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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-30

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

• William Gibson: How I wrote Neuromancer
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• Nashville police chief shares message, responds to questions
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• A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
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• World War II’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together
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• The Death of Cocoa
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• Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven
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• Everyday hassles in Go
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• Saving a Project and a Company
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• The open-office trend is destroying the workplace
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• How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-29

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

• List of Computer Science Courses
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• That Debt from 1720? Britain’s Payment Is Coming
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• The Benefits of Being Cold
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• Gmail blocked in China
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• Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released
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• The best things and stuff of 2014
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• If you're using YYYY in your JVM service or %G in anything, fix it now
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• Software engineers should write
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• Quake on an oscilloscope
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• How Paul Graham Is Wrong
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-28

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

• The Real-time Web: How to Get Millisecond Updates with REST
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• Masscan: Scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes
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• How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan
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• James Golick has died
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• On Immigration, Engineers Simply Don’t Trust VCs
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• Look, no hands
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• Chrome DevTools outside of the browser
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• Neat Algorithms: Paxos
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• MozJPEG 3.0
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• Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-27

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

• Roadster 3.0
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• Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor
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• Selling to the Fortune 500, Government, and Other Lovecraftian Horrors
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• Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
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• Slow, flexible and cheap: Six years of development to create a rubber hexagon
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• 31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video
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• Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
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• Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages
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• The Wire in HD
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• Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-26

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

• Why we love repetition in music
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• The Tears of Donald Knuth
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• The Fermi Paradox
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• Virgin births in animals are no longer rare
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• Show HN: Initial release of H2O, and why HTTPD performance will matter in 2015
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• When security goes right
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• Capsela, the game that changed my life
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• Sleep sort (2011)
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• Cello – Higher Level Programming in C
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• Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-25

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

• Did North Korea Really Attack Sony?
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• Turf – A modular GIS engine written in JavaScript
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• Atom Shell: Cross-platform desktop application shell
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• Adventures in Piano Building
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• Jenga Pistol
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• He Understood Not Only What We Did but What We Were Supposed to Do (1986)
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• Merry Christmas to HN
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• Intrusive lists in Doom 3
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• Ruby 2.2.0 Released
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• Silent Circle's warrant canary is out of date
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-24

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

• Plague
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• Eggs Not Always What They're Cracked Up to Be
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• Daala progress update
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• Why is everyone so busy?
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• Mozilla Research Projects
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• The world is not falling apart: The trend lines
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• UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]
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• No more JavaScript frameworks
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• Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps
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• The Interview
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-23

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

• Cat Litter Boxes and DRM
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• The Humane Representation of Thought [video]
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• Google Self-Driving Car Project's first vehicle prototype
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• JMAP – a better way to email
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• Principles of Distributed Computing
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• PHP 7's new hashtable implementation
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• GPGPU Accelerates PostgreSQL
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• Flipping bits in memory without accessing them [pdf]
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• Docker Image Insecurity
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• Writers who will be entering the public domain in 2015 in many countries
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-22

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

• Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language
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• Ask HN: What was the job market like during the dot-com crash?
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• Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator
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• Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of Redis: from Sicily with talent and passion
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• We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation
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• High speed M&M sorting machine
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• Schwab password policies and two factor authentication
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• Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses
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• Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014
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• Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-21

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

• A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing
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• The Tale of Studio Ghibli
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• Bad code isn’t technical debt, it’s an unhedged call option
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• Facebook blocks Russian page supporting Navalny, Putin's biggest critic
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• How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
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• How to Design Programs, Second Edition
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• Page load fail makes it difficult to cook cornbread in the woodstove
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• “I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metaphone 3”
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• N reasons why the spooks love Tribler
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• “Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-20

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

• Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust
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• Multiple vulnerabilities released in NTP
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• Systematizing Sales with Software and Processes
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• How to Send Email Like a Startup
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• Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network
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• Open-sourcing OvertureJS – the JavaScript lib that powers FastMail
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• Rails 4.2 released
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• Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read at Least Twice (2011)
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• An Offer to Sony from 2600
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• Scans of North Korean IP Space
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-19

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

• Show HN: Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps
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• Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
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• The pitch deck that helped us get an $865M valuation
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• A Japanese inn owned by the same family for 1,300 years [video]
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• German researchers discover flaw that could let anyone listen to cell calls
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• The Itch Nobody Can Scratch
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• Obfuscating “Hello World” in Python
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• Machine Learning Course by Tom Mitchell
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• Nuitka: a Python compiler
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• Update on Sony Investigation
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-18

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

• Dissent – Accountable anonymous group communication
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• Linux kernel: multiple x86_64 vulnerabilities
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• Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Citing Threats
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• Reaction to the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid'
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• Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea
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• How Pipedrive went from 0 to 10,000 paying customers in SaaS
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• EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional
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• Amazon Unveils One-Hour Delivery Service
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• PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
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• Git client vulnerability announced
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-17

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

• Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance
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• Bitcoin Developer Guide
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• Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap
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• Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions
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• NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
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• Falcon 9 attempts ocean platform landing
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• Linus Torvalds on semaphores (1999)
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• CSRF in Doorkeeper OAuth2 gem
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• A tiling window manager written in Rust
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• Cuba and the U.S. will begin to normalize relations
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-16

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

• Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use
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• Map the Banks
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• Good News You May Have Missed in 2014
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• Underactuated Rotor for Simple Micro Air Vehicles
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• BPG Image Comparison
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• Post mortem of my one game a month
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• New York Magazine's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up
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• A redesign of the Django websites
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• Android: I don't need your permission
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• Farewell, Dr. Dobb's
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-15

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

• The drug revolution that no one can stop
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• Mochi – Dynamically-typed language for functional and actor-style programming
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• A plane that will be able to fly anywhere in the world within 4 hours
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• Programming and Programming Languages
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• Pinboard's New Pricing Policy
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• Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac
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• Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
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• How GPUs Work
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• Evolutionary couplings between files reveal poor software design choices
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• How You Know
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-14

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

• Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API
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• Should Surgeons Keep Score?
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• How Products Are Made
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• Defcon 22 videos and slides
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• Air Traffic Control Simulator
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• “Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”
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• Bad Microsoft
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• CIA agents who tortured are vulnerable to prosecution in any country
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• Skinny Puppy demands royalties from US govt for using their music in Guantanamo
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• My Adventures with “4K” 2160p and Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-13

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

• TMSU is a tool for tagging your files
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• The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar
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• Linux x86 Program Start Up
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• H.R.4681 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015
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• Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik Are Joining the Rust Core Team
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• Show HN: ssh chat.shazow.net
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• Marking HTTP as Non-Secure
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• Secret surveillance detected in Oslo
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• Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
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• Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-12

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

• Show HN: Iota – a text editor written in Rust
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• The Other Money Problem
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• Comments on the Sony Hack
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• The Rise of Men Who Don’t Work – And What They Do Instead
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• Google to close engineering office in Russia
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• You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created
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• The Old Pirate Bay
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• Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid
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• Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains
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• Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-11

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

• Databases at 14.4Mhz
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• Elm 0.14 – Simpler Core, Better Tools
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• Magnus Carlsen – “I am chaotic and lazy” (2010)
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• Rosetta finds comet's water vapour to be significantly different from Earth's
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• Google News to shut down in Spain
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• Go 1.4 is released
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• Microsoft accepting Bitcoin
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• Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
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• Streem – a new programming language from Matz
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• Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-10

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

• MIT students build a roller coaster in one week
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• Reverse-engineering the new “captchaless” ReCaptcha system
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• Show HN: Artful for Mac
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• Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework
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• Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass
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• 24-Bit vs. 16-Bit Audio Test – Part II: Results and Conclusions
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• The Pirate Bay down, forever?
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• Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy
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• What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders?
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• Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-09

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

• Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society
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• Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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• Yik Yak Hack
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• Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years
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• The Fatal Pinch
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• Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program
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• You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind
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• US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program
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• Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates
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• Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-08

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

• “This” in JavaScript
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• Reimplementing “git clone” in Haskell from the bottom up (2013)
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• Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]
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• Please don't denigrate what a beginner is currently learning
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• We Can't Trust Uber
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• Why I’m Giving Up My Passport
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• Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?
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• Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation
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• The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps
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• Android Studio 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-07

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

• IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone
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• America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane
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• Ask HN: How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?
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• Nigerian Billionaire Commits $100M for African Entrepreneurs
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• Make your program slower with threads
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• Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?
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• Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language
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• The reason people burn out on open source
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• Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
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• Superconductivity without cooling?
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-06

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

• Intro to statistical data analysis in Python – frequentist and Bayesian methods
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• Interview with Laura Poitras
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• Run to Stay Young
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• Why I like XSLT
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• A Formula for the Number of Days in Each Month
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• A quick tutorial on implementing C memory management functions
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• NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Splashes Down in Pacific After Test Flight
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• A Markov chain trained on the Puppet documentation and H. P. Lovecraft
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• XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain
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• The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-05

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

• Write the Docs
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• Julian Assange on Living in a Surveillance Society
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• Pg_shard – PostgreSQL extension to scale out real-time reads and writes
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• Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video]
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• Introducing .NET Core
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• Firefox for iOS on GitHub
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• Lyft for Work
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• Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more
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• BPG Image format
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• Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-04

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

• Why my book can be downloaded for free
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• 6 GHz frequency modulated radar
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• Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting
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• Hy – A dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python
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• Apple Deleted Rivals’ Songs from Users’ iPods
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• Ask HN: How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?
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• Show HN: Front-end framework optimized for internal apps
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• Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed Apps
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• Duktape: an embeddable JavaScript engine
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• Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban Government Backdoors Into Cellphones and Computers
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-03

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

• Giving Stephen Hawking a voice
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• Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January
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• PostgreSQL’s New LATERAL Join Type
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• 24/192 music downloads are silly
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• Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count
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• Resumes suck for hiring engineers
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• World's Simplest Electric Train [video]
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• Wire – Modern Communications Network
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• Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
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• Hacking PayPal Accounts with one click
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-02

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

• How NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables
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• Google Fiber Austin
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• The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers
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• Show HN: PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X
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• Nature makes all articles free to view
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• AWS CodeCommit
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• Once Celebrated in Russia, Programmer Pavel Durov Chooses Exile
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• Composer – Disable GC when computing deps and refs
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• Immigration is about talent, not costs
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• NASA: We're sending humans to Mars
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-01

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

• Nobody expects CDATA sections in XML
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• Great Works in Programming Languages
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• The State of JavaScript in 2015
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• Speeding up Rails 4.2
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• From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
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• Django REST framework 3.0
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
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• CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
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• “Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure
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• The Case for Slow Programming
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-11-30

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

• What do all the controls in an aeroplane cockpit do?
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• How speakers make sound
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• New optimizations for X86 in upcoming GCC 5.0
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• Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]
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• Hard-won lessons about money and investing
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• Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died
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• Functional Programming Patterns
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• Vim.js – JavaScript port of Vim
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• In Soviet Minecraft, server op you
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• Java for Everything
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