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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 30, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Inventing Favicon.ico
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• Dot matrix printer playing “Eye of the Tiger” [video]
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• Amazon Home Services
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• I Just Poured Water on my Scanner
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• Ask HN: How to move beyond “freelancer”?
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• Samuel Colt's “YC app” for the Summer 1851 batch
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• Stop using tail -f (mostly)
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• Two Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges
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• Choose Boring Technology
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• Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 29, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The FedEx Problem
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• Exploit Exercises
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• Notes from Facebook's Developer Infrastructure at Scale F8 Talk
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• Parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 will pay no tuition
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• Make This in an Hour
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• GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack
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• Messaging apps shouldn't make money – Pavel Durov and Telegram
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• TPP leak: states give companies the right to repeal nations' laws
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• How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
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• A court case so secret, US Govt says it can't go on
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 28, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution
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• Why Baidu Has Been Hijacked to Attack GitHub
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• Learning the Web
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• TANX: online multiplayer tank battle using WebGL and Node.js
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• Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelter is entering production
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• Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java
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• A little note about Slack’s Bug Bounty program
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• A standard for building APIs in JSON
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• A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python
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• Clean Up Your Mess – A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone (2011)
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-27

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

• Git from the inside out
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• The Z3 Theorem Prover released under MIT license
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• My Interviews with Airbnb, Dropbox, Posterous, Reddit, Weebly and Wufoo
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• How I taught my dog to text me selfies
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• Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native
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• GitHub hit by DDoS attack
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• Termui – Go terminal dashboard
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• Super Mario 64 HD
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• Slack was hacked
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• Ellen Pao’s Bias Claims Against Kleiner Perkins Rejected; Jury Is Sent Back
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-26

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

• iOS Code Samples
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• Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
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• A significant amount of programming is done by superstition
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• The Shut-In Economy
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• NSA is monitoring key Internet routers (1996)
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• Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
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• Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage
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• One Professional Russian Troll Tells All
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• React Native is now open source
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• Tell Sam Altman: I will take your bet
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-25

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

• Hidden tricks of persuasion: study shows how easily we are manipulated
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• JavaScript's world domination
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• China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century
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• Bubble talk
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• Apple Acquires FoundationDB
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• The User Is Drunk
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• Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award
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• Vim is moving to GitHub
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• X86 is a high-level language
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• “We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-24

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

• Primer – CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub
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• pg_rewind in PostgreSQL 9.5
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• Pinterest lets employees exercise options 7 years after leaving
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• Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive
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• A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React
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• Fear of Apple
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• Myths of Enterprise Python
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• We know where you’ve been: Ars acquires 4.6M license plate scans
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• Bazel – Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone
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• Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison Population, Joins YC
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-23

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

• Deep Learning vs. Machine Learning vs. Pattern Recognition
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• The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes at the top
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• Show HN: Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed
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• Hacker's guide to Neural Networks
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• Learning Vim while playing a game
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• Early Posts From Tech Founders Who Changed The World
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• Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns
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• Ask HN: Does anyone else value the comments more than the link?
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• Stripe Connect v2
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• Free Non-Commercial Renderman
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-22

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

• The Little “Fighter” That Couldn’t: Moral Hazard and the F-35
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• 12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50 year old IBM 1401 mainframe
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• DemocracyOS
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• I Gave My Child Autism
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• Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit
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• The decline of Vancouver
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• In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas
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• Is Your VirtualBox Reading Your E-Mail? Reconstruction of FrameBuffers from VRAM
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• “So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”
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• TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-21

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

• Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance
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• Start Using Landsat on AWS
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• Ever wondered how device drivers are reverse engineered?
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• Welcome to OpenBSD [pdf]
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• Animated vector map
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• The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca
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• Ask HN: Do you take nootropics?
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• AT&T Charging Customers to Not Spy on Them
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• Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper
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• Goat Simulator Post Mortem
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-20

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

• Massimo Banzi: Fighting for Arduino
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• A Survival Guide for the Small Mail Server
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• Elon Musk: Tesla cars will have “autopilot mode” by summer
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• Why Does the International Space Station Have That Shape?
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• Curl, 17 years old today
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• HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails
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• Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure
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• All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two
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• I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
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• Replacing Photoshop with NSString
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-19

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

• Planets in the Fourth Dimension
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• The myopia boom
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• Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life
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• Reminder: Oh, Won't You Please Shut Up?
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• The Windows Driver Frameworks are on GitHub
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• The Pirate Party is now measured as the biggest political party in Iceland
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• New Jersey legalizes direct Tesla sales
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• The US government's web traffic
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• OpenSSL Security Advisory
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• We are under attack
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-18

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

• Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look
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• Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand
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• John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”
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• Macbook screen coating issues
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• YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin
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• Show HN: Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualization
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• The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces
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• NSF announces plan for comprehensive public access to research results
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• Why Spotify Pays So Little
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• MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-17

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

• Hertz puts cameras in its rental cars, says it has no plans to use them
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• Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an informant
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• The Hating Game
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• The Book of Shaders
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• Carbon3D – 3D Printing via Continuous Liquid Interface Production
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• Resume in C
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• The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty
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• I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
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• Send Money to Friends in Messenger
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• Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-16

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

• The Church of TED
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• Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]
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• The web of names, hashes and UUIDs
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• Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and command prompt
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• End-to-End Encryption Plugin for Yahoo Mail
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• Adventures in message queues
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• “Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”
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• Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab
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• How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware
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• High quality GIF with FFmpeg
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-15

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

• Developer productivity: The art of saying no
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• Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2012)
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• Antiwork – a radical shift in how we view “jobs”
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• CSS Sans – A pure CSS font
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• A Scholarly Markdown
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• Microsoft's new foldable keyboard
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• Sirius: An Open Intelligent Personal Assistant
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• Ask HN: The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
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• Khan Academy: Algorithms
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• Ask HN: What is wrong with Reserve Bank of India?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-14

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

• Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
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• Zero
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• Tardigrades are so tough, they can survive outer space
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• Things I've learned about writing software after 12 years
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• Show HN: GraphQL for Postgres
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• Reasons not to use Facebook
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• Introducing OpenBSD's new httpd [pdf]
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• Jvm.go: A JVM written in Go
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• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today
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• Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-13

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

• How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else
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• Your Most Important Skill: Empathy
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• Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37
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• How Apple Makes the Watch
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• “Sierra… well, it was the poor victim of a hostile takeover by criminals”
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• SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls
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• Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book
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• When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared
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• California has about one year of water left
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• Balanced payments is shutting down
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-12

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

• There Is No Now – Problems with Simultaneity in Distributed Systems
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• Open source USB Type-C to HDMI Adapter
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• Lyft Raises $530M in Fight with Uber
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• Too Much Calculus – Gilbert Strang (2001) [pdf]
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• Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification
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• FCC Releases Open Internet Order
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• My Roommate, the Darknet Drug Lord
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• Sir Terry Pratchett has died
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• Bidding farewell to Google Code
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• Former Nvidia Dev's Thoughts on Vulkan/Mantle
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-11

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

• End the Ethanol Rip-Off
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• Peripheral vision in Quake
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• Strengthening JavaScript
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• When Nerds Collide (2014)
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• Ellen Pao Owns the Room
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• The Mighty Named Pipe
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• Apple App Store STATUS_CODE_ERROR causes service problems
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• Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline
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• How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News
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• 2015 Chromebook Pixel
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-10

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

• Raytracing a Black Hole
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• Code.nasa.gov
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• Gigaom Closes Down
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• USB Killer
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• The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets
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• Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA
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• Disney's $1B Bet on a Magical Wristband
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• Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
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• Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)
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• Welcome Peter
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-09

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

• Signs that you're a bad programmer (2012)
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• Sexism in Tech: Don’t Ask Me Unless You’re Ready to Call Someone a Whistleblower
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• Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go
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• Show HN: Find tech jobs that come with a visa
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• Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do DevOps Anymore
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• Java Runtime updater now installs ask.com toolbar on Macs
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• Project Zero: Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges
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• ResearchKit: A software framework designed to benefit medical research
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• The new MacBook
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• Announcing Starfighter
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-08

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

• Terence Tao: the Mozart of maths
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• Machine Learning for Programming – Peter Norvig
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• Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]
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• Catena: A time series storage engine written in Go
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• Apple gold
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• The $5000 Compression Challenge
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• Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier
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• In the age of free AAA game engines, are we still relevant?
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• A website that deletes itself once indexed by Google
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• On Secretly Terrible Engineers
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-07

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

• The TSA's FAST Personality Screening Program Violates the Fourth Amendment [pdf]
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• How Air-Traffic Controllers Sound When They Have to Close the Airport
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• Astronomers Watch a Supernova and See Reruns
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• Saying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS
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• GPS tracking device found on an activist's car
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• The ups of downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go
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• Academia's 1%
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• Windows 93 in JavaScript
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• This bakery will hire anyone
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• Google Engineer reprimanded for calling out her sexual harasser
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-06

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

• Anonymous Login
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• Canadian Charged for Not Unlocking Smartphone at Canadian Border
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• Google Contributor
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• The man who posted himself to Australia
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• Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (2009)
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• Newest version of uTorrent has Bitcoin mining offer during install
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• The time has come to stand up for the GPL
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• Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know: Reservoir Sampling
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• Fired
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• The Hiring Post
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-05

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

• Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run
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• Internetarchive.bak
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• EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis
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• My Y Combinator experience
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• Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life
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• The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan Donovan
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• Google seems to have broken email forwarding
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• David Horne's 1K Chess on the ZX81 (2001)
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• VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation
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• Angular 2: Built on TypeScript
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-04

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

• No-reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0
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• GitLab acquires Gitorious
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• Attack of the week: FREAK (or 'factoring the NSA for fun and profit')
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• The Freak Attack SSL/TLS Vulnerability
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• Valve Announces Source 2, and It’ll Be Free
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• Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues
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• My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was
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• Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app
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• If you have startup stock options, check your option plan
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• SpaceX Profitable as Musk Pulls in NASA Contracts, Google Cash
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-03

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

• Neovim now has builtin terminal emulation via libvterm
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• Dropbox accesses all the files in your PC?
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• Vulkan – Graphics and computing belong together
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• Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015
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• Flexbox in 5 minutes
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• “Just remove the duck” (2013)
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• Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity
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• Unity 5 released with upgrades, full-featured free version
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• Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web browser
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• Ember's Glimmer Engine
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-02

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

• Kino by Haruki Murakami
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• Forget the ‘To-Do’ List, You Need a ‘Stop Doing’ List
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• Mozilla to open first-world front in Firefox OS war
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• Stephen King's “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”
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• Coding is not the new literacy
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• Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the Fourier Transform
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• Symple Introduces the $89 Planet Friendly Ubuntu Linux Web Workstation
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• Google Confirms Plan to Offer Wireless Service
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• Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
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• Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-01

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

• Thunderbird Usage Continues to Grow
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• Router Firmware Backdoor
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• Microwave Oven Diagnostics with Indian Snack Food
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• Leonard Nimoy's Advice to a Biracial Girl in 1968
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• Xfce 4.12 released
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• 8cc: A Small C Compiler
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• Timesheet.js
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• Super Hexagon Bot
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
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• Notes on watching "Aliens" for the first time again, with a bunch of kids
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-02-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Web typography for non-designers
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• The Siberian crater phenomenon is more widespread than previously thought
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• Make a Lisp
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• Nordstrom's robots.txt
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• Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web
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• Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Drivers, Company Confirms
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• The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose
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• IPython 3.0 released
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• PayPal has ceased processing MEGA customer payments
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• Consulting
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