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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-30

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

• How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (2003)
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• Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979)
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• The real responsive design challenge is RSS
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• How Not to Explain Success
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• Why Most Unit Testing is Waste (2014) [pdf]
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• A New Threat Actor Targets UAE Dissidents
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• Deep API Learning
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• Making an RPG in Clojure (2010)
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• Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a 'public service'
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• Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-29

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

• A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a visit to a subsea cable site
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• Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know
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• Affiliate links on Reddit
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• I created Godwin's Law in 1990 as a warning
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• The Delightful Perversity of Québec's Catholic Swear Words
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• What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Germany?
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• Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's plan for a household robot
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• Flask 0.11 Released
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• How big an issue is the nausea problem for VR products?
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• 500 Lines or Less
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-28

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

• Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus
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• Apple, Microsoft, and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash
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• Harvey OS – A Fresh Take on Plan 9
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• Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because of Zika
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• Thinking in React
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• W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD
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• Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)
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• Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins
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• Blocklist of all Facebook domains
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• The Quiet Crisis Unfolding in Software Development
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-27

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

• FPGA Webserver
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• Comparing Git Workflows
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• Announcing Rust 1.9
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• Person carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort found in U.S.
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• Symantec Issues Intermediate CA Certificate for Blue Coat Public Services
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• Apps made for one OS shouldn't insist on aping the design elements of another
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• FBI raids dental software researcher who discovered patient data on FTP server
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• How I turned “Street Sharks” into an online social experiment
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• Crying
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• All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-26

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

• A2: Analog Malicious Hardware
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• Nix as OS X Package Manager
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• LinkedIn called me a white supremacist because I happen to share a name with one
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• Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
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• Housing in the Bay Area
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• Visiting Chelsea Manning in prison
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• Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X
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• React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp
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• Twilio S-1
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• Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-25

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

• Pixar in a Box
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• Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL
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• For first time since 1880s, more young Americans live with parents than partner
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• Unnecessariat
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• E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display
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• Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
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• Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand
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• Today is Towel Day
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• Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
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• Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-24

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

• Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
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• Pastejacking
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• Japan adding mandatory programming education to all elementary schools
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• China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works
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• TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone
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• CryEngine out on GitHub
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• The Tor Project: Building the Next Generation of Onion Services
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• Pebble 2, Time 2 + All-New Pebble Core
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• Programmers are not different, they need simple UIs
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• Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-23

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

• So You Wanna Buy a Telescope: Advice for Beginners (2015)
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• IBM is not doing \"cognitive computing\" with Watson
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• AWS Lambda Is Not Ready for Prime Time
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• Universal.css
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• We Only Hire the Best
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• Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview
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• Hyper-Reality [video]
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• GitLab Container Registry
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• Netflix Will Be the Exclusive US TV Home of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar
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• Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-22

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

• Scratchapixel: Computer Graphics Programming from Scratch
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• Charge, a phone company with features for nerds
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• GHC 8.0.1 is available
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• Blue. No, Yellow
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• Uber users with low phone batteries more likely to accept surge pricing
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• Two Bytes to $951M
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• Nigerians Dominate Scrabble Tournaments Using Five-Letter Word Strategy
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• Cling: An Interactive C++ interpreter
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• $12M stolen from 1,400 convenience store ATMs across Japan in 2 hours
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• My time with Rails is up
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-21

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

• Anguish: Invisible Programming Language and Invisible Data Theft
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• If you care about privacy, you should not use Google Allo
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• Moving Away from Python 2
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• A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing
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• House tells NASA to start planning two Europa missions
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• Top developers can have a life outside coding
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• Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron
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• Apache Guacamole
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• Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
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• “Eat, sleep, code, repeat” is such bullshit
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-20

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

• Google's mapping cars discover hundreds of underground gas leaks
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• LinkedIn password leak
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• More contributions on your profile
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• A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
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• Libui: GUI library in C
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• China Fakes 488M Social Media Posts a Year: Study
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• CSS coding techniques
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• Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today
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• How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
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• FOX 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-19

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

• Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo
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• Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up
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• Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results
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• Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
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• Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools
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• Chrome removes Backspace to go back
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• Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
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• How I Accidentally Captured the SpaceX Falcon 9 Landing
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• Bootcamps vs. College
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• Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-18

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

• “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
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• Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation
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• Why I don't spend time with Modern C++ anymore
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• Improving Docker with Unikernels: Introducing HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit
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• The 9 lines of code that Google allegedly stole from Oracle
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• Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test
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• AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
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• Google Home
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• Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
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• Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-17

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

• Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project
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• Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
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• JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
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• High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”
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• Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives, US government says
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• Cool URIs don't change (1998)
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• One Billion Drive Hours and Counting: Q1 2016 Hard Drive Stats
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• Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time
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• Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
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• Reason: A new interface to OCaml
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-16

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

• Linux 4.6 is out
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• The MOnSter 6502
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• The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)
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• CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs
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• Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1B Position in Apple
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• Stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones, new federal data show
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• How Intel missed the smartphone market
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• Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo
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• One year of Rust
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• WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-15

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

• Setting Up a Deep Learning Machine from Scratch
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• An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death
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• Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area
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• Lambda expression comparison between C++11, C++14 and C++17
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• A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming
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• Helix: Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue
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• Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it (2007)
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• A Small London Company That Makes Beautiful Globes
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• A former CIA spy has revealed his key role in the arrest of Nelson Mandela
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• Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-14

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

• The Panic Sign
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• Taking Rust everywhere with rustup
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• Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes
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• Giving up on Julia
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• That'll do, pig, that'll do
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• Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
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• Why I Haven’t Fixed Your Issue Yet
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• ZFS lands in Debian contrib
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• Germany plans to remove owner liability for piracy on open Wi-Fi hotspots–report
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• A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-13

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

• Gboard: Search, GIFs, emojis and more from your iPhone keyboard
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• Artem vs. Predator
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• An Open Letter to Members of the W3C Advisory Committee
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• AWS IoT Button
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• Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area
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• New Sublime Text update
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• Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing
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• “I must, sadly, withdraw my endorsement of Yubikey 4 devices”
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• A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant
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• Did I just win?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-12

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

• Spark 2.0 Technical Preview
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• Prison phones are a predatory monopoly – One family fought back and won
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• Facebook CTF Is Now Open Source
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• HARC
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• The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put an End to It
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• Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming
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• A Brain Dump of What I Worked on for Uncharted 4
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• A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years
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• Pennsylvania license plate reader SUV camouflaged as Google Street View vehicle
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• Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-11

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

• Redis Loadable Modules System
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• Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App
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• Essential C (2003) [pdf]
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• Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels
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• Introducing unlimited private repositories
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• Electron 1.0 is here
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• After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to reply
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• Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Olympics must not proceed
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• Scala Native
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• Save Firefox
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-10

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

• Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup, Then It Self-Disrupted
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• TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
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• PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS
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• How Breakfast Became a Thing
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• Why do old statues have such small penises?
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• Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?
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• Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
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• A Farewell to FRP
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• Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log service
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• Teaching C
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-09

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

• FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence from Secret Cell-Phone Trackers
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• The End of Prison Visitation
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• Java Polyfill for the Browser
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• How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying It from India
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• “We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”
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• The cave divers who went back for their friends
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• Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills
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• Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
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• Why OpenBSD Is Important to Me
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• Panopticon: A libre, cross platform disassembler for reverse engineering
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-08

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

• Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because of Antivirus Scan
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• Real World Microservices: When Services Stop Playing Well and Start Getting Real
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• Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs
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• Tesla crash after flying 82 feet in the air shows importance of a crumple zone
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• We discovered our parents were Russian spies
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• Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for
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• Giant bags of mostly water: Securing your IT infrastructure
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• Learning Chess at 40
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• Why Suburbia Sucks
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• New GNU Emacs website
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-07

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

• TheAIGames – Develop your coding skills by competing in various AI competitions
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• Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blog
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• Panama Papers source issues statement
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• Homeless alone
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• GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa
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• Rails 5.0.0.rc1
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• Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010)
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• Our 2016 Open Source Donations
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• NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series
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• OxyContin's 12-hour problem
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-06

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

• .NET framework ported to NetBSD
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• The void left by the parallel port
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• Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016
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• SpaceX: “Landing confirmed”
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• SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch
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• Redis 3.2.0 is out
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• Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades
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• Phrack 69 released
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• Inside Palantir
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• Tell HN: Apply HN apology and revision
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-05

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

• 78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis
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• The Startup Zeitgeist
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• Japan Now Has More Electric Car Charging Spots Than Gas Stations
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• Apple Stole My Music
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• Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'
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• Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
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• A beginner's guide to Big O notation (2009)
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• 30 years later, QBasic is still the best
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• Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it
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• Microsoft no longer allows admins to block Windows Store access in Win10 Pro
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-04

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

• OpenSSL Security Advisory
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• Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment
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• Scientists say sudden oak death epidemic is no longer stoppable
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• Uvloop: Fast Python networking
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• I wrote a small piece on planned death
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• Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble
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• Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say
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• New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutting Coal
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• Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
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• Nine years of censorship
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-03

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

• After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight
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• Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
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• Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
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• After a year of using Node.js in production
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• Weep for Graphics Programming
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• Programming cheat sheets
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• Putting the Tesla HEPA Filter and Bioweapon Defense Mode to the Test
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• The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
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• A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
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• Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-02

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

• “Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now”
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• SSH for Fun and Profit
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• Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser
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• RIP Kuro5hin
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• Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
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• Craig Wright's signature is worthless
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• TTIP Leaks
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• Gavin Andresen's commit access to Bitcoin revoked, hacking suspected
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
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• WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-01

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

• I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch
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• Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently
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• Simon Peyton Jones Elected into the Royal Society Fellowship
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• Lavabit code open sourced
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• What Happened to Google Maps?
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• \"Payload to Mars\" Added to SpaceX Pricelist
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• 9/14/14: Sold 500 edu copies of Air Display 2. 4/25/16: All 500 refunded
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• McLaren needs Compaq laptops with bespoke CA cards to maintain the remaining F1s
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• Rule 41 Proposes to Grant New Hacking Powers to the Government
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• Go best practices, six years in
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-04-30

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

• Infosec's Jerk Problem (2013)
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• Myths about Integer Overflow in Rust
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• Google rolls out “If This Then That” support for its $200 OnHub router
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• GNU LibreJS
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• ES6, ES7, and beyond
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• Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot
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• You probably don't need a JavaScript framework
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• Intel's Changing Future: Smartphone SoCs Broxton and SoFIA Officially Cancelled
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• Ask HN: Can the “Who is Hiring?” post include a bit about the interview process?
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• Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
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