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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 29, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Kasparov versus the World
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• It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked
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• Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years
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• Ask HN: My startup has basically failed. What now?
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• The NetHack dev team is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6.1
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• What happened, Gmail?
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• 'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip
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• France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994
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• Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf]
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• “Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 28, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called the i-motif inside cells
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• Scaling a High-Traffic Rate Limiting Stack with Redis Cluster
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• Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers
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• Credit card fraud warning signs
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• Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed in Teardown of Model 3
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• \"@\" on Twitter
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• Make your own sourdough
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• Microsoft attempts to spin its role in counterfeiting case
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• Bulldoze the business school
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• Lessons learned from a failing local mall
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-27

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

• High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University
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• Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
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• Go's New Brand
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• Square to buy Weebly for $365M
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• Flask 1.0 Released
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• Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case
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• Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps
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• Two Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization
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• EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
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• NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-26

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

• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
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• Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based
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• A Well-Known Expert on Student Loans Is Not Real
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• Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman [pdf]
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• Belgium declares loot boxes gambling and therefore illegal
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• What I learned by living without artificial light
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• Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
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• Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
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• Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)
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• Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-25

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

• The Ocean Cleanup's Machine Is About to Set Sail
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• Why I've lost faith in p values
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• Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
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• How to write a spelling corrector (2016)
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• A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet
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• Microsoft makes AI training courses available to the public
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• E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term
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• JavaScript Pattern Matching Proposal
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• Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
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• Ask HN: Anyone making money through algorithmic trading?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-24

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

• Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
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• Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview
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• Tech company career ladders
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• Jenkins X: a CI/CD solution for cloud applications on Kubernetes
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• Show HN: Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry
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• Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role
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• Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together
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• Dumber phone
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• Patent Review System Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court
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• Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-23

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

• Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (2015)
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• Parsing JSON is a Minefield
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• A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
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• You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts
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• Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)
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• Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
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• How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream
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• Show HN: Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves
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• The Many Ways Google Harvests Data
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• MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-22

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

• Gravitation water vortex power plant
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• A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home
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• My account is sending spam emails
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• VLC removed from Amazon Fire TV store by VLC developers
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• Software Testing Anti-patterns
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• Interns with toasters: how I taught people about load balancers
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• Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of metallic glass
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• Blind since birth, writing code at Amazon since 2013
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• After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
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• Gitlab 10.7 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-21

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

• Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2017)
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• Show HN: A curated library of free music for content creators
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• Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber
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• Designing very large JavaScript applications
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• FFmpeg 4.0 released
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• Smugmug Acquires Flickr
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• Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text
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• A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
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• VS Code can do that?
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• Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-20

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

• Flow chart of cognitive biases
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• Stripe Home
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• A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit
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• Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]
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• How to build a house alone [video]
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• Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary
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• Be likeable or get fired
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• Towards Scala 3
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• Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe
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• Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-19

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

• Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes
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• No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login
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• The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color
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• The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
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• Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law
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• The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework
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• Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
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• List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects
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• Apple open-sources FoundationDB
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• Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-18

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

• Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
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• Mylo: A leather-like material made from mycelium
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• Facebook Container for Firefox
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• Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
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• On becoming a better developer (2015)
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• Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading
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• Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Notebook
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• Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?
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• Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video]
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• Hello wasm-pack
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-17

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

• I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores
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• Coinbase acquires Earn.com
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• Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system
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• What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?
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• Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
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• Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities
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• Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram
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• San Francisco’s Seismic Gamble
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• I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter
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• GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-16

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

• Probability Theory for Scientists and Engineers
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• The Price of Free Is Actually Too High
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• D3 in Depth
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• Jolla is the last company with an 'alternative' mobile operating system
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• ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility
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• Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression
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• Time to rebuild the web?
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• Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks
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• NirSoft Freeware
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• Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-15

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

• Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
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• Soviet-Era Industrial Design
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• My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter
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• What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed Systems
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• Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
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• H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing (2017)
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• Vipassana for Hackers [pdf]
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• A dive into the making of a 64K Intro
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• The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
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• It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-14

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

• Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
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• NEON is the new black: fast JPEG optimization on ARM servers
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• Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need
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• Types of Regression Analysis
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• Someone Stole My Book (and My Job) and Is Selling It on Amazon
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• Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them
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• For mathematicians, = does not mean equality
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• European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
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• How to Be a Systems Thinker
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• Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-13

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

• Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New Sci-Hub Domains
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• Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes
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• Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom
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• How to Decide What to Build
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• SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round
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• Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model
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• Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec
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• Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
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• Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost
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• In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-12

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

• Deep Painterly Harmonization
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• Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
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• Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)
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• Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative
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• Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
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• Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
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• The NES Homebrew Scene
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• Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB
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• The Moon in 4k resolution [video]
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• Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-11

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

• FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal
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• YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
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• Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70
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• Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages
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• Why SQLite Does Not Use Git
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• Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release
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• Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham
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• A Taxonomy of Technical Debt
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• Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
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• Fuchsia is not Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-10

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

• The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes
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• Don't give away historic details about yourself
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• Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs
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• ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files
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• YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals
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• Web Authentication: Proposed API for accessing Public Key Credentials
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• Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
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• Productivity
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• Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress
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• Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-09

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

• RSS is undead
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• Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S
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• Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage
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• Go-internals: Chapter 2, “Interfaces” released
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• Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web
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• Facebook Urged to Adopt GDPR Globally as a Standard
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• Android container in Chrome OS
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• Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
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• Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of Representatives [pdf]
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• Next generation video: Introducing AV1
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-08

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

• Mailinator launches Disposable SMS
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• I miss Windows Phone
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• PostgreSQL Begins Adding LLVM JIT Support For Faster Performance
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• List of command line tools for manipulating CSV, XML, HTML, JSON, INI, etc.
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• Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?
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• Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?
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• America should borrow from Europe’s data-privacy law
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• Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is
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• In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (2010)
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• How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-07

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

• Apps of a Feather
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• Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 engineering firefighter
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• Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison
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• Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic
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• Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person
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• Immutable.rs: immutable data structures for Rust
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• FCC approves SpaceX plan for satellite broadband network
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• Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities
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• TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV
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• The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-06

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

• Cloudflare's new DNS attracting 'gigabits per second' of rubbish
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• Redesigning the Scientific Paper
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• Berkeley offers its data science course online for free
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• System Shock 1 source code released under GPL
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• Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
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• Japanese anime director Isao Takahata has died
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• I wandered off and built an IDE
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• Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
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• Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
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• Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-05

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

• Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
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• Netflix FlameScope
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• Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
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• What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
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• The Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades
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• AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
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• Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It
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• Making a Statically-Linked, Single-File Web App with React and Rust
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• Stripe Billing
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• Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-04

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

• Tell HN: 17 years on the same game
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• Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018
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• Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
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• Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief
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• Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning
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• Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally
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• A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google
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• SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines
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• Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
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• OpenSimpleLidar
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-03

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

• How to Easily Detect Objects with Deep Learning on Raspberry Pi
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• Panerabread.com leaks millions of customer records
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• The differences between tinkering and research (2016)
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• We might be swinging away from the newsfeed
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• Swedes turn against cashlessness
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• Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (2010)
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• A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe
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• Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
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• Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B
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• Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-02

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

• French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals
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• Life is Short (2016)
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• DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS
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• The End of Windows
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• A Workshop on Linux Containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch
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• Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
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• Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties
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• Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
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• UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-01

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

• OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in competition with you”
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• Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years
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• Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health
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• Modern PHP without a framework
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• Study finds increased possibility of information leaking around Fed meetings
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• My Sony \"smart\" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app
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• 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
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• Web Application Penetration Testing Cheat Sheet
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• The most honest Ponzi scheme of all time
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• Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-03-31

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

• Have I Been Pwned Is Now Partnering with 1Password
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• MacOS finally gains external GPU support
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• How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked
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• Tesla crash victim had complained about auto-pilot in same location
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• The joy of max()
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• An Update on Last Week’s Accident
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• It's time to head back to RSS?
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• I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet
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• You can't Rust that
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• Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
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