster” traffic merge
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• Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed
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• Math Intuition Cheatsheet
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• Show HN: Streisand – Silence censorship, automate the effect
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• Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
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• Today Rails turns 10 years old
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• CoreOS Stable Release
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-24

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

• Tracking down a kernel bug with git bisect
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• Firm Inefficiency
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• Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus
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• Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012
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• Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007)
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• Gog.com Now Supports Linux
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• Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
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• A Conference Flagrantly Stole My Identity and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
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• Mistakes You Should Never Make
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• Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-23

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

• Firefox 31.0
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• IPFS: The Permanent Web
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• How to Ruin Your Company With One Bad Process
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• An open competition to build a smaller power inverter, with a $1M prize
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• Exploring No Man’s Sky, A Computer Game Forged by Algorithms
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• William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions
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• List of Web Business Models
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• Apple Confirms “Back Doors”, Downplays Their Severity
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• The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi
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• The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling Someone a Terrorist
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-22

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

• The talk about de-anonymizing Tor at the BlackHat conference has been removed
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• TypeScript: New Compiler and Moving to GitHub
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• State Laws That Stop Cities From Installing Fast Internet
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• Count to ten when a plane goes down
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• One second per second is harder than it sounds
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• Java Developers
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• Responsive Logos
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• I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too
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• Transit – A format for conveying values between different languages
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• SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-21

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

• Love People, Not Pleasure
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• An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
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• Level-Up Your Machine Learning
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• I Don't Know Swift
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• July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)
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• Simulation of the onboard guidance computers used in the Apollo lunar missions
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• Virtual DOM in Elm
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• StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers
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• Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
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• Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections, to telecoms' dismay
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-20

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

• The time one of my colleagues debugged a line-of-business application
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• Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices
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• Conspiracy and an off-by-one error
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• Introduction to Coreboot, an open source BIOS
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• How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito in the Jim Crow Era
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• Sana'a
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• Introduction to A*
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• How to Be Happy
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• A Lisper's first impression of Julia
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• Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-19

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

• GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
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• Kindle Unlimited
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• Mapcode – A short address for any location on Earth
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• Filecoin – Data storage network and crypto-currency based on Bitcoin
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• Programming is not math?
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• Electric life forms that live on energy
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• “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”
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• The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalisation of drug use
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• Ask HN Mods: Why Do You Completely Change What Users Submit?
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• Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-18

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

• Django REST framework 3
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• The History of Civilization
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• Show HN: Steady – Shoot Cinematic Videos
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• The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the LibreSSL Portable developers
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• React v0.11
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• Wayback Machine points to pro-Russia rebels in downing of MH17
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• Anatomy of a system call, part 1
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• Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
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• Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases
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• Now Accepting Bitcoin on Dell.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-17

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

• Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player
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• Digital sundial
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• Making of Aprilzero
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• Offer HN: Free Use of Agricultural Land 30 miles Northwest of Chicago
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• Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft
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• Don't link to line numbers in GitHub
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• Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs
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• Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk
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• Verizon's accidental mea culpa
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• Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-16

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

• Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly
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• Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push
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• Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret”
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• Google Noto Fonts
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• GPS and Relativity
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• Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
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• Show HN: Papa Parse 3
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• Amazon leaks Kindle Unlimited
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• What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter
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• YC Portfolio Stats
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-15

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

• Late night shuttle service that makes Caltrain 24/7
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• An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Because I Took a Picture of This
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• PDFy – Instant PDF Host
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• ITerm2 2.0
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• Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues
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• Announcing Project Zero
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• Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find?
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• Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC
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• Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0
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• Google+ now lets you use any name you want
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-14

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

• Show HN: A mostly complete 2014 "Tools of the Trade"
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• How to talk to a 36-year-old space probe with GNU Radio, a USRP and a big dish
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• Hardware Case Study: Why Lockitron Has Taken So Long To Ship
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• Sweden's Six-Hour Workday Experiment Officially Kicks Off Tomorrow
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• Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
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• What Problems to Solve
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• Hmm, this maze looks familiar
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• NYC taxi visualization
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• Net neutrality
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• Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-13

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

• Kryptoradio – A Bitcoin data transmission system
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• Quoc Le’s Lectures on Deep Learning
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• A “nationwide gentrification effect” is segregating us by education
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• Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker
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• Making an embedded Linux computer
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• Clojure Grimoire: an up-to-date ClojureDocs alternative
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• EA is File Snooping with the Origin Client
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• Too Much Power For One Man
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• Rust for functional programmers
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• Popcorntime is leaving GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-12

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

• Women's underwear gets an upgrade
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• Swift Blog
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• Rap Genius Raises $40M, Changes Name To Genius
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• EXACTO demonstrates first-ever guided .50-caliber bullets
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• Emails, court docs show how Sony stood up to Steve Jobs’ and Pixar’s wage-fixing
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• Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc.
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• Patoline: A modern digital typesetting system
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• I've been tracking everything about myself
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• Higher antioxidant, lower cadmium, and lower pesticide residues in organic crops [pdf]
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• Who smeared Richard Feynman?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-11

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

• Data.sparkfun.com: A place to push your data
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• White House nixes Patent Office pick after tech-sector outcry
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• File system that stores location of file in Pi
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• CISPA is back with a new name
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• XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us
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• Videos about JavaScript
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• William Binney: 80% of audio calls are recorded and stored in the US
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• Amazon Cognito
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• Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book
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• This is a blog post that’s incredibly confusing and painful for me to write
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-10

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

• Double Pendulum in fewer than 100 lines of JavaScript
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• Show HN: Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts
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• An Experimental New Type Inference Scheme for Rust
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• The power of lonely: What we do better without other people around
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• Cinnamon can reverse changes in the brains of mice with Parkinsons
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• Alcatel-Lucent sets record of 10 Gbps over traditional copper telephone lines
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• Pinboard Turns Five
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• Amazon Zocalo
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• Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js
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• Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-09

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

• Personal names around the world
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• My Half Workday as a Turker
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• Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?
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• The New Haskell Homepage
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• How I Start: Elixir
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• Tor Project Sued
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• Anti-Patterns in Python Programming
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• Retraction of 60 articles implicated in a peer review and citation ring
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• A Server Naming Scheme
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• Retirement of Prof. Andy Tanenbaum
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-08

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

• iOS 8 Privacy Updates
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• CentOS 7 released on x86_64
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• Ask HN: How best to learn software design principles?
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• Urllib3, Stripe, and Open Source Grants
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• Dwarf Fortress 0.40.01
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• A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity
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• The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World’s Spy Agencies
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• Show HN: Hacker News Redesign
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• Maintaining digital certificate security
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• Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-07

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

• Living in a Fool’s Paradise
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• CIA employee’s quest to release information ‘destroyed my entire career’
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• JSON Resume – a JSON-based open source standard for resumes
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• Detecting login state for almost any website on the internet
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• U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers
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• Xiki: An amazing shell
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• SecureDrop
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• Super Pixel Quest
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• MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
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• Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-06

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

• Ceylon: Quick introduction
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• Dijkstra’s algorithm and the Fibonacci heap
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• In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are
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• Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain
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• Dropping Loot
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• Rob Pike's Rules of Programming
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• Plain text wrapping in Gmail
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• Why composition is often better than inheritance
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• Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?
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• The Developer's Dystopian Future
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-05

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

• Germany arrests suspected US spy
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• Java vs. Scala: Divided We Fail
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• Breaking Spotify DRM with PANDA
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• On being targeted by the NSA
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• Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a “waking dream,” study finds
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• ASA Adjudication on EA Dungeon Keeper
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• Your high IQ will kill your startup (2010)
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• IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)
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• Inspecting Yosemite's Icons
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• PyPy-STM: first “interesting” release
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-04

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

• Xkeyscorerules100.txt
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• Show HN: Freeciv, HTML5 open source version
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• Show HN: Automated Rails development with Prelang
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• Show HN: A Rogue State Along Two Rivers
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• Show HN: Full Stack Python
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• CSS is unnecessary given a layout language
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• Stop The JerkTech
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• Farewell Node.js
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• The March Towards Go
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• MayDay PAC
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-03

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

• Moving Atom to React
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• New York’s Shadow Transit
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• Early Days on Street View
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• Helium.co: Connect devices to the web without Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or Cellular
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• Unix Tricks
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• Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
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• Just how much is that 2% really worth?
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• Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s
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• NSA targets the privacy-conscious
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• Show HN: Show HN
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-02

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

• Low Cost EC2 Instances With Burstable Performance
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• Amazon sues employee for taking Google cloud job, in new test of non-competes
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• Things You Should Know About Tor
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• Why Everyone Should be Concerned By the Seizure of MyRedBook.com
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• Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts directory
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• Tor exit node operator prosecuted in Austria
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• No crankshaft, no problem: Toyota's free piston engine is brilliant
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• EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google
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• Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice
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• Why has Google cast me into oblivion?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-01

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

• Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse
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• Microsoft takes down No-IP.com domains
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• A 30-minute Introduction to Rust
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• I/O Thoughts
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• The Curse of Smart People
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• The new 501(c)(3) and the future of free software in the US
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• Newegg is now accepting Bitcoin
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
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• New Y Combinator Website
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• An analysis of Lionel Messi
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-06-30

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

• How to Write 225 Words Per Minute With a Pen
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• Why Go Is Not Good
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• Google’s Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Later
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• RFC 7258 – Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
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• PSLV-C23 Successfully Launches French Earth Observation Satellite, Four Others
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• Collaborative international cost-of-living index
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• An Introduction to Reactive Programming
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• Sleep as a Competitive Advantage
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• Orkut shutting down September 30
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• The Economy
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