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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-29

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

• Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of Linux tracing [video]
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• Floating Point Visually Explained
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• Modern terminal-based text editor
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• Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining cryptocurrencies
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• Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow Crash and Ringworld
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• SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video]
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• SpaceX BFR [video]
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• Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB
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• How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
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• It’s time to give Firefox another chance
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-28

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

• Programmers who want to change how we code before catastrophe strikes
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• American Red Cross Asks for Ham Radio Operators for Puerto Rico Relief Effort
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• Privacy
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• A 220b spreadsheet app in HTML/JS
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• Refresh Is Sacred
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• Things learned while running your own self-funded startup
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• Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars
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• Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
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• Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
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• A “right to repair” movement tools up
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-27

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

• Git git git git git
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• Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57
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• Giving you more characters
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• Text-only NPR
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• Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing
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• Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine
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• Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’
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• Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)
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• Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
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• Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-26

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

• Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing
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• CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
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• Apache Arrow and the “Things I Hate About Pandas”
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• Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data
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• Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight
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• Equifax C.E.O. Richard Smith Retires After Huge Data Breach
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• Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
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• React 16
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• Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal
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• Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-25

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

• How I Fixed a 10-Year-Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code [video]
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• Documenting your architecture: Wireshark, PlantUML and a REPL to glue them all
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• In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)
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• What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch podcast apps
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• 30-Day Timelapse at Sea [video]
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• PixelNN – Example-Based Image Synthesis
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• MacOS High Sierra
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• Show HN: Logo Crunch – Multi-resolution logo maker
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• YC’s Essential Startup Advice
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• China Blocks WhatsApp
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-24

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

• A 1979 War-Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete
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• How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
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• Building multiplayer games with Socket.io and HTML5 Canvas
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• Parallel processing with Unix tools
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• Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)
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• Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
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• ‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium facility
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• A Quick Introduction to Graphviz
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• Scenic Tram Simulator
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• Jaeger – A Distributed Tracing System
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-23

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

• EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
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• Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
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• How Logos are Remembered
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• Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?
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• Gitlab 10.0 released
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• Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime
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• Bitcoin is fiat money, too
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• Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you
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• Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen
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• It’s time to kill the web app
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-22

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

• Ray Dillinger: If I'd Known What We Were Starting
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• Franchise – An Open-Source SQL Notebook
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• Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987) [pdf]
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• Anatomy of a Moral Panic
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• Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018
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• How I got to 200 productive hours a month
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• Godot Engine – Free and open-source 2D and 3D game engine
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• Uber London loses licence to operate
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• New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains
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• Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-21

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

• MindWeb – A Computer Science Bachelor Curriculum
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• Snowflake macro photography (2013)
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• How Booking.com manipulates users
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• How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME
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• Google signs agreement with HTC
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• Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased
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• “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason”
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• PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer
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• Basic Income Research Proposal
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• New in PostgreSQL 10
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-20

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

• HashiCorp and Google: easing secret and infrastructure management
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• iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'
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• Clocks for Software Engineers
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• GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues
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• US solar plant costs fall another 30 per cent in one year
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• China Bans Bitcoin Executives from Leaving Country, Miners “Preparing for Worst”
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• Swift 4.0 Released
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• DuckDuckGo vs Google
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• A new kind of map: it’s about time
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• Equifax linked customers to my fake phishing version of their site by accident
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-19

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

• Introducing Keybase Teams
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• AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances
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• Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed
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• Gas Pump Skimmers
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• Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs (2016)
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• U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes aboard submarines
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• Florida Power and Light: Regulations for home solar installations
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• A Coca-Cola plant in Mexico uses 1.08M liters of water per day as wells dry up
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• Facebook’s war on free will
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• Technical Interview Performance by Editor, OS, and Language
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-18

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

• How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video]
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• Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet officer who averted nuclear war, has died
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• GNU Taler
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• Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33
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• Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos
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• Thinkpad X62
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• Cutting your salary by 40%
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• Announcing CoffeeScript 2
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• Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe
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• W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-17

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

• Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true
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• Eclipse OpenJ9 – Open-source JVM
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• Two museums having an informative fight on Twitter
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• As Electric Motors Impove, More Things Are Being Electrified
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• Three Years in Identity Theft Hell
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• Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds
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• NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment with NixOS
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• Our Approach to Privacy
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• Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust
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• The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-16

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

• Show HN: Nulis – Open Source Tree Editor for Writers
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• Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font
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• World's largest electric vehicle
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• Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing pictures of themselves
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• Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and network
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• Linear Algebra for AI
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• Cost of iPhone X in 1957
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• Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-driving algorithms
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• Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)
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• We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-15

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

• Organizers have unionized 5,000 contract workers at Apple, Facebook, Yahoo
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• MacOS 10.12.6 Source
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• There Are Only Four Billion Floats, So Test Them All (2014)
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• Alphabet considers Lyft investment of about $1B
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• On React and WordPress
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• Mystery of sonic weapon attacks in Cuba deepens
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• Malicious software libraries found in PyPI posing as well known libraries
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• Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)
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• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
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• Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-14

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

• How JavaScript works: memory management and common memory leaks
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• I don’t know who the Web Audio API is designed for
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• Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving
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• Windows for Linux Nerds
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• Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley
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• Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security
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• Building a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life
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• Equihax
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• Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent
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• S3 was down
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-13

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

• What every software engineer should know about search
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• Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
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• Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI
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• Equifax Argentinian portal secured with admin/admin
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• It appears my Google account is slated for deletion
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• Better Database Migrations in Postgres
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• Blender 2.79 released
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• General and Surprising
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• Sublime Text 3.0
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• EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-12

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

• Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your device without a passcode
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• Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability
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• A New Way to Learn Economics
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• A font to make sparklines in seconds
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• Curl’s backdoor threat
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• Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
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• Dyslexia
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• Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”
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• Introducing Atom-IDE
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• iPhone X
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-11

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

• Lotfi Zadeh has died
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• Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving
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• A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD + Patents license
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• Give away your code, but never your time
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• With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold
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• Show HN: Build A Personal Power Plant for $200
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• Web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers
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• Mercedes-Benz will electrify its entire car lineup by 2022
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• Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates
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• Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-10

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

• DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode
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• Restoring a Soviet-era analog synthesizer
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• The Corpus Christi Prime
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• NASA's plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
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• Messenger.com Now 50% Converted to Reason
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• Text-only CNN
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• People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness
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• Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter
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• Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
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• Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-09

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

• The Mystery of a Lost Roman Herb
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• Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft
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• BerkShares
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• Continued G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storming Observed
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• Government launches login.gov to simplify access to public services
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• Jerry Pournelle has died
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• How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python
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• Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You
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• Show HN: I'll mail Equifax your arbitration opt-out for free
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• Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when you request the freeze
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-08

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

• Redefine statistical significance
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• Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks
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• Vagrant 2.0
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• How Taser inserts itself into investigations involving its own weapons
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• Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed
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• Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007)
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• The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info ever
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• Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
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• Show HN: A coloring book of data structures and algorithms
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• How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost?
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-07

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

• The fertility of the older mind
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• Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times
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• The Incredible Growth of Python
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• Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
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• Nginx Unit
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• Software to capture votes in upcoming German national election is insecure
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• Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China
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• Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
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• Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home
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• Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-06

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

• Divorce and Occupation
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• Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space
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• Stop Faking Service Dogs
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• Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform
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• How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out
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• Ask HN: How to start afresh in a new domain after years of expertise in another?
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• Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (2016)
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• Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering
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• Bank of Canada increases overnight rate target to 1 per cent
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• Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-05

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

• Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper
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• Tell me what your company does
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• The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
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• Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit
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• Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
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• ReactOS 0.4.6 released
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• A collection of things software developers should know
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• Solaris to Linux Migration 2017
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• Little UI Details
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• Demon-Haunted World
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-04

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

• WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus
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• Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential Equations (1997) [pdf]
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• HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year
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• Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty
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• Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research
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• Why I left
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• China's Central Bank Bans ICOs
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• HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece 
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• Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C
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• “Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-03

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

• Fucking Sue Me (2011)
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• FE-Schrift: forgery-impeding typeface
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• You are not 'behind'
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• How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success
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• Hell is a multi-threaded C++ program (2006)
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• Delete Facebook Account
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• “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
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• To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors
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• The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant
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• SharknAT&To: Vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-02

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

• Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science
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• Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
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• Bad UX: How Booking.com deceives clients
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• US government halts study on health effects of coal mining
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• My first fifteen compilers
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• Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?
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• Where will Artificial General Intelligence come from? [slides]
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• Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
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• Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
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• “I'm Kabir and I'm a 13 y/o maker”
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-09-01

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

• What's Functional Programming All About?
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• Blum: “The proof is wrong. I shall elaborate precisely what the mistake is.”
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• Tesla Model S battery degradation data
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• Transformer: A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Language Understanding
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• Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)
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• Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like
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• Insane state of today's advertising part 3
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• The art of over-engineering your side projects
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
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• Juicero Is Shutting Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-08-31

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

• Concurrent JavaScript: It can work
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• Intro to Low-Level Graphics on Linux
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• How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook
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• Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
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• Astronomers have found the stars responsible for an explosion recorded in 1437
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• The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key
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• Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js
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• ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field
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• Announcing Rust 1.20
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• Criticizing Google got me fired
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