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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-30

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

• Learn Redis the hard way: in production
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• Explain Shell
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• Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process
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• Chase had ads on 400k sites, then on just 5k, with same results
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• SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’
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• Open Source License Business Perception Report
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• Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered
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• Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours
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• Airbnb “Bribes” Host with Cash Under NDA After Partiers Destroy Apartment
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• SES-10 Mission
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-29

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

• Flex
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• Alcatel-Lucent releases source for 8th, 9th and 10th editions of Unix
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• Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components
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• I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine
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• The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections
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• Night Shift compared to f.lux
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• Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs
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• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
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• Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power
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• VPNs Are Absolutely a Solution to a Policy Problem
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-28

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

• Apple Pages 6.1 adds equation support using LaTeX or MathML
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• Why is this little construction crane illegal in New York City? (2016)
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• Mega Man for TempleOS
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• Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI
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• A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
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• The AI Misinformation Epidemic
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• Tencent buys 5% of Tesla
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• Employee burnout is becoming a huge problem in the American workforce
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• Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python
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• How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-27

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

• Deep Photo Style Transfer
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• AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
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• How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To
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• StarCraft Remastered
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• LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack
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• The new £1 Coin
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• Curl is C
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• Next.js 2.0
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• Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017
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• We Have 24 Hours to Save Online Privacy Rules
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-26

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

• iOS 10 Security White Paper [pdf]
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• Thanks for Submitting Your Résumé to This Black Hole
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• How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016)
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• LA Times and ads
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• Haskell Concepts in One Sentence
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• Bay Area professionals indicted for H-1B visa fraud
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• UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable
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• Modules vs Microservices
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• How much your computer can do in a second
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• Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-25

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

• Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg
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• Dell’s 32-inch 8K UP3218K Display Now for Sale
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• Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code
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• Pythagorean Theorem proof in a 2100 year old Chinese book
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• Alpaca – Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM
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• APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames
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• The Night Watch (2013) [pdf]
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• C++ 17 is Done
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• San Jose and Oakland area job markets tumble
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• Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-24

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

• Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
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• Going native
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• Sea Ice Extent Sinks to Record Lows at Both Poles
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• Angular 4.0.0 Now Available
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• Tamil Bell
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• No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter
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• 3.5 Years, 500k Lines of Go
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• Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started
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• Lisp Quickstart
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• Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-23

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

• Research Debt
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• Secret colours of the Commodore 64
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• Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation tool for iPad and iPhone
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• Japanese company develops a solar cell with record-breaking efficiency
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• Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems
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• “Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
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• VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
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• Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers
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• Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-Issued Certificates
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• US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-22

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

• Amsterdam Airport Launches API Platform
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• CERN experiment discovers five new particles
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• Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs
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• Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amazon's brand
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• The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking
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• 'My life was ruined by a typo'
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• YouTube channels for entrepreneurs
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• Gitlab 9.0
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• Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
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• Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-21

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

• The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (1992)
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• Tears
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• SHA-1 Collision Detection on GitHub.com
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• Beautiful Online SICP
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• How I Became a Better Programmer
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• Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
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• GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources
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• iPad 9.7‑inch
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• 2038: Only 21 years away
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• H&R Block and Intuit Are Lobbying Against Making Tax Filling Free and Easy
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-20

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

• Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
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• They Used To Last 50 Years
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• Uber president Jeff Jones is quitting
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• YC AI
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• How Braintree destroyed a successful taxi startup from Serbia
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• The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight
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• Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
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• Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser
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• Distill: a modern machine learning journal
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• I've decided to move on to Distill
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-19

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

• Intellectual Humility increases tolerance, improves decision-making
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• Building a Hackintosh Pro
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• Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturing industry
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• Chuck Berry has died
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• Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)
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• The Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure
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• Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
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• Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet
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• I will not log in to your website
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• The beginning of Git supporting other hash algorithms
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-18

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

• Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute
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• De-Location Package: Keep Your Career and Live Beyond the Bay Area
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• How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness
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• How is team-member-1 doing?
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• The Cult of DD
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• Railroad Tycoon
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• Virtual machine escape fetches $100k at Pwn2Own hacking contest
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• Ask HN: Best books on AI?
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• Bad SSL
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• U.S. Web Design Standards 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-17

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

• GNU Guile 2.2.0
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• An Upgrade to SyntaxNet, New Models and a Parsing Competition
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• A million-dollar engineering problem
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• Announcing Rust 1.16
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• Programs that have saved me 100+ hours
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• Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder
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• Animista: a collection of ready to use CSS animations
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• OpenEMR: Electronic Medical Records and Medical Practice Management Software
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• Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet upside down
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• Scientists sent a rocket to Mars for less than it cost to make “The Martian”
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-16

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

• An 85-year old millionaire hides $1M treasure in the Rocky Mountains (2016)
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• Tesla to raise $1B
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• Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
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• Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes
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• Beautiful Racket v1.0
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• The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y”
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• Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more
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• Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films
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• Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes
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• Acing the technical interview
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-15

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

• Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”
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• Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)
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• A Formal Spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown
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• Introducing Keras 2
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• German traffic light stays red for 28 years (2015)
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• We’ve lost control of our personal data, including 33M NetProspex records
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• Hiring without whiteboards
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• Trolling the Entire Internet
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• How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails
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• GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-14

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

• Simple example of machine learning in TensorFlow
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• LLVM 4.0.0
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• Teach Yourself Computer Science
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• JSON Web Tokens should be avoided
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• Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?
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• Scala Native v0.1
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• Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?
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• Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
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• Vibrator Maker to Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use
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• Keep the Internet Open
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-13

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

• How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)
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• Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python (2015)
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• A comment left on Slashdot
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• Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
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• Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
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• Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
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• Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
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• Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants
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• The Uber Bombshell About to Drop
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• Introducing Create React Native App
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-12

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

• A little-known iPhone feature that lets blind people see with their fingers
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• MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
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• Show HN: Nomouse
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• How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory
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• Linting HTML using CSS
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• I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it
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• Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore
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• Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?
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• New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting
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• Paypal Horror Story 40k Frozen No Answers
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-11

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

• Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game
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• Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips
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• Ask HN: How do you set prices?
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• FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public Surveillance
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• Goodbye Mac App Store
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• Rust's Type System Is Turing-Complete: Type-Level Programming in Rust
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• What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works
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• Can sleep deprivation cure depression?
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• Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?
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• Build a digital clock in Conway's Life
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-10

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

• Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in 2016
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• Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase
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• Gmail Add-ons
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• Ctop – commandline monitoring for containers
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• New Features in C# 7.0
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• John Carmack is suing ZeniMax
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• Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
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• How to never complete anything
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• Password Rules Are Bullshit
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• Bitcoin ETF disapproved by SEC [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-09

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

• The Rusty Web: Targeting the Web with Rust
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• An animated GIF that shows its own MD5
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• Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
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• The System Design Primer
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• Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue
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• William Shatner's Seat
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• Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about single-payer healthcare
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• Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
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• YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
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• Google Cloud SQL for Postgres
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-08

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

• How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following
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• AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: Coming in Q2
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• Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2
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• Scrimba: a video format for communicating code
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• Congress Is Trying to Roll Back Internet Privacy Protections
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• Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up?
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• Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features
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• Google is acquiring Kaggle
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• Gail, not Gmail
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• Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening Intel's Dominance
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-07

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

• World’s richest doctor gave away millions, then steered the cash to his company
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• Introducing Google Cloud Container Builder
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• ConvertKit: How Nathan Barry Bootstrapped an Email Marketing Business
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• Snap Tumbles Below IPO Opening Price as Analysts Say Sell
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• German institute successfully tests underwater energy storage sphere
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• CIA malware and hacking tools
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• Firefox 52 released
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• Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds
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• Greg
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• WikiLeaks: CIA managed to bypass encryption on popular services Signal, WhatsApp
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-06

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

• Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages
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• Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan
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• AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to GPU self-host APL
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• A $10K tiny house 3D-printed in 24 hours
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• To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case
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• Mathematics for Computer Science [pdf]
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• Google featured snippets are worse than fake news
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• Startup School – YC’s Online Class
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• Hydrogen – An advanced drum machine for Linux
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• Snakisms
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-05

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

• A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode
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• A blockchain in 200 lines of code
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• What happens when you swipe a credit card
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• A plane so good it's still in production after 60 years
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• Electronic meters’ false readings up to six times higher than actual consumption
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• I spent three months working full time to get a job
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• Show HN: A new hobby OS from “scratch” in C#
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• When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners
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• NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere
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• Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-04

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

• How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it
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• Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platforms (2016)
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• In praise of cash
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• Razer targets perfect Linux support
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• Rust's language ergonomics initiative
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• White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA
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• Nintendo Switch Teardown
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• PayPal Redirects Charitable Contributions Without Consent, Lawsuit Says
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• A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks
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• If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-03

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

• Why we are not leaving the cloud
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• The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy
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• 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery
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• Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms
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• CS 20SI: Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research
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• China congress: BBC team forced to sign confession
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• The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]
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• Images and video showing extent of Oroville dam damage
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• How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
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• You May Want to Marry My Husband
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-02

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

• Nintendo Switch review: pure potential
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• New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-source works
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• Leaked Snapchat emails: Anti-gun group told to pay or NRA ads may appear
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• Dilution
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• Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects
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• Facebook releases 300-dimensional pretrained Fasttext vectors for 90 languages
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• Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
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• Deep Forest: Towards an Alternative to Deep Neural Networks
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• AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive
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• Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-01

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

• Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
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• The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (2011)
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• In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares
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• YouTube TV
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• What makes WebAssembly fast?
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• Satirical Summaries of Hacker News
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• Hacking Slack using postMessage and WebSocket-reconnect to steal your token
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• Given Choice, Patients Will Choose Cannabis Over Prescribed Opioids
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)
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• The Other Half
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-02-28

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

• Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System
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• Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
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• Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
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• CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages
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• BlueCoat and other proxies hang up during TLS 1.3
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• Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
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• Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity
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• WordPress on .NET
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• Google Goes Public with Unpatched Microsoft Edge and IE Vulnerability
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• Ask HN: Is S3 down?
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