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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 27, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch
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• Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code
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• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State Machine
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• Nobody's just reading your code
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• How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop
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• California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present
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• After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat
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• Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps
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• Facebook turned on face recognition silently
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• Pricing low-touch SaaS
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 26, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mark Felt-Tipped: Uncovering top-secret information by counting pixels
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• What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan
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• A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2017)
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• What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures
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• How poverty changes your mindset
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• Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (2016)
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• Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines
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• Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud
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• Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
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• Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 25, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Keep your Identity Small (2009)
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• Trump administration cracks down on H-1B visa abuse
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• A Programmable Programming Language
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• AMP: the missing controversy
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• Planet Shadertoy
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• FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident
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• In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better
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• Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of AWS
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• Crankshaft – A GNU/Linux for the Raspberry Pi as an Android Auto headunit
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• Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 24, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Poison We Pick
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• QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64
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• Words for “yes” in Romance languages
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• Keras reimplementation of \"One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks\"
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• 10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain
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• The Practice is not the Performance: Why project-based learning fails
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• Days Since a Cryptocurrency Exchange Has Lost More Than $100M
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• Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell
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• Eldar Black Holes
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• The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 23, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Worst Roommate Ever
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• YC's Series A Diligence Checklist
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• China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants
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• Self-owning corporations are legally possible
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• Show HN: Hacker News Classics
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• Nix 2.0 Released
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• Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser
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• Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word
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• Mozilla Re-Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
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• Dropbox S-1
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 22, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)
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• Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes
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• Do not use NPM 5.7
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• I don’t understand Graph Theory
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• Electron 2.0.0 beta
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• Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow: Guido van Rossum
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• Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI
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• Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030
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• Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
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• My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 21, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Go += Package Versioning
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• There's a Persistent Hum in Windsor, Ontario, and No One Knows Why
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• Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)
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• Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
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• Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)
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• Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k/mo
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• Practical Tips for Cheating at Design
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• Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices
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• Signal Foundation
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• \"Pwned Passwords\" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 20, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head
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• Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011)
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• Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
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• Ask HN: As a data scientist, what should be in my toolkit in 2018?
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• Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords
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• Beverly Clock
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• JupyterLab is ready for users
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• One year of cycling to work
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• The Business of SaaS
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• Show HN: A CSS Keylogger
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 19, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
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• Asciinema 2.0
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• Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS
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• Ask HN: What has HN given you?
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• The Real History of TechCrunch
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• Working remotely, 4 years in
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• Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?
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• Rust things I miss in C
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• Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages
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• Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away with It
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• An American served a year in prison for copyright conduct that is legal in EU
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• New studies zero in on roots of depression and how ketamine affects it
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• In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster
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• MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images
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• Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX
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• Books I used to develop a game engine
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• How to make a game from scratch using Lua and Löve
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• How not to replace email: lessons from Google Wave
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• Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Belgian court
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• Intel hit with 32 lawsuits over security flaws
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• Learning to program is getting harder
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• Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars
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• Vim Anywhere
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• Graphical linear algebra: from matrices to monoids
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• Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015
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• Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
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• React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook
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• The case for ending Amazon’s dominance
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies
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• Tractor Hacking: Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair
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• Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String
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• Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
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• The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble
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• Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
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• The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books
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• How to Study Mathematics (2017)
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• I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
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• OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Germany considers free public transport in fight to banish air pollution
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• CSS Grid for UI Layouts
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• Launch HN: SheerlyGenius (YC W18) – Indestructible Tights from Bulletproof Fiber
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• The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use Huawei phones
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• Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers
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• MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired
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• Email is your electronic memory
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• MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions
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• Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
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• Rust 1.24
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Who Killed the Junior Developer?
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• Show HN: Curated, Pre-trained ML Models for Transfer Learning
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• What I wish I knew when I became CTO
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• Italian Anti-Corruption Authority Adopts Onion Services
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• Don't use VPN services
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• AMP for email is a terrible idea
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• Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework
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• Farewell from Rusty Russell
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• Dtrace for Linux
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• Let's Learn About Waveforms
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest
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• Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'
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• How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software
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• Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now
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• A surprisingly potent technique can boost short and long-term recall
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• Shipping a Neural Network on iOS with CoreML, PyTorch, and React Native
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• Maintaining code quality when nobody cares
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• Upwork banned my account for 'being dishonest'
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• Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive
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• The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011)
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• Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work
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• Slack is the opposite of organizational memory
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• Let’s talk about usernames
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• Appropriate Uses for SQLite
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• My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)
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• Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
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• The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent
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• Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year
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• German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
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• “Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying
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• Concerns that social media causes childhood depression
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• An opinionated guide to Haskell
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• E-Stop and Fuel, software that keeps you awake at night
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• How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
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• Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing
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• Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations
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• Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude
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• Protecting sites from Cryptojacking with CSP and SRI
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time
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• What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM
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• Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions
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• GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse
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• PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API
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• In web design, everything easy is hard again
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• Quiet for Android – TCP over sound
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• The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps
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• Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C GUI library
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• 26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent crime conviction (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Science’s Pirate Queen
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• Exploring ReasonML and functional programming
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• Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
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• Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
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• Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases
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• Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen
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• Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
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• Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS
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• VLC 3.0 release
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• Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A photographer capturing subcultures that refuse to die
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• Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning
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• LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS
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• Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online
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• Crushed wood is stronger than steel
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• Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
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• European Parliament requests recommendation to end bi-annual clock change
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• Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B
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• A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
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• Why Toys?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Ask a Dev
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• In Baltimore, Brazen Officers Took Every Chance to Rob and Cheat
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• Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT
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• Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things
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• The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
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• Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
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• Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic
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• Car Hacker's Handbook (2016)
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• Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts
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• John Perry Barlow has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• US startups don’t want to go public anymore
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• A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're Built
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• How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Computer Programming”
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• Dow plunges 1000 points
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• A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files [pdf]
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• The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself
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• Introduction to LLVM [video]
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• Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites
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• Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly
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• SpaceX’s historic Falcon Heavy successfully launches
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download
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• Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure
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• Modern CSS Explained
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• OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000
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• CRPG Book Released
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• Intel made smart glasses that look normal
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• U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice
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• Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
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• 3D Color Print
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• Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cognitive training helps regain a younger-working brain
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• HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board
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• Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years on an idea many other scientists dismissed
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• Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2017
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• “Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996)
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• Best practices for user account, authorization and password management
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• Spain cracks King Ferdinand's 500-year-old code
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• A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and economic collapse
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• RustBelt: securing the foundations of the Rust programming language
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• Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lying to TCP makes it a best-effort streaming protocol
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• Predicting Random Numbers in Ethereum Smart Contracts
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• Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)
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• Gut Microbes Combine to Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests
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• Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015)
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• CSS Grid changes everything [video]
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• RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images
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• XXY Oscilloscope
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• Video editing with Python
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• How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
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• Ikea founder leaves fortune to no one, structures it to ensure it lasts forever
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• India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds
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• Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells in dental pulp
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• An introduction to Reactive Programming
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• The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
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• Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
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• John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google
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• Family fun with deepfakes
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• Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-02-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore
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• Why Create a New Unix Shell?
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• Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes
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• Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine
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• Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice
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• Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor
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• Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
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• Indian budget announces free health insurance for 500M citizens
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• Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Work Out What to Charge Clients
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• A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (2012)
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• Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies
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• Content-aware image resize library
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• Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort
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• Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund
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• Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS
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• AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018
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• Show HN: Observable Notebooks
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• Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts
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