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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-29

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

• Anagram Scoring
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• El Salvador bans metal mining in world first
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• Ask HN: How do you keep improving?
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• Getting Closer to Mass Production of Bones, Organs, and Implants
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• N.S.A Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets
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• The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone
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• Visualizing Concurrency in Go (2016)
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• Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
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• PSA: If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it now
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• Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-28

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

• Cleaver – 30-second slideshows for hackers
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• A critique of trends in tech
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• Write Fast Apps Using Async Python 3.6 and Redis
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• Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies lead amid legal fight
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• Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives
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• Have We Forgotten about Geometry in Computer Vision?
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• Stupid security things
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• How to talk about yourself in a developer interview
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• Just Say No
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• The Boring Company [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-27

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

• A vigilante trying to improve IoT security
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• Hanging up my spurs
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• The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules
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• Should I buy ECC memory? (2015)
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• Swift architecture at Uber
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• An analysis of the Nomx secure communications device
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• gRPC-Web: Moving past REST+JSON towards type-safe Web APIs
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• Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)
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• TypeScript 2.3
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• Rust 1.17
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-26

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

• A Primer on Bézier Curves
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• Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform
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• Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel
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• Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job
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• Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?
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• Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress
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• My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
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• Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid
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• Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation
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• India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-25

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

• Glob Matching Can Be Simple and Fast Too
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• Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive
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• Uber gets sued over alleged ‘Hell’ program to track Lyft drivers
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• Robert M. Pirsig has died
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• WikiTribune – Evidence-based journalism
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• Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users?
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• Exercise 'keeps the mind sharp' in over-50s, study finds
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• Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
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• How to Become Well-Connected
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• Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-24

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

• Stanford Lecture Notes on Probabilistic Graphical Models
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• Show HN: Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking
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• Amazon's Leadership Principles
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• Why I published in a predatory journal
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• Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
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• “Ghost in the Shell - Remake”
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• NASA Image Shows Earth Between the Rings of Saturn
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• LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how
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• CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police
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• Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-23

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

• Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: The Tragedy of Google Books
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• We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2
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• APFS filesystem format
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• Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address
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• The Guardian Pulls Out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News
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• Fewer mallocs in curl
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• The story of how SSH got port number 22
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• Uber CEO Plays with Fire
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• Thousands of computers now compromised with leaked NSA tools, researchers say
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• Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-22

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

• A Mind is Born
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• Theranos Secretly Bought Outside Lab Gear, Ran Fake Tests: Court Filings
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• Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet
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• Resources on creating programming languages
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• Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments
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• The glEnd of Zelda(): Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)
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• For First Time Since 1800s, Britain Goes a Day Without Burning Coal for Power
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• What I Learned About Life by Becoming a Landlord
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• The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people
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• “Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS will no longer work”
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-21

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

• Me and SVG
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• Serde 1.0.0 for Rust released
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• McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (2015)
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• PhotoScan: Taking Glare-Free Pictures of Pictures
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• Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
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• Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives
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• Survivorship Bias
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• Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?
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• Introducing Token
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• What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-20

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

• A look at my BBS Software from '93
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• Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly
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• Pattern Matching for Java
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• Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js
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• Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
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• Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident
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• System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house
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• Tmux and Vim – better together
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• Docker is transitioning to Moby
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• Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-19

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

• The Art of Writing One-Sentence Product Descriptions
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• LinuxKit: A Toolkit for Building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems
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• Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible
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• H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
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• Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined
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• Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors
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• Python plays Grand Theft Auto V
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• Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
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• What programming languages are used late at night?
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• CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-18

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

• MP3 for Image Compression
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• Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere
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• Pink Trombone: Speech Synthesis Simulation in JavaScript
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• Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow
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• Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US
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• Google Earth Redesigned
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• Street Fighter II's AI Engine
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• USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
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• A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator
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• Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-17

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

• Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
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• How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)
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• Apple’s new APFS file system
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• Data structures and algorithms interview questions and their solutions
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• PHP 7 Virtual Machine
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• Rope Science – Computer science concepts behind the Xi editor
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• Loss of Coral Reefs Could Cost $1T
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• How the Airlines Became Cartels
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• 90% of Python in 90 Minutes (2013)
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• Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-16

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

• How many jobs really require college?
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• An Oral History of Something Awful
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• Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B
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• Optimizing Rust Struct Size
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• Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (1998)
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• Pixels Don’t Care (2013)
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• Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap
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• Show HN: 'Hack' the user cursor
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• Arturo Di Modica has a point
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• Building a r/place in a weekend
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-15

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

• As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw
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• The 640 K Barrier
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• Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race
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• Musical User Interfaces
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• Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World
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• Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving cars
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• EFF is countersuing a patent troll that wants its name removed from a blog post
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• Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine
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• Bob Taylor Has Died
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• Golang SSH Security
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-14

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

• Intel Haskell Research Compiler
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• Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
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• Mary Anderson, a Founder of the Outdoor Cooperative REI, Dies at 107
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• What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them?
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• Introducing Increment
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• Saturn moon 'able to support life'
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• Filing Taxes in Japan Is a Breeze. Why Not in the US?
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• ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
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• Teaching Machines to Draw
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• A Competitive Programmer's Handbook
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-13

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

• How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video]
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• Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
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• How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
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• Remove United from your flight results
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• Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents
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• Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming a low-level programmer
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• PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
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• United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
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• Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter
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• How We Built r/Place
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-12

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

• How to Study (2016)
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• Anbox – Android in a Box
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• Cello – A library that brings higher level programming to C
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• TypeScript at Slack
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• Uber's head of communications is leaving the company
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• We’re dropping Google Ads
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• What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
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• Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released
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• Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA
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• Programmers are most likely to work from home
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-11

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

• When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged
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• Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset
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• Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (2013)
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• Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards
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• Material Design Color Tool
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• Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
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• Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident
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• Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
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• IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe
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• Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-10

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

• Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks
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• Libor: Bank of England implicated in secret recording
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• Great Barrier Reef at 'terminal stage'
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• Semantic UI
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• The brain “doubles up” by simultaneously making two memories of events
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• What is this colored fiber in my chicken?
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• Nginx reaches 33.3% web server market share while Apache falls below 50%
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• Deis to Join Microsoft
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• Typing the technical interview
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• A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-09

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

• Modafinil-Induced Changes in Functional Connectivity of Healthy Elderly Subjects
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• The new contribution workflow for Gnome
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• Show HN: Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems
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• Best Practices for Applying Deep Learning to Novel Applications
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• A quick look at the Ikea Trådfri lighting platform
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• How do you make programmers work 60-80 hours per week?
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• Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
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• High prevalence of diabetes among people exposed to organophosphates in India
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• Textbook manifesto (2016)
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• The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-08

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

• Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”
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• File Format Posters
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• The BEAM Book – A Description of the Erlang RTS and the Virtual Machine BEAM
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• Color Night Vision (2016) [video]
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• React v15.5.0
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• Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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• A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest
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• ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps
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• New Features Coming in PostgreSQL 10
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• Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-07

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

• The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
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• FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
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• Uber said to use “sophisticated” software to defraud drivers, passengers
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• Twitter Sues Federal Government
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• Machine learning without centralized training data
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• Official list of phoned-home info revealed by Microsoft
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• Lego Macintosh Classic with e‑paper display
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• New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary
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• The reference D compiler is now open source
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• Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-06

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

• An In-Depth Look at Google's Tensor Processing Unit Architecture
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• Better Git configuration
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• The Power of Prolog
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• Build Your Own Text Editor
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• Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
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• How Bank of America Gave Away My Money
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• A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
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• An off-grid social network
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• Unsupervised sentiment neuron
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• Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-05

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

• Show HN: React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component
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• Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack
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• Django 1.11 Released
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• Why Momentum Works
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• Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture
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• Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
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• ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
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• Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid
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• Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence
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• Uber finds one allegedly stolen Waymo file on an employee’s personal device
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-04

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

• Interesting data structures: the BK-tree
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• Show HN: Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera
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• UK researchers create graphene-based sieve that can remove salt from seawater
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• Why F.E.A.R.’s AI is still the best in first-person shooters
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• iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch
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• Ask HN: What are you working on?
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• Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
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• The Mac Pro Lives
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• Jupyter Notebook 5.0
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• Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-03

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

• Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype
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• The Weirdness of CRISPR
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• Education of a Programmer
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• Uber's experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice drivers
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• Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse
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• Python coding interview challenges
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• Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
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• Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value
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• Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-02

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

• An Accident No One Talked About
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• I’m a freelance copywriter
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• Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna
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• Acme Klein Bottle
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• Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland, has died
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• Bent horizon photos
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• Why are The Economist’s writers anonymous?
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• How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive
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• Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Modern NIC (2016)
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• 0.30000000000000004
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-04-01

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

• How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place
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• Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools
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• Fourteen Months with Clojure
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• Shutting down CodePlex
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• Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp
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• Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code
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• Idris 1.0
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• Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things
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• Tor in a safer language: Network team update from\tAmsterdam
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• AWS for Kids
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-03-31

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

• Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code
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• Scaling your API with rate limiters
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• Apollo Client 1.0: A flexible, community-focused JavaScript GraphQL client
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• SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful landing of a used rocket
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• Uber’s Anthony Levandowski Invokes Fifth Amendment Rights in Waymo Suit
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• FBI arrests author of NanoCore after it was pirated and abused by hackers
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• Fuchsia: a new operating system
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• Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
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• Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data
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• Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
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