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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-29

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

• On Phone Numbers and Identity
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• Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research
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• Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx
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• Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
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• Building an $80k/month business with a software testing community
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• The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations
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• PostgreSQL 9.6 Released
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• Lost Diamonds: How our current system is failing underprivileged talent
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• Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
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• Announcing Rust 1.12
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-28

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

• YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers
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• Why I'm Not a React Native Developer
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• I Am Sam Altman, President of YC Group. AMA
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• Pixels and voxels, the long answer
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• Let 'localhost' be localhost
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• Not Just Any Old Geek
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• What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]
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• Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insiders Say
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• Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?
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• Figma 1.0 – Collaborative interface design tool
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-27

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

• Exponent – Build native apps in JS that work across both iOS and Android
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• SVG has more potential
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• How Convolutional Neural Networks Work
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• Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 8: it boots
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• U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians
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• Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
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• Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany
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• Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
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• Patent troll tales: Lee Cheng, Newegg
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• Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-26

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

• Bidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6
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• Finance is Not the Economy
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• Designing and Producing 2FA tokens to Sell on Amazon
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• UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
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• Appropriate Uses for SQLite
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• Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
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• Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff
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• Computer Vision Syndrome
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• WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion
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• Introducing .NET Standard
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-25

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

• Google Web Fonts Typographic Project
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• Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?
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• First Ever Quadriplegic Treated with Stem Cells Regains Upper Body Motor Control
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• Naval Academy to name its cyber building after Grace Hopper
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• Am I Introverted, or Just Rude?
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• KrebsOnSecurity is now up and hosted on Google Cloud
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• Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys?
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• Two years spent spamming spammers back
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• Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month
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• The decline of Stack Overflow (2015)
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-24

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

• Upgrade your SSH keys
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• Confessions of a Necromancer
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• Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
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• How does Google know where I am?
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• Haiku Project
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• Google’s lawyers are asking to find Oracle’s lawyers in contempt of court
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• Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles
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• Show HN: InstaPart – Build circuit boards faster with instant parts
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• Neural Photo Editor
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• Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-23

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

• Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?
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• Machine Learning: Models with Learned Parameters
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• A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
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• Super Mario 64 – 1996 Developer Interviews
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• The MIT License, Line by Line
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• Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
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• House Passes Employee Stock Options Bill Aimed at Startups
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• Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed
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• Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
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• Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-22

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

• How Norway spends its $882B global fund
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• What every coder should know about gamma
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• Sublime Text 3 Build 3124
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• How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow
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• My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter
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• It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen
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• OpenSSL Security Advisory
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• Announcing TypeScript 2.0
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• The GitHub Load Balancer
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• An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-21

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

• Nootropics
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• Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app
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• Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
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• Beware: Windows 10 Signature Edition Blocks Installing Linux
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• Homebrew 1.0.0
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• Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Charges
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• Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
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• I Used to Be a Human Being
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• Researchers quantum teleport particle of light six kilometres
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• Microsoft aren't forcing Lenovo to block free operating systems
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-20

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

• The Free-Time Paradox in America
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• Api.ai is joining Google
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• House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server
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• Getting things done
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• If TypeScript is so great, how come all notable ReactJS projects use Babel?
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• Why we use progressive enhancement to build Gov.uk
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• Self-Driving Cars Must Meet 15 Benchmarks in U.S. Guidance
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• Show HN: Primitive Pictures
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• Dear Al-Jazeera: thank you for doing the right thing
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• What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-19

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

• Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent
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• iTunes will never work well
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• Mozilla Thimble
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• The Making of Lemmings
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• Static Website Generators
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• Music theory for nerds
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• The cypherpunk revolution
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• I quit my job, bought an army truck, and spent 19 months circumnavigating Africa
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• Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal
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• Employee #1: Dropbox
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-18

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

• What San Francisco Says About America
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• Emacs 25.1 released
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• Udacity plans to build its own open-source self-driving car
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• No Exit
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• Valve Bans Game Publisher After It Sues Players That Gave It Bad Steam Reviews
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• HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Working in Its Printers
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• GpuScan and SSD-To-GPU Direct DMA
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• The Most Popular Online Course Teaches You to Learn (2015)
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• Dear Al-Jazeera: Why Steal Our Code?
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• Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-17

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

• Twitter: It is too late for it to become the giant people expected
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• Room 641A
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• Is your SSH password revealed when you attempt to connect to the wrong server?
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• Municipal ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling
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• Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno
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• Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT
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• The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel
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• Consistency is Consistently Undervalued
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• Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags
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• I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-16

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

• Microservices
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• The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition
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• We Don’t Simply Get Remote Jobs, We Join Remote Teams
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• Faking your death
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• Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release Is the OS News of the Year
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• Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid
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• Bash 4.4 released
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• R for Data Science
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• The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later
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• Investing for Geeks
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-15

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

• Why building a startup is probably your most sensible career path
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• The GitHub GraphQL API
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• Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux
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• FBI director: Cover up your webcam
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• Angular 2 Final Released
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• Old Geek
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• Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub
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• A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art (2015)
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• Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry
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• Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-14

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

• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
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• YouTube Community goes beyond video
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• Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids
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• Swift Playgrounds – Learn to code on your iPad
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• Pardon Snowden
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• Why are Adults so busy?
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• Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh
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• Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post?
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• Introducing the Firefox debugger.html
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• Announcing new tools, forums, and features
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-13

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

• Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals
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• Microsoft Pix
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• To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right
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• Advancing in the Bash Shell
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• Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon
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• GitLab Master Plan
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• Adblock Plus now sells ads
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• Logo Pizza: Hot and ready logos for sale
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• Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]
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• YC Changes
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-12

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

• On Generative Algorithms
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• Iran’s exceptional reaction to 9/11 attacks
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• Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
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• How I learned to program
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• If your code accepts URIs as input, filter out “file://”
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• Vim 8.0 released
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• For 25 years, Carl Malamud has been fighting to make public information public
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• Facebook is imposing American censorship on the rest of the world
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• How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
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• A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-11

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

• Cap’n Proto
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• Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008)
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• Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?
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• China Will Resurrect the World's Largest Plane
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• Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)
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• Machine Learning in a Year
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• The careless errors of credit reporting agencies
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• Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry
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• Why I’m dropping Rust
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• Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-10

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

• Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and keywords become ordered
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• Mastercard sued for $19B in Britain's biggest damages claim
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• Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
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• VW engineer pleads guilty to diesel emissions scandal
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• Chinese Billionaire Linked to Giant Aluminum Stockpile in Mexican Desert
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• Elementary OS Loki 0.4 Stable Release
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• Show HN: A flask app to make dashboards, easily
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• European court says linking to illegal content is copyright infringement
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• Six big economic ideas [pdf]
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• How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-09

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

• How to Write a Spelling Corrector
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• Visual Studio Code 1.5
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• A scammer stole $500 from me and in the end begged me not to tell his parents
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• How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job
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• Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them
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• Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity
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• Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates
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• How Doom 2016 Renders a Frame
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• How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
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• I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-08

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

• Linux debugging tools you'll love
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• I am a fast webpage
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• You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]
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• The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
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• A bite of Python
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• Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014)
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• The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM
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• Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered
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• WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
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• “Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply”
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-07

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

• How we unnecessarily burned 20k with Facebook Ads
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• Sri Lanka Is Declared Malaria Free by World Health Organization
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• Announcing Quill 1.0
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• How to get people who installed a leaked build to stop using that build?
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• Gordon Murray-designed ‘OX’ flat-pack truck
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• PiBakery – a blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Raspberry Pi
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• How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users
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• Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
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• ‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll
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• iPhone 7
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-06

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

• Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client
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• When you change the world and no one notices
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• Booting the Final GameCube Game
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• The ESP32 has been released
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• A Design Defect Is Breaking iPhone 6 Pluses
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• EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020
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• ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down
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• Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness
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• Employee #1: Amazon
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• What typing ^D does on Unix
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-05

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

• Tor’s Branding Pivot Is Going to Get Someone Killed
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• Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers
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• Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails
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• Show HN: Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on Earth for $3
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• Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants
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• How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University – Part 3
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• NSA Hacked French President’s House
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• German Federal Intelligence Service BND Violates Laws And Constitution
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• Philae Found
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• I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-04

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

• People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars
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• 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format
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• How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead
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• A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads (2012) [pdf]
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• In defence of Douglas Crockford
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• FLAC Support in Firefox 51
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• Skypeopensource2 – Skype client based on reversing Skype 5.5
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• Richard Stallman: Online Publishers Should Let Readers Pay Anonymously
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• Blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22
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• Inclusivity Is a Joke
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-03

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

• Chrome is warning users about insecure pages
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• Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
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• Think Before You Parallelize: A tour of parallel abstractions
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• Bugs found in GCC with the help of PVS-Studio
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• An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight
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• Latest Intel, AMD chips won't support Windows versions earlier than Windows 10
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• Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification
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• Git 2.10 has been released
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• A computer engineer has tracked down the first Apollo guidance computer
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• The Math Myth
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-02

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

• Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
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• 43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach
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• New cloud attack takes full control of virtual machines with little effort
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• Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects
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• Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts
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• Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
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• FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps
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• Neural Network Architectures
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• Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
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• A global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-01

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

• Amazon Launchpad for Startups
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• Textures.js – SVG patterns for Data Visualization
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• How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow
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• Announcing BuckleScript 1.0
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• Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both
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• OpenBSD 6.0 released
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• Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks
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• A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
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• How to steal a developer's local database
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-08-31

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

• Paddle: Baidu's open source deep learning framework
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• Infrastructure for Deep Learning
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• Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
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• SEC awards $22M to Monsanto whistleblower
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• Google's login page accepts a vulnerable GET parameter
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• Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency
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• Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials
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• The Dropbox hack is real
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• Rclone: rsync for cloud storage
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• Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
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