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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-29

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

• Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer
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• Hotel 22: The Dark Side of Silicon Valley
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• Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers
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• GDB tricks
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• Trailblazer: A new architecture for Rails
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• Phoenix – Elixir Web Framework
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• Ask HN: I've learned a programming language – how do I solve problems with code?
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• The Economics of Seinfeld
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• Mean People Fail
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• Regex Crossword
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-28

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

• Explorer Shell Merged
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• Getting Organized with Org Mode
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• Why browse the Web in Emacs? (2008)
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• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C (2013)
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• Eight weeks to a better brain
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• A Japanese-based multinational made a CD-based console once
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• Why I don’t like hackathons
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• Sell Services on Amazon
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• 3D.City – Game built with three.js and sea3d
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• Introducing Spider 0.1
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-27

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

• FbStart – A new program designed to help early stage mobile startups
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• DragonFly BSD 4.0 released
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• A Eulogy for RadioShack
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• Ten seconds of math
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• Mozilla accepting Bitcoin donations
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• W3C HTML JSON form submission
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• One guy's experience with programming
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• Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier
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• Hard disk hacking
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• Git v2.2.0 released
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-26

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

• 1k minecraft
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• How we built Flow
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• Rohinni: Paper-thin LED lighting
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• Why HTTPS Everywhere isn't on addons.mozilla.org
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• Permissions asked for by Uber Android app
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• Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale
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• HSBC, Goldman Rigged Metals’ Prices for Years, Suit Says
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• After Threatening Hacker with 440 Years, Prosecutors Settle for a Misdemeanor
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• Yahoo Mail moving to React
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• How We Did It: SNL Title Sequence
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-25

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

• Postal Service almost never denies mail-surveillance requests
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• The quest for a reactionless space drive
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• Slack's New Arbitration Policy
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• The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering
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• IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
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• WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
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• What I Learned from Building an App for Low-Income Americans
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• Newsletter #4 – Thanksvimming Day
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• God's Lonely Programmer
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• Introducing Driver Destination
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-24

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

• Why Plan 9 is not dead yet and what we can learn from it (2005) [pdf]
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• Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship
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• Git's initial commit
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• GitHub dropped Pygments
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• On Linux, 'less' can probably get you owned
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• Kill init by touching a bunch of files
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• My boys love 1986 computing
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• 2 years with Angular
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• What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders
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• Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-23

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

• A peek at the massive scale of AWS
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• Gray Code
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• The $12 “Gongkai” Phone
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• Gravitricity
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• TinyJPG – compress JPEG files with a balance between quality and file size
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• Youtube-dl
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• JS1k demo: “Highway at Night”
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• DBus, FreeDesktop, and lots of madness
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• Let's put the future behind us
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• A Minecraft world that has been played for 3.5 years
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-22

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

• The Next Chapter
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• Representing Trees in PostgreSQL
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• The Algorithm Design Manual
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• Why I do not want to work at Google (2011)
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• Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (2012)
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• How to reward skilled coders with something other than people management
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• FreeBSD: the next 10 years
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• Reduction in Garbage Collection Pause Time in Ruby 2.2
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• Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?
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• Quantum OS - OS based on Linux which conforms to Material Design guidelines
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-21

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

• The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros
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• APIs.io – The API search engine
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• The Rust community's crate host
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• Say No
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• CotEditor – Text Editor for OS X
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• Lecture 18: Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups
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• Systemd redux: The end of Linux
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• Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game
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• Let's Encrypt: How It Works
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• Open Sourcing a Failed Startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-20

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

• Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
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• Neural Networks That Describe Images
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• Light Table 0.7.0
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• New Search Strategy for Firefox
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• Google disables SSL search at BT’s request
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• Senator Al Franken's Letter to Uber [pdf]
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• Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years
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• How Magic Leap Is Creating an Alternate Reality
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• Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
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• Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-19

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

• Did The Harappan Civilization Avoid War for 2,000 Years?
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• Rosetta Probe Discovers Organic Molecules on Comet
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• Judge threatens contempt for declining to reveal cellphone tracking methods
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• Tell HN: Wear a Helmet
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• Bill to Restrict N.S.A. Data Collection Blocked in Vote by Senate Republicans
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• Jolla Tablet
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• Unicode Text Converter
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• Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
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• Node.js in Flame Graphs
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• Cache is the new RAM
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-18

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

• For Sale: 50,000 Bitcoins
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• Bup – towards the perfect backup
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• Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors
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• Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon
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• Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists
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• Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
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• Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption
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• Let’s Encrypt: Delivering SSL/TLS Everywhere
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• Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript
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• WatchKit
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-17

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

• Getting Better at Getting Better
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• What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers?
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• The Beauty of LaTeX (2011)
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• The Programmer's Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent
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• Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Indexing JSON data with jsonb data type
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• Keeping Secrets
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• Some REST best practices
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• How I Start: Haskell
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• OSIRIS spots Philae drifting across the comet
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• WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-16

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

• RTX2010 – Radiation-hardened stack machine microprocessor
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• Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine
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• How I Built a Barbecue Restaurant in Brooklyn: The Toll of Owning Your Business
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• Alexander Grothendieck, Math Enigma, Dies at 86
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• The Growing Impact of Old Scientific Papers
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• Behind Closed Doors, Ford, UPS, and Visa Push for Net Neutrality
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• Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying
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• ChartSQL: Create Charts and Dashboards from SQL
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• Still Here, Part 1: A Memoir
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• Emacs Rocks
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-15

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

• Generators in Firefox now 22 times faster
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• After Docker: Unikernels and Immutable Infrastructure
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• Inmates at California’s San Quentin prison learn to code
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• What's New in C# 6.0 [video]
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• Why we use HTTPS for every .gov website we make
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• Philae status, a day later
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• How a Shrimp Treadmill Became a Political Plaything
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• Our lander’s asleep
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• Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning (2010)
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• The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry for What We Did to Turing.”
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-14

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

• Facebook Go Libraries
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• Handmade Hero: C game from scratch
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• Google Lifts the Turing Award into Nobel Territory
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• Americans’ Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program
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• Alexander Grothendieck has died
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• Go is moving to GitHub
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• Why Did Yishan Wong Resign as Reddit CEO?
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• MetricsGraphics.js – D3-based library optimized for visualizing time-series data
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• Show HN: Explained Visually
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• On the Effectiveness of Traffic Analysis Against Tor Networks Using Flow Records [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-13

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

• Introducing Visual Studio’s Emulator for Android
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• Introducing the Photon
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• Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
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• F# 4.0 Preview
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• Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec
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• Welcome to a comet
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• 0h h1 – A little logic game
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• AWS EC2 Container Service
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• AWS Lambda
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• A new team at Reddit
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-12

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

• Vulnerability in Microsoft TLS library could allow remote code execution
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• ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption
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• Show HN: Meet me, I'll buy you coffee
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• Partnering with Mozilla
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• The Day I Lost a Shit-ton of Money, Part I
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• Rosetta comet landing – live stream
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• Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
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• Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux
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• Philae has landed
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• FBI's “Suicide Letter” to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-11

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

• Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox
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• WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets
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• The Founder’s Guide to Selling Your Company
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• Federal law enforcement documents about Aaron Swartz, released under FOIA
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• Half a decade with Go
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• The dark side of .io
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• SpaceX Will Announce Micro-Satellites for Low Cost Internet Within Three Months
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• Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon
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• Foobar
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• Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-10

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

• Against Productivity
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• BrowserStack was hacked
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• Police Use Department Wish List When Deciding Which Assets to Seize
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• Material UI
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• If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right (2010) [pdf]
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• All cameras are police cameras
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• Firefox Developer Edition
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• President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet
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• Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Released from Prison
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• An Update on Hacker News
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-09

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

• Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
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• The 5K Retina iMac’s screen runs at 60Hz at 5K resolution
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• Bat bomb
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• Urbit: a personal cloud computer
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• Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide
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• Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
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• Logs of compromised Tor site released
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• The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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• Why I love databases
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• Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escape the NSA
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-08

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

• Why do we need modules at all? (2011)
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• Receiving Dead Satellites with the RTL-SDR
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• Google's phone number handling library
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• Rust and Go
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• AudioKit: Open-source audio synthesis, processing, and analysis platform
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• Why Broken Sleep Is a Golden Time for Creativity
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• OpenBazaar is a decentralized Dark Net market that's 'untouchable' by police
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• Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing
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• Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
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• Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-07

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

• Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free on Mobile
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• Colorado communities secure the right to build their own broadband
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• Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks
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• Welcome, Ali
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• Sometimes, it’s just time to go home
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• What can I only do in Erlang?
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• Pulling JPEGs out of thin air
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• The $9B Witness: JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare
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• Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded
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• Doing Business in Japan
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-06

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

• Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS
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• Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework
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• Reflected File Download: A New Web Attack Vector
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• Independence Day
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• The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing
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• Winamp 2 in HTML5
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• The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy
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• Operator of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged in Manhattan Federal Court
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• Amazon Echo
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• SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since 10/31
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-05

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

• Woz’s take on the Apple 1’s noisy -5 volt supply
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• Let's Talk About Beacons
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• The Art of Not Working at Work
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• Google Launches Managed Service for Running Docker Apps on Its Platform
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• The Other Side of Diversity
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• Principles of Rich Web Applications
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• On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs
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• Reverse OCR
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• Alaskans vote to legalize marijuana
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• How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-04

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

• How To Scroll
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• Why Silicon Valley Works
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• A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time itself
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• Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks
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• A programming language in 450 lines of JavaScript
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• New NSA Documents Shine More Light into Black Box of Executive Order 12333
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• Please grow your buffers exponentially
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• The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber [video]
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• Dropbox is in your Office
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• C4 – C in 4 functions
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-03

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

• Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies
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• Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
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• Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
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• The Greatest Story Reddit Ever Told
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• HTTP/2 all the things
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• Just had a heart attack
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• The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming
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• Intel subsidiary fined for unlawful export of software that enables encryption
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• A new day for Google Calendar
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• Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-02

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

• OpenBSD 5.6
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• What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?
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• Why Innocent People Plead Guilty
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• A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D.?
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• Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
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• The Windows Incident – Day 0
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• FreeBSD turns 21
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• Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?
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• Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll
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• Police allow car break-ins to become a Seattle growth industry
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-01

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

• Communication between brain networks in people given psilocybin
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• Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.12B Valuation
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• Japanese zoning
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• Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number
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• Eleven countries studied, one inescapable conclusion – the drug laws don’t work
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• Immutable.js – Immutable Data Collections
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• Putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)
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• Please remove mitsuhiko/*
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• Introduction to Reactive Programming
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-10-31

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

• I Hope Twitter Goes Away
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• Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations
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• Andy Rubin Leaving Google
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• OS X 10.10 – Source Code
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• I’m Terrified of My New TV
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• Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests
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• Making Connections to Facebook More Secure
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• Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps
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• Walkway.js
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• SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight
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