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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-29

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

• Peter Thiel's Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I've Read
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• Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching
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• Writing a simple operating system from scratch (2010) [pdf]
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• Hong Kong protest: Why are pro-democracy supporters staging a sit-in?
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• With New Ad Platform, Facebook Opens Gates to Its Vault of User Data
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• Postgres full text search is good enough
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• Universal SSL
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• Google Classroom
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• The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
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• Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-28

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

• Shell Shock Exploitation Vectors
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• Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)
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• Counting bytes fast
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• Material Design for Bootstrap
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• How does SQLite work? Part 1: Pages
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• Building OS X Apps with JavaScript
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• Dear clueless assholes: stop bashing bash and GNU
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• LibreSSL: More Than 30 Days Later
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• The downfall of Quora (2013)
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• Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-27

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

• HFT in my backyard – II
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• The economics of a web-based book
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• Juno: A free environment for the Julia language
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• My $300 Home Cloud Server
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• Clojure Distilled
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• Why the Z-80's data pins are scrambled
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• iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed
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• PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests
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• Not a bash bug
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• Twitter image bots stuck in an automated loop
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-26

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

• From Vim to Emacs
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• The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
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• Shellshock DHCP Remote Code Execution – Proof of Concept
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• Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup
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• Terror laws clear Australian Senate, enabling entire web to be monitored
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• Use Python in Excel without add-ins
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• Breaking the Silk Road's Captcha
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• The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes
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• Show HN: Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid
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• John Carmack on Inlined Code
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-25

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

• Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling
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• San Diego Researcher Crowdfunding Patent-Free Cancer Drug
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• SlackTextViewController: A new growing text input for iOS
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• Rethinking the origins of the universe
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• AWS issues unavoidable reboot schedules with short notice on many EC2 instances
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• Bash 'shellshock' bug is wormable
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• CVE-2014-7169: Bash Fix Incomplete, Still Exploitable
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• Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug
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• Clasp – A Common Lisp with LLVM back end and interoperation with C++
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• Show HN: Javelin Browser
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-24

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

• Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation
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• The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB
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• This email may be worth millions of dollars in sales
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• For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option
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• Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]
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• ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit
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• IBM Watson API
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• Datamining a Flat in Munich
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• CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash
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• The biggest thing with small patches (2004)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-23

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

• TempleOS: 5 minute random code walkthrough
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• Total Moving Face Reconstruction
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• Another Patent Troll Slain. You Are Now Free to Rotate Your Smartphone
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• Why systemd?
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• Brave New Phone Call
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• Station Crew Docks Dragon Capsule to ISS
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• A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
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• Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014
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• BitPay and PayPal
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• Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-22

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

• The DEA failure that prevented a potentially major medical breakthrough
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• PathFinding.js
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• New Developer Tools Features in Firefox 34
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• The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics
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• You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music
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• Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from Firefox
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• Write every day
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• Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive
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• MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code
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• I was asked to crack a program in a job interview, part 2
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-21

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

• Ads work by cultural imprinting, not emotional inception
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• The Log: An Epic Software Engineering Article
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• Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014 [video]
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• Entrepreneurs anonymous
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• OhLife is shutting down
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• How to Figure Out Your Competitors’ Revenues in About 70 Seconds (2013)
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• OpenGL in 2014
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• The Pirate Bay Runs on 21 “Raid-Proof” Virtual Machines
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• I Had a Stroke at 33
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• One Thing Well – A weblog about simple, useful software
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-20

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

• Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
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• mdp – A command-line based markdown presentation tool
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• What Coke Contains (2013)
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• Node.js Best Practices
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• “Transducers” by Rich Hickey at Strange Loop [video]
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• sshrc – make your ssh sessions feel like home
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• Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++
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• JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle
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• Tim Berners Lee slams Internet fast lanes: ‘It’s bribery.’
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• FBI and Secret Service Files: Aaron Swartz
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-19

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

• Elixir v1.0.0 released
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• Bad Notes on Venture Capital
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• Alibaba Raises $21.8B in Initial Public Offering
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• How to buy a tank: a BRDM-2 story
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• To Get More Out of Science, Show the Rejected Research
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• A Long, Ugly Year of Depression That’s Finally Fading
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• Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?
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• Against Sharing
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• Faced with change, an all-female indie dev team evolves to a higher form (2013)
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• Chromeos-apk – Run Android APKs on Chrome OS, OS X, Linux and Windows
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-18

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

• A scientist stole my root beer
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• Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger
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• Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I always wanted
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• Amazon releases new Kindle products
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• Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests
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• Announcing Keyless SSL
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• No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does
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• Apple’s “warrant canary” disappears
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• TXT Record XSS
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• Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-17

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

• Burn Baby Burn
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• How to Hire and Build a Remote Team
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• Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]
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• Pipes and Filters
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• Boeing-SpaceX Team Split Space Taxi Award
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• Emacs Lisp's Future
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• JavaScript for OS X Automation
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• How I Pranked My Roommate with Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads
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• I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
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• Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-16

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

• Cloud images that are recognized as human faces by a face-detection algorithm
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• Tramadol Is Not a Natural Product After All
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• Chapter Two of Peter Thiel's New Book
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• Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041)
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• What every computer programmer should know about floating point, part 1
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• Upgrading GitHub to Rails 3 with Zero Downtime
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• Why Sometimes I Hate Myself
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• Minix 3.3.0
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• How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
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• Commander Keen source code released
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-15

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

• Show HN: Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative
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• Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
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• Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client
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• Copies of malware used by intelligence agencies to spy on journalists
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• WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end
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• LIVE NOW: Glenn Greenwald, Assange, and Kim Dot Com in NZ
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• Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft
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• I'm Leaving Mojang
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• KaTeX: Math typesetting for the web
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• The Road to Rust 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-14

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

• A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive
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• Melting aluminum
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• Sandwich Video: The company that makes nearly all startup videos
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• Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?
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• I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral
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• Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom
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• New York Times APIs
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• Hemisphere Project Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy [pdf]
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• OS X Auditor
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• Sysadmins see evidence that they have been infiltrated by the NSA (english subs)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-13

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

• Uber Drivers “Strike” and Switch to Lyft Over Fares and Conditions
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• Volumetric Particle Flow
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• Animated Algorithms
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• Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court
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• California deems carpooling via all ride-share services illegal
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• Learning How to Exert Self-Control
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• Gravit – Open-source design tool
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• The Future According to Stanisław Lem
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• Navdy
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• Dutch Girl Fakes a Trip to South East Asia
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-12

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

• Peter Thiel AMA
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• Inside a Tesla Model S Battery Pack
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• Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data or wifi required
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• Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM
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• A JPEG that becomes a PNG after AES encryption and a PDF after 3DES decryption
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• Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch
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• Rust Guide
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• Doom
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• Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups
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• New Requests for Startups
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-11

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

• Google search indexes itself
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• The Y Combinator (no, not that one) – A Crash Course on Lambda Calculus
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• No Association Between Salt And Blood Pressure, Study Finds
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• A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It in the Metal
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• The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display
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• Dimensions – Measure everything you see in the browser
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• iPhone 6 Screens Demystified
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• Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
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• Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain
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• My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-10

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

• Weave – The Docker Network
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• Intel Edison Module
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• Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic
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• Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang
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• Falling in Love with the Dark
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• Swift Has Reached 1.0
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• Apple event overshadows unflattering news at Snapchat, Tinder
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• Bézier Clock
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• Elixir Release v1.0.0
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• Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-09

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

• Show HN: Creddle – Paper-friendly web resumes
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• Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010)
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• The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
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• The curious case of the cyclist’s unshaven legs
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• Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent
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• Issue #3 – Better Late Than Never
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• Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event
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• The Apple Watch
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• Stripe and Apple Pay
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• With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-08

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

• The Man Behind the World's Smallest V-12 Engine [video]
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• Why I like Common Lisp
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• Al-Jazari
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• All About Circuits
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• JSON Web Tokens
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• Gravity Simulator
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• CLion, the new C/C++ IDE from JetBrains
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• Show HN: CloudTunes
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• Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1
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• Exploding Offers Suck
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-07

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

• Scala founder: Language due for 'fundamental rethink'
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• Recommended Security Reading
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• How is a binary executable organized? Let’s explore it
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• Reverse engineering a counterfeit 7805 voltage regulator
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• IPv6 privacy addresses crashed the MIT CSAIL network
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• Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr
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• Stop and Seize
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• Modernizing “less”
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• Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”
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• Analyzing the FBI’s Explanation of How They Located Silk Road
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-06

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

• The New Moto G
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• How Gauss Taught Us the Best Way to Hold a Pizza Slice
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• Building a deeper understanding of images
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• Bill Gates Has an Idea for a History Class
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• Mail-in-a-Box
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• Policy – A fork of the Scala compiler
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• The FBI Says How It ‘Legally’ Pinpointed Silk Road’s Server
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• Zeroing buffers is insufficient
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• If you want to start a startup, go work for someone else
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• Git pretty
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-05

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

• Why Walking Helps Us Think
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• How to zero a buffer
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• New York Police Officers to Begin Wearing Body Cameras in Pilot Program
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• Designing a Personal Knowledgebase
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• Show HN: Famous Outfits
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• Why a Dead Alkaline Battery Bounces [video]
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• DigitalOcean Partners with CoreOS for Large-Scale Cluster Deployments
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• How Memorizing “$19.05” Can Help You Outsmart the MTA
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• Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works
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• Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-04

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

• How to Read a Patent
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• Traction Book – A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
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• Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
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• Introducing split diffs
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• Tesla selects Nevada for battery plant
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• React Components
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• BankAPI
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• White House Names Google’s Megan Smith the Next CTO of the US
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• Twitpic is shutting down
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• Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-03

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

• Holdout
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• A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function
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• Making MySQL Better at GitHub
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• Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft
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• Django 1.7 Released
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• The Unexotic Underclass
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• CSS Shapes Editor for Chrome
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• Logitech K480 – Bluetooth Multi-Device Keyboard
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• Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data
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• Standard Markdown
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-02

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

• Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity
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• Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users
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• How I Start: Go
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• Shenzhen trip report – visiting the world's manufacturing ecosystem
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• A Call for a Low-Carb Diet
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• How a new HTML element will make the Web faster
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• Uber ordered to halt transportation services in Germany
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• Failing the startup game at Unbabel
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• Email will last forever
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• What I use instead of Google services
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-01

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

• 71 TiB DIY NAS Based on ZFS on Linux
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• Notes on bookmarks from 1997
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• I Ghostwrite Chinese Students' Ivy League Admissions Essays
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• Common App Rejections
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• Boeing Flies on 99% Ada
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• My year with a distraction-free iPhone
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• Mosh: A replacement for SSH
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• The Advanced Cave Culling Algorithm – making Minecraft faster
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• Our Use of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests
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• Batsh – A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-08-31

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

• Say hello to x64 Assembly, part 1
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• We're building the GNU system [pdf]
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• Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac
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• Psychedelics in problem-solving experiment
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• A React.js case study
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• Man builds 3D printed concrete castle in his own backyard
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• Atreus: My Custom Keyboard
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• The Road Ahead
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• Avoiding Event Chains in Single Page Applications
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• FTP Server at LSUHealth New Orleans
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