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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-29

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

• Lake Michigan Is So Clear Right Now Its Shipwrecks Are Visible from the Air
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• NES graphics – Part 1
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• Show HN: Ramjet.js – Morph DOM elements into each other
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• Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship
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• Introducing PackageManagement in Windows 10
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• Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
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• Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac
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• NoTCP
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• Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
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• Secret Shuts Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-28

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

• FIFA 2014 World Cup live stream architecture
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• Ghostery and NoScript-like add-ons frequently phone home
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• Kerbal Space Program Launches Version 1.0
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• The Engineer’s Lament
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• Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
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• Take Nothing, Leave Nothing: On being banned from the world’s most remote island
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• “DBus is seriously screwed up”
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• A Rust Contributor Tries Their Hand at Go
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• Vault – A tool for managing secrets
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• The days are long but the decades are short
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-27

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

• My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part One
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• Why can’t we read anymore?
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• Race conditions on Facebook, DigitalOcean and others (fixed)
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• Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day
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• Under Pressure
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• EU study recommends OpenBSD
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• This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
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• Jq – A Command-line JSON processor
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• Disque – a distributed message broker
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• Console.mihai();
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-26

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

• CSV Challenge
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• The Invisible Hand of Super Metroid
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• TV maker Vizio may finally get paid after beating 17th patent troll
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• Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
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• Ask HN: What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?
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• A web-reading bot made millions on the options market
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• Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You
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• Pure Python Vim clone
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• Ask HN: I am about to be fired. What should I do?
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• Docker without Docker
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-25

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

• A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design
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• Dogelang
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• Icons of all main payment operators and methods
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• Rust once, run everywhere
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• Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide
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• How to live large in a tiny house
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• When Is Cheryl's Birthday?
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• M7.9 Earthquake in Nepal
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• Today is Debian 8 release day
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• A minimal blog engine written in Go, compatible with Ghost themes
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-24

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

• ‘Gods’ edging out robots at Toyota facility
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• Amazon Finally Discloses Cloud Services Sales, Showing 49% Jump
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• What happens if you remove randomness from Doom?
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• Holding On and Letting Go
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• Microsoft .NET CoreCLR is now running on FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64)
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• Becoming Productive in Haskell
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• Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
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• Congress: Stop Trying to Limit EFF’s Ability to Challenge Patents
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• Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
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• Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-23

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

• NHL goal celebration hack: real-time machine learning and hue light show
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• You Have to Hack This Massively Multiplayer Game to Beat It
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• Wi-Fi hack creates 'no iOS zone' that cripples iPhones and iPads
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• C# 7 Work List of Features
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• Elixir vs. Erlang: a question of momentum
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• Apple now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support
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• Show HN: A random startup generator
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• Borg: The Predecessor to Kubernetes
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• “Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Streeters don’t. What’s up?”
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• Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-22

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

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
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• Elevator.js
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• Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads
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• The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples
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• Prime Minister of Singapore Coded Sudoku Solver in C++
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• The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
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• Four days of Go
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• Why do pub TVs have a pint glass in the corner?
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• EFF to Congress: Stop the Cybersurveillance Bills
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• Project Fi by Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-21

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

• Tor Exit Node Operator Issued Subpoena
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• Going “Write-Only”
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• Show HN: Kubist, a little web app to make cubism-like images
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• Prof. Sussman's Reading List
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• To Reduce VR Sickness, Add a Virtual Nose
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• This man just claimed a new European nation. 160,000 people want to live there
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• We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
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• Keywhiz: Square's system for distributing and managing secrets
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• NASA data API
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• C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from 60 business leaders
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-20

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

• DARPA Has Open-Sourced 'Dark Web' Search Tech
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• This French tech school has no teachers, no books, no tuition
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• How to Center in CSS
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• Please consider the impacts of banning HTTP
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• Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking”
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• Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack
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• NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
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• The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs
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• Introducing a cross-platform debugger for Go
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• 1.5 Million Missing Black Men
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-19

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

• How Doomed is NetApp?
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• FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000
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• What doomed MakerBot? The Osborne effect
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• Lol my thesis – Summing up years of work in one sentence
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• Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims
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• United Airlines Stops Researcher Who Tweeted about Airplane Network Security
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• The Missing Mt. Gox Bitcoins
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• Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims
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• Fossdroid.com: Free and open source Android applications
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• Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-18

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

• Bloomberg Terminals Suffer Widespread Failures
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• Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text
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• Female Chimps Seen Making, Wielding Spears
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• A Million Lines of Bad Code
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• The death of optimizing compilers [pdf]
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• PEP 492 – Coroutines with async and await syntax
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• PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
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• Einstein's Letter to Marie Curie (1911)
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• French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings
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• Tea with strangers
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-17

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

• Why Young Men Go to War
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• WikiLeaks publishes 30,000 leaked Sony documents
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• Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?
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• Ask HN: What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?
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• x*sin(y)
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• Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil
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• Chord progressions of 25,000 songs
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• RethinkDB 2.0 is amazing
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• A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport
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• The Fuck – Correct your previous console command
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-16

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

• Android’s 10 Millisecond Problem explained
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• Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882
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• SpaceX Plans to Land Next Falcon 9 on Solid Ground
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• Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
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• Highland.js
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• Python 2, Python 3, Debian and Porting
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• GitHub's 2014 Transparency Report
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• IKEA introduces wireless charging furniture [pdf]
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• Docker 1.6: Engine and Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, and Windows Client
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• Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-15

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

• Computer Science by Mail
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• EU Formally Accuses Google of Antitrust Violations
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• Yahoo in Talks to Buy Foursquare
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• How AeroPress Fans Are Hacking Their Way to a Better Cup of Coffee
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• Keeping Your Car Safe from Electronic Thieves
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• PyFormat – Practical examples of old and new style string formatting
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• Introducing T3: Enabling Large Scale JavaScript Applications
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• Space X CR6 First stage landing
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• GNU Hurd 0.6 released
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• OS X Reviewed
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-14

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

• Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste (2010)
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• LLILC – LLVM-Based Compiler for .NET CoreCLR
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• Owner of a Credit Card Processor Is Setting a New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year
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• Free Ebook: How to Code in HTML5 and CSS3
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• Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company?
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• Twilio Video – Real-time WebRTC video infrastructure
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• Lumen – A micro-framework by Laravel
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• RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready
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• Apple ResearchKit on GitHub
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• Trackers and bank accounts
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-13

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

• John Carmack's First Game
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• Sprinklr Acquires GetSatisfaction, Founders Get Nothing
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• Voyage to Nowhere: The Amazon Kindle Story
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• Linux 4.0
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• The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy
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• German author Guenter Grass dies
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• The Code Is Just the Symptom
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• To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014)
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• Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system
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• Socket.IO C++
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-12

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

• AngularJS Cheat Sheet [pdf]
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• The 68000 Wars, Part 3: We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up
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• Asteroid Database and Mining Rankings
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• Rand Paul Pledges to Immediately End NSA Mass Surveillance If Elected President
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• Elementary OS Freya Released
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• Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)
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• PapyrOS, based on Arch Linux
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• The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling
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• Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business
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• Hacker tries to compromise and resell an internet-facing Linux server
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-11

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

• 1K colours on CGA: How it's done
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• China's Great Cannon
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• Math for eight-year-olds: graph theory for kids
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• Markdownify
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• Emacs 24.5 released
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• Someone is distributing fake versions of my app with malware
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• Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant
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• Why we will not be registering easydns.sucks
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• React and Angular Meeting
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• Ask HN: Should I testify?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-10

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

• Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand
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• Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale
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• Boltons: over 100 Python utilities
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• DEA Orchestrates Disinformation Campaign to Conceal Surveillance Powers
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• Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition
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• Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier
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• One line you should add to every makefile
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• Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator
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• Fearless concurrency with Rust
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• Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-09

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

• Microsoft Announces Nano Server
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• Microsoft announces Hyper-V Containers
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• Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal
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• Remotely send Chrome and Node.js into infinite loops via OS X kernel bug
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• U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade
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• Michigan Micro Mote – World's Smallest Computer
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• LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B
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• Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X
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• Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
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• Amazon Elastic File System
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-08

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

• How Google Hires
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• Introducing Progressive Equity – Increase employee ownership as company grows
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• Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?
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• Unit tests fail when run in Australia
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• I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted
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• The 500-mile email
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• 8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators
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• Show HN: Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Client
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• I Quit: What really goes on at apple
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• Announcing Git Large File Storage
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-07

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

• WebGL Fundamentals
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• Ubiquiti Networks is creatively violating the GPL
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• New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities
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• HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can
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• A repository of modern C++ code samples curated by the community
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• WebGL: 80.000 particles
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• What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years
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• DHS to Launch Nationwide License Plate Reader Program
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• How I Start: Clojure
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• John Resig annotates original jQuery source code
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-06

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

• JavaScript libraries to draw your own diagrams
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• I won't be using Angular for my next project
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• Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison
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• A note on the argument about the 'morality' of adblockers
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• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden]
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• The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay
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• Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
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• Responsive Tables in Pure CSS
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• VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos
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• Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-05

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

• Mono 4.0.0 Release Notes
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• If a Caller Says, 'I Am with the IRS,' He's Not
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• Ten Commandments of Sushi
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• The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much
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• My life with Comcast
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• Why the name?
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• Toolkit
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• Large Hadron Collider restarts after two-year rebuild
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• A Grand Juror Speaks: The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way
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• Programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-04

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

• The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust
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• Hashpipe – Pipe iff the hash matches
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• Secret Service Interrogation of Wozniak (2002)
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• Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social
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• Migrating from Heroku to AWS using Docker
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• Obama signs executive order allowing government to seize hackers assets
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• The truth about the Bitcoin Foundation
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• Get your own USB PID
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• Some thoughts after (almost) a year of real Xamarin use
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• IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-03

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

• I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the original Nintendo
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• We Should Have a Better Condom by Now
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• “The colored boxes indicate which CPU core performed layout for each node”
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• What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money
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• Tesla Stockholders Can't Take a Joke
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• How I cracked NQ Vault's “encryption”
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• Announcing Rust 1.0 Beta
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• Myself – v1.0.3
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• Automakers Say You Don’t Really Own Your Car
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• New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-02

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

• Django 1.8 released
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• Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
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• Google’s ARC Now Runs Android Apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux
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• Tesla is a Battery Company
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• Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub
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• Google pulling China CNNIC CA from its products
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• Scaleway: Bare metal SSD ARM servers
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• Truecrypt report
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• Mathematics for Computer Science
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• So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-01

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

• Lookup by Twilio
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• Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0
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• All 40 Runners Fail at 100-Mile Tennessee Mountain Race
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• elgooG
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• Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity
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• List of April Fools' Day Announcements
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
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• Redis 3.0.0 is out
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• Enough with the Salts: Updates on Secure Password Schemes
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• California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal with Drought
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-03-31

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

• 1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA
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• Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
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• NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes
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• U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure
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• China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub
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• French civil code now on GitHub
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• Announcing the Surface 3
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• After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
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• Amazon Dash Button
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• $149 Chromebooks
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