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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-30

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

• Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary
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• Why firewalls won’t matter in a few years
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• Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool
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• Google’s Project Vault Is a Computing Environment on a Micro SD Card
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• My Title IX Inquisition
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• “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”
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• Ask HN: I Have Cancer. What Should I Do?
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• Hacking Starbucks for unlimited coffee
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• Lojban
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• Writing a website in Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-29

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

• Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
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• Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking
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• Google Design
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• A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan
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• Goodbye, Sourceforge
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• MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
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• Antimony – A fresh look at CAD software
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• Project Jacquard
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• GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
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• Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Website, Is Sentenced to Life in Prison
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-28

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

• Enterprise Sales Guide: The Process of Selling Enterprise Software Demystified
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• The WTF-8 encoding
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• Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
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• Accounting for Developers
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• The Hacker Shelf: Collection of free books for the intellectually curious
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• When will we stop using Facebook?
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• Why I Sold My Company and Didn't Tell Anyone for a Year
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• How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010)
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• Amazon launches same day delivery for Prime customers
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• Jump – Experiences like you're actually there
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-27

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

• Yagni
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• The State of Go
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• Go in Go
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• FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S
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• Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger
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• Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain Security Vulnerabilities
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• Rust for Python Programmers
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• Show HN: An old rotary phone converted into a mobile phone
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• The end for Mandriva
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• Rearchitecting GitHub Pages
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-26

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

• How to Install Ubuntu Linux on your Dell PC
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• Nom, a byte oriented, streaming, zero copy, parser combinators library in Rust [pdf]
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• BingoCardCreator.com Sale Page
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• The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
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• Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
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• The mystery of the power bank phone taking over Ghana
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• Show HN: An Isomorphic JavaScript Framework Faster Than React
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• Why PowerPoint should be banned
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• Why investors don’t fund dating
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• Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-25

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

• The Restful CookBook
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• P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo (2014) [video]
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• Losing it All
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• After Senate vote, NSA prepares to shut down phone tracking program
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• Ricochet: An encrypted, anonymous IM client built on Tor hidden services
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• How to name things in programming
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• Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco
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• EU dropped plans for safer pesticides because of TTIP and pressure from US
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• Unhappy Birthday
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• JavaScript GameBoy Advance Emulator
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-24

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

• PEP 0484 – Type Hints is accepted
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• Mastering Emacs
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• Rust Programming Language Book
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• Silk
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• Cryptographic Right Answers
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• Organizational debt is like technical debt, but worse
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• Rust Playground
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• John Nash Has Died
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• John Nash's letters to the NSA (1955) [pdf]
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• The responsibility we have as software engineers
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-23

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

• A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution
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• How we spent two days making Perl faster
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• Reid Hoffman on the relationship between employers and employees
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• What I’m Teaching my Son about Money
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• d-Threeact: Making d3 and React the Best of Friends
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• NSA in P/poly: The Power of Precomputation
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• Senate Blocks Patriot Act Extension
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• Five Big Banks Plead Guilty to Rigging Currency Markets and No One Goes to Jail
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• I Let IBM’s Watson Tell Me What to Cook for a Week
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• Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-22

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

• Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison
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• Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could Be Coming to South Africa
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• Blog Post Driven Development
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• Hackers build a new Tor client designed to beat the NSA
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• An Analysis of Nespresso
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• ‘Deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
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• Famous Engine – JavaScript library for animations and interfaces
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• Solved by Flexbox
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• Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
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• Ask HN: Where can I buy real software companies?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-21

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

• Voxel Quest Fluid Dynamics and New Rendering Method
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• Why do buses bunch?
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• MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition
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• Ta'izz
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• Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints
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• RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting
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• Your data fits in RAM
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• Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN accreditation
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• Underscore and Lodash Merge Thread
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• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-20

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

• Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire?
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• Just Don't Hire 0x Engineers
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• Logjam TLS attack
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• Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
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• WCF is Open Source
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• PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices
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• Improve your touch typing
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• Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014)
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• “I'm wiping this repository away”
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• Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-19

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

• A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning [pdf]
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• Interview with Eric Brewer
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• Silon – Adders and Logic Gates in Pure CSS
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• Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS
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• Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet
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• Popcorn Time in Your Browser
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• RadioShack Sold Consumer Data to Pay Off Its Debts
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• Meteor Raises $20M
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• Get Your Shit Together
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• WooThemes joins Automattic
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-18

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

• Learning C with gdb
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• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction
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• About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA key
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• Top data mining algorithms in plain English
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• What one may find in robots.txt
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• Introducing Preemptible VMs
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• CEO Wanted University Scientists Dismissed Over Link Between Fracking and Quakes
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• Thoughtcrime
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• Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Graphics Study
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• Fish shell
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-17

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

• AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
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• The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop
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• Multiprocess Firefox
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• Kore: a fast web server for writing web apps in C
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• Time-Lapse Mining from Internet Photos
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• Amazing Source Code Related Easter Egg in Ex Machina
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• How I do my computing
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• UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity
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• No Longer Wanting to Die
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• 4096 RSA key in the strongset factored?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-16

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

• Secure yourself, Part 1: Air-gapped computer, GPG and smartcards
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• 8^8 – Find another you
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• Atom's autocomplete just got better
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• MAME is going completely open-source to be a 'learning tool for developers'
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• Clinkle Implodes as Employees Quit in Protest of CEO
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• Julia issue #8839 closed
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• Filter all ICMP and watch the world burn
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• Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck
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• Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
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• The Day Google Decided HttpWatch Was ‘Unwanted Software’
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-15

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

• A Taste of Rust
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• In Flight
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• RFC 7540 – HTTP2
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• In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required”
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• Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors
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• B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89
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• Replacing jQuery with D3
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• Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin
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• JavaScript at 20
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• Announcing Rust 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-14

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

• The last male northern white rhino
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• Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb
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• Servo: Embeddable Browser Engine
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• Facebook Visual Identity
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• Show HN: Twenty
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• Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla
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• My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator
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• Hyperlapse makes first-person videos smooth and speedy
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• Microsoft TouchDevelop
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• Ask HN: How do I put together a computer for my blind mom?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-13

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

• Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York
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• A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art
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• The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills
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• How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime
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• How Eve Online went to the edge of apocalypse and back
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• Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive code
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• The Failure of Agile
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• Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet
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• House Votes to End N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection
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• Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-12

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

• Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules
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• FTC Officials Back Tesla’s Right to Sell Cars Direct to Consumers
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• Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules
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• Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B
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• Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it
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• Guide for Technical Development
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• Wait, Google Sent Me
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• Lily – Drone camera
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• Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support
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• Be Kind
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-11

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

• The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
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• Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of
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• Show HN: Deck of Cards – A playing card API
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• Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives
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• The Mind of Marc Andreessen
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• Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
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• Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish
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• Game theory’s cure for corruption
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• The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car
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• Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-10

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

• CλaSH – From Haskell to Hardware
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• Implementing a Virtual Machine in C
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• Stupid certificate tricks
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• Harvard engineering students devise BBQ smoker
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• Code Review Best Practices
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• Typedrummer
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• Django 1.8 and Python 3: Complex app tutorial, end-to-end
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• Whoever Is Leaking Trans-Pacific Partnership Drafts: Please Leak More
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• Git in six hundred words
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• Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-09

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

• Microsoft Surface Hub
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• Full text search in milliseconds with PostgreSQL
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• Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
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• Chile is introducing free higher education
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• Under the hood: Facebook’s cold storage system
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• React JS Best Practices
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• A re-introduction to JavaScript
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• UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights
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• Computational Hydrographic Printing [video]
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• How to Build a Unicorn and Walk Away with Nothing
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-08

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

• Join the Engineering Leisure Class
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• Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge
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• GitHub and Jupyter IPython Notebooks
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• Why Lisp?
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• Accepting payments is getting harder
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• The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper’s Poison Packet
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• Postgres gets support for upsert
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• Take the Money and Run
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• 210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum
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• Unison: a next-generation programming platform
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-07

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

• I was an undercover Uber driver
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• Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)
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• Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon
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• The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies
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• Go crypto: bridging the performance gap
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• Mysterious Planes Over Baltimore Spark Surveillance Suspicions
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• U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court
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• Tmux 2.0 released
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• NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats
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• Facebook PathPicker
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-06

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

• A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
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• PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web
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• Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable
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• GitHub's down?
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• First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016
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• Weave is kinda slow
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• Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
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• I would have hired Doug, but...
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• Leaving Stripe
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• Racking Mac Pros
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-05

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

• The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up in the U.S.
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• Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites
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• Call me maybe: Elasticsearch 1.5.0
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• Touch Pianist – Tap in Rhythm and Perform Your Favourite Music
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• Creator of Raft Algorithm introduces LogCabin
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• Io.js 2.0.0 Released
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• Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped
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• Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer
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• Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down
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• Call me maybe: Aerospike
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-04

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

• Pony – High Performance Actor Programming
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• Artificial-Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand
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• PHP: md5('240610708') == md5('QNKCDZO')
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• Three Tales of Second System Syndrome
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• PM of Singapore Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Source Code
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• The Data Science Handbook
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• Test drive of a petrol car
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• The programming talent myth
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• Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?
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• Fractal Lab
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-03

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

• Quadratic Voting (2014)
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• What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York
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• Embarrassing code I wrote under stress at a job interview
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• Where Rust really shines
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• Cops: We Need Rights More Than You, Citizen
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• Peak car
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• How to Beat a Polygraph Test
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• The Traveling Salesperson Problem
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• Do Not Disclose Your Salary to Recruiters
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• Python on Android
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-02

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

• Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system
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• Mill: Go-style concurrency in C
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• Shenzhen-listed stock increases by 10% each day
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• What we know about the EmDrive and Cannae Drive
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• GraphQL Introduction
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• Porting a NES Emulator from Go to Nim
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• Bringing Clang to Windows
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• I was underpaid for years and I didn't know it
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• Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
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• Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-01

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

• Microsoft makes it easier to build Minecraft Mods using Visual Studio
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• Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
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• Grooveshark Shuts Down
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• TrueCraft, An Open Source Implementation of Minecraft 1.7.3
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• Tesla Energy
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• DragonBox: Secretly teach algebra to your children
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• Illegal drugs: The wars don’t work
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
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• Servo Continues Pushing Forward
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• Talking About Money
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-04-30

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

• Category Theory for Programmers
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• Microsoft Announces Continuum, Turning Windows 10 Phones into Desktops
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• There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers
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• Aaron’s Law Reintroduced: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Didn’t Fix Itself
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• Agar.io
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• Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 released
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• Open Sourcing Visual Studio’s GDB/LLDB Debug Engine
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• Slovak Constitutional Court cancels mass surveillance of citizens
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• Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
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• Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died
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