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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-30

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

• SRL – Simple Regex Language
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• California bans ITT tech from accepting new students
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• Facebook recommended that a psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
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• Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple
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• Talk of a Split from Docker
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• A Message to the Apple Community in Europe
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• Chinese CA WoSign faces revocation after possibly issuing fake certificates
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• Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe
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• AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go
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• Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-29

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

• There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
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• Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability
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• Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
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• Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)
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• Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour
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• Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]
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• Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets
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• The Myth of RAM (2014)
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• How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)
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• Gene Wilder Has Died
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-28

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

• Fluid Simulation (with WebGL demo)
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• In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub
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• A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)
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• GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine
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• The Price of Solar Is Declining to Unprecedented Lows
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• How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco
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• WhatsApp – Opting out of new terms doesn’t stop Facebook taking information
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• The French Number – Connect to a random French person and talk about anything
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• Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014)
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• Docker not ready for primetime
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-27

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

• Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown
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• New class of galaxy has been discovered, made almost entirely of dark matter
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• New Virus Breaks the Rules of Infection
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• Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
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• Itsy Bitsy Data Structures – Simplified examples of many common data structures
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• Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek
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• Ntfy: A utility for sending notifications
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• Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder
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• A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To
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• 4WD vs. AWD. What's the Difference?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-26

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

• How Startup Options and Ownership Work
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• Arguments against JSON-driven development
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• FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System
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• Facebook AI Research Team Open Source DeepMask and SharpMask
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• HackedThat: Breaking in to a hardened server via the back door
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• What I found wrong in Docker 1.12
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• Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import System
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• Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News
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• Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B
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• USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-25

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

• How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple
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• Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You
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• Text Summarization with TensorFlow
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• Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment
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• BlackBox
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• What’s New in C# 7.0
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• “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
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• NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender
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• University of Chicago: ‘We Do Not Support So-Called Trigger Warnings’
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• Amazon Vehicles
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-24

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

• gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0
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• New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car
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• Don't Read the Comments
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• Ask HN: Failed interview, feeling unemployable and depressed – what do I do?
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• Types
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• Why You Should Learn Python
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• A few HTML tips
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• Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
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• The Imposter's Handbook
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• Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-23

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

• GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution
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• Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat
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• “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
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• The Ethernet PAUSE frame
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• Neural network spotted deep inside Samsung's Galaxy S7 silicon brain
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• HoloLens secret sauce: A 28nm customized 24-core DSP engine built by TSMC
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• July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa
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• Python JITs are coming
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• Instapaper is joining Pinterest
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• Web Scraping in 2016
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-22

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

• A year of Rust and DNS
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• The Internet of Poorly Working Things
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• Everything I Am Afraid Might Happen If I Ask New Acquaintances to Get Coffee
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• Penny Auctions
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• Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
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• Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money
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• How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself
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• Fighting Cancer
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• Google Intrusion Detection Problems
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• Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-21

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

• If English were written like Chinese (1999)
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• Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check
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• The Japanese Urban Zoning System
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• Playing with Syntax
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• A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor multi-core machines
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• How to make an efficient payment system in Erlang
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• Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub
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• Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
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• Introducing OpenStreetView
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• An American Doctor Experiences the NHS Again
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-20

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

• Lawsuit could be the beginning of the end for DRM
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• Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets
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• The Hacker's Manifesto (1986)
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• Former employee sues startup for financials in order to value granted stock
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• Kubernetes the Hard Way
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• Deutsche Bank Whistle-Blower Spurns $8M SEC Reward
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• Japanese writing system basics
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• A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
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• Data points that Facebook uses to target ads
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• Nasa just made all its research available online for free
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-19

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

• F# for Fun and Profit
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• Announcing Rust 1.11
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• Otto joins Uber
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• TCP Puzzlers
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• Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large
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• The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
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• Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?
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• The Cuban CDN
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• Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell
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• Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-18

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

• NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments
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• Users You Don’t Want
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• Simpler GitHub Pages publishing
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• Grokking Deep Learning
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• How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
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• Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month
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• A minimal raytracer
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• Page Dewarping
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• PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
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• Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-17

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

• The traits of a proficient programmer
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• Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
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• Lonnie Johnson: The father of the Super Soaker
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• Intel Licenses ARM Technology to Boost Foundry Business
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• What Great Listeners Actually Do
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• Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees
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• 30K Page Views for $0.21: A Serverless Story
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• “It's The Future”
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• Writing Less Code
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• With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-16

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

• Why didn't Larrabee fail?
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• YC Tech Stacks
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• Go 1.7 is released
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• This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
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• Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app
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• Colorized man pages
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• Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is
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• Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs
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• Debian turns 23
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• Optimism
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-15

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

• What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
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• NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2008) [pdf]
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• VeraCrypt to be audited
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• Startups in 13 Sentences (2009)
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• Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub
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• NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance
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• Equation Group Cyber Weapons Auction
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• Jailbreaking the Kindle
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• Introducing Webpack Dashboard
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• Technical debt as an opportunity to accumulate technical wealth
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-14

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

• The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol
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• The Witchcraft Compiler Collection
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• HTTP/2 – How did we get here
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• For a Better Economy, Add Commuter Rail?
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• 135M messages a second between processes in Java (2013)
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• Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine
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• Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Security Through Obscurity Kills People
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• SpaceX successfully lands its sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launch
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• An introduction to Japanese
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• What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-13

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

• Why Buyers Shunned the World's Largest Diamond
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• Return True to Win
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• Alphabet is still figuring out how to be a conglomerate
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• Machine Learning and Ketosis
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• Machine Learning Exercises in Python, Part 1
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• Spaceplan
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• The Beauty of Roots (2011)
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• Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin
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• Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?
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• I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-12

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

• The People’s Code
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• George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)
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• New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis
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• Fuchsia, a new operating system
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• What Danes consider healthy children’s television
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• Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night
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• Happy 10th birthday pandoc
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• RedHat is hiring people to make linux run better on laptops
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• Bi-Directional Replication for PostgreSQL v1.0
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• Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-11

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

• Microsoft proves backdoor keys are a bad idea
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• “CPUs are optimized for video games”
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• Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water for 6M Americans
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• How the Arab World Came Apart
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• Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more
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• What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
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• AWS Application Load Balancer
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• Zero-cost futures in Rust
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• Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money
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• React Server
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-10

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

• On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted
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• Flash and Chrome
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• How does gdb work?
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• Everyone is quitting
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• Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration
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• Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
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• I don't think the Port Authority would like it if you looked at this photo
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• This JPEG is also a webpage
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• Ask HN: What are good reads for designing APIs?
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• Shape of errors to come
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-09

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

• “I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body”
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• A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
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• How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer
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• I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation
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• The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015)
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• Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years
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• AI’s Language Problem
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• Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users
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• PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support
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• Building fast.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-08

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

• Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star
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• How my open source hobby project became my job: 10 years of OptaPlanner
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• Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
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• TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs (2015)
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• Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels?
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• Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)
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• Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum
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• Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash
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• Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
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• Image Kernels explained visually
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-07

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

• Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt
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• A x64 OS #1: UEFI
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• The 39th Root of 92
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• IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia
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• Show HN: Gping.io – Like TinyURL for your car
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• “Our primary goal is to un-fork the Tor Browser”
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• Show HN: Cuckoo Filter Implementation in Go, Better Than Bloom Filters
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• Software Library: Amiga
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• Google Outpaces Facebook on Getting India Connected to Internet
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• Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-06

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

• Test flight held for small jet modeled after Miyazaki anime
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• MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip
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• Find a new city
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• Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation (1998) [pdf]
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• The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10
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• Minds Turned to Ash: Burnout is more than working too hard
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• Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform
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• Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
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• The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true
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• Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-05

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

• Show HN: 1M rows/s from Postgres to Python
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• Visual Studio Code 1.4
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• Apple announces bug bounty program
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• Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery
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• Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell
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• Hello from Orkut
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• Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
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• Let's Encrypt root certificate trusted by Mozilla
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• Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
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• Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-04

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

• When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It All
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• The first version of Voxel Quest (with source) has been released
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• What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone
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• U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad
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• Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas
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• Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby
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• Some news from LWN
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• Interactive Dynamic Video
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• News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed
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• How to listen when you disagree
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-03

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

• What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox
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• Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes
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• Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple
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• China has built an elevated bus that travels above car traffic
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• React Native for Ubuntu
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• Thoughts on Uber’s List of Postgres Limitations
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• A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China
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• Vizceral Open Source
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• Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?
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• Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-02

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

• YouTube's road to HTTPS
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• Server Side TLS
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• Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M
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• Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking
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• I Love Go; I Hate Go
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• How to Read a Book [pdf]
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• Show HN: Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons
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• Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust
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• Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
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• Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-01

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

• Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
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• Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder
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• Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions
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• Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS
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• Why we lost Uber as a user
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• Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor
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• Tesla and Solar City Combine
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• Seymour Papert has died
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• Surprises of the Faraday Cage
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-07-31

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

• Ruby on Rails Tutorial
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• Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown
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• Barliman: Prototype of a smart text editor
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• Reverse Engineering Native Apps by Intercepting Network Traffic
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• Hitler Uses Docker, Annotated
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• Lumen: Auto brightness based on screen contents
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• Berlin’s Startup Hub Wants to Prove It’s More Than Just a Scene
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• Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers
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• MNIST Handwritten Digit Classifier – beginner neural network project
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• Disrupting Uber
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