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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-30

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

• HP 3D printing
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• Drupal Core – Highly Critical Public Service announcement
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• Bootstrap 3.3.0 and Bootstrap 4
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• What Does an Idle CPU Do?
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• JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON document
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• Microsoft Band
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• Tim Cook Speaks Up
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• PgOSQuery: Expose the operating system as a Postgres database
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• How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA
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• How do you get to write so well in HN?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-29

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

• DuckDuckHack: Help us make the web a better place
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• Mobile is Eating the World
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• We Make Mistakes
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• Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
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• Why I can't have conversations using Twitter
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• The new archive.org
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• Sprout
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• Can Authorities Cut Off Utilities And Pose As Repairmen To Search A Home?
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• CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen
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• Osquery: Expose the operating system as a relational database
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-28

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

• T-Mobile quietly hardens part of its U.S. cellular network against snooping
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• Pgweb: Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go
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• Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
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• We Are All Confident Idiots
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• Joker – Torrents to streamable video
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• FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unlimited’ Data Promises
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• Smuggling Snowden Secrets
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• Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector
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• Meteor hits 1.0
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• Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-27

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

• Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a deposition (1998) [video]
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• How a differential gear works (1937) [video]
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• She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder
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• Push API – W3C Working Draft
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• Post Mortem: A single whitespace character
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• Awesome React – A collection of React resources
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• Startcraps
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• Low Light and High Dynamic Range photography in the Google Camera App
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• Rewriting Reddit (2005)
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• #define CTO
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-26

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

• Will It Optimize? (2010)
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• We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America'
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• Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
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• Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
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• Ask HN: Is the semantic web still a thing?
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• Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM (2013) [video]
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• iCloud Uploads Local Data Outside of iCloud Drive
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• An open source engine clone of Age of Empires II
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• Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (2010)
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• Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-25

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

• Why Samsung Knox Isn't Really a Fort Knox
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• MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin
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• The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence
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• Porsche: The Hedge Fund That Also Made Cars
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• Larry Page Reorgs Staff, Anoints Sundar Pichai as New Product Czar
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• The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
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• Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor
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• Angular 2 Core
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• Pro Git, 2nd Edition
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• Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-24

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

• Migrating from AWS to AWS
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• Y Combinator, a Two-Year-Old, and a Pregnant Wife
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• Verizon Wireless injecting tracking UIDs into HTTP requests
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• Mono for Unreal Engine
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• Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems
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• Ask HN: My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job
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• Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign
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• Autumn
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• Laura Poitras: ‘Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies’
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• Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-23

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

• Docker Development Patterns
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• How Wizards of the Coast distributed equity as a startup
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• Mark Zuckerberg Answers Q&A in Mandarin at Chinese University
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• My adventures in CNC robotics
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• “Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
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• Fingerprints Are Usernames, Not Passwords (2013)
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• Ten years of Ubuntu
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• AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region
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• Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online for Free
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• 1984 v. Brave New World
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-22

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

• Strengthening 2-Step Verification with Security Key
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• Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking
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• Troubling Arguments from the Government in Smith v. Obama
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• Twitter Natural Language Processing
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• PhotoMath – Smart camera calculator
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• Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic
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• The man with the golden blood
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• Fastsocket – A highly scalable socket for Linux
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• Google Inbox
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• FTDI driver kills fake FTDI FT232s
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-21

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

• Building Good Docker Images
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• Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959)
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• Hints for writing Unix tools
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• Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
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• India’s Downward Spiral
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• Magic Leap Secures $542M Led by Google
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• I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011)
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• Firebase is Joining Google
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• Introducing Phoenix, Swift set free
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• My Day Interviewing for the Service Economy Startup from Hell
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-20

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

• Data Visualization with JavaScript
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• Use a Fake Location for Cheap Airfare
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• Safari is sending every search query to Apple
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• Facebook's software architecture
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• Yosemite Sends Spotlight, Safari Searches to Apple, third parties
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• Career planning: Where do old devs go to?
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• Y U NO commit??
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• China collecting Apple iCloud data
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• Virginia Police Have Been Stockpiling Private Phone Records
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• Emacs 24.4 released
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-19

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

• What we give away when we log on to a public Wi-Fi network
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• Doctors Tell All, and It’s Bad
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• Building the Largest Ship in the World
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• Cursors
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• How a lawyer, mechanic, and engineer blew open an auto scandal
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• Shall we fork Debian?
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• My First Keyboard Build
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• Making sure crypto remains insecure [pdf]
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• Simple CPU
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• Go home Twitter, you're drunk
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-18

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

• What Is Google Chrome Helper, and Why Is It Hogging My CPU Cycles?
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• Twitpic blocking archive team from backing up pictures
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• Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
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• Arcadia: Unity 3D Development in Clojure
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• Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple
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• The FBI Is Wrong: Apple’s Encryption Is in the Public Interest
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• How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F
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• Thoughts on Startup School
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• BeeFree email editor
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• Impending kOS
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-17

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

• How Unreliable is UDP?
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• OS X Yosemite
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• Apple Mac Mini
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• Apple Built A SIM Card That Lets You Switch Between AT&T, Sprint, And T-Mobile
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• Tor Browser 4.0 is released
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• Why Germany Is Better at Training Its Workers
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• A Raw Deal in Michigan
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• Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?
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• Vitesse Data: Postgres + LLVM
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• FFS SSL
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-16

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

• Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy
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• Launch of the 3rd Edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book
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• Quora Keeps the World's Knowledge for Itself
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• Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App
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• EditorConfig
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• How Google Works
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• Show HN: RemoteCoder.io – A jobsite for remote programmers
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• Why Inequality Matters
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• iMac with Retina 5K display
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• OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-15

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

• American scientists unearth lost 1960s polar satellite images
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• This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback
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• My story of applying, getting in, and being a mom in Y Combinator
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• The Great Robocoin Rip-off: How We Lost $25,000 Buying a Robocoin ATM
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• Docker and Microsoft partner to drive adoption of distributed applications
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• Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details
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• Android 5.0 Lollipop
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• Nexus 6
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• Nexus 9
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• Nexus Player
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-14

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

• Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals
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• The Future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp
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• On Getting Wasted
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• Always bet on text
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• iSIGHT discovers vulnerability used in Russian cyber-espionage campaign
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• Brad Fitzpatrick on the future of Go
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• Firefox 33
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• Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus
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• Startup School 2014 Recap and Videos
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• Humble Mozilla Bundle
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-13

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

• Manipulate audio with a simple Python library
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• Since 2010, trolls have made 3 times as much money in court as real companies
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• Why your first Rust FizzBuzz implementation may not work
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• Rolling Shutters
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• The Space Shuttle’s Controversial Launch Abort Plan
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• Building Web Apps with Go
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• The Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His NSA Leaks
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• How Wolves Change Rivers [video]
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• Show HN: Snapception – Intercept all snapchats received over the network
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• My Philosophy on Alerting: Observations of a Site Reliability Engineer at Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-12

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

• The Microsoft Empire Reboots
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• Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
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• The Story of the PING Program (1997)
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• A Doom Renderer written in Rust
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• From Novice to Master, and Back Again
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• You Are Not Late
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• ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards
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• ASCII art editor designed for the Mac
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• “We will sell you this microwave under the following conditions”
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• One Less Password
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-11

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

• Rich Command Shells
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• Our Journey to and Through YC
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• How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
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• The Toughest Adversity I've Ever Faced
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• Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety
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• Judge Rejects Defense That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk Road, on a Technicality
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• Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
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• Manyland
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• Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read
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• What makes for a stable marriage?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-10

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

• Rust 0.12.0 released
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• Lecture 6: How to Start a Startup
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• Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video]
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• Tesla: Introducing Autopilot and Dual Motor All Wheel Drive
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• CSS: It was twenty years ago today
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• Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today
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• Pigshell – Unix the Web
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• My Isometric Voxel Engine: One Year Later
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• What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
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• Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-09

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

• Show HN: HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL
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• Show HN: Sail boat simulation – try to sail into the wind
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• Fixing a 37-year-old bug by merging a 22-year-old fix
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• Microsoft Xim
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• Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana – The Great Knowledge Box Showdown
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• What kids around the world eat for breakfast
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• Introducing GIFV
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• Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
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• Redis cluster, no longer vaporware
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• Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 Quintillion
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-08

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

• Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich
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• Show HN: ReadMe.io – Beautiful Documentation Made Easy
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• Show HN: Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution
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• Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
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• Trouble at the Koolaid Point
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• Wanna know what product your competitor is working on? Try Slack
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• Watson Services
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• Final – A credit card built for the 21st century
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• Move Fast and Break Nothing
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• The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-07

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

• Reverse engineering the binary data format for Star Wars: Yoda Stories
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• Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012)
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• SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17
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• The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
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• A replacement for JavaScript's “alert”
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• Rust means never having to close a socket
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• GitHub Student Developer Pack
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• Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders
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• Hacker News API
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• Plastc Card
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-06

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

• A look at the Apple ‘Skankphone’, built before the original iPhone release
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• Unfinished game – learn by practice
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• Stamplay: IFTTT for developers
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• Lennart Poettering on the state of open source communities
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• "Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"
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• In the medical response to Ebola, Cuba is punching above its weight
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• Yahoo Hacked
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• Show HN: Nightmare – Simple browser automation
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• Become Estonia’s e-resident
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• Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-05

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

• Accidental release of 45L of polio virus solution into the environment – Belgium
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• Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep? [pdf]
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• NgMario
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• Why can't Apple decrypt your iPhone?
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• Why haven't quadcopters been scaled up yet?
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• Naive Bayes and Text Classification I – Introduction and Theory
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• Google to Make Security Guards Employees, Rather Than Contractors
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• Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]
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• Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts
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• Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-04

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

• Show HN: JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript
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• The Magic CmdLine and how I got it back
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• Why is 0x00400000 the default base address for an executable?
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• Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make
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• IRIS+
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• Refactoring Ruby with Monads
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• Aboard a Cargo Colossus: Maersk’s New Container Ships
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• As Many as 5K .Com’s Taken Away by Sealed Court Order by Verisign
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• Haskell, Monads and Purity
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• Ask HN: How to price yourself?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-03

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

• Show HN: GoldenLayout – JavaScript Layout Manager
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• The Physical Web
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• How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
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• We Got Accepted into Techstars and Turned Them Down
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• JPMorgan Says Data Breach Affected 76M Households
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• Reading the Silk Road configuration
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• Aboard Amtrak
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• Marriott Hotels fined $600,000 by FCC for jamming Wi-Fi hotspots [pdf]
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• Engineering management lessons
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• The Man Who Smuggles Traders Joe’s into Canada
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-02

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

• XSA-108 Advisory
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)
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• Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
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• Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It
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• The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in 1966
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• Before the Startup
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• Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
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• India, U.S. Agree to Joint Exploration of Mars
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• Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac
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• The NSA and Me
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-01

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

• EBay to Spin Off PayPal
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• Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers
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• Reddit Plans Cryptocurrency to Give Back to Its Users After $50M Raise
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• Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup
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• A Fresh Look at Rust
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• Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
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• Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
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• Beyond Light Table
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• Show HN: Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool
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• Dollar a Day
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-09-30

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

• Trends in the Silk Road 2.0
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• How Hong Kong Protesters Are Connecting, Without Cell or Wi-Fi Networks
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• OS X Bash Update 1.0
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• Mozilla Brick
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• Command-line file sharing
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• Declassified photos from Tinian Island as the B-29 “Enola Gay” was being loaded
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• Elon Musk argues that putting a million people on Mars ensures humanity's future
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• U.S. Law Enforcement Seeks to Halt Apple-Google Encryption of Mobile Data
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• Reddit
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• CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US
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