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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The New Web Typography
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• 52-hertz whale
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• Obama's Librarian Of Congress Nominee Supports Open Access, Fights Surveillance
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• Outlook 2016’s New POP3 Bug Deletes Your Emails
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• Rqlite: Replicated SQLite using the Raft consensus protocol
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• What My PhD Was Like
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• SSD reliability in the real world: Google's experience
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• How to Code and Understand DeepMind's Neural Stack Machine in Python
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• After the Gold Rush
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• Most software already has a “golden key” backdoor: the system update
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 27, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Twitter's missing manual
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• AT&T sues Louisville to stop Google Fiber from using its utility poles
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• Developing Our First iOS App with React Native
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• PostgreSQL Indexes: First principles
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• Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation
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• Wesley A. Clark, legendary computer engineer, dies at 88
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• Company Makes $70M Selling Random Stuff on Amazon
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• MentalHealthError: an exception occurred
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• We Should All Have Something to Hide (2013)
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• AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 26, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Swift Ported to Android
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• GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux
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• Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
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• Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts
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• Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk
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• Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
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• Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer
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• What Developers Should Know About Job Searching and Negotiation
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• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi
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• After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher server is back
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 25, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Confirmed: CMU Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed by Feds
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• Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
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• I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to
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• Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
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• TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Dismantled in Secret
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• KeeWeb: Unofficial KeePass web and desktop client
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• What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
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• Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS
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• What Does It Take to Be a ‘Best-Selling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes
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• Microsoft Says It Backs Apple in Case Over Terrorist's Phone
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 24, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Windows 98 in browser
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• No patent if invention lies only in computer program, says Indian Patent Office
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• Million Dollar Curve
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• Atlas, the Next Generation [video]
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• Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones
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• Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
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• Stripe Atlas
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• Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
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• The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up
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• Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 23, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• ESP8266: A $5 microcontroller with wi-fi that runs Python
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• Linux 4.5-rc5: efivarfs fixed to avoid “rm -rf /” bricking UEFI
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• The US Government has no credibility to compel anybody to weaken security
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• A New Breed of Trader on Wall Street: Coders with a Ph.D
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• DuckDuckGo ES6 Cheatsheet
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• Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone
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• Texter
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• Why I don't want stuff
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• German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens
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• Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 22, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• CoeLux: Artificial Sunlight That’s Real Enough to Trick Your Camera and Brain
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• What’s Next in Computing?
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• AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep
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• The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
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• Amazon Free Shipping minimum is now $49
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• Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised
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• Answers to your questions about Apple and security
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• Show HN: how2 – stackoverflow.com from the terminal
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• GitLab 8.5 released
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• Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 21, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Judge Rules FBI Must Reveal Malware It Used to Hack Over 1,000 Computers
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• Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
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• Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online
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• Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory
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• Lamdu – towards a new programming experience
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• Discover Flask
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• Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
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• Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse
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• The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law
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• PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 20, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Secret Memo Details U.S.’s Broader Strategy to Crack Phones
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• Why Don't People Manage Debt Better?
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• An introduction to IPFS
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• The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem
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• Umberto Eco has died
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• Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case
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• A bot has successfully appealed $3M worth of parking tickets in the UK
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• The Joy and Agony of Haskell in Production
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• San Bernardino County tweets it reset attacker iCloud password at FBI's request
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• 555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 19, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body
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• Upload files to your repositories
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• Mathematics Animations
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• iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta
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• Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
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• Why Apple Is Right to Challenge an Order to Help the F.B.I
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• Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
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• The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice
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• Harper Lee Has Died
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• How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Stack Overflow: The Architecture – 2016 Edition
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• Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox
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• Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary
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• Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World
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• Go 1.6 is Released
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• Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said”
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• Paul Graham on Doing Things Right by Accident
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• SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
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• Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
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• Apple Apologizes and Updates iOS to Restore iPhones Disabled by Error 53
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Missing Malaysia Jet MH370 Weeks Away from Keeping Secrets Forever
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• Patent Owners Can Prevent You from Owning Anything
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• We Need a Better PC
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• Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone
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• China's Subprime Crisis Is Here
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• A Message to Our Customers
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• Apple can comply with the FBI court order
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• How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
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• How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
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• Issue and Pull Request templates
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks
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• Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed in Iraq
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• Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails
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• The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thousands of innocent people
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• Uber's Design Meltdown
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• Show HN: Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes
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• Vulkan is Here
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• Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow
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• Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015
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• Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery of gravitational waves
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• Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
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• Why GNU Emacs?
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• I no longer understand my PhD dissertation
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• What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug
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• New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors
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• FFmpeg 3.0 released
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• Kotlin 1.0 Released: Pragmatic Language for JVM and Android
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• Too many people have peed in the pool
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• We're hearing about troubles at Nest
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom
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• Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices
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• So you want to write a package manager
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• Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether
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• Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack
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• Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
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• LIGO Gravitational Wave Data in iPython Jupyter Notebooks
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• Electronic Arts Standard Template Library for C++ Open Sourced
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• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died
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• Why I don't like smartphones
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Subuser turns Docker containers into normal Linux programs, limiting privileges
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• Internet Access Is Finally Permanently Tax Free in the U.S.
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• Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data
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• Without affordable housing, Vancouver risks becoming an economic ghost town
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• Moving on from Picasa
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• Choose GitLab for your next open source project
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• Wikimedia removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law
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• SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans
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• Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
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• 3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What It Feels Like to Freeze on National Television
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• Vanguard's Low Blow
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• What do you mean ‘we need more time’? Project schedule estimation in software
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• Investigate switching away from GitHub
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• Zenefits Software Helped Brokers Cheat On Licensing Process
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• Adblock via /etc/hosts
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• Airbnb purged 1,000 listings from its site days before data snapshot
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• Download.com and Others Bundle Superfish-Style HTTPS Breaking Adware
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• GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
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• Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Kill Your Dependencies
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• Google is banning Flash from its display ads
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• Bokeh – a Python interactive visualization library
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• The curse of the gifted programmer (2000)
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• Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform
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• What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable
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• Gravitational waves detected by LIGO
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• SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses
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• Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
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• Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Diff So Fancy: make Git diffs look good
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• Why Stack Overflow Doesn’t Care About Ad Blockers
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• Olbers’ Paradox: Why Is the Sky Dark at Night? (2000)
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• Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
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• We're ditching the office completely
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• U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers
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• Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
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• Show HN: Deepstream.io – open-source real-time server with pub/sub and data sync
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• Deco Software – React Native IDE
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• My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Zen of Erlang
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• PayPal CTO Resigns
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• Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO
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• Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns
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• Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ
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• GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
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• Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents
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• Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration
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• Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment
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• Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SSH: Best practices
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• CSS Variables landing in Chrome 49
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• The Rent-Seeking Is Too Damn High
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• Disappointed with Europe, Thousands of Iraqi Migrants Return Home
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• Avast: a Chromium fork with critical security checks removed
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• India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content
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• Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life
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• Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew (2013)
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• Flash-Free Video in 2016
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• Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dead Men Write No Code
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• Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side
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• Rust vs. C++: Fine-grained Performance
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• Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it
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• So you still don't understand Hindley-Milner? (2013)
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• Google shuts down Amazon unionization website
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• How We Release So Frequently
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• America Is Flint
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• The Rich Are Already Using Robo-Advisers, and That Scares Banks
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• Records: Python library for making raw SQL queries to Postgres databases
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine
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• Unlocking my Lenovo laptop battery
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• ZCash (formerly Zerocash/Zerocoin) technology preview
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• Docker Official Images Are Moving to Alpine Linux
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• Diesel: A Safe, Extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
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• TempleOS V4.02 Released
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• Watson for President
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• iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs
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• PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services
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• GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Aerodynamic by Daft-Punk in 100 lines of code with Sonic Pi
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• Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous
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• How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)
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• VISA Api: The Power of Visa Network Delivered as an API
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• Laura Poitras Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance
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• The Malware Museum
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• Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden
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• Dragula: Simple drag-and-drop for the browser
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• LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value
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• Tableau stock down almost 50%
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Idea Debt
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• Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team
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• January 28th Incident Report
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• Computer Science Field Guide
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• No More Deceptive Download Buttons
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• How I Sold My Bible App Company
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• Wikileaks' Assange wins U.N. ruling on 'arbitrary detention“
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• “We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the 2.6 release”
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• Apple’s declining software quality
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• Introducing the Keybase filesystem
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nginx module by Google for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth
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• Use Atom to edit in Chrome
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• LSD: My Life-Saving Drug
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• Microsoft Is Acquiring London’s AI-Driven Swiftkey for $250M
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• Facebook at Work
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• Heisenberg Developers (2014)
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• The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016
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• Secret US flight flew over Scottish airspace to capture Snowden
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• Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?
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• Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate
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• Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X
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• Show HN: An algorithm to automatically turn photos of food into faces
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• Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client
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• Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime”
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• Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf
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• GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3
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• 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN
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• Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics
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• Bad USB-C cable destroys laptop
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Treasure in a Cornfield
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• No POST after rm -rf /
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• Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers
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• Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode
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• Show HN: Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
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• How we use Slack in our family
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• Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
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• Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units
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• Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google Open Source Load Balancer in Go
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• List of high-quality open datasets in public domains
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• Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Became the Barbie Doll
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• CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
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• Why use www?
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• How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off
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• Introducing Bootstrap Studio
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• Deep Learning Is Easy – Learn Something Harder
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• Pingendo – Free, simple app for Bootstrap prototyping
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• UCOP Ordered Spyware Installed on UC Data Networks
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