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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 30, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google launches Public Datasets program
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• BMW are complying with the GPL
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• Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text
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• React Native for OS X
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• Netdata – Linux performance monitoring, done right
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• Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10
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• Ubuntu on Windows
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• Bash on Windows
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• Introducing Safari Technology Preview
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• Microsoft Bot Framework
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 29, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases
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• HIPAA 101 for Software Development Teams
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• My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT
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• FBI Breaks into iPhone. We Have Some Questions
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• In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA
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• Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition
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• Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available
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• How to reduce the cognitive load of your code
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• He Always Had a Dark Side
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• Lyft Carpool: A New Way to Commute
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-28

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

• Accurate CRT Simulation
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• Anatomy of a Co-Branded Credit Card
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• Building Web Apps in Go
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• Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet – Pre-order
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• Follow the money: Apple vs. the FBI
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• Gogs – Go Git Service
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• Oculus Rift is Shipping
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• Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study
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• An 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe [video]
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• U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing iPhone
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-27

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

• Tools for thought: graphical algebra and Fourier analysis
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• The Way of the Gopher: Making the Switch from Node.js to Golang
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• US contractor fined $3.1M for outsourcing work to India
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• My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
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• How to Get Out of Bed
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• VNC Roulette
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• Concurrency in Rust
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• My year in startup hell
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• Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way
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• Law enforcement investigators seek out private DNA databases
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-26

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

• The Deadly Consequences of Solitary with a Cellmate
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• Renting a Friend in Tokyo
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• People with names that break computers
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• NPM Package Hijacking From the Hijacker's Perspective
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• Learning from Tay’s introduction
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• Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens
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• Vulnerability #319816 – npm fails to restrict the actions of malicious packages
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• Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it
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• The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations
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• Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-25

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

• Advanced Linux Programming – book with free PDF (2001)
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• On the Impending Crypto Monoculture
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• Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
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• ECDSA smartphone key extraction using $2 magnetic probe
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• Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)
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• Internet Archive Seeks to Defend Against Wrongful Copyright Takedowns
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• More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security
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• PriceZombie is shutting down
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• Jenkins 2.0 Beta
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• Amazon Provides DIY Echo Plans for Raspberry Pi
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-24

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

• D'Oh My Zsh – How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project
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• Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”
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• What I Learned Selling a Software Business
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• Google opens access to its speech recognition API
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• Require-from-Twitter
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• Left-pad as a service
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• Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter
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• Docker for Mac and Windows Beta
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• Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling
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• Citus Unforks from PostgreSQL, Goes Open Source
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-23

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

• Study: People Want Power Because They Want Autonomy
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• I've Just Liberated My Modules
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• HTTP/HTTPS not working inside your VM? Wait for it
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• An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
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• That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people
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• Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
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• Julie Rubicon
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• I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
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• Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B total
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• NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-22

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

• Reserving your Model 3
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• Legalize It All
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• Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta
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• Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds with Schools Attached
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• Postgresql 9.6: Support parallel aggregation
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• U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone
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• Andy Grove has died
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• Autocomplete from Stack Overflow
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• CDN77 Now Supports Brotli
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• Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-21

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

• Microsoft won't stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents
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• Polymagnets
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• Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
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• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam
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• We only hire the trendiest
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• My Passion Was My Weak Spot
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• Why we should fear a cashless world
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• Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes
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• iPhone SE
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• Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-20

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

• South Korea announces $860M AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock'
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• Security Researcher Goes Missing After Investigating Bangladesh Bank Cyber-Heist
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• 10M Concurrent Websockets
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• Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)
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• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers
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• Thank you for ad blocking
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• $ cat ~/myfile | curl -X PUT --upload-file “-” https://transfer.sh/myfile.txt
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• Toonz Goes Open Source
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• Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]
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• Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-19

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

• Giving up on test-first development
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• Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL
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• Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source
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• BinDiff now available for free
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• I Love the U.N., but It Is Failing
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• I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
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• How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
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• Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
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• Oracle's letter to Russian IT companies
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• Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-18

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

• 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
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• Real-Time Django: Get Started with Django Channels
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• Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist
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• Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
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• Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (2013)
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• The 451 status code is now supported
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• FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking
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• No More Full Table Vacuums in PostgreSQL
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• Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
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• An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-17

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

• Stargate Physics 101: A comedy about the importance of software testing
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• An XSS on Facebook via PNGs and Wonky Content Types
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• Google shares software network load balancer design powering GCP networking
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• Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer
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• Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development
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• Tcpdump is amazing
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• Unmasking Startup L. Jackson
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• Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
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• Facebook is the new Excel
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• A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-16

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

• Adam
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• Apple files final response in San Bernardino iPhone case
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• English Syntax Highlighting
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• VPN Comparison Chart
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• The Deep Roots of JavaScript Fatigue
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• JavaScript libraries should be written in TypeScript
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• FBI Wants It to Be Impractical to Deploy Strong Encryption Without Key Escrow
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• LivingSocial Is Laying Off More Than 50 Percent of Its Staff
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• Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access
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• Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-15

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

• Mozilla Servo alpha will be released in June
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• A man overrides his camera's firmware to bring rare pictures of North Korea back
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• Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism
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• AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game
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• On asking job candidates to code
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• Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Terrorists Do
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• Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8
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• Show HN: Podcat – Imdb for podcasts
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• Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet
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• More code review tools
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-14

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

• GNU Gneural Network
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• The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp
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• Should All Research Papers Be Free?
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• Managing two million web servers
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• Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
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• Scala Center
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• A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
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• Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud
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• Neural Networks Demystified
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• Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-13

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

• A technical guide to SEO
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• With book on Go, Kernighan guides students at Princeton and beyond
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• Why do we work so hard?
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• Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016
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• AlphaGo shows its true strength in 3rd victory against Lee Sedol
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• I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked
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• Stop Using the Daylight Savings Time
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• Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4
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• Work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday
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• RE: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones. YES, WE CAN
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-12

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

• Facebook's new front-end server design
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• State of the Art JavaScript in 2016
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• Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything
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• GM to Acquire Autonomous-Vehicle Technology Developer Cruise Automation (YC W14)
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• Terra Bella
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• Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?
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• Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat
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• Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled
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• AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
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• Breaking homegrown crypto
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-11

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

• NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing
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• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly
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• Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
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• Image Processing 101
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• How OpenGL works: software renderer in 500 lines of code
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• Trackers
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• Please scan my towel
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• A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG
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• I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think
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• Hard Tech is Back
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-10

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

• Is this c/10 spaceship known?
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• Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
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• Let’s Encrypt client will transition to a new name and a new home at EFF
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• RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web
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• Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio
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• Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux
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• How Web Scraping Is Revealing Lobbying and Corruption in Peru
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• Fred Brooks retires
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• Turning two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks
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• AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-09

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

• How I could have hacked any Facebook account
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• My Year in San Francisco’s $2M Secret Society Startup
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• Let’s ban elementary homework
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• Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support
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• Unexpected evidence of a new particle at LHC
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• AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
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• C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers
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• How We Build Code at Netflix
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• Pentagon admits it has deployed military spy drones over the U.S
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• Responsive Pixel Art
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-08

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

• How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?
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• Statisticians Find They Can Agree: It’s Time to Stop Misusing P-Values
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• ​Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine
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• A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)
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• Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates
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• Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust
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• CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs
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• The connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster
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• How to Pass a Programming Interview
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• One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-07

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

• Proselint
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• Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits
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• Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards that keep us ahead of criminals
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• War Is a Racket (1935)
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• FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
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• Ten years on LinkedIn
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• There’s Something Fishy About the Other Nefertiti
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• So, you want to learn bookkeeping
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• Verizon fined $1.3M for supercookie header injection [pdf]
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• Announcing SQL Server on Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-06

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

• Bitcoin transaction processing takes up to 10 hours
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• Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors
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• Learning how to write a 3D engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript (2013)
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• Eating chocolate is associated with improved brain function
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• CEO
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• There are no acceptable ads
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• Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars
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• Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died
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• Let's code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP
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• Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-05

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

• The Untold History of Arduino
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• Beautiful Racket
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• SeedRamp
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• Biggest patent troll of 2014 gives up, drops appeal
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• The 1980s Media Panic Over Dungeons and Dragons
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• Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies
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• What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
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• SpaceX SES-9 Mission Live Webcast
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• The apt command: Combining apt-get and apt-cache and adds a progress bar (2014)
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• When the U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-04

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

• Borg, Omega, Kubernetes: Lessons learned from container management over a decade
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• Nginx reverse proxies retries PUT/POST/DELETE on response timeout by default
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• Samsung ships the world's highest capacity SSD, with 15TB of storage
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• Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.
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• Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the First Amendment
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• Tim Sweeney: Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC
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• Go by Example
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• We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
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• Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead
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• MAME is now Free and Open Source Software
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-03

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

• TiltBrush by Google
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• Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1M people
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• Congress finally showed it's willing to fight the FBI on encryption
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• Curl vs. Wget
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• Amazon Echo Dot
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• BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public License
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• Visual Studio Code for Go
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• Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries
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• Dsxyliea
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• Announcing Rust 1.7
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-02

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

• The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix
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• How to Deploy Software
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• FBI’s Comey Concedes Mistake Was Made Over iPhone in San Bernardino Case
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• Ten lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations (1997) [pdf]
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• I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12
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• Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs
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• Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
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• Go channels are bad
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• Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board
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• Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-01

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

• Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology
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• The Majestic Monolith
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• Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash
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• Free Windows XP-10 VirtualBox/Parallels Images from Microsoft
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• The DROWN Attack
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
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• Mandrill’s Betrayal
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• System Bus Radio
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• Free React.js Fundamentals Course
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• Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-02-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 29, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LambdaNative
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• Hackathon Be Gone
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• Visualize Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, C, and C++ Code Execution
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• Pictures combined using Neural networks
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• This is why people fear the Internet of Things
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• Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale
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• The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
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• React Makes You Sad?
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• Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley
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• Brooklyn Judge: Feds Can't Use All Writs Act to Force Apple's Hand [pdf]
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