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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-27

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

• A solution for enabling UDP in the web
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• “I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration”
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• Prophet: forecasting at scale
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• I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable
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• How a French scholar was treated at US airport
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• How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017
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• My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded
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• Mozilla Acquires Pocket
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• I am an Uber survivor
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• SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-26

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

• Annotation is now a web standard
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• Id Software Programming Principles
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• The Future of Not Working
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• Linus on Git and SHA-1
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• AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Click OC on Air Cooling
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• Ask HN: How do you deal with loss of motivation?
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• Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal?
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• Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
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• Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?
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• The new Nokia phones are here: Nokia 6, 5, 3 & 3310
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-25

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

• SHA-1 collider: Make your own colliding PDFs
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• Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
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• Adding a SHA1 collision vulnerability test hoses WebKit's source repository
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• Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics in half
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• FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks
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• How to Be a Stoic
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• Cloudflare data still in Bing caches
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• Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back
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• Warren Buffett's Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders [pdf]
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• Machine Learning from scratch: Bare bones implementations in Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-24

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

• Missing $10,000 package of PAL SNES games recovered
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• Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
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• Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
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• Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision
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• Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs
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• List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak
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• Facts about migration and crime in Sweden
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• Learn Python 3 the Hard Way
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• Code.mil – An experiment in open source at the Department of Defense
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• White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-23

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

• The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
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• Tour of F#
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• Tesla Says Model 3 on Track as Quarterly Loss Beats Estimates
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• What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
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• Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture
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• Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
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• Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
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• Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
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• Txt.fyi
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• An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-22

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

• Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]
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• How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls
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• Upspin – Another option for file sharing
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• Dwitter – A social network for short JavaScript demos
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• Instacart is playing games with its workers’ pay
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• US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff profile
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• Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
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• AMD Ryzen price and release date revealed
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• API Design Guide
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• Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-21

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

• How we built a back end system for Uber-like maps with animated cars
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• Cross-Site Request Forgery is dead
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• Signal can now be used without Google Play Services
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• Ruby `reject!`
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• Development content accidentally shipped on a DOS CD-ROM game from 1993
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• Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog
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• Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
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• Anagram Scoring
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• Introducing Netflix Stethoscope
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• GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-20

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

• Dear Apple
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• Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes
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• Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
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• Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?
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• 3D Comics
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• Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee
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• As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America
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• Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (2014)
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• JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video]
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• Starting an Internet Service Provider
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-19

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

• Detection of radioactive iodine at trace levels in Europe in January 2017
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• Co-founder Conflict
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• Show HN: Generate a quiz from a Wikipedia page
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• Hero Patterns – A collection of SVG background patterns for your web projects
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• AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
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• $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr
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• How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot
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• Scientists have detected a major change to the Earth’s oceans
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• Norway: 37% of new vehicles sold in January were electric
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• Reflecting on A Strange Year at Uber
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-18

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

• LLD is included in the upcoming LLVM 4.0 release
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• Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
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• A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you
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• GM to build, test thousands of self-driving Bolts in 2018
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• Fifth Circuit holds that First Amendment protects the right to record the police [pdf]
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• Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy
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• I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (2014)
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• Show HN: Evilpass – A slightly evil password strength checker
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• Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported
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• Nintendo announced Switch Dev kits are $500
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-17

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

• Master C++ Programming with Open-Source Books
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• CockroachDB beta-20161013
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• Go 1.8 Release Notes
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• YC Annual Letter 2017
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• Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” Book
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• Samsung chief Lee arrested as S.Korean corruption probe deepens
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• Awesome OS X Command Line
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• Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it
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• Google Spreadsheets and Python
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• Dole Food Had Too Many Shares
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-16

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

• 40% of foreign students in the US have no close American friends on campus
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• SecureDrop – An open-source whistleblower submission system
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• Realtime Analysis of the Oroville Dam Disaster
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• The most cited deep learning papers
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• I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
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• Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration and 1% innovation
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• Software developers who started after 35, 40 or 50
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• DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online
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• What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
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• Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-15

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

• Inferring Your Mobile Phone Password via WiFi Signals
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• SNES preservation project on hold due to missing $10,000 package
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• Pathfinder, a fast GPU-based font rasterizer in Rust
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• The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History
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• Warren Buffett’s Best Investment
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• Google’s not-so-secret new OS
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• PSLV-C37 Successfully Launches 104 Satellites in a Single Flight
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• GitHub commit search: “remove password”
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• Algorithms
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• TensorFlow 1.0 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-14

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

• New Macbook Pro power efficiency and time remaining
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• Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC
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• Amazon Chime
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• Is PostgreSQL good enough?
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• Happy 15th Birthday .NET
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• Operating Systems: From 0 to 1
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• Show HN: A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes
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• DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers
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• Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
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• India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-13

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

• Effectively Using Android Without Google Play Services with Gplayweb in Docker
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• Python moved to GitHub
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• Have you looked at your windshield wipers lately?
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• Why does e to pi i equal -1? (2015) [video]
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• Bill Binney: “Things won't change until we put these people in jail”
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• A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners
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• Big Picture of Calculus (2010) [video]
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• Encrypted email is still a pain
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• Government-grade spyware hits Mexican advocates of soda tax
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• The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-12

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

• Four Kinds of Dystopia
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• A glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth
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• Double life as a KGB agent
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• Facebook Has No First Amendment Right to Send Unauthorized Texts, Says Court
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• Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle
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• Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
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• Raymond Smullyan has died
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• Show HN: Rumuki, a prenup for sex tapes
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• A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
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• Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-11

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

• pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution
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• Structured Procrastination: Do Less and Deceive Yourself
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• The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet – It’s the End of the Middle Class
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• A Low-Cost Solution to Traffic
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• Software Engineering at Google
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• Postmortem of database outage of January 31
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• The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely
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• The Essence of Linear Algebra [video]
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• Microsoft Allowed to Sue U.S. Government Over E-mail Surveillance
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• Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-10

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

• London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup
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• Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8
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• How To Write With Style (1999)
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• 2017 State of Global Tech Salaries
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• Learn web development: Django Web Framework
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• Go Web Examples
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• Considerations on Cost Disease
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• Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets
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• JavaScript Start-up Performance
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• H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-09

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

• Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting
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• Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006?
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• Fluid Paint Simulation
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• TensorFlow Image Recognition on a Raspberry Pi
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• Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20
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• HyperNormalisation (2016) [video]
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• Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave
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• Microsoft open-sources Graph Engine
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• GitLab’s Secret to Managing Employees in 160 Locations: Write Everything Down
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• RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-08

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

• Privacy is Power: Why the fight for privacy matters
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• Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
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• The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free
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• What programming languages are used most on weekends?
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• I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam
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• Thousands of deadly U.S. military airstrikes have gone unreported
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• Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data
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• The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
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• Introducing Keybase Chat
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• The web sucks if you have a slow connection
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-07

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

• Rust's 2017 Roadmap
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• Trump’s F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules
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• Sandstorm is returning to its community roots
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• React Native at Instagram
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• What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
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• CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]
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• Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack
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• Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
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• Hans Rosling has died
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• YC Research: Universal Healthcare
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-06

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

• The end of the level playing field
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• Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
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• Federal Court Says Public Safety Laws Can Be Locked Behind Paywalls
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• Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014)
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• Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants
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• Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't Fix
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• RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0
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• Learn C Programming with Open-Source Books
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• Intern Impact: Brotli compression for Play Store app downloads
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• RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-05

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

• Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)
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• Blockchain Demo [video]
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• Using tmux properly
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• FBI Is Building a Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees
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• Interactive command line HTTP inspector written in Go
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• Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
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• “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
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• The State of Go
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• A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine
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• The open-office trend is destroying the workplace
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-04

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

• The Gray-1, a homebrew CPU exclusively composed of memory
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• The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say
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• Whonix – A desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy
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• Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide
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• Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer
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• More than one million requests per second in Node.js
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• Network programming with Go (2012)
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• Appleseed – a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine
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• YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science videos from the Internet
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• Facebook is terrifying
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-03

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

• Ask HN: What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?
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• Snap Inc. S-1
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• The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)
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• SQLITE: JSON1 Extension
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• Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure
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• Node v7.5.0 Released
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• What should you think about when using Facebook?
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• Ventusky – Weather data visualization
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• Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
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• Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-02

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

• Unlearning descriptive statistics
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• Data Loss at GitLab
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• The JVM is not that heavy
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• Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps
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• How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
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• Computer Science Education
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• John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying
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• To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
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• Visual Studio Code 1.9
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• Announcing Rust 1.15
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-01

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

• How to start a startup without ruining your life
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• Secret docs reveal: an FBI with vast hidden powers
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• Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
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• Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
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• GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
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• 'Check Your Backups Work' Day
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• Four Column ASCII
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• Million requests per second with Python
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• An Email Thread Between a Developer and Gigster
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Guided meditation for beginners
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• Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement
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• Trump Fires Acting Attorney General
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• Front-End Developer Handbook 2017
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• Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign
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• CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square
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• LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
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• New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $130K/yr
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• Welcome, ACLU
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• Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS
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