Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Software Complexity Is Killing Us
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Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase customer support. Advice?
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EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border
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UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful
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Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
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Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer
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Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning
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Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
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U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
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Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Evidence that the brain’s ability to control thinking relies on beta rhythms
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After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea
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Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)
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How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M
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The paradigms of programming
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Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
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Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018
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Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal
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My new favorite book of all time
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LinuxBoot
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]
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Finding Profitable Startup Ideas
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Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)
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Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset
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‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs
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Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
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I think I found a Mac kernel bug?
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Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad has died
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Intel Warned Chinese Companies of Chip Flaws Before U.S. Government
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With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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'It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room'
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Building an AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras
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Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK
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Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locations for stargazing
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Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting users watch videos
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Extensions in Firefox 59
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Moving efficiently in the CLI
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An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
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Terraforming 1Password
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The Follower Factory
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
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2018 Stellar roadmap
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Some obscure C features
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Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers
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NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive
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George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society
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How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)
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3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online
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How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves
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Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog
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Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac
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How to solve most NLP problems: a step-by-step guide
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Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone
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Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
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Burger King Has an Opinion on Net Neutrality
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It’s About Time for Time Series Databases
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Waze Carpool
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Why I left Google (HN search results)
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Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb
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Ursula Le Guin has died
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Branchless Doom
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People leave managers, not companies
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The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features
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Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died
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Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position
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NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values
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ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol
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Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Worked for 52 Years, Still Running: 1912 C-T 4WD Electric Truck
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“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York
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Netflix is now worth more than $100B
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Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine
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Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them
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Facebook open-sources Detectron
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Hetzner Cloud
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DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing
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Firefox 58
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Ending Bitcoin Support
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from
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SpaceX can't test fire its Falcon Heavy rocket due to the government shutdown
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Why is Rust difficult?
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How to Study: A Brief Guide
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Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”
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20 Years of LWN
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Thousands of Turks accused of using Bylock app despite never having used it
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PyTorch, a year in
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219 days of postmarketOS
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Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)
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Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100
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Brushing up on operating systems and C programming
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A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
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Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)
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The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it
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Guide to JavaScript Frameworks
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Org-Mode for Visual Studio Code
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Inside Amazon Go
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The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of cancer
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Going Global with Your Startup
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Embedded in Rust: Brave new I/O
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Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
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The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby
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NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve
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A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe
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Learn FFmpeg the hard way
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JS things I didn’t know existed
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Intel Has a Big Problem
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere
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Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
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CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens
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Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own
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Is it time for open processors?
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
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Laws of UX
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Programming Notes for Professionals books
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List of oldest companies: Before 1300
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LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes
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Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more
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Microsoft MakeCode
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Nintendo Labo: make, play, and discover
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JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
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Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2
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Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive
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Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch
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Wine 3.0 Released
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It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Start Your Own ISP
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Twirp: A new RPC framework for Go
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Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger
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Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
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Luna 1.0 Beta is out
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BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales
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DNS over HTTPS
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System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware
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Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler
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Who the Hell Uses Onion Juice?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Pick strong consistency whenever possible
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Google Memory Loss
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Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt to Japan
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Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda
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Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing
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Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
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An open source GitHub-like platform as an alternative for AWS Lambda
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Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS
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The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday
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How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What It Felt Like in Hawaii When Warning of an In-Bound Missile Arrived
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CMU 15-721 Advanced Database Systems [video]
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Using a Yubikey for GPG and SSH
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The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications (2011)
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CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
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Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview
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LGPL violation/Missing references to Ethereumj project
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Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator
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Researchers finds that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000
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Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaws found
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Meltdown patch reduces mkfile(8) throughput to less than 1/3 on OS X
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iOS 11 Security [pdf]
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Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say
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Microsoft cURLs too
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Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads, Keep Old Memories
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2017 JavaScript Rising Stars
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Rust in 2018: easier to use
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LinkedIn is ignoring user settings
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Miners Aren’t Friends
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Improving Ourselves to Death
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Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase
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One model to learn them all
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Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future
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Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband
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Advice for First Time Founders
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Ask HN: Best introductory video courses on ML and Deep Learning?
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What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider's Retrospective
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India has a hole where its middle class should be
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Aaron, 5 years later
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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We Used Broadband Data We Shouldn’t Have
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Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf]
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Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
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YC Bio
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Buried Ice Water Discovered on Mars
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Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share
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Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
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New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices
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An Experimental Course on Operating Systems
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Half of the US government's financial assets are student loans
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Britain's Next Megaproject: A Coast-To-Coast Forest
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GPU Fluid
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Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot
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Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime
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Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research
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Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death
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GitHub down
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Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
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House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits
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Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
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Introduction to reverse engineering and assembly
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Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
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Building for the Blockchain
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A Type of Road Junction that Kills Cyclists
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Let's Encrypt tls-sni-01 disabled due to credible vulnerability report
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Learn to Code Ethereum DApps by Building Your Own Game
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WhatsApp Encryption Security Flaws Could Allow Snoops to Slide into Group Chats
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Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning
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AppStore Preferences can be unlocked by a local admin with any bogus password
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Useful Mental Models (2016)
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Net Neutrality to Get U.S. Senate Vote as Democrats Force Issue
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What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit
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Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination
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Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp
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The day I accidentally killed a little boy
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Legends of the Ancient Web (2017)
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Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
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A letter about Google AMP
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James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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As of today, no US passenger airlines operate the Boeing 747
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The $25B eigenvector (2006) [pdf]
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Npm operational incident, 6 Jan 2018
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California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality
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Apple shareholders push for study of phone addiction in children
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Exercise Alters Our Microbiome
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Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360
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Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
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James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google
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The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Python decorators they don't tell you about
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WebGL2 Fundamentals
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How Tier 2 cloud vendors banded together to cope with Spectre and Meltdown
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Convenient End-To-End Encryption for E-Mail
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Regarding the Em Dash
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Why Am I So Lazy?
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How the JVM compares strings on x86 using pcmpestri
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The Empathy Gap in Tech: Interview with a Software Engineer
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JVM Anatomy Park
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Show HN: A simple Go web server with logging, tracing, health check
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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GitMask – Develop Anonymously
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“Deep Learning has outlived its usefulness as a buzz-phrase”
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Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra
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WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Docker for Mac with Kubernetes
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Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites
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CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games
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Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash
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Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status
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Many packages suddenly disappeared
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Productivity in 2017: analyzing 225 million hours of work time
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More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Execution issue
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Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
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Announcing the OpenWrt/LEDE merge
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“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims”
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“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (2007)
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Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia
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Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access
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Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf]
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Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number
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HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel (2017) [video]
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Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack
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Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off company stock
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Why things might have taken so long
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LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack
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Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT
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Meltdown and Spectre
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iMac Pro's T2 chip
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Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps
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Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit
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NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg
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Serious Intel CPU bugs (2016)
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Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care
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Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw
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Spotify files for its IPO
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After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband
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Intel Responds to Security Research Findings
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Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: A game my 12-year-old daughter wrote
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Clang runs in the browser and compiles C++ to WebAssembly
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Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s
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SQL Keys in Depth
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Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay everyone as though all did
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ASCIIFlow Infinity
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Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
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Show HN: Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework
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Mapzen Shutdown
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-01-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
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Ethereum Foundation Releases Alpha Casper Proof of Stake Testnet
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Three Years on Google App Engine
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Hunt
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IOHIDeous OS X Local Kernel Vulnerability
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Tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017
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What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2018
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Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
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Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text
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The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches
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Daily Hacker News for 2017-12-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 31, 2017 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Creating believable crowds in Planet Coaster
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Much Assembly Required: Assembly Programming Game
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‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisiana
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First 100 miles on my E-Bike
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Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life
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Good books for deep hacks
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Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails
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AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion
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A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet
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