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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 27, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures
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• Understanding .NET 2015
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• Google now automatically converts Flash ads to HTML5
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• GRPC: A high performance, open source, general RPC framework
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• The Path to Parallel JavaScript
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• Io.js and Node.js reconciliation proposal
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• “Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”
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• Hello, World
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• VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
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• Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 26, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Vivus, bringing your SVGs to life
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• How to pick startup ideas
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• What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?
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• Google announces Android for Work
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• Sans Bullshit Sans
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• Embracing SQL in Postgres
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• The girl who gets gifts from birds
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• Side projects
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• The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
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• FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 25, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Authy is joining Twilio
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• A Story About ‘Magic' (1994)
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• Origami – Design Prototyping
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• GPG and Me
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• My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple
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• Gemalto's findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM cards
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• Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?
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• Tired of Safari
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• Get away with Google Flights
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• It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 24, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• React Tips and Best Practices
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• “This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”
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• EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System
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• How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?
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• Cities with High Salary to Cost of Living Ratios for Software Developers
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• Are we really running out of helium?
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• Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken
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• Firefox 36.0 released
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• Introducing Pebble Time
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• Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 23, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Comodo ships Adware Privdog worse than Superfish
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• How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling
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• Linux 4.0-rc1 out
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• “Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
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• Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu
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• The Superfish Funder List
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• Government-Linked Certificate Authorities in OS X
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• Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture
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• Show HN: A histogram of salaries given to H1B workers in the software industry
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• Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 22, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• GopherLua: VM and Compiler for Lua in Go
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• Astropad – Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet
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• Docker containers on the desktop
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• “Just the Beginning of What We Can Do on Super Nintendo”
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• Magic
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• Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU Coreutils Implementations of Echo.c
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• Internet of Crappy Things
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• An Open Letter to Jessica Livingston About YC's Female Founders Conference
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• If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice
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• Goodbye “undefined is not a function”
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 21, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Layers – A simple WordPress site builder
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• Highlight.js – Syntax highlighting for the Web
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• Announcing Rust 1.0-alpha2
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• Netflix Long Term View
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• British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code
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• Flow Hive: Honey on Tap Directly from Your Beehive
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• Windows SSL Interception Gone Wild
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• Exploiting the Superfish certificate
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• An Introduction to Unix (2014)
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• Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck” [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 20, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dell XPS 13 Review
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• The Poor Man's Voxel Engine
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• Browser Vulnerability to Superfish: A Fact-Finding Trip to Best Buy
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• MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
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• Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants in the TPP Deal
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• Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average
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• Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
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• Too much finance is bad for the economy
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• Statements about the Mobile Web
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• Startup advice, briefly
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 19, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• There are too many shiny objects and it is killing me
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• Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him with 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy
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• Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers
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• Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer
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• Extracting the SuperFish certificate
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• How to Grow a Forest Really Really Fast
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• Lenovo Statement on Superfish
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• Microsoft Is the New Google, Google Is the Old Microsoft
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• Stripe: Bitcoin
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• The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The billionaire’s typewriter
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• “RNG broken for last 4 months”
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• Duplicate SSH Keys Everywhere
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• An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split
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• HTTP/2 Is Done
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• “A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog”
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• How one man made 22 games in 22 years, mostly from his basement
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• The Lost Art of C Structure Packing
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• Whiteboard Clock
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• Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Routing on OpenStreetMap.org
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• Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
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• Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
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• Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us
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• Lego’s 1981 Ad Campaign
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• Tesla Motors Announces a New Home Battery
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• First fully sandboxed Linux desktop app
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• LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks
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• My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow
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• Why the world's biggest military keeps losing wars
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Asynchronous Python and Databases
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• Life in a post-database world: Using crypto to avoid database writes
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• Procedural City Generation
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• Keep a Changelog
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• Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple
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• You Don't Know JavaScript Book Series
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• Git-Stats – A local GitHub-like contributions calendar
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• Sortie en mer – A trip out to sea
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• The Software Revolution
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• “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why OCaml, why now? (2014)
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• Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware
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• 7GUIs – A Notational Usability Benchmark for GUI Programming
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• The State of Go
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• Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets
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• Now, I can see wifi signals
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• The New Haskell.org
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• InstaDoom – Doom selfie mod
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• BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions of mining bitcoin
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• Ask HN: What up with these startup salaries?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Write a New Git Protocol
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• Play Breakout while you pull to refresh
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• Google Is Shutting Down Google Helpouts, Its Expert Video Chat Service
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• App Container and Docker
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• Show HN: Littlebox, a pure CSS icon library – worth continuing?
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• Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
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• Apple CEO Tim Cook challenges Obama with impassioned stand on privacy
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• Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access
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• Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
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• Google deleted whocalled.us for “Pure Spam” and replaced it with spam
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rat Park
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• Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams
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• The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up
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• David Carr Dies at 58
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• Firefox Nightly now plays Amazon.com Flash videos using Shumway
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• More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to 1 Wired Broadband Provider
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• Goldman Sachs Ex-Programmer Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him
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• Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
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• Stop Using LinkedIn
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• Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• An Algorithm to Extract Looping GIFs from Videos
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• Enough's enough: Contract teaching at a Canadian University
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• YC Open-Source Sales Agreement
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• Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch
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• How Chris McCandless Died: An Update
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• RapidShare is Shutting down
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• 0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1
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• New Tesla battery could power your home, and maybe the electric grid too
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• How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life
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• Deleting any Facebook album
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
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• Why animals eat psychoactive plants
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• FarmLogs
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• Bypassing Windows 10's Protections Using a Single Bit
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• Samsung's smart TVs are inserting unwanted ads into users' own movies
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• GitHut – Programming Languages on GitHub
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• A Y Combinator Company Copied Our Design and Data Viz: We've Arrived
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• Paper sizes
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• DATAcide: The Total Annihilation of Life as We Know It
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• China
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: A Global Co-Living Subscription for Nomads
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• I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords
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• Has modern Linux lost its way? Some thoughts on Jessie
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• Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot
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• Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces
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• Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android
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• Defending GCC considered futile
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• An Exemption to the DMCA Would Let Game Fans Keep Abandoned Games Running
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• The Bitcoin Piñata
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• Flipboard releases React Canvas
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Watch People Code
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• Modern C [pdf]
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• Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio
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• Annotated code: Circles bouncing off lines
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• Photos of the An-225 Mriya – the world’s largest aircraft
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• Silver: A free implementation of Swift for .NET, Java, Android, and Cocoa
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• Explore the Swiss Leaks Data
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• Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity
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• Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY
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• $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Do Cats Love Boxes?
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• In search of the perfect JavaScript framework
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• In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) [pdf]
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• Show HN: vim-hackernews
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• A Xenon flash will cause the Raspberry Pi 2 to freeze
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• ISRO to launch Google satellite
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• If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers
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• Samsung Global Privacy Policy - SmartTV Supplement
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• Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S?
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• Modern SQL in PostgreSQL
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps
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• ‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game
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• How startup Fab died
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• Once-starving GnuPG crypto project gets a windfall. Now comes the hard part
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• TurboTax halts all state e-filing amid data breach probe
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• Node v0.12.0 (Stable)
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• YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters
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• Confessions of a Congressman
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• 404. PAGE Not FOUND
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• At some startups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving on Copyright Extension
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• Metaprogramming Elixir
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• New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers
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• The man who brought us the lithium-ion battery has an idea for a new one
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• Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf]
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• Introducing node-firefox
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• Practical Data Science in Python
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• UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’
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• Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go
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• First Impressions Using React Native
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web
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• Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard
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• Microsoft Acquires Calendar App Sunrise for North of $100M
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• CPU Backdoors
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• Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts
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• An alloy of iron and aluminium is as good as titanium, at a tenth of the cost
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• “Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber attack”
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• Scala.js no longer experimental
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• Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
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• YC for Hardware
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results
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• The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
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• Alan Turing's notes found being used as roof insulation at Bletchley Park
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• Amazon Is in Talks to Buy RadioShack Stores, Report Says
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• Layoff Underway at IBM
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• PyPy 2.5.0 released
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• Prometheus: An open-source service monitoring system and time series database
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• Testosterone is the drug of the future
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• A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics
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• FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why We Should Build Cloud Cities on Venus
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• Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project
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• Replacing Middle Management with APIs
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• The curious case of disappearing Polish S
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• Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
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• Uber Opening Robotics Research Facility in Pittsburgh to Build Self-Driving Cars
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• Join the U.S. Digital Service
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• Show HN: Matterhorn – Your new project manager
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• Harper Lee to publish Mockingbird 'sequel'
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• CoreCLR is now open source
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My Gravity lawsuit and how it affects every writer who sells to Hollywood
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• Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed
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• Yahoo Homepage – Now Featuring Extra-Scammy Scams
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• Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2
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• Heartbleed in Rust
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• How to get into an admin account on a Windows computer
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• Authentication Cheat Sheet
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• What Color Is Your Function?
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• Science’s Biggest Fail
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• F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dirty lens article
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• Relay FAQ: Facebook's Data-fetching Framework for React
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• Project Euler's 500th problem
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• The NFL wants you to think these things are illegal
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• Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project
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• Get your loved ones off Facebook
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• Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job
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• Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
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• Mkcast – GIF terminal screencasts with key presses overlaid
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Primrose – a text editor that runs in a WebGL texture
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• NYC Space/Time Directory
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• How much do indie PC devs make, anyways?
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• Ask HN: I got let go this morning. What should I do next?
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• Surviving Data Science at the Speed of Hype
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• RethinkDB 1.16: cluster management API, realtime push
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• Show HN: A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C
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• Google Earth Pro is now free
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• Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
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• Thepiratebay.se is back online
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