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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-29

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

• Android security in 2016 is a mess
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• YC’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide
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• Show HN: ICanHazData – Data URI Swiss Army Knife
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• Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff
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• ‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batteries developed
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• Writing C software without the standard library
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• Fallout 1.5: Resurrection
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• Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards
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• Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools
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• Logojoy: How an AI-powered logo creator makes $15k/mo
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-28

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

• Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language
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• Stallman’s Law
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• LaiNES – Cycle-accurate NES emulator in around 1000 lines of code
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• Show HN: Antd – A set of high-quality React components
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• Theorem of the Day
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• Modern C [pdf]
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• CyberChef – A Cyber Swiss Army Knife
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• Show HN: React Native Express – Learn React Native Through Interactive Examples
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• Neutralize ME Firmware on SandyBridge and IvyBridge Platforms
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• We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k in debt and broke even
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-27

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

• Abusing Protocols to Load Local Files, Bypass the HTML5 Sandbox, Open Popups
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• The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers
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• Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets
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• I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again
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• Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month
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• Let's Colonize Titan
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• Google’s AMP is a gilded cage
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• New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada
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• AnyBar: OS X menubar status indicator
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• European Union dedicated questionnaire on the Encryption of Data
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-26

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

• Geocities Cage at the Exodus Datacenter
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• Amazon makes good on its promise to delete “incentivized” reviews
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• Stripe has raised $150M more at a $9B valuation
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• Shopify is processing over $260k per minute right now
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• Germany planning to ‘massively′ limit privacy rights
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• Lessons Learned from Shenzhen I/O
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• Fidel Castro has died
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• Top Books on Amazon Based on Number of HN Users Linking Them in Comments
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• Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
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• Let Postgres Do the Work (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-25

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

• Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine
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• Cassandra is not row level consistent
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• Finland set to become first country to ban coal use for energy
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• Brew commands send data to Google Analytics
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• Matrix Multiplication
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• Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship
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• Deleting the golang subreddit
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• Married to someone with anxiety
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• Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
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• What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-24

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

• Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC
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• Statistical Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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• Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over'
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• I messed with the “fuck u/spez” comments
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• OK Go’s video, for the song “The One Moment”, took only 4.2 seconds to film
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• MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
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• We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator in the Suburbs
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• Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
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• Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
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• Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-23

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

• Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides
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• Machine Learning for Everyday Tasks
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• NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know
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• Show HN: Learn to Code for Free
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• Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China
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• The war on drugs has failed: doctors should lead calls for drug policy reform
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• The XSS Game by Google
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• Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Spreadsheet and Calendar
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• A practical guide to securing macOS
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• Humble Book Bundle: Unix
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-22

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

• Japan issues tsunami warning after magnitude 7.3 earthquake
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• Amazon S3 and Glacier Price Reductions
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• Pipfile for Python
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• Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
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• Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Nets
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• Ultralight IKEA-Bag Backpack
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• No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS
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• Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients
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• 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats
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• Before You Grow
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-21

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

• New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model
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• Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat App
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• Computer Science courses with video lectures
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• U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loan Debt
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• What is “:-!!” in C code?
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• Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
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• Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
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• What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp
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• Tell HN: Riseup.net fails to update canary; fingerprints deleted without notice
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• 4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-20

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

• Who Will Command the Robot Armies?
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• Introducing Custom Elements
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• Stoicism: Indifference is a power
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• Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics
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• EmDrive study officially published
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• Beginning Woodworking
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• Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM
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• German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem
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• Scientist discovers particular seaweed nearly eliminates cow methane emissions
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• Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-19

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

• The psychology of stress and burnout
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• How I stopped the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career
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• Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers
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• What Test Engineers Do at Google: Building Test Infrastructure
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• Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
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• Miyazaki Tribute
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• Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]
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• Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
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• GNU Octave
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• NIH Scientists Identify Antibody That Neutralizes Nearly All HIV Strains
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-18

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

• The .blog Bait and Switch
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• Demystifying the i-Device NVMe NAND
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• What.CD is shutting down
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• SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed
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• Kaspersky OS
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• A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour
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• Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build
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• Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account
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• The origin story of Google Analytics
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• How to start a company with no free time
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-17

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

• Google Earth VR
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• Email Markup in Gmail
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• Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News
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• Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family
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• Don’t Mess with The Google
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• SpaceX FCC Application for over 4000 Internet Satellites
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• Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions
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• Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS
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• Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
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• Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-16

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

• ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit
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• GPUs for Google Cloud Platform
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• A.I. Experiments
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• The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete
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• Quick, Draw
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• Code I’m Still Ashamed Of
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• Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member
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• Visual Studio for Mac Preview
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• Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
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• Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-15

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

• Miles Deep – Open Source Porn Video Classifier/Editor with Deep Learning
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• Wazer introduces the first desktop water-jet cutter
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• Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent
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• Shazam Keeps Your Mac’s Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off
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• Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1
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• Why we need the best tools on Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
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• Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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• Show HN: Primitive for macOS
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• How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
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• Firefox 50.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-14

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

• Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
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• If Prisoners Ran Prisons
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• Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
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• One year later
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• Visual Studio for Mac
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• “I have toyota corola”
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• Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
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• Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved
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• Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 opcodes on the NES
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• Google’s top news link for ‘final election results’ is a fake news site
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-13

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

• Quant Job Interview Questions (2009) [pdf]
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• Show HN: Gridmaster – A Code School for Learning Spreadsheets
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• How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
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• Celery 4.0
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• Show HN: Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
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• Why 30 is the decade friends disappear
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• Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
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• New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor
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• AdultFriendFinder was hacked
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• Diamonds Suck (2006)
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-12

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

• The macabre fate of ‘beating heart corpses’
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• Regex that only matches itself
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• Wind Waker Graphics Analysis
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• Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for months?
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• Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute
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• A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found
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• Reasons not to use Uber
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• Why is machine learning ‘hard’?
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• Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A.
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• Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-11

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

• Announcing Rust 1.13
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• Introduction to Machine Learning for Developers
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• Warning: 2016 MacBook Pro is not compatible with Linux
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• Vancouver plans to tax empty properties 1% of their assessed value
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• China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
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• Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
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• Leonard Cohen Has Died
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• Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems
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• Microsoft Kills off ISVs by Foisting Its Own Products That Are No Better
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• Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-10

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

• “DRM is Used to Lock in, Control and Spy on Users”
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• Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with
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• Spotify excessively writing to drive
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• Beyond 10,000 Lines: Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project
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• A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
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• Ask HN: How Can I Get into NLP (Natural Language Processing)?
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• NeuroEvolution – Flappy Bird
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• Seven years of Go
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• PHP 7 at Tumblr
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• Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-09

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

• Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989)
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• How to pick startup ideas (2015)
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• Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment
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• Walgreen Sues Theranos, Seeks $140 Million in Damages
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• Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
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• Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
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• Donald Trump Is Elected President
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• Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers
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• Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness
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• Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-08

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

• IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction
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• C for Python programmers (2011)
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• Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?
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• Google Data Studio
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• Machine Learning for Software Engineers
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• Formation of Tesla Advanced Automation Germany
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• Google Trends Electionland
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• India's demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes
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• A Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia Programming Language
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• Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-07

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

• Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being
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• Time to Dump Time Zones
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• Unsplash – Beautiful photos free to use under the Unsplash License
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• Some thoughts on asynchronous Python API design in a post-async/await world
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• Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool
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• Tesco Bank halts online payments after money was taken from 20K accounts
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• LessPass: sync-less open source password manager
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• Hyper.sh – Effortless Docker Hosting
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• Homebrew 1.1.0
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• We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-06

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

• Why I won't recommend Signal anymore
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• Every Version of Voxel Quest
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• Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning front-end, how do I proceed?
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• Tensorflow and Deep Learning, Without a PhD, Martin Gorner, Google [video]
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• Nyancat on the touchbar
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• Canada’s federal court rules intelligence service bulk data collection illegal
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• How a Gift from Schoolchildren Let the Soviets Spy on the U.S. For 7 Years
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• Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers
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• FindBugs project in its current form is dead
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• Intercooler.js – Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-05

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

• Serverless Map/Reduce
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• 25 Years After Junk Science Conviction, Texas Admits Sonia Cacy's Innocence
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• Jury finds Rolling Stone responsible for defamation with gang rape story
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• Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months
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• Switching from macOS: Developer Environment
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• FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers
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• I don’t like computers
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• Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app
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• Be careful about what you dislike
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• How to contribute to an open source project on GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-04

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

• Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
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• Securing PostgreSQL [pdf]
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• StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules
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• Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
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• The People's Code
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• Advanced Data Structures
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• H.264 is Magic
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• Docker in Production: A History of Failure
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• Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded
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• DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-03

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

• What is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners
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• LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn
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• Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
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• Ways Data Projects Fail
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• Visual Studio Code 1.7 overloaded npmjs.org, release reverted
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• Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter
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• How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire
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• BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS
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• MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android apps and libraries
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• Web fonts, boy, I don't know
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-02

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

• The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken
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• “Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)
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• Async/await support in Firefox
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• Ask HN: Who is firing?
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• Microsoft Concept Graph
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• Switching from macOS: The Basics
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• Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets
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• Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux
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• Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hacking device
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• Visual Studio Code 1.7
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-11-01

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

• The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to Be a Better Writer
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• CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 for $34B
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• No One Saw Tesla’s Solar Roof Coming
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• Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users
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• Show HN: My first web app – PDF memo creator
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• Ask HN: How to make a career working remotely?
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• Music for Programming
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• Guide to Remote Work
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
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• Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-31

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

• I don't understand Python's Asyncio
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• Sonder E-Ink Keyboard
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• How 2K Killed Irrational Games
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• Show HN: A fork of sudo with Touch ID support
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• Things I will tell my kids if they become entrepreneurs [slides]
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• Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple
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• What the Heck Is Happening at Apple?
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• 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV
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• WebAssembly Browser Preview
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• Minoca OS: A new open source operating system
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