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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-29

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

• Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts
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• Lessons we learned while bootstrapping
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• Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago
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• Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year
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• AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities
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• EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware
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• Hello, world: this is WikiTribune
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• About the security content of Security Update 2017-001
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• Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service
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• AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-28

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

• Netflix Stole My VHS Cassette Photos for Its Stranger Things Boxed Set
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• Infinitown – A WebGL Experiment
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• DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Lost the Web, What We Learned, and What to Do Next
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• Show HN: Golang DNS server, including DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS
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• The Poor Man's 3D Camera
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• HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs
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• U.S. judge says Uber withheld evidence, delays Waymo trial
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• How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox
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• macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
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• Astonishing OS X bug lets anyone log into a High Sierra machine
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-27

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

• Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015)
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• A Year in Computer Vision
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• Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers
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• Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting
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• Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads
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• Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills
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• American Equity
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• Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed
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• Romanian Facebook users see their protests-related content reviewed and blocked
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• Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to discredit the paper
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-26

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

• A minimalist guide to tmux
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• Half-Life and Team Fortress Networking
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• Carp, a compiled Lisp with type inference and a borrow checker
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• VNC, RDP and SSH Over HTML5
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• Apple’s Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) Firmware Decrypted
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• Simplified and community-driven man pages
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• Members of congress who voted to reverse FCC web browsing privacy rule
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• Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG
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• Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default
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• Lisp in fewer than 200 lines of C
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-25

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

• Clojure Design Patterns
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• Free online courses from top universities
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• Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid
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• SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling
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• More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked
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• Linked List Problems (2002) [pdf]
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• Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?
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• My unusual hobby
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• Call for the Resignation of FCC Chairman Ajit Varadaraj Pai
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• Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-24

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

• Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep
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• Dither stabilisation
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• Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server
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• The sequence 1 1 ∞ 5 6 3 3 3
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• How do I permanently delete my account?
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• The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective
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• The Girl with the Brick Earring
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• A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm
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• I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbithole today
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• Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-23

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

• The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries
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• Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker
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• Cortana is really bad
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• Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many Countries
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• Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago
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• Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers
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• I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality
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• “I thought I could ship at least 700 units to stay in business”
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• Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday
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• Why we never thank open source maintainers
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-22

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

• HQ CEO: If You Run This Profile, We’ll Fire Our Host
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• A Man Who Has Lived Alone on an Island for 28 Years
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• I'm Testifying to Congress about Data Breaches – What Should I Say?
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• Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male researchers
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• Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange
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• A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
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• Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
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• Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm”
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• Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
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• An Open Letter to the FCC
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-21

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

• Samsung DeX
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• Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market
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• Tether Critical Announcement
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• The first known object to enter our solar system from deep space
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• Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?
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• Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled
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• Desktop compositing latency is real
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• Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go
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• FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
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• Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57M People’s Data
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-20

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

• Haskell for Mac IDE
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• Intel will ship processors with integrated AMD graphics and memory
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• Clicker Heroes 2 is abandoning free-to-play
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• We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself
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• How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways
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• The Shortest Papers Ever Published (2016)
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• Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code
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• Stanford Compilers Course
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• Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will
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• An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-19

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

• Stockfish Wins Chess.com Computer Championship
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• “Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]
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• Span<T> in C#
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• Ask HN: I'm lonely. Are there any video chat support groups for solo founders?
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• Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the World’
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• Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (2012)
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• Switching from 1Password to Bitwarden
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• When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work
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• Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system
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• Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-18

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

• Walking away from $30,000 of DJI bounty money [pdf]
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• Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
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• Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks
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• Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?
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• $3 Trillion in Forgotten Debt
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• Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the future
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• Scaling Postgres with Read Replicas and Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads
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• How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sourcing of React.js
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• Matrix Calculus
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• A Founder Salary Calculator
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-17

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

• RISC-V port merged into Linux 4.15
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• Learn just enough Linux to get things done
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• The FCC has repealed a 42-year-old rule blocking broadcast media mergers
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• Introduction to Computer Organization: ARM Assembly Language on the Raspberry Pi
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• Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
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• Tesla Semi
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• Tesla Roadster
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• Microsoft Has Manually Patched Their Equation Editor Executable
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• Germany bans children's smartwatches
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• Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-16

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

• Concise Electronics for Geeks (2010)
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• Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf]
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• The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
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• All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
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• Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (2011)
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• JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition
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• FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December
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• Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early
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• Startup Ideas
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• Security alerts on GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-15

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

• How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++
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• Augmented reality with Python and OpenCV
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• Developer preview of TensorFlow Lite
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• Fearless Concurrency in Firefox Quantum
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• Hotbed of Misinformation
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• Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab
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• A Guide to Natural Language Processing
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• Visual Studio Live Share
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• Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom
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• Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-14

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

• Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks, Part I: Intuition
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• There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use
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• Trade school, not 4-year college, is a better bet to solve the US income gap
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• WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
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• Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
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• Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
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• The fake Facebook profile industry
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• Firefox 57.0 Released
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• Ask HN: What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?
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• Using SVG as image placeholders
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-13

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

• A Universe in One Line of Code with 10 PRINT
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• How Bubble bootstrapped a visual programming tool for non-coders to $100k/mo
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• Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A.
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• A Beginner´s Guide to Getting Things Done
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• Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s
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• Go, don't collect my garbage
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• Don’t Tax Options and RSUs Upon Vesting
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• Qualcomm rejects Broadcom's $103B takeover proposal
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• How Firefox Got Fast Again
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• Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI?
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-12

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

• The cargo cult of versioning
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• A penetration tester’s guide to sub-domain enumeration
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• I hate telephones
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• Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 57
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• Bill Gates buys land in Arizona to build 'smart city'
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• The Senior Engineer’s Guide to Helping Others Make Decisions
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• A Visual Guide to Evolution Strategies
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• Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice
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• A/B test of banner ads vs. traffic
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• A German Newspaper Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-11

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

• YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
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• How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
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• Eight years of Go
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• All about whiteboard markers
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• Equifax CEO to Congress: Not Sure We Are Encrypting Data
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• The Case for RSS
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• RSS: there's nothing better
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• OVH outage explained
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• Is it time to stop trusting Google search?
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• Inside a low-budget consumer hardware espionage implant
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-10

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

• Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
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• .IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them
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• Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning
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• Writing a basic x86-64 JIT compiler from scratch in stock Python
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• Business questions engineers should ask when interviewing at ML/AI companies
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• DOJ: Strong encryption that we don’t have access to is “unreasonable”
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• Simple React Patterns
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• Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk Road Investigation
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• “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”
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• Burn the Programmer
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-09

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

• The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
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• BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia
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• Justice Department moves to end routine gag orders on tech firms
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• Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect
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• Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
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• Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids
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• Quake on an oscilloscope (2014)
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• I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me with legal action
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• Skyrim rendered in text
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• Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-08

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

• Feature Visualization: How neural nets build up their understanding of images
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• Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown
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• Work on SQLite4 has concluded
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• You Will Not Understand This
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• IBM Type
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• Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
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• Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth and Income Database
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• America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning
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• Segwit2x Bitcoin Fork Suspended
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• Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-07

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

• Rivals Intel and AMD Team Up on PC Chips to Battle Nvidia
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• Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends
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• Functional Programming Jargon
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• Bayangtoys X16: Inexpensive, durable, hackable GPS drone
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• An Open Letter to Intel
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• NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal
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• Parity Wallet security alert
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• Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
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• LA Times barred from Disney movies after report on corporate welfare
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• Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-06

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

• 28-year-old makes millions buying from Walmart, selling on Amazon
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• Does anyone remember websites?
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• How slot machines are designed to be addictive
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• Tufte CSS
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• Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1
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• Chrome breaks the Web
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• Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development
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• Broadcom Offers $105B for Qualcomm in Landmark Deal
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• The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)
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• How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax practices
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-05

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

• Who’s Sitting Next to You on the Subway? An R Train in September
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• How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk
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• Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill
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• Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
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• If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
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• Craniopagus Twins Share a Brain and See Out of Each Others Eyes
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• Lessons of an MIT Education
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• Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data
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• Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
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• Kremlin Cash Behind Yuri Milner’s Twitter and Facebook Investments
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-04

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

• Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]
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• Comcast has a lot to lose if municipal broadband takes off
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• Audacity 2.2.0 Released
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• Neugram – Scripting in Go
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• Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”
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• Show HN: Server.js – A modern Express alternative
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• Evio – Fast event-loop networking for Go
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• Freelancer.com has ruined my life
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• What is backpropagation and what is it actually doing? [video]
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• Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-03

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

• How Adversarial Attacks Work
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• Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate
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• USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion
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• Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C
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• Joseph Campbell’s daily routine for “the most important period of my study”
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• Why Do We Still Commute?
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• LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software
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• Yes, but what does your startup do?
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• Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed
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• iPhone X Teardown
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-02

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

• Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer
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• A Minimalist Guide to SQLite
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• What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
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• What every systems programmer should know about lockless concurrency [pdf]
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• Linux containers in 500 lines of code
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• Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally
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• A New Twist on Neural Networks
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• A regression is the kernel not giving the same result with the same user space
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• 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
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• Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-11-01

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

• Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data
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• Standalone Signal Desktop
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• Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative
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• Slack is offline
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• The two questions I ask every interviewer
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• VS Code Roadmap 2018
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• WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
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• Apache Kafka Goes 1.0
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
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• Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-10-31

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

• RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks
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• The State of Data Science and Machine Learning
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• Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
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• Simplicity: A New Language for Blockchains [pdf]
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• Butterfly iQ – A cheap handheld ultrasound tool with AI smarts inside
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• HTTP 103 – An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints
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• We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
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• Bottery – A conversational agent prototyping platform
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• Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project
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• Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript charting with zero dependencies
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