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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-30

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

• Coinbase Insured
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• Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies
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• Show HN: Chan – pure C implementation of Go channels
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• Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor
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• States with Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths
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• Facebook's std::vector optimization
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• US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet
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• Show HN: Restore tmux environment after a system restart
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• Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
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• Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-29

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

• Minting Money with Monero and CPU Vector Intrinsics
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• Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
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• Hal Finney: Bitcoin and me (2013)
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• Inside Google’s Drone-Delivery Program
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• Readings in Databases
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• At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale
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• Chartist – Simple responsive charts
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• Submarine Cable Map 2014
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• Conrod – A Rust GUI Library
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• Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-28

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

• The Technology Behind Hyperlapse from Instagram
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• What happened to Motorola
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• Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C
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• How to walk through walls using the 4th dimension [video]
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• Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal
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• The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni
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• Myths About Working as an Engineer at a Startup
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• With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things
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• Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
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• Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-27

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

• Mozilla Unveils $33 Intex Cloud FX Smartphone
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• Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests
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• The State of NAT Traversal
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• Firefox OS is a developer's best friend
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• Firefox 32 Supports Public Key Pinning
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• Microsoft filed patent applications for scoped and immutable types
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• Useful Unix commands for exploring data
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• C3.js: D3-based reusable chart library
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• Building 3D with Ikea
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• Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-26

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

• Unknown orange-red glow over Pacific Ocean
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• The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
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• Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
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• How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil'
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• The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World
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• Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK
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• Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app
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• JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector
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• A Single Div
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• Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-25

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

• Revenge of the Types
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• Pulling the Curtain on Airport Security [pdf]
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• Earthquake early-warning system gave 10-second alert before Napa quake felt
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• How the Napa Earthquake Affected Bay Area Sleepers
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• Judge Sentenced to 28 Years for Selling Kids to the Prison System (2013)
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• Applications for YC W15 are open
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• Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore
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• Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart
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• Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
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• Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-24

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

• There’s a simple alternative to the current web
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• Julia 0.3 released
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• Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and biological simulations
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• Chromecast Rooted
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• Deep Learning: An MIT Press book in preparation
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• Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in Go
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• Show HN: C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs
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• 6.0 Northern California earthquake
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• Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
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• SHRDLU
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-23

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

• Hard Science About Diet
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• Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank
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• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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• We are being sued for refusing to take down a website
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• Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart
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• Project Gitenberg
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• USBCondom
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• SpaceX rocket explodes during testing over Texas
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• On bananas and string matching algorithms
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• Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-22

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

• Serendipity – When 2 people listen to the same song at the same time
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• Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end
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• The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free EBooks
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• Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success
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• Next-Gen Lighting Is Pushing the Limits of Realism
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• Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL
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• Lego Calendar
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• Announcing Calibre 2.0
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• Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies
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• Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-21

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

• Apache Wave on Sandstorm.io
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• The Chairless Chair, an invisible chair that you can wear
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• Linux Performance
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• Ftrace: The hidden light switch
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• The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit
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• Why Racket? Why Lisp?
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• Codefights
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• Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
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• Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s
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• DocumentDB
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-20

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

• High Performance Map Interactions Using HTML5 Canvas
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• Maps of the Roman Empire
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• NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub
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• Amit's Game Programming Information
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• Rails 4.2.0 beta1: Active Job, Deliver Later, Adequate Record, Web Console
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• Screenshots Forever and Ever Until You Can’t Stand it
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• Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft
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• YouTab: Automatically get chords for music
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• Fish vs. Fish in Street Fighter II
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• fork() can fail
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-19

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

• The Anti-Facebook
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• Why Do We Say “Big Red Barn,” But “Red Big Barn” Sounds Wrong?
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• Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
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• UPower (YC S14) Is Building Nuclear Batteries
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• XKCD “Time” Wins Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story
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• Seneca: On the Shortness of Life
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• Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
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• WRTnode Opened for $25
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• The 1,000-hour rule (2009)
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• Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-18

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

• NSA's BIOS Backdoor a.k.a. God Mode Malware
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• Spaced Repetition is Awesome
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• When Patients Read What Their Doctors Write
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• Mitch Hedberg and GIS
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• TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds
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• Show HN: Scraperjs – A versatile web scraper
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• Show HN: Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS
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• Introducing Rec Room
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• Java 9 features announced
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• We have C++14
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-17

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

• George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)
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• Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (2012)
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• The secret life of SIM cards (2013)
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• Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
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• Unschooling: The Case for Setting Your Kids Into the Wild
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• “Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder
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• Programming in Elixir with the Phoenix Framework
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• An Iron Curtain Has Descended Upon Psychopharmacology
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• Hextris
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• Unix Wildcards Gone Wild
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-16

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

• Kivy – Open-source Python library for rapid development of applications
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• Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin
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• Green Arabia
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• Packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out
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• Vindinium: An artificial intelligence programming challenge
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• Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse
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• Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition
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• Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
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• The Python I Would Like To See
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• VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-15

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

• It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web
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• Show HN: I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy
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• Show HN: Detect articles with corporate sponsors
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• Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
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• An Unreal Decision
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• An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012)
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• The 30-year-old health sector billionaire
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• Project Euler Returns
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• I am not planning any nuclear attacks
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• Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-14

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

• Screenshot URL tracking and niki-bot
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• Satoshi's Hashrate
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• What's the matter with PGP?
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• What Do Blind People Actually See?
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• In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest
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• Print this file, your printer will jam (2008)
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• How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather
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• I'm 25 years old and I am lost
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• Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
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• MathBox 2
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-13

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

• Errata prompt Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs
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• 2014 Fields Medals announced
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• Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
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• X to close
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• Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute
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• Ubuntu Bug 255161: Openoffice can’t print on Tuesdays
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• Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
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• Amazon Local Register
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• Transactional HTML Email Templates
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• Show HN: Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-12

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

• A Diablo 3 Story
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• Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides
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• Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63
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• The Matasano Crypto Challenges
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• Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
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• Set Up to Fail: How Bosses Create Their Own Poor Performers (1998) [pdf]
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• Hack Back – A DIY guide to those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers
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• Sweden Solar System
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• What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?
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• A Reminder To Investors
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-11

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

• Low-cost 3D printers and crowdfunding suicide
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• Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain
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• Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles
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• Reverse Engineering for Beginners: Free book
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• Compile like it's 1992
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• OpenStreetMap Then and Now
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• I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
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• White House launches “U.S. Digital Service,” with HealthCare.gov fixer at helm
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• Polaroid Cube
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• Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-10

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

• Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
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• Prostitution and the internet
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• MacBasic
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• One wolf's migration across Europe
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• Hackers Unveil Their Plan to Change Email
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• Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (2011)
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• Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer
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• Show HN: Pythonpy – the swiss army knife of the command line
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• Responsive Dashboard
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• First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-09

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

• Python Practice Book
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• Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted
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• Painting in Clojure
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• Ask HN: Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?
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• Open Source Email Templates
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• War in the womb
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• Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess
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• A Message from the Amazon Books Team
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• Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America
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• We’re 10 today
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-08

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

• HTTPS as a ranking signal
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• Oak Island Money Pit: Unsolved Mystery
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• Rich Kid, Poor Kid: For 30 Years, Baltimore Study Tracked Who Gets Ahead
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• The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker
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• Bikanta’s (YC S14) Tiny Diamonds Find Cancer Before It Spreads
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• Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon
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• Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment
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• They're Made out of Meat
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• Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
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• Judge rejects $324.5M settlement over Apple, Google hiring
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-07

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

• With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides
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• P5.js: Processing for today’s web
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• Mapbox GL for the Web
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• Chrome Experiments: “3d city”
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• New Site Recovers Files Locked by Cryptolocker Ransomware
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• Russia extends Snowden residency by three years
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• Questions about Nasa's space drive answered
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• Don't be a jerk
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• Go 1.4+ Garbage Collection Plan and Roadmap
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• Introducing Heroku Button
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-06

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

• Harry Potter and the Cryptocurrency of Stars
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• Arrow: Better dates and times for Python
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• US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding
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• Announcing UberPool
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• Goodbye to Sasha Shulgin, Godfather of Psychedelics
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• Europe's Rosetta probe goes into orbit around comet 67P
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• Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (2007)
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• Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published
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• How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids
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• Transducers are coming to Clojure
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-05

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

• Neglected machine learning ideas
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• Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?
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• Friendship Paradox
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• What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL
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• Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?
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• Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?
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• Navdy: HUD for your car
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• LinkedIn to pay nearly $6M in unpaid overtime wages and damages to 359 employees
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• 3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models
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• Justin.tv has shut down
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-04

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

• Localizing Papers, Please
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• My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker
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• Remy – Computer-generated TCP congestion algorithm
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• EtherCalc: Open-source web spreadsheet
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• GNU datamash
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• Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C
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• Hotel fines brides $500 for every bad Yelp review her wedding guests post
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• Getting rid of burnout permanently
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• Extracting audio from visual information
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• Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-03

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

• Patching the Newton
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• Vision-Correcting Displays [video]
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• Introduction to Moose, Perl’s OO system
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• “Theater” vs. “Theatre”: The Great New York Times Language Swap
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• Cheap FPGA Development Boards: What to look for
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• Attacked By Thugs (2004)
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• HTML5 mockups of popular devices
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• Input: Fonts for Code
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• A new set of Firefox Developer Tools features
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• Macintel: The End Is Nigh
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-02

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

• Improving the way neural networks learn
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• Nintendo Open Source Software Source Code Distribution Page
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• EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor (1981)
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• Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more
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• Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V
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• Decentralization: I Want to Believe
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• ButterDB
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• PostgreSQL/FreeBSD performance and scalability on a 40-core machine [pdf]
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• When It's Bad to Have Good Choices
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• Please Give Edward Snowden His Medal of Freedom Already
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-01

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

• The Kids Who Beat Autism
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• Mitro Releases a New Free and Open Source Password Manager
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• Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month
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• Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber
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• Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
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• J002E3
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
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• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)
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• The CIA's Reckless Breach of Trust
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• I found a bug in the .NET framework and fixed it by hand-altering the DLL
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-07-31

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

• My First Unikernel
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• My Startup School Europe talk: The Technology
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• Micro heaters cut 87% off my electric heat bill
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• Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit
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• Panasonic and Tesla Sign Agreement for the Gigafactory
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• NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work
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• The Lowdown on Lidar
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• A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture (2013)
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• Stellar
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• Seven habits of highly fraudulent users
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