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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-29

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

• Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards
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• Data first, not code first
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• The Case of Richard Glossip
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• Alex King, an original Wordpress developer, has died
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• Let a thousand flowers bloom, then rip 999 of them out
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• Amazon Flex
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• Apple’s approach to privacy
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• Google Nexus 5x and 6P
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• New Chromecast 2015
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• Two HN Announcements
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-28

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

• Procedural City Generation in Python
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• Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
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• Full Reddit Submission Corpus now available for 2006 thru August 2015
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• Sex, Circuits and Deep House
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• Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG
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• Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland
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• Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says
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• Why Airbnb is dead to me
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• Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler
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• Otto, the successor to Vagrant
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-27

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

• Utron: Go MVC framework for fast, scalable and robust database-driven web apps
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• Clarifications about Redis and Memcached
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• “Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves
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• Always bet on text (2014)
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• TempleOS: x86_64 HolyC Compiler/Assembler/Unassembler [video]
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• Google fixes nearly decade-old Linux kernel TCP bug
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• Nix the Tricks: Math tricks defeat understanding
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• Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
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• How I hacked my IP camera, and found this backdoor account
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• The International Flag of Planet Earth
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-26

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

• How Chromium Works
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• Urbit: an operating function
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• Google voice search: faster and more accurate
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• I Have Read Prop F
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• Keybase's New Key Model
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• The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)
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• Terence Tao solves the Erdős Discrepancy Problem
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• Lazy Redis is better Redis
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• The real anti-Facebook is good old email
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• Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-25

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

• Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through
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• Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
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• Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps
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• Thanks HN: Glowforge will open-source its firmware
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• Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says
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• Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler
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• Hard, Not Soft, Kill Switches
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• Elixir v1.1.0 Released
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• From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities
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• Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-24

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

• A Decade at Google
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• Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal
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• Cable Robot Simulator [video]
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• A New Face for Pebble
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• The cure for procrastination? Forgive yourself
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• Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet
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• Years You Have Left to Live, Probably
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• Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads
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• Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
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• John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-23

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

• Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare
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• GNU Taler – Electronic payments for a liberal society
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• Counting Objects
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• Why we're leaving Heroku
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• 'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules
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• What Happens Next Will Amaze You
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• Tech companies lobbying for CISA are abandoning their users' privacy
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• Google Wants to Make Silicon Valley as Bike-Friendly as Copenhagen
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• Launching NginScript
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• Chris Poole
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-22

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

• Introducing Lemur
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• Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA
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• Fukushima
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• Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet
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• GitLab 8.0 released with new looks and integrated CI
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• Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Countries
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• Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More
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• Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
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• A critical Windows component expires in 25 hours
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• When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-21

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

• “This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”
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• The Jason Bourne Aesthetic
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• The Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money
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• Goto in Python
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• To hack an Android phone, just type in a really long password
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• Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight
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• Show HN: Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API
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• Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan
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• Unit Economics
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• The FCC Might Ban Specific Operating Systems
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-20

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

• “We don’t do autism”
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• Statistics for Hackers
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• Better Java – Resources for Writing Modern Java
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• PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet
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• Improved Digital Certificate Security
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• AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
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• AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers
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• Elephants Shot with Poison Arrows Travel to Humans for Help
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• Show HN: Hacker News Simulator
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• Show HN: %%30%30: A Game
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-19

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

• A Simple AI Capable of Basic Reading Comprehension
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• The Hardest chess problem in the world?
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• How David Hume Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis
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• C++ Core Guidelines
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• Subresource Integrity
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• The world's fastest human-powered vehicle tops 85 mph
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• Hit Charade
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• Popular Chinese iOS apps compromised in malware attack
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• How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
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• Ad Blocking Irony
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-18

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

• Wikimedia Maps Beta
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• Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator
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• The sad state of web app deployment
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• Candy Japan hit with credit card fraud
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• Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
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• Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS
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• PyNES: Write NES Games in Python
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• Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss
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• Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over Emissions Software
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• Just doesn’t feel good
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-17

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

• NH Library Votes to Reinstate Tor Relay
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• Marijuana tax take nearly double expected in Colorado
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• I created a fake business and bought it an online reputation
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• Keep Out – A WebGL Game
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• Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners
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• How GOG.com Saves and Restores Classic Videogames
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• The HTTP/2 implementation
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• The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side project (part 4)
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• Announcing Rust 1.3
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• D-Link publishes code-signing private keys by mistake
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-16

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

• 'Hackers' at 20
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• The Art of PNG Glitch
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• Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer
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• Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality
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• HP to cut 25-30k jobs
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• Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
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• 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
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• Texas Student Is Under Police Investigation for Building a Clock
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• I’m Ahmed. Except I’m Not Brown
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• Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-15

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

• Relay: Declarative data for React applications
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• Even the LastPass Will Be Stolen
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• Federal Court Invalidates Gag Order on National Security Letter Recipient
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• GraphQL: A data query language
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• Tmux Resurrect – Persists tmux environment across system restarts
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• Flowchart.js – Simple SVG flow chart diagrams from textual representation
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• US Navy limits 'whale-harming' sonar in Pacific
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• Cisco routers in at least 4 countries infected by highly stealthy backdoor
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• Adrian Frutiger has died
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• Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-14

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

• How to Write a Git Commit Message
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• System XVI: A replacement for systemd
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• Reverse engineering an ancient wireless security keypad using RTL-SDR
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• 3D reproduction of TSA master keys
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• Python Decorators in 12 Steps (2012)
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• 37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned
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• Stripe: Relay
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• React Native for Android
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• Important Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit
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• Our First Certificate Is Now Live
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-13

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

• GDB Dashboard
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• Show HN: Stock recommender system using hedge fund data and machine learning
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• Envelope – Postgres database to web app with just HTML and SQL
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• The Math I Learned After I Thought Had Already Learned Math
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• What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell
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• Concurrency kit – Concurrency primitives and non-blocking data structures in C
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• Introduction to Monte Carlo Tree Search
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• TypeScript and JSX
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• Is it just me or is networking really hard?
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• Python 3.5.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-12

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

• The Most Misread Poem in America
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• Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department
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• Dry erase board lined with IR sensors to record pen strokes [video]
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• U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology With China
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• State court orders Kickstarted game creator to pay $54k for failing to deliver
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• Access Denied to Apple.com
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• What Ever Happened to Google Books?
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• OCaml's 20th Anniversary
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• Warming up to Go
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• Implementing a JIT Compiled Language with Haskell and LLVM
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-11

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

• Reducing workplace burnout: the benefits of exercise
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• Data is not an asset, it’s a liability
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• The British Library Puts Over 1M Images in the Public Domain
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• Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules
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• Computer Sciences Courses That Don't Exist, but Should
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• PostgreSQL Magic
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• A guide to implementing 2D platformers
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• Amazon Web Services in Plain English
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• Elsevier, that just freaked me out
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• Show HN: Make a programmable mirror
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-10

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

• Lisp in Your Language
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• The Hardest Program I've Ever Written
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• How we ended up with microservices
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• Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys from Leaked Photos
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• I'm Begging for Work
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• Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls
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• New human-like species discovered
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• How we cracked millions of Ashley Madison passwords
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• What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community
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• OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-09

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

• San Francisco Should Always Have a Subway Under Construction
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• Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
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• Flexbox in 5 minutes
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• Decline of play and rise of sensory issues in preschoolers
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• We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets
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• An Apple ISA is coming
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• Free Data Science Books
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• Apache NiFi
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• The Hellburner Was the Renaissance Equivalent of a Tactical Nuclear Weapon
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• Apple Unveils the iPad Pro
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-08

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

• Bypassing the Linux kernel for high-performance packet filtering
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• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
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• Immersive Linear Algebra – A free interactive online book
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• Raspberry Pi touch display
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• Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service
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• Sslip.io: A Valid SSL Certificate for Every IP Address
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• Inside Popcorn Time – the world's fastest growing piracy site
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• TSA Master Keys
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• A Beginner’s Guide to Recurrent Networks and LSTMs
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• Node v4.0.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-07

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

• SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure
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• Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic
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• Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38
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• India's Forgotten Stepwells
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• The Founder of Firefox Wrote His Own Screenplay for HBO’s Silicon Valley
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• Fixing Twitter
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• Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft
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• The Pixel Factory
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• Better and worse ways to spot a liar
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• The Internet of Way Too Many Things
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-06

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

• Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
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• Vega: A Visualization Grammar
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• Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy
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• Notes on a tour of an Amazon distribution facility (2014)
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• Open-source Playstation 4 SDK
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• Microservices without the Servers
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• Alda: A music programming language
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• “This week, I resigned from my position at Duke University”
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• Public defender: it’s impossible for me to do a good job representing my clients
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• Death to Bullshit
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-05

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

• St. Petersburg paradox
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• Lost C64 Games: Daffy Duck – 1992 Hi-Tec
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• Procedural Dungeon Generation Algorithm
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• Show HN: Libsoundio 1.0.0 – cross-platform audio input and output
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• The Weight
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• Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit
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• Dead Code Should Be Buried – Why I Didn't Contribute to NLTK
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• The Website That Got Me Expelled
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• The mystery of the fifteen-millisecond breakpoint instruction
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• Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver Model
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-04

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

• Madoko – Write full-blown academic articles in Markdown
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• Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming
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• The Mystery of Devil's Kettle Falls
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• Happy Birthday Monkey Island
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• Responsive CSS grid, reordered with native HTML5 drag and drop
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• Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business
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• How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours
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• CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer
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• How Secure Channels Attempted to Intimidate a Critic and Failed Spectacularly
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• Call Me Maybe: MariaDB Galera Cluster
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-03

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

• Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness
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• “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”
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• New React Developer Tools
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• Fifty
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• ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month
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• HTML5 Deck of Cards
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• Magnetic wormhole created for first time
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• MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core
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• Stripe: Open Source
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• Steve Yegge Grades His Own Predictions
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-02

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

• Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
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• Google PDF Search: “not for public release”
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• Ants are as Effective as Pesticides
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• To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved
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• Biggest image in the smallest space
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• The xkcd survey
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• A Case That Has Microsoft, Apple and Amazon Agreeing
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• Refugees Welcome
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• Regretting the Golden Handcuffs: Beware the Costs of Burnout
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• World Airports Voronoi
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-01

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

• Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity
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• Reviewing Steve Yegge's Prediction Record
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• Structured Procrastination: Do Less, Deceive Yourself, and Succeed Long-Term
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• Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money
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• PGStrom: GPU-accelerated PostgreSQL
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
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• The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job ever
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• Google’s look, evolved
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• Slack Poker Bot
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• Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-08-31

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

• The man who mistook his wife for a hat (1983)
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• Atari's “The Book” (1980) [pdf]
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• Security concerns with minified JavaScript code
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• Google OnHub Review
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• Android Wear now works with iPhones
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• React, Flux, RethinkDB and SageMathCloud – Summer 2015 Update
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• Sandstorm Oasis hosting open beta and App Market
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• Office UI Fabric
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• OS X Yosemite Security and Privacy Guide
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• A native hypervisor is coming to OpenBSD
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