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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-29

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

• Must-See JavaScript Dev Tools
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• The Utopian UI Architect
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• Coding is boring, unless
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• Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
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• Programming Interactive Worlds with Linear Logic
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• The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud (2014)
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• Addicted to Distraction
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• Switching from OS X to FreeBSD – Both Desktop and Laptop
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• WebGL water scene
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• How to Structure React Projects
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-28

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

• Hostnames and usernames to reserve
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• How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix (2011)
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• Perl 6 Introduction
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• Why use ECC?
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• Less than 24 hours on Udemy as an instructor and I’m close to leaving
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• Node.js running in the new Airbus A350 inflight servers
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• The New Atomic Age We Need
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• English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
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• Gimp 2.9.2 Released
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• Real-Time Strategy Game AI: Problems and Techniques [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-27

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

• Worg, the Org-Mode Community
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• Panicparse: Crash your Go app in style
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• Things the media does to manufacture outrage
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• An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
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• Alchemy – Open Source AI
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• Listening to satellites for $30
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• Bertrand Russell: The Triumph of Stupidity
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• Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight
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• 0 A.D.: A free, open-source game of ancient warfare
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• Pirated Courses on Udemy
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-26

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

• My life after 44 years in prison
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• DspGuru
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• Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
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• The TTY demystified
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• Free Pascal Compiler Version 3.0.0
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• Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
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• Shrinking to Zero: The Raspberry Pi Gets Smaller
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• I may be the only evil bit user on the internet
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• Pirate needs 200k video views to avoid being sued
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• The Secret Ingredient in Orange Juice
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-25

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

• First Timers Only
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• Animated SVG vs. GIF
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• A map of one million scientific papers from the arXiv
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• MagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spoofer
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• Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
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• A blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see
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• Booting Linux in One Second [pdf]
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• Dream of New Kind of Credit Union Is Extinguished by Bureaucracy
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• The Yale Problem Begins in High School
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• Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-24

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

• Garden path sentence
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• A Python tutorial on Bayesian modeling techniques
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• The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx
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• EC2 Dedicated Hosts
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• A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities
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• New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight
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• Blue Origin Makes Historic Rocket Landing
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• Microsoft's Software is Malware
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• LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB
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• What can a technologist do about climate change?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-23

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

• Fallout 4 Service Discovery and Relay
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• Robot gets rid of weeds automatically and without herbicides
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• Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft
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• United Airlines Bug Bounty: An experience in reporting a serious vulnerability
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• The End of the Internet Dream
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• How do Promises Work?
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• If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice
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• Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA
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• Google Launches Android Studio 2.0
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• The Story Behind the New WordPress.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-22

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

• How to Be a Lawyer Without Going to Law School
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• Non-photo blue
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• YArchive
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• What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)
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• How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential
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• I believed we would face an antibiotics apocalypse, until now
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• I Want to Run Stateful Containers, Too
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• Map of the Roman Empire Published Under CC 3.0 CC-BY
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• A remake of the Windows pipes screensaver using Three.js
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• The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (1987)
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-21

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

• Drupal 8.0.0 released
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• Math.random in V8 is broken
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• Mo.js – motion graphics for the web
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• Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you by default
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• Domain-validated SSL will soon be free from the large CAs
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• Tesla recalling 90,000 Model S sedans to check seat belts
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• File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance Program
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• Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave
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• Covariance and Contravariance
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• Webtorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-20

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

• Web login using SSH
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• Apache Geode: Distributed, in-memory database
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• Deep inside the Linux kernel: a network latency spike
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• We know the city where HIV first emerged
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• Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems
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• Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is accepted
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• Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern
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• The Macro
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• Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It
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• NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-19

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

• Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects
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• A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists
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• Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
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• Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014
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• John McCain wants to outlaw encryption that the US government can't crack
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• Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
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• Berlin public transport in real time
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• Chuck Forsberg has died – author of Zmodem
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• Making Elm faster and friendlier in 0.16
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• ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-18

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

• Even the LastPass Will Be Stolen
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• Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
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• Dockercraft: Manage Docker containers from Minecraft
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• Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick
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• Python 3 makes it easier to develop high-quality software
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• Visual Studio Code is now open source
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• Announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC
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• Visual Studio Code Is Now Open-Source
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• The Space Doctor’s Big Idea
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• Gaming the H-1B system for good
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-17

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

• Use micromorts to fight terrorism
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• Zenefits launches free payroll software for small businesses
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• The bug that almost killed Google's Pac-Man doodle
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• Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and cluster recovery
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• The War ISIS Wants
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• VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
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• Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack
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• Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
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• U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks
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• Introducing the new Google+
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-16

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

• Xv6
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• 18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1
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• Sigma.js: a JavaScript library for graph drawing
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• Walmart’s $10 Smartphone Has Better Specs Than the Original iPhone
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• Physics Forests
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• The Advertising Bubble
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• Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8
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• The most popular curl download – by a malware
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• Jessica Livingston
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• Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-15

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

• How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name
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• Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again
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• Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation
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• CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng
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• We need less powerful languages
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• Opposition to Facebook's new internet.org
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• The Birth of ZFS [video]
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• We dissent
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• Kashmir: A statically typed Lispy language compiling to Go
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• “f.lux has been ready to ship for iOS for four years, but we need Apple's help.”
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-14

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

• Why the Tor attack matters
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• Fuel for nuclear bomb in hands of unknown Russian black marketeer, officials say
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• How to minimize procrastination
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• The world is entering a third stage of a rolling debt crisis
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• Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due to Expired Security Certificate
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• Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC
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• Writing code doesn't mix well with oration
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• Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
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• State of emergency in France
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• Freeciv founded 20 years ago today
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-13

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

• Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier
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• How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide basic income in the EU
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• How Insects Breathe
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• Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections
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• Gene Amdahl has died
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• Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services
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• 0.30000000000000004
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• Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs
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• Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths
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• State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-12

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

• Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web
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• Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7
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• IP traffic over ICMP tunneling
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• Parallel Sequential Scan is Committed to PostgreSQL 9.6
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• Did the FBI Pay a University to Attack Tor Users?
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• Firefox for iOS now available
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• A Quasipolynomial Time Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism: The Details
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• Firefox’s New Memory Tool
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• Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal
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• f.lux for iOS is no longer available
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-11

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

• A View of the Entire Netflix Stack
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• Google launches offline maps
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• Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First Week of Hearts
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• Gmail, We Need to Talk
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• FastMail under DDoS Attack
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• Windows game developer about porting to and using OS X
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• On Being Smart (2009) [pdf]
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• The Impossible Music of Black MIDI
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• What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money
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• Show HN: Parinfer – a simpler way to write Lisp
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-10

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

• Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]
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• Looking back at 9 years of Hacker News
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• Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program
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• The Government Uses Zero Days for “Offense”
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• Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test
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• TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain
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• The most powerful mobile electromagnetic railgun built by a non-government
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• Six years of Go
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• Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program
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• Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-09

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

• StarCraft: The past, present and future
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• Why people keep trying to erase the Hollywood sign from Google Maps (2014)
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• Chronos Will Turn Any Watch into a Smartwatch
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• Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph (2009)
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• EditorConfig
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• Balsillie fears TPP will cost Canada billions
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• My Year as a Pro-Russia Troll Magnet
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• TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence
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• Atlassian files for IPO
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• No more fillings as dentists reveal new tooth decay treatment
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-08

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

• ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway
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• Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first
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• Fermented foods probably deserve their healthful reputation
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• Lost at sea: a man who vanished for 14 months
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• Interview by a 15 Year Old
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• News is bad for you (2013)
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• Why I Quit Ordering from Uber-For-Food Startups
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• FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client
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• The category design pattern
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• What We Owe the MythBusters
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-07

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

• Ramanujan surprises again
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• The Decay of Twitter
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• Modernizing Python's IDLE
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• Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees
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• Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix
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• Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the last 100 years?
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• The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyperlink
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• Leaked Comcast docs prove 300GB cap has nothing to do with network congestion
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• Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
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• Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-06

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

• CodePush by Microsoft
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• A lot of websockets in Haskell
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• Release of the Full TPP Text Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights
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• The Mathematics of Paul Graham's Bias Test
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• Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google
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• MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade
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• TPP banning requirements to transfer or access to source code of software
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• Five hours with Edward Snowden
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• Thank you, Y Combinator
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• 24/192 music downloads make no sense
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-05

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

• Confidant: an open-source secret management service from Lyft
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• Ledger, a command-line accounting system
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• The Hard Truth About Boiled Eggs (2014)
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• Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway for $3.9B
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• Firefox Now Offers a More Private Browsing Experience
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• I found my father living on the street
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• Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership – TPP
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• Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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• The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source
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• Startup Playbook
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-04

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

• Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs for personal use
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• Introducing 1Password for Teams
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• Announcing Docker 1.9: Production-Ready Swarm and Multi-Host Networking
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• Pentagon Has No Idea Where $800M Went
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• Norway: photographs taken of the same places separated by long periods of time
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• Bitcoin Surges Past $400
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• New Emacs maintainer
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• Microsoft and Red Hat partner
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• Reconsider
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• Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-03

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

• Static Website Generators Are the Next Big Thing
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• Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives
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• E.P.A. Finds More VW Cheating Software, Including in Porsches
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• Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
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• Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app
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• I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil
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• How the F.B.I. Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk
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• The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix
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• Computer, Respond to This Email
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• Why nuclear energy is our best option at the moment
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-02

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

• The two faces of Airbnb
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• WebAssembly: a binary format for the web
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• Neovim public release 0.1.0
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• Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
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• Germany is turning on its monster stellarator
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
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• GTA V – Graphics Study
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• Chrome OS is here to stay
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• Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign
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• The Tech Bust of 2015
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-11-01

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

• Fountain – A markup language for screenwriting
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• GNU Hurd 0.7 has been released
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• Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need
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• Linux TCP will have lockless listener processing 3.5M SYNs per sec
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• Busybox removes support for systemd
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• Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms (2013)
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• Your own Debian Mail Server (part II): how to prove you are not a spammer
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• My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
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• Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
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• How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-10-31

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

• What’s Really Killing Digital Health Startups
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• ‘The Senator Be Embezzling’
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• Do One Thing
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• Developing in Stockfighter with No Trading Experience
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• EFF asks appeals court to “shut down the Eastern District of Texas”
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• Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings
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• Rikers Drove My Innocent Patient to Plead Guilty
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• Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice
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• Apple doesn’t allow Chaos Computer Club content on its platform
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• A Way to Detect Bias
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