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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-29

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

• On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe
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• ACM 2015 Technical Award Recipients
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• Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
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• SpaceX undercut ULA rocket launch pricing by 40 percent: U.S. Air Force
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• Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
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• Hello Lua
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• Infinit announces Project Dropboxe
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• Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge
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• Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
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• DeepMind moves to TensorFlow
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-28

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

• OpenAI Gym: Toolkit for developing, comparing reinforcement learning algorithms
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• Never trust the client
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• CV of Failures [pdf]
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• Note from Mark Zuckerberg
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• Email privacy bill unanimously passes U.S. House
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• Rube Goldberg machine in HTML forms
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• Who Was Ramanujan?
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• Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors
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• Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases
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• Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-27

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

• Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom
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• ‘Laws’ of Software Development
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• Have Software Developers Given Up?
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• iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
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• WebKit is moving away from prefixes
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• The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science (2015)
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• Compiling an application for use in highly radio-active environments
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• Xamarin Open-Sourced
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• Introducing MIR
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• SpaceX plans to debut Red Dragon with 2018 Mars mission
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-26

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

• Do not talk about pricing
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• Uncanny Valley
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• BYOT: Bring your own team
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• The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs
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• The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t: The Shameful Ordeal of Abu Zubaydah
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• Being a Developer After 40
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• Dropbox Project Infinite
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• Mosh: the mobile shell
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• Chez Scheme is now free
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• Node.js v6.0 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-25

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

• An integer formula for Fibonacci numbers
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• Personal info of 93M Mexicans exposed on AWS
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• /dev/random – a new approach
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• How Kalman Filters Work
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• Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe
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• Half Your Brain Stands Guard When Sleeping in a New Place
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• Chart.js 2.0 Released
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• Dropbox as a Git Server
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• Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition
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• Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-24

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

• Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet
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• Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind
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• Interview with Scott Aaronson
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• Show HN: QBE – a new compiler back end
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• Reversing the Petya ransomware with constraint solvers
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• The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia
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• Bots won't replace apps, only better apps will replace apps
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• For What It’s Worth: A Review of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin”
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• Telomere lengthening via gene therapy in a human individual
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• The Science of Making Friends
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-23

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

• The Arctic Suicides: It's Not the Dark That Kills You
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• U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High
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• Glot.io: Open Source pastebin with runnable snippets and API
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• Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with him
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• The Looting of ShapeShift
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• Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
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• Secret Court Takes Another Bite Out of the Fourth Amendment
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• About rel=noopener
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• When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software
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• AMD stock up 52%
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-22

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

• Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad
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• Jarvis: an Amazon Echo clone in your browser
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• Why the S.E.C. didn't hit Goldman Sachs harder
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• FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone
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• Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangable, typed JSON-superset
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• A Protocol for Dying
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• Boaty McBoatface and the False Promise of Democracy
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• The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install
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• 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
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• San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-21

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

• Off the Grid
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• Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe
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• Got a Hot Seller on Amazon? Prepare for Amazon to Make One Too
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• Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster
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• Arduino in the size of a AA battery
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• How I Hacked Facebook and Found Someone's Backdoor Script
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• Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
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• BootStrap 4 cheatsheet
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• Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet
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• Drone believed to have hit British Airways flight 'may have been a plastic bag'
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-20

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

• AP: South Korea covered up mass abuse, killings of 'vagrants'
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• GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
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• Curing Our Slack Addiction
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• What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity
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• Git Tips
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• Detecting the use of “curl – bash” server side
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• Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours
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• Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes
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• Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational cannabis
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• Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-19

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

• Silicon Valley’s Legendary ‘Coach’ Bill Campbell Has Died
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• Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using motors
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• Nuklear: A small ANSI C GUI toolkit
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• Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
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• Theranos Is Subject of Criminal Probe by U.S
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• Solar now cheaper than coal in India -energy minister:“reality is changing fast”
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• Google.com partially dangerous
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• Lesser-Known Python Data Analysis Libraries
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• Clojure, the Good Parts
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• Intel cutting 11% of workforce
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-18

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

• Develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris
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• Brutalist Websites
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• Remote code execution, git, and OS X
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• Browse Hacker News Like a Haxor
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• Browserball
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• For Female Astronomers, Sexual Harassment Is a Constant Nightmare
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• Kindle Unlimited scammers on Amazon
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• Show HN: Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers
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• How a Diode Changed My Life
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• Bill – by Ben Horowitz
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-17

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

• The murky history of moderation and how it’s shaping the future of free speech
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• Sorry, You Can’t Speed Read
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• TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Distributed Systems (2015) [pdf]
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• In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build
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• Unix’s file durability problem
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• Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam
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• Apple's amusingly round reuse figures
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• Ask HN: Can't concentrate to focus, until it's last minute or later
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• Over $700k selling a premium mobile game
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• Ask HN: Describe your first enterprise sale
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-16

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

• A New Map for America
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• House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality
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• Study of non-programmers' solutions to programming problems [pdf]
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• Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule
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• When Lobbying was Illegal
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• Show HN: I made a Hacker News for podcasts
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• Google has started a video series on machine learning and I can understand it
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• Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout If Congress Passes 9/11 Bill
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• I decided to make a graphics card for my Amiga 2000
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• Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-15

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

• Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
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• Understanding the ginormous Philippines data breach
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• UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
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• Announcing Rust 1.8
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• Google App Engine Silently Stopped Sending Email 5 Weeks Ago
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• Jeremy Guillory's Counter-Complaint against Cruise Automation
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• The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores [pdf]
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• CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic started by UN peacekeepers
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• Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
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• Merkel allows prosecution of German comedian who mocked Turkish president
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-14

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

• Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium
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• Skylake's Linux power management is dreadful you shouldn't buy until it's fixed
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• What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ from Autism After Magnetic Stimulation
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• Proposal: Go should have generics
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• ASCII Art Weather
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• Intelligence Committee Leaders Release Discussion Draft of Encryption Bill
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• He Got Greedy: How the U.S. Government Hunted Encryption Programmer Paul Le Roux
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• Show HN: Kite – Programming Copilot
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• Microsoft Sues Justice Department Over Secret Customer Data Searches
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• Visual Studio Code 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-13

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

• Velocipedia
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• Calculus Learning Guide
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• Facebook Messenger Platform
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• Goldman Sachs Finally Admits It Defrauded Investors During the Financial Crisis
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• How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
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• Uber says it gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12M users
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• Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser
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• Vim 8.0 is coming
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• Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11
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• Cruise
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-12

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

• Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book
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• USB power supply puts 220 Mains power out on USB jack
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• Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness
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• GCE down in all regions
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• Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger words and safe spaces
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• Voltron: A hacky debugger UI for hackers
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• Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS
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• Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks
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• Leaving Beta, New Sponsors
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• A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-11

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

• What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?
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• Top Hacker News Submissions by Year: 2009–2015
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• Show HN: The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction
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• Paul's Online Math Notes
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• Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness' Couple
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• The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy
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• The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
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• The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede
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• Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists Wasn't Told About Tor
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• Hack-petya mission accomplished – Petya ransomware decryptor
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-10

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

• Frog and Toad are Cofounders
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• Metal foam obliterates bullets
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• Knuth versus Email (1999)
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• How a Car Engine Works
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• Domino's: Pizza and Payments
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• Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012)
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• Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP
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• Climate-Related Death of Coral Around World Alarms Scientists
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• Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above
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• Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-09

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

• Erlang 19.0 Garbage Collector
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• If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of Plaintext iMessage Data
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• WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites
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• Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance'
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• The Book of Shaders
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• How a Cashless Society Could Embolden Big Brother
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• Parody O'Reilly book covers
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• The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam
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• SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship for the first time
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• Congratulations You’ve Been Fired
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-08

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

• Hidden latency in the Linux network stack
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• Design better databases
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• Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment when interviewing?
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• Why Erlang Matters
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• React v15.0
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• Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders
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• YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
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• WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users
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• Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up Malware 'Ads'
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• SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast (1:43pm PT)
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-07

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

• Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English
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• WebTorrent Desktop – Open source streaming torrent client
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• More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments
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• The Sugar Conspiracy
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• Bash on Ubuntu on Windows – Download Now
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• Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor
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• Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
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• Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig
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• Internet hyperlinks do not infringe copyright, EU court advised
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• Android Studio 2.0 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-06

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

• The Voyeur's Motel
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• Introducing DGit
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• A Simple Web Developer's Guide to Color
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• GPG signature verification
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• 9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics
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• Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
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• My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
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• 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
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• The Illegal Map of Swedish Art
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• Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-05

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

• Joe Medicine Crow, the Last Link to the Battle of Little Big Horn, Dies at 102
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• Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative
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• Mailtrain.org, self-hosted open-source Mailchimp clone
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• Mutt 1.6
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• Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science
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• Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]
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• GitLab Pages
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• WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
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• Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak
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• It's a Tesla
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-04

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

• Ask HN: How do you review code?
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• Sci-Hub, spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz, angering publishers all over again
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• Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak
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• Panama Papers - 2.6TB leak on offshore tax havens
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• I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg
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• Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked
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• The Panama Papers: how the world’s rich and famous hide their money offshore
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• Freedom and security issues on x86 platforms
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• Google's Nest is disabling some of its customers' old smart-home devices
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• Save Netflix
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-03

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

• Dwarf Fortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence
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• How an Army of Ocean Farmers Are Starting an Economic Revolution
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• Introducing React Storybook
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• Automatic 3Dification of Nintendo Games: The GlEnd() of Zelda
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• Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management
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• How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit
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• Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming
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• US government commits to publish publicly financed software under FOSS licenses
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• Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
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• The TSA Randomizer App Cost $336k
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-02

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

• Apple at 40: The forgotten founder who gave it all away
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• Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest
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• Side Projects
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• Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging
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• How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers
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• Show HN: What every browser knows about you
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• Apple II DOS source code
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• Mozilla founder unveils Bitcoin-based micropayments system for users, publishers
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• Unreal Engine 4.11 Released
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• Go 1.7 toolchain improvements
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-01

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

• Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Has Died
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• Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visualization platform
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• The Invisible Catastrophe: Record Methane Leak in CA
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• Wow, Perl 6
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• Model 3 Unveiling [video]
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• Amnesty International: Encryption Is a Human Rights Issue
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• Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires
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• The Trouble with CloudFlare
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)
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• Squash your commits
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-03-31

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

• Git 2.8.0 released
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• The Trouble with Tor
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• FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor
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• Super Tiny Compiler
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• Erdogan’s Attempt to Suppress German Satire Has the Opposite Effect
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• This should never happen
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• Iceland put top finance executives behind bars, but fears of cronyism remain
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• Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced
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• Mono Relicensed as MIT
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• Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report
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