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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity
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• New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code
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• Typing Practice for Programmers
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• Make America Hate Again
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• I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
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• Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech
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• Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
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• Masaya Nakamura, Japanese arcade pioneer, has died
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• Hollywood as We Know It Is Over
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• Parse is shutting down today
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Box Breathing
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• Cruise Shows Off Level 4 Skills in SF, Passing Uber and Maybe Waymo
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• Standing up for what's right
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• Ruby terminal apps toolkit
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• Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order
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• Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms
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• Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO
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• Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
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• Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled
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• Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
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• Whiteboard sticker for your laptop
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• Twitter discloses national security letters
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• Site Reliability Engineering
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• Java Without If
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• Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir
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• My Next Mac Mini
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• Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer killed Berkeley couple
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• Time to Take a Stand
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• Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Two Infants Treated with Universal Immune Cells Have Their Cancer Vanish
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• Using Immutable Caching to Speed Up the Web
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• The foundation of a more secure web: Google Trust Services
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• Introducing React Navigation for React Native
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• Comparing Elixir and Go
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• Things Every Hacker Once Knew
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• Linux Performance
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• The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator
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• How to leak to the press
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• Show HN: Whoishiring.io – all tech jobs mapped out
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 1.1B Taxi Rides on Kdb+/q and 4 Xeon Phi CPUs
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• What’s up with Firefox?
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• Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle
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• The internals of PostgreSQL
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• Mirroring US climate data
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• Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software
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• First they came for the Iranians
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• Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native
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• Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for
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• Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A story of a designer learning math
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• Firefox 51.0
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• TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)
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• iOS and MacOS Developers Can Now Respond to Reviews
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• Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates
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• George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
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• American chestnut trees are “technically extinct”
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• Element – A Vue 2.0-based component library for developers, designers and PMs
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• Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise
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• Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lane Following Autopilot with Keras and Tensorflow
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• Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.
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• Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing
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• Charles Bukowski: The Slavery of the 9 to 5
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• KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX
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• Systemd v228 local root exploit
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• Show HN: Math Attack – My side project of 3 years
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• Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets
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• Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
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• Wine 2.0 released
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How I got my attention back
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• Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
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• China tightens Great Firewall by declaring unauthorised VPN services illegal
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• Announcing Pipenv
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• Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered
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• Paper is the real 'killer app'
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• Android permissions and hypocrisy
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• If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them
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• Updates to our Google Voice apps
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• Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Investing Is More Luck Than Talent
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• The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
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• Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History
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• How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World
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• US Announces Withdrawal from TPP
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• I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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• The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz
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• Ask HN: What inspires you to persevere through adversity?
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• New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables
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• Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot
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• How Deutsche Bank Made a $462M Loss Disappear
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• How to Get into Natural Language Processing
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• Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering
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• Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine
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• Lavabit Reloaded
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• The lost art of 3D rendering without shaders
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• DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day
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• Container Tabs
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• United Arab Emirates goes from 10k Tor users to 250k in days
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Introducing ProtonMail's Tor hidden service
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• How Do I Declare a Function Pointer in C?
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• Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky
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• Why I don't believe in Uber's Success
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• How Do You Measure Leadership?
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• How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra
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• Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
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• The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale
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• Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015)
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• Little Snitch 3 – Protect your privacy
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My Go Resolutions for 2017
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• Welcoming Fabric to Google
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• Caching at Reddit
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• U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
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• Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging
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• Staying with the US Digital Service
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• Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls
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• Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0
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• Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver
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• NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nylas Mail is now free
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• Mo.js: motion graphics toolbelt for the web
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• Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
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• RethinkDB Postmortem
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• Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy
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• Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
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• What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn
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• Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development?
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• PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python
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• Rust vs. Go
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Gene Cernan has died
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• Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views
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• Keras will be added to core TensorFlow at Google
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• The Problem with AMP
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• Best Practices for ML Engineering from Google [pdf]
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• GIMP – 2016 in review
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• Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)
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• Ask HN: What is the best online resource to learn advanced SQL?
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• How much does employee turnover really cost?
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• Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless
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• Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals
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• Show HN: Crafting Interpreters – A handbook for making programming languages
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• Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
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• Dovecot audit complete
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• Stealing passwords from McDonald's users
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• The lost letters of the English alphabet
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• Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon
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• A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France
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• Easy XMPP: What are we doing here?
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Zhou Youguang, creator of the Pinyin writing system, has died
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• Docker 0-Day Stopped Cold by SELinux
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• Ian's Shoelace Site
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• The Line of Death
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• GIMP developer looking for funding
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• Mastering Bash and Terminal
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• If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive
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• Coinbase and the IRS
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• And that, kids, is why we call it a “Patch”
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• Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview
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• The Sound of Silence
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• Feeling safer online with Firefox
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• Portal for Apple II
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• #define CTO OpenAI
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• Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi
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• I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional Trial
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• Letter From Human Rights Leaders Asking President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden
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• After 1 minute on my modem (2016)
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• SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React
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• Flickr – A Year Without a Byte
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• GCC is C++17 Complete
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• App.net is shutting down
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• Nintendo Switch
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• WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
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• Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out
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• Affordable Care
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• VR
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• There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Poor Neighborhoods Make the Best Investments
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• Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders
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• Godaddy has issued at least 8850 SSL certificates without validating anything
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• Why I switched from OS X to Linux
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• Blender for Hackers – 3D modeling is just like using VIM
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• Calling bullshit
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• Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library
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• Mac Pro 2 Concept Design
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• Georgia Tech Offers Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Under $10K
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• The Risk of Discovery
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Prettier JavaScript Formatter
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• 6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars
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• NeverSSL
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• Daniel Gross of Apple leaves to become Y Combinator’s newest partner
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• Why Many Cities Have No Money
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• The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack
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• Paper Centrifuge
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• Open offices are bad for us
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• Announcing Tokio 0.1
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• Integrating GTA V into Universe
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Just how smart is an octopus?
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• Bringing Wide Color to Instagram
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• Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
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• From OS X to Ubuntu
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• 'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
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• What Style Is That House? Visual Guides to Domestic Architectural Designs
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• I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
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• When You Are Depressed, Make Something
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• Update on the Swift Project Lead
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• Welcome Chris Lattner
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Chernobyl’s new sarcophagus
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• LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009)
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• Mathematicians bring ocean to life for Disney's 'Moana'
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• Building Better Interfaces with SVG (2015)
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• Uber Movement
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• Alphabet’s Waymo Cuts Cost of Key Self-Driving Sensor by 90%
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• Stanford Unsupervised Deep Learning Tutorial (2014)
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• Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience
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• From Python to Numpy
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• Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Riemann Hypothesis, explained
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• “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script
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• Online databases dropping like flies, with 10,000 falling to ransomware
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• King – man + woman is queen; but why?
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• GitHub Enterprise SQL Injection
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• Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006)
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• Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
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• Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my own poems
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• The Piston image library is now pure Rust
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• Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015)
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: What did you do after quitting the IT industry and how have things been?
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• Indiegogo to launch campaigns combining perks and equity investment
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• Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
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• SpaceX receives FAA approval for return to flight [pdf]
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• The Art of Pitching: How I Got Published in The Atlantic
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• Let’s Encrypt 2016 in Review
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• Clojure for the Brave and True (2015)
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• TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’
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• Reasons not to use Skype (2012)
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• The science of Westworld
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Irssi 1.0.0 Released
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• The Reality of Developer Burnout
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• Lessons learned as a React contractor
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• Graphviz in the browser
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• My Watch Runs GNU/Linux
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• Compute Card, a Credit Card-Sized Compute Platform
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• A Tourist’s Guide to the LLVM Source Code
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• Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
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• FTC sues D-Link over router and camera security flaws
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• Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tesla Flips the Switch on the Gigafactory
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• Rust at OneSignal
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• Compiling Rust to Web Assembly
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• Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo
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• Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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• Learning to code at 56
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• I've removed all ad network code from my blog
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• AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store
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• Browser auto-fill phishing
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• LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot
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• Getting Past C
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• The Real Name Fallacy
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• P vs. NP
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• Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released
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• TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow
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• Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI’s Do Not Call List
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• Grumpy: Go running Python
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• Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players
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• Renewing Medium’s focus
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SpaceX concludes anomaly investigation, sets return to flight target date
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• Why recursive data structures?
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• Why isn't there a Google for the law?
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• Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
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• Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X
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• Apple’s 2016 in review
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• Tor at the Heart: Firefox
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• Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
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• Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container
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• Ticketmaster is a horrible company
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Developer Marketing Guide
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• A Month Without Sugar
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• How I Write Tests
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• What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017
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• Recreating 3D renderings in real life
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• Three.js editor
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• Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development
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• Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?
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• Long-term stress erodes memory
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Memory Models That Underlie Programming Languages
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• How to ask good questions
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• PS4 hack: Fail0verflow demonstrate Linux and Steam running on Firmware 4.05
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• Top algorithms in interview questions
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• Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug
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• 2017 is not just another prime number
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• Does Google execute JavaScript?
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• OpenStreetMap plugin for Unreal Engine 4
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• The moving sofa problem
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• New evidence that Nixon sabotaged 1968 Vietnam peace deal
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-12-31

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

• The Hardware Hacker: Bunnie Huang's Tour-De-force
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• Once mocked, Facebook’s $1B acquisition of Instagram was a good move
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• Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health
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• ThinkPad X1 Carbon
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• Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars
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• EveryPolitician: Open dataset on politicians
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• I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
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• Apt: please make the moo reproducible
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• Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format
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• Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid
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