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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-30

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

• Why telephone keypads are arranged the way they are
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• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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• Tufte in R
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• How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (2011)
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• How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive
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• BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade
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• A neuroscientist who believes addiction is not a disease
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• Oliver Sacks Dies at 82; Neurologist and Author Explored the Brain’s Quirks
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• OS X Command Line Utilities
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• Ask HN: How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-29

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

• DC appeals court lifts injunction against NSA phone records program
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• The Virtual Reality of John Carmack
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• On doing things other people can't
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• OpenWRT vs. FCC – Forced Firmware Lockdown? [video]
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• Linear Algebra: What matrices are
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• FCC considering a proposal to lock down devices with a “modular wireless radio”
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• Minecraft creator Notch shares the darker side of life after a big exit
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• Windows Certificate Manager does not display the complete trust list
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• The Grid: Certainly Misguided, Probably a Scam
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• Hack: A typeface designed for source code
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-28

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

• Chip
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• Your Job as a Founder Is to Create Believers
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• Lock freedom without garbage collection in Rust
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• “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
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• Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on September 1
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• Linux workstation security checklist
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• LSD – Line Square Dot Game
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• Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
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• Phoenix 1.0
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• Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-27

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

• Potentially Reprogramming Cancer Cells Back to Normal Cells
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• YC Stats
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• A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)
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• Important Notice Regarding Public Availability of Stable Patches
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• Amazon Underground
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• Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6
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• Ad Blocking Extensions Tested for Performance
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• China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan
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• Tesla’s Model S P85D Scores 103 Out of 100 on Consumer Reports’ Ratings System
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• Pixar in a Box – Khan Academy
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-26

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

• How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks
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• Apple Loses German Top Court Case on Swipe-to-Unlock Patent
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• A heads up display for git
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• Unity Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available
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• How to Onboard Software Engineers
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• Bernie Sanders' 404 page
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• “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”
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• A Woman Who Spent Six Years Fighting a Traffic Stop
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• Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
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• M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-25

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

• SIMD in Rust
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• Photos at Microsoft Corp (1979)
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• Haskell for Mac
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• Chebyshev Approximation
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• GitHub are under DDoS and having connectivity problems
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• UK surveillance “worse than 1984” says new UN privacy chief
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• Court: Feds Can't Just Grab Someone's Laptop at the Border
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• Fix Windows 10
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• WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
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• Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-24

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

• What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?
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• Backdooring JavaScript using minifier bugs
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• The Power of Power Cycling
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• China Stock Market Drops 8.5%
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• Here’s what Ashley Madison members have told me
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• Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
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• A Salute to Solo Programmers
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• Stocks Off Sharply as Market Upheaval Grows
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• Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
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• John Carmack's son's game in Racket
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-23

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

• Feynman's Public Lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics
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• How to Fold a Julia Fractal
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• SQLite timeline items related to \"json\"
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• Polari, the Lost Gay English Dialect
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• Cat purr generator
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• A collection of debugging stories
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• It is now easy to edit the genomes of plants, animals and humans
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• Up in the Air: Escaping from East Germany
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• A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland (2014)
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• The New York Times Makes 17k Recipes Available Online
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-22

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

• Writing a Game Boy Advance Game
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• It Is Done
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• Financial Misstatements
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• Hackpad source code
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• Startup Metrics
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• Ask HN: What does the percentage next to posts mean?
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• “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
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• Exploring the Hacker Tools of Mr. Robot
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• Trucks Are Killing Us
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• Maintainer, sole developer, sole active user of the programming language SPITBOL
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-21

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

• Analysis of PS4's security and the state of hacking
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• Banksy Dismaland Show Revealed at Weston's Tropicana
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• LLVM Foundation Granted 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Status
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• Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video]
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• Bcachefs – A general purpose COW filesystem
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• Amazon joins in on killing Flash, stops accepting Flash ads
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• Petition UK government to not ban encryption
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• GCC is moving to git
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• The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
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• The likely end of DownThemAll
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-20

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

• How does a relational database work?
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• Google loses data as lightning strikes
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• A Course on Automata Theory
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• Work Hard, Live Well
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• Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge using virtual machines
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• Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system
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• Imba – A new programming language for the web
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• July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded
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• The Post-YC Slump
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• Designing and Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-19

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

• Call Me Maybe: Chronos
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• How to Get Tenure
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• How “oldschool” graphics worked [video]
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• My husband needed therapy after working for Amazon
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• The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
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• CSS Modules
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• Things to commit just before leaving your job
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• Bootstrap 4 alpha
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• Go 1.5 is released
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• Shutdownify is shutting down
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-18

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

• Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web
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• What does it take to make Google work at scale?
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• Intermediate Python
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• Decertifying the worst voting machine in the US
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• We are barely halfway done
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• How I came to find Linux
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• Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket
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• FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi
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• OnHub
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• Show HN: Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-17

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

• Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015
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• The network is hostile
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• GPS Trackers in Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route
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• Intel open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system
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• React Color – Color Pickers from Sketch, Photoshop, Chrome and More
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• Eve Version 0
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• Project Sunroof
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• Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview
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• How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button
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• Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-16

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

• Why NASA Switched from Unity to Blend4Web
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• Phaser – A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework
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• “Big data” features coming in PostgreSQL 9.5
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• Oliver Sacks: Sabbath
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• We should host the Olympics in the same place every time
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• Google’s S2, geometry on the sphere, cells and Hilbert curve
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• Miller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV
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• OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation
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• Understand 1,700 Mechanical Linkages with These Helpful Animations
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• I made a cell phone [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-15

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

• Oxford University Machine Learning Course
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• CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
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• DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge
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• How California Is Winning the Drought
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• Apes may be closer to speaking than many scientists think
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• A Simple Fix for Drunken Driving: Modest, Immediate Penalties
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• I Will Kill You [video]
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• Saving 25,000 Manuals
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• Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
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• AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-14

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

• Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked
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• FreeBSD 10.2
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• Blinking Commits
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• Edward Snowden at IETF 93
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• VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw
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• Rust in 2016
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• The US digital service
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• Stop Looking for a Cofounder
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• OpenBSD removes support for non-UTF8 locales
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• Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-13

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

• Projects and Companies
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• Ohm (YC S15) is a smarter, lighter car battery that works with your existing car
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• One trillion edges: graph processing at Facebook scale [pdf]
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• Ferrolic
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• Ember.js 2.0 Released
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• Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to Microsoft
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• Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft
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• Tesla Announces $500M Common Stock Offering
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• Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD
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• Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-12

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

• Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2
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• The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures
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• RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability
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• Why Not Insider Trade on Every Company?
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• The pressure to achieve academically is a crime against learning
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• The Teflon Toxin
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• Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane
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• IPython 4.0 Released
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• “It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
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• GitHub Desktop is now available
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-11

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

• Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled
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• Google reveals details about its datacenters
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• Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions
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• “Stop reverse engineering our code”
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• No, You Really Can’t
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• Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced
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• The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
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• Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way
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• Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec
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• Relay Technical Preview
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-10

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

• Parallels Between Math and Software Engineering
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• Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay
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• AWS S3 Outage
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• Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets
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• How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
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• Presumption of stupidity
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• Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data
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• The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work
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• CS for All
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• G is for Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-09

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

• Ask HN: Best resources on webapp security?
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• Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer
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• BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems, and new technologies
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• A collection of postmortems
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• Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks
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• VPaint: An experimental vector graphics editor
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• Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer
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• Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
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• Nvidia Digits DevBox
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• Change Your Name
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-08

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

• Show HN: Is it vulnerable? Drag-n-drop your Gemfile.lock to check
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• U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
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• Beyond PEP 8 – Best practices for beautiful intelligible code [video]
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• How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code
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• Why Rent Is So High and Pay So Low
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• Using a single AWS account is a serious risk
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• Project Euler Humble Return
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• Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
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• The website is unknown – How DNS works
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• Japanese mini Segway “WalkCar”
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-07

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

• X86 rootkit
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• OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild
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• Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
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• Google’s $6B Miscalculation on the EU
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• WebGL Studio
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• Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner
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• Firefox exploit found in the wild
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• Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
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• Unix Toolbox
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• Announcing Rust 1.2
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-06

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

• Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
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• Apache Kafka, Samza, and the Unix Philosophy of Distributed Data
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• Things I would build if I worked at GitHub
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• Training a Neural Net to Generate CSS
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• Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment
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• Insufficient Sleep Is a Public Health Epidemic
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• From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth
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• Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
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• Windows Bridge for iOS
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• Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-05

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

• Emacs X Window Manager
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• Hacker shows he can locate, unlock and remote start GM vehicles
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• Show HN: Image Processing for Everybody
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• We're heading for AOL 2.0
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• In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions
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• Index Funds May Work a Little Too Well
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• 10 Million Events a month, Completely Free
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• It Just Works
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• A little Golang way
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• Tufte CSS
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-04

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

• Pixar Online Library
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• Python Wheels
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• My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers
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• Twitter Contest Winning as a Service
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• A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers
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• How to get gmail.com banned (2011)
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• Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are
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• Federal Judge Strikes Down Idaho ‘Ag-Gag Law’
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• Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack
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• Linus Torvalds did not commit this
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-03

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

• More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (2010)
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• “Googles 'vertical center div css' for the 100th time. reads for 7 minutes”
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• Postgres Guide
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• Hello Ruby – Almost there
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• The Fastest Blog in the World
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• The Web We Have to Save
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• The Unemployable Programmer
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
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• Joining a Different YC
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• LLVM for Grad Students
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-02

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

• Ask HN: What are your best “soft skill” resources?
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• Ask HN: What was Usenet's ultimate demise?
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• Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing [video]
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• Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist
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• Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
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• How to destroy special collections with social media
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• Show HN: Print iconic patents for your walls
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• How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (2014)
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• The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution
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• Reykjavik Center Map
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-01

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

• Microsoft Small Basic
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• Bokken – Open-Source Reverse Code Engineering
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• Looking for new LuaJIT maintainers
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• Django Girls one year later
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• A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared
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• The boom in mini stomachs, brains, breasts, kidneys and more
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• Breaking Smart
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• Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture
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• I am Mt. Gox's first employee – AMA
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• India and Bangladesh have begun the exchange of over 160 enclaves
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-07-31

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

• Preferred number
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• The story of .io
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• How to create NBA shot charts in Python
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• Guido on Python
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• Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK
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• Chaos Computer Club congratulates Netzpolitik.org
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• GravityLight: Generate light with gravity
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• FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader
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• How Does Voxel Quest Work Now?
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• ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself
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