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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-29

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

• Ask HN: What are the best books on modern computer graphics?
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• Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
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• Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?
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• 2D Syntax
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• Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) Generates 100 Gbps DDoS
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• TDD did not live up to expectations
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• Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
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• Judges refuse to order fix for court software that put people in jail by mistake
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• Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once
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• Thoughts on Insurance
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-28

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

• How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
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• Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?
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• How I learned to code in my 30s
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• Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely
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• Take Naps at Work
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• Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
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• An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker
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• Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL
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• Flawed reporting about WhatsApp
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• My own private basic income
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-27

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

• Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos (2013)
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• How to Interview Engineers
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• The Best Machine Learning, NLP, and Python Tutorials I’ve Found
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• The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
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• Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers
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• How HTTPS Handshake Happens
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• Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
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• European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance
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• Show HN: GreenPiThumb – A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot
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• Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-26

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

• The secret to a long and healthy life? Eat less
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• Shared thoughts after 6 years in Pentesting
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• SpaceX successfully launches and recovers second Falcon 9 in 48 hours
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• Sci-Hub as Necessary, Effective Civil Disobedience
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• KeePassXC 2.2.0 released with YubiKey and TOTP support
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• Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
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• Everything I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Demoing SaaS
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• I decided to disable AMP on my site
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• How HBO’s Silicon Valley Built “Not Hotdog” with TensorFlow, Keras and React Native
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• Zillow forces McMansion Hell to delete posts
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-25

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

• The CTO Journey at a Small Startup
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• Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA
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• Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all platforms
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• AWS Security Primer
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• Localizing “Papers, Please” (2014)
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• Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one
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• On Starting a Software Business
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• Google Web Starter Kit
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• Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
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• Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-24

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

• My Father, in Four Visits Over Thirty Years
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• How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio
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• Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor
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• Go Language – Web Application Secure Coding Practices
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• How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide
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• 32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak online
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• SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket
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• TensorFlow-World: Simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow
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• Cooling the tube – Engineering heat out of the Underground
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• Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-23

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

• Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code
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• Algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3D structure
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• An Introduction to Support Vector Machines
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• Show HN: 3D Packing for 3D Printing
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• A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'
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• Google’s Flutter = React and Java Swing
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• Twice as happy customers means half the marketing spend
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• Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
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• After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface
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• 6 Women Accuse Tech VC Justin Caldbeck of Sexual Assault and Harassment
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-22

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

• 14 People Make 500K Tons of Steel a Year in Austria
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• Spectral, the first parametric Google font
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• Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule
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• Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality
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• VisuAlgo – visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
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• Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker
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• Firefox 56 supports headless mode on Windows
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• Netflix Originals: Production and Post-Production Requirements v2.1
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• Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language
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• Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it out of business
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-21

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

• ProtonVPN
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• AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis
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• Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
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• Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
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• What works in e-commerce – A meta-analysis of online experiments [pdf]
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• Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applications on AWS
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• D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
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• Teller – API for your bank account
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• Erlang/OTP 20.0
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• My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-20

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

• Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook
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• Show HN: Algorithm Cookbook in Rust
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• Connect: behind the front-end experience
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• GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7
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• Close-Up View of DNA Replication
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• Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
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• Google Jobs Search
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• Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really?
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• The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
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• How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-19

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

• How is Ruby different in Japan?
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• Things to know before using AWS’s Elasticsearch Service
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• Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS
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• NSA OSS Technologies
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• Social Cooling – How big data is increasing pressure to conform
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• Amazon’s New Customer
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• Why we’re betting against real-time team messaging
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• Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
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• Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
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• Homeless man turned his life around offering book reviews instead of begging
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-18

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

• Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
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• Stardust: GPU-Based Visualization Library
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• Your own company? You can do it (2011)
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• Debian 9 Stretch released
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• So long, farewell and goodbye
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• Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?
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• Stop Buying Things and Start Borrowing Them
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• If companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders
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• Georgia Tech's free math textbook collective
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• Dedicated to Ian Murdock
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-17

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

• The Calibre Content Server
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• How I Stole a User's Siacoin
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• Startup School 2017 Presentations
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• Amazon has a patent to keep people from comparison shopping in stores
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• Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
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• Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
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• Tesla Autopilot
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• Securing a laptop for travel to China
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• European leaders call for open access to all scientific papers by 2020 (2016)
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• Classic Papers: Articles That Have Stood the Test of Time
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-16

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

• The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)
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• No correlation between headphone frequency response and retail price
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• New analysis reveals significant ROI in open source technologies
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• Open Source Datasets
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• Ableton Live Redesign
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• If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it
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• Catfish Programmers
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• American Chipmakers Had a Toxic Problem, Then They Outsourced It
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• Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
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• Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-15

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

• Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page
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• Is Arduino no longer open-source?
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• The Konami exodus
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• Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of social norms
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• Maps reveal the structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books
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• Show HN: Snips is a AI Voice Assistant platform 100% on-device and private
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• Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
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• Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
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• Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to weaken encryption
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• I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-14

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

• The most accurate map for August 21’s total solar eclipse
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• Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path
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• Chuck Thacker has died
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• SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
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• The Old Are Eating the Young
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• Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell
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• IISc Bangalore scientists are doing seed bombing with drones to plant a forest
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• Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
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• New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3
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• Bugs You'll Probably Only Have in Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-13

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

• Lessons I’ve Learned from Three Million App Downloads
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• Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production
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• Pistol sights
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• How is GNU `yes` so fast?
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• Money can be stolen from an Uber account
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• The future of education is plain text
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• Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
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• Uber CEO to take leave
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• The Holder Report on Uber
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• NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-12

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

• An introduction to Wayland
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• Inkscape Moves to GitLab
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• Apple’s Guidelines Now Allow Executable Code in Educational Apps and Dev Tools
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• Automattic is closing its San Francisco office as most employees work remotely
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• Amazon sues former AWS VP over non-compete deal
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• Reverse engineering guide for beginners: Methodology and tools
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• #c0ffee is the color
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• For an Inclusive Culture, Try Working Less
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• Uber CEO Kalanick likely to take leave
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• Chess.com stopped working on 32bit iPads because 2^31 games have been played
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-11

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

• Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulation is a patent minefield
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• A Norwegian who knew his tortoises so well that he changed history
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• Self-Normalizing Neural Networks
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• A Mathematician's Secret: We're Not All Geniuses
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• Area code 710
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• Uber Board to Discuss CEO Absence, Policy Changes: Source
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• Windows93 SP2
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• Apple Is Trying to Make iMessages More Private
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• The relationship between mindset and getting old
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• Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Email, Bank Accounts
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-10

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

• Verelox Wiped by Ex-Admin
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• Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate
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• Stench gas
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• Kubernetes Production Patterns and Anti-Patterns
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• Comdb2 – Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS under Apache 2
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• $80k/month App Store Scam
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• Exploring LSTMs
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• Fractal planting patterns yield optimal harvests, without central control
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• Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?
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• Please Make Google AMP Optional
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-09

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

• Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
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• How MIT OpenCourseWare transformed a learner's life
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• Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
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• Working with time in Postgres
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• The Benefits of Talking to Yourself
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• Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?
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• SoftBank Agrees to Buy Boston Dynamics From Alphabet
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• Reading OpenBSD source code daily
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• Pirate Joe’s, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe’s Products, Shuts Down
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• Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-08

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

• Google Brain Residency
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• The future of MDN: a focus on web docs
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• How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool
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• A Brief History of the UUID
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• Apple Announces Full WebRTC Support in Safari 11
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• A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD
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• Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive
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• Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan
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• Rust Performance Pitfalls
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• Redditors design worst volume sliders possible
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-07

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

• Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
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• APFS is not safe to use with names which have Unicode normalisation issues
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• YC will accept 10k new companies into its new online Startup School
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• List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots
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• iOS 11 Location Privacy: \"Only While Using\" is now always an option for users
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• “Let her speak please”
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• A day without JavaScript
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• Options vs. Cash
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• In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (2012)
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• Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-06

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

• JSC loves ES6
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• Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?
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• Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing
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• Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills
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• Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker
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• Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
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• WebAssembly 101: A developer’s first steps
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• Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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• Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels
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• Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-05

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

• Cryptoeconomics 101
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• UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and why it won't work anyway
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• Netflix Leaving Battle for Net Neutrality Shows Why We Need It
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• You can probably use deep learning even if you don't have a lot of data
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• Ask HN: What code samples should programmers read?
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• Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?
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• Google’s Environmental Report
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• Manualslib – Database of More Than 2.6M Manuals
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• Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari
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• WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-04

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

• Too many people are buying cars using financial products they do not understand
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• McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf]
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• Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
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• MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
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• SpaceX sticks 11th rocket landing after launching first used Dragon capsule
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• The Microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs [pdf]
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• Dolphin Emulator Progress Report
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• A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language
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• Jean Sammet, co-creator of COBOL, has died
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• On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs nets a higher return
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-03

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

• Base65536 encoding
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• Python For Finance: Algorithmic Trading
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• Linux Namespaces and Go Don't Mix
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• TypeScript support in Electron
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• India, Once a Coal Goliath, Is Fast Turning Green
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• Secretive Billionaire Makes The Cheese For Pizza Hut, Domino's And Papa John's
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• SeaGlass – Enabling City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection
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• Game Programming Patterns
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• A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec and more
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• Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-02

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

• Oh My Gosh, It’s Covered in Rule 30s
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• LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves for Third Time
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• Hidden Away for 28 Years, Tiananmen Protest Pictures See Light of Day
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• Coal plants emit more radioactive waste than nuclear plants (2007)
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• Stripe Sigma
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• WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United States Climate Alliance
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• Network Protocols
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• No politics please, we're hackers, too busy to improve the world
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• Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets
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• 4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-06-01

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

• Build an 8-Bit Computer from Scratch
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• Fireflies
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• Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'
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• WebAssembly: Mozilla Won
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• Enough with the dead butterflies
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)
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• Pinboard Acquires Delicious
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• Facebook is an attack on the open web
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• TLDR Stock Options
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• US quits Paris climate pact
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-05-31

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

• Server room with seismic isolation floor in Japan earthquake disaster [video]
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• Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage (2009)
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• Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly
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• Tad, a tabular data viewer
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• Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
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• Going for the 5 hour workday
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• On Conference Speaking
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• Kubernetes by Example
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• Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive
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• The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure
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