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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-30

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

• Re:work – tools and lessons to make work better
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• Random Acts of Optimization
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• Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android
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• Learn C and build your own Lisp
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• New species combining wolf, coyote, and dog emerges in eastern North America
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• Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code
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• Node.js 5.0 Released
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• Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]
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• NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks
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• Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-29

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

• Inside The Fine Art Factories of China
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• Sustaining Digital Certificate Security
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• Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets
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• A lot happens
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• For the First Time, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting
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• Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002
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• China to begin two-child policy
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• PyPy 4.0.0 Released – A Jit with SIMD Vectorization and More
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• An update to UBlock Origin was rejected by the Chrome Web Store
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• You're Eight Times More Likely to Be Killed by a Police Officer Than a Terrorist
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-28

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

• More parents, students saying 'no' to homework
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• PostgreSQL on the Command Line
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• Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
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• CISA passes Senate
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• Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
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• Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business
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• Y Combinator companies I have hacked
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• How to detect lies with a storytelling technique
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• IBM to Acquire the Weather Company
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• Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-27

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

• REI to shut on Black Friday to have employees go outside
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• Timing attack against HSTS to sniff browser history in Chrome and Firefox
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• Vue.js 1.0.0
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• Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown
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• Running the Let's Encrypt Beta
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• Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days
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• Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years
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• Please Do Not Steal My Code, Mock My Analysis, and Present My Ideas as Your Own
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• The $24B Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to Talk About
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• EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-26

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

• What a Deep Neural Network thinks about selfies
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• Facebook secretly lobbying for CISA?
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• Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10
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• Morocco poised to become a solar superpower with launch of desert mega-project
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• List of the Most Popular MOOCs
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• Why Homejoy Failed
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• Paternal stress in mice given to offspring via RNA packed into sperm
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• Introducing Shadow DOM API
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• The Okinawa missiles of October 1962
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• Despite privacy concerns, CISA bill poised for passage
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-25

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

• The Plum-O-Meter: Weighing Plums Using 3D Touch in Swift
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• FE-Schrift – forgery-impeding typeface
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• Japan's hidden caste of untouchables
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• Visualizing popular machine learning algorithms
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• What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II
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• Show HN: Freeze – Amazon Glacier GUI Client for Mac OS X
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• Do you know how much your computer can do in a second?
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• Uber Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter
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• Writing an OS in Rust
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• Write like you talk
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-24

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

• Swarm vs. Fleet vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos
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• How to Get Press for Your Startup
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• Dechoker medical device could end deaths by choking
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• Use this instead of press releases
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• Tell HN: Full Hacker News dataset now available on BigQuery
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• Social Anxiety
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• Dolphins often seem to want to befriend us
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• Mozilla Launches Open-Source Support Program
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• Andrew Ng on Life, Creativity, and Failure
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• Stop forcing arbitrary password rules
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-23

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

• A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
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• Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers
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• OAuth Has Ruined Everything
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• IPFS Pics
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• System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance
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• Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy
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• How I missed an engineering interview after getting singled out by Münchner cops
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• Start of Lightning Bolt Caught on Camera
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• A debtors’ prison in Mississippi
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• Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in copy of Lord of the Rings
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-22

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

• Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review
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• YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal
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• CIA Director John Brennan emails
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• Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (2011)
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• Loophole-free Bell test ‘Spooky action at a distance’, no cheating
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• Introducing the Plex Media Player
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• Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off
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• Early employees take the most risk today
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• A story about <input>
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• The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-21

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

• Tesla shares dive after Consumer Reports yanks recommendation for Model S
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• How to listen to (and delete) everything you've ever said to Google
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• Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones
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• Jepsen: Distributed Systems Safety Analysis
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• Scientists encouraging online piracy with a secret codeword
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• BMW i8 in WebGL
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• Show HN: Metabase, an open source business intelligence tool
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• 23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports
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• YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music
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• Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-20

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

• Chrome Devtools Tips and Tricks
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• The Trading Game
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• Let's Encrypt is Trusted
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• Google’s growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile
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• The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
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• Httpie: A CLI http client
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• OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo
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• Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
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• BoringSSL
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• Guide to Sending Email Like a Startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-19

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

• Structor – UI Builder for React
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• React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10
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• Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard?
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• Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
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• Ogo, a new take on personal transportation
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• How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?
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• iOS Apps Using Private APIs
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• What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon
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• First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf]
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• OpenSSH for Windows update
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-18

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

• The magic kernel
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• The Lonely Death of George Bell
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• Show HN: Arguman – Argument Analysis Platform
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• U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered
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• Restoration of defocused and blurred images (2012)
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• OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English
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• The Dynamic Def – abusing Ruby's def statement
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• OpenBSD 5.8 released
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• 1Password Leaks Your Data
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• MIT's free online classes can now lead to MicroMaster's degree
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-17

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

• Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible
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• Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps
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• Ask HN: What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?
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• Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
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• Markdeep
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• Soviet PCs
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• From Python to Go and Back Again
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• Larry Lessig: I'm All In
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• Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Edward Snowden
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• The Hostile Email Landscape
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-16

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

• Decentralized Reddit using a DHT to store content and a blockchain to rank it
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• Data Infrastructure at IFTTT
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• Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings
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• Red Hat is buying Ansible
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• TPP could thwart computer security research and tinkering
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• Apache 2.4.17 with HTTP/2 support
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• Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation
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• Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project
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• How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
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• Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-15

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

• Engineer builds 'working' Thor's hammer that only he can lift
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• WebKit removes the 350ms click delay for iOS
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• Tesla Model S Autopilot Features
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• Default Alive or Default Dead?
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• How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
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• How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
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• The Drone Papers
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• Page Weight Matters (2012)
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• Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?
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• YC Continuity
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-14

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

• Profile of Margaret Hamilton, programmer of the Apollo software
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• If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy
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• There's No DRM in JPEG – Let's Keep It That Way
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• Judge: NYC Seizing Thousands of Cars Without Warrants Is Unconstitutional
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• Kilogram conflict resolved at last
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• What’s new in HAProxy 1.6
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• Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis
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• Mattermost 1.0 released – open-source Slack alternative
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• Smartcrop.js – content-aware image cropping in JavaScript
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• Square files for IPO
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-13

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

• Node.js: Some quick optimization advice
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• Appeals court hits largest public patent troll with $1.4M fee
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• Complete LiDAR Scan of England Publicly Available
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• Twitter announces layoffs
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• MH17 Report
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• Laser Razor suspended by Kickstarter
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• Auto-Generating Clickbait with Recurrent Neural Networks
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• Flux is the new WndProc
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• The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade for young people
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• Emacs maintainer steps down
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-12

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

• Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers
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• Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department
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• Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B
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• ‘99.99 percent air’: Boeing releases video of revolutionary lightweight metal
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• Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
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• 507 Mechanical Movements (1868)
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• The Little Printf
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• Feynman's Letter to His Wife
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• Off the Grid, but Still Online
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• Show HN: Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-11

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

• From REST to GraphQL
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• Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
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• 'Great Pause' Among Prosecutors As DNA Proves Fallible
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• How to Download a List of All Registered Domain Names
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• An Illustrated Account of the Great Maple Syrup Heist
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• The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics
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• The White Man in That Photo
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• Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots
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• The future of UI is text
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• A global movement to ban urban billboards
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-10

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

• Why Do High-Frequency Traders Cancel So Many Orders?
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• 18F launches cloud.gov
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• Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors
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• Piston – A modular game engine written in Rust
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• Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion
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• Psychedelics Could Trigger A 'Paradigm Shift' In Mental Health Care
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• A Good Vimrc
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• Why police could seize a college student's life savings without charging him
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• Stripe – Outage postmortem
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• Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of World Wide Web
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-09

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

• Machine Learning for Developers
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• Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base
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• Mercury Spill
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• A new approach to web performance
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• Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision
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• LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
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• TPP final negotiated text – IP chapter
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• I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA
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• Guide to Your Equity
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• The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-08

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

• Global eradication of wild poliovirus type 2 declared
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• 100M games played
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• FastMail is not required to implement the Australian metadata retention laws
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• Fifth Amendment Flowchart
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• Microsoft’s Very Good Day
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• Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin Exchange
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• 'Extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time
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• Startup NASA
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• 62% of Americans Have Under $1,000 in Savings, Survey Finds
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• Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-07

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

• Reddit Presents: Upvoted
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• Introducing AWS WAF
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• What Zillow doesn't want you to know about its listing gap
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• Staffpad: a new class of notation app
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• A Guide to Fast Page Loads
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• Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics
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• Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS
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• Amazon Snowball
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• React v0.14
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• YC Research
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-06

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

• Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dangerous for your users
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• Why Intel Added Cache Partitioning
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• The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease
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• Europe's highest court has rejected the 'safe harbor' agreement
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• The microservices cargo cult
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• I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
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• CBCrypt: Encrypt from the client rather than send passwords to servers
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• Surface Book
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• Flux Challenge
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• Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-05

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

• Why the Internet Needs IPFS
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• A cartoon guide to Flux
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• Microsoft, stop sending user identifiers in clear text
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• Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive
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• Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached
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• Closing a door
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• IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards
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• Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over'
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• Nylas N1 – extensible open-source mail client
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• Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-04

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

• The Decline of ‘Big Soda’
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• How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment, in Seconds, for Free
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• Beautiful People Are the Hardest to Draw: Interview with a Courtroom Artist
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• Erlang/OTP architectures: Cowboy
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• 007, a small experimental language with a license to macro
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• ShareX – Open-source screenshare software
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• The Benefits of a Quiet Ego
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• Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers
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• Probability, Paradox, and the Reasonable Person Principle
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• Google Cloud Shell
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-03

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

• Mapzen Search: An open source geocoding api built on open data
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• Surprisingly Turing-Complete
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• Show HN: Dtab – Spreadsheet for Data Science
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• LibreSSL, and the new libtls API
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• World map of the difference between solar and clock time
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• Lessons learned writing highly available code
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• I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972
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• Using htop to generate a live website background
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• Windows 10 and .NET Native
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• Losing Sight
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-02

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

• Git Large File Storage 1.0
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• Why Fogbugz lost to Jira
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• East Texas judge throws out 168 patent cases
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• Microsoft Edge gets native ECMAScript 7 async/await support in latest build
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• To Master Vim, Use It Like Language
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• One founder, zero staff, making $1.2M in monthly recurring revenue
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• Free Lossless Image Format
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• Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
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• Image diffing using CSS
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• Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-01

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

• Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element
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• My 90's TV
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• A tumor stole every memory I had – what happened when they came back
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• Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
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• El Capitan and Homebrew
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• Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity
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• The sky's gone dark
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
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• Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam
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• Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-09-30

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

• Doing an HD Remake the Right Way
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• Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Years, Autonomous in 3
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• Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
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• How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson”
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• Paris city centre goes car-free for a day
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• Clipboard.js: Modern Copy to Clipboard
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• Boredom is not a problem to be solved, it's the privilege of a free mind
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• Meet Model X
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• Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results
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• Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?
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