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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-29

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

• Huge helium discovery 'a life-saving find'
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• WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN
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• To Compete Better, States Are Trying to Curb Noncompete Pacts
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• How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint
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• What happens when you try to publish a failure to replicate in 2015/2016
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• My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project
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• Ebay posts every character a user types into the password box
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• Investing Returns on the S&P500
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• We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews
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• The Daredevil Camera
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-28

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

• How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers
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• 10-Year Exercise Periods Make Sense
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• Burnout and Mental Health
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• Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed
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• Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
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• NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (2013)
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• “Should you encrypt or compress first?”
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• Languages Which Almost Became CSS
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• D3 v4.0.0 released
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• Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-27

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

• What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
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• Caltech glassblower's retirement has scientists sighing
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• Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, but not to start one
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• Cheap HDMI capture for Linux
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• Twilio's Seed Pitch
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• Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade
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• Show HN: Anime.js – Polyvalent JavaScript Animation Engine
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• Announcing .NET Core 1.0
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• New Cities
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• Inappropriate Uses of Google Trends
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-26

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

• Natron: Open-source compositing software for Mac, Windows and Linux
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• What are “actual pictures” of atoms actually pictures of?
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• Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet
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• Typography of “Alien” (2014)
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• Crash Course – Educational course videos on YouTube
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• Gag Order on Lavabit’s Levison Lifted
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• The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields
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• A ZFS developer’s analysis of Apple’s new APFS file system
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• An audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound
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• Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-25

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

• Dolphin 5.0 Release
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• “Oculus removed the headset check from the DRM in Oculus Runtime 1.5”
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• Ask HN: What is your go-to example for a good REST API?
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• Facebook Bug – Delete Any Video
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• Comodo has filed for express abandonment of LetsEncrypt trademark applications
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• How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman
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• Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid
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• Infrastructure Software is Dead
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• A book series on JavaScript
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• The problem with reinforced concrete
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-24

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

• Coconut – Pythonic functional programming language
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• Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
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• Crispr Wins Key Approval to Fight Cancer in Human Trials
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• EU Referendum Results
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• UK votes to leave EU
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• Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998)
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• David Cameron announces resignation
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• How to Make an RPG
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• The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
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• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-23

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

• How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First”
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• Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects
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• Where have all the iOS games gone?
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• Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
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• Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally
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• How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
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• The Rule of 72 (2007)
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• Defending Our Brand
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• Twilio opens trading at $23.99 per share
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• Phoenix 1.2
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-22

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

• Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged with Secret FBI Requests
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• Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores
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• Show HN: A secure, open source U2F token you can make with $4.5 worth of parts
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• India launches 20 satellites in single mission
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• Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala
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• More awful IoT stuff
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• Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released
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• Lenin was a mushroom
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• New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity
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• In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-21

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

• Show HN: A Fortran web framework
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• Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration
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• Ethereum is Doomed
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• A Third of Valve Is Now Working on VR
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• “PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”
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• CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist
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• “But he does good work.”
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• Elixir v1.3 released
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• Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat
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• Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-20

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

• APFS in Detail
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• We’re pretty happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS
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• How Diane Greene Transformed Google's Cloud
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• Ask HN: Profitable SaaS? How did you grow your business?
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• Hello, Tensorflow
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• Member of The European Union
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• Docker Betas for AWS, Azure, Mac, and Windows
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• Scammers Game Amazon A-Z Policy By Replacing iPhones With Clay
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• The Monaco Code Editor
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• Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-19

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

• How Hired Hackers Got “Complete Control” of Palantir
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• Imagine yourself starting, not finishing
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• Simple Contracts are Better Contracts: the Meltdown of the DAO
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• JSON Web Tokens vs. Sessions
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• Think Less, Think Better
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• The management myth (2006)
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• Advanced programming languages (2009)
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• When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be there and thriving
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• Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; can now watch new owner
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• The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-18

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

• Facebook is wrong, text is deathless
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• DAOs, Hacks and the Law
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• Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-paid Steam revenue
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• American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth
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• China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
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• An Open Letter (The DAO Attacker)
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• If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10? (2014)
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• Deconstructing the DAO Attack: A Brief Code Tour
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• Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer
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• Spaceship Generator
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-17

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

• PG Casts – Postgres Screencasts
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• Generative Models
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• Antarctic CO2 Hit 400 PPM for First Time in 4M Years
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• Migrating a 10,000-line legacy JavaScript codebase to TypeScript
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• Serverless Architectures
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• The DAO is currently being attacked, over 2M Ethereum missing so far
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• Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability
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• The Children's Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes
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• How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)
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• Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-16

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

• ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t
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• Statistics for Hackers [video]
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• Guccifer 2.0: DNC's servers hacked by a lone hacker
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• The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited
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• GitHub Security Update: Reused Password Attack
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• Samsung Acquires Joyent
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• Git 2.9 released
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• Contextual Identities on the Web
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• Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
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• Buffer Layoffs
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-15

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

• CS 179: GPU Programming
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• Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent
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• Dropbox says it is cash flow positive, in no rush to IPO
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• 'We're in a Bubble'
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• Latest update to my friend's 19 year side project
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• What is Differential Privacy?
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• CHIP $9 Computer
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• Four common mistakes in audio development
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• My First 10 Minutes on a Server
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• Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-14

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

• In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers
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• AI produces realistic sounds that fool humans
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• Apple Pay on the Web
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• Apple announces iOS 10
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• CS188 Intro to AI – Course Materials
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• Checked C
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• VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks
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• Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order
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• Google Fonts Redesigned
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• Another Update
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-13

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

• A SoundCloud client in React and Redux
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• Show HN: I made a database of remote companies
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• Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos
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• The case for memory-mapped GPU assets
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• A Plan for a Long-Term Stock Exchange
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• Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
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• Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?
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• Killing the 3.5mm Jack: How Simple Is Changing into Needlessly Complicated
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• OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
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• Apple File System
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-12

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

• AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer [video]
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• OpenSSL DSA key recovery attack
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• Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder
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• We Hired a Blind Coder
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• All the lonely people
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• Walmart Canada stops accepting Visa cards
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• How to spy on a Ruby program
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• Snowden reveals GCHQ spy programme with link to Scottish police
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• United States of Paranoia: A growing tribe of troubled minds
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• Baby Steps: Slowly Porting Musl to Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-11

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

• Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (2014)
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• What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)
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• The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain
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• Open access: All human knowledge is there, so why can’t everybody access it?
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• Google endorses the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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• Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME
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• Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
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• Canadian doctors reverse severe MS using stem cells
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• My Increasing Frustration with Clojure
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• The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-10

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

• Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars
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• How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley
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• Ruin My Search History
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• ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso
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• A Grain of Salt
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• jQuery 3.0 Released
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• Links sent privately through Facebook Messenger can be read by anyone
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• The Web We Want
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• A deportation at the UK border
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• Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-09

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

• Why I Would Raise Chickens
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• All the best advice we could find on how to get a job
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• How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls
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• How Two Seattle-Area Brothers Made Dwarf Fortress
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• Why I turned down $500K and shut down my startup
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• Microsoft Edge WebGL engine open-sourced
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• Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked
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• We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom
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• Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail
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• It’s cheaper to build multiple native applications than one responsive web app
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-08

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

• Obscurity Is a Valid Security Layer
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• Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla cited as leading
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• MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents
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• Mastering Programming: An Outline
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• Mentoring in Gaza's first hackathon
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• 25-year-old lived for more than a year without a heart
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• Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
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• Typosquatting programming language package managers
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• Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]
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• Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-07

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

• Show HN: New calendar app idea
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• Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
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• This is not a place of honor
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• Show HN: 2D field of view demo
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• Visual Studio Code 1.2 released
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• Freedom of speech is in retreat
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• Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great
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• Program your next server in Go
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• Confirmshaming
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• Planned GPS outages in southern California
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-06

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

• I Was Wrong About TypeScript
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• Show HN: Homemade 32-bit CPU and OS (2015) [video]
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• Flow vs. Typescript
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• Being privacy-aware in 2016
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• Safe VSP – 30 year old Commodore 64 bug demystified (2013)
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• John Oliver buys $15M in debt and forgives all of it on 'Last Week Tonight'
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• Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war
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• End Geoblocking
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• Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
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• Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-05

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

• Cloud.gov
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• Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal
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• Shell Style Guide from Google
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• Anypixel.js
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• Headless Chrome is coming soon
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• Fraudulent Advertising on Facebook
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• DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector
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• ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no verification
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• GNU Taler 0.0.0 released
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• Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-04

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

• King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms
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• Wal-Mart Plans to Test Grocery Delivery Through Uber, Lyft
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• Why Britain banned mobile apps for government agencies
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• GNU Toolchain Update – GDB now supports Rust
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• Drape – a Fabric Simulator
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• Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still Out of Control
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• Muhammad Ali has died
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• Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
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• Hacker News Highlights, the Alan Kay Edition
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• Curbs on free speech are growing tighter. It is time to speak out
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-03

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

• Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
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• Why is a Rust executable large?
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• Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle
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• Apple cloud services outage
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• Experience Longhorn – A look at a defining Microsoft project
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• Dyatlov Pass Incident
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• Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists
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• Stem cells shown safe, beneficial for chronic stroke patients
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• Salary Negotiation
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• Leaving the Nest
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-02

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

• Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report [pdf]
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• Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS
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• DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
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• Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Letters
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• The truth about deep learning
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• Open Source Speech Recognition
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• Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons
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• Async and Await
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• Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writing Common Lisp apps
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• Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-06-01

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

• TensorFlow – Consise Examples for Beginners
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• Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians
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• HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps
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• Nvidia CEO: We'll be solving VR immersion problems for the next 20 years
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• Krita 3.0: The Animation Release
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• World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland
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• Learn Docker by building a Microservice
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• Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
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• Michael Dell Bought His Company Too Cheaply
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-05-31

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

• Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres
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• Alan Kay's reading list for his students
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• How to win the coding interview
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• 85 percent of Facebook video is watched without sound
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• A Facebook Sixth Sense
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• Tor Browser 6.0 is released
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• Voxel art
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• How and Why to Log Your Bash History
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• The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
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• Moving Forward on Basic Income
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