Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 29, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Python 3 at Facebook
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A Bank for Student Hackers
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Former Equifax Manager Charged with Insider Trading
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How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware
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Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend
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Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records
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Exactis Data Breach May Have Leaked Personal Data of Almost Every American Adult
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The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
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Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
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I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 28, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be
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How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers
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Exposing the secret Office 365 detailed activity logs and forensics tool
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Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview
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Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
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How not to structure database-backed web apps: performance bugs in the wild
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Keras vs PyTorch
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Django Newbie Mistakes
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Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
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We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 27, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Backpropagation algorithm visual explanation
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Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
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Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Wi-Fi Certified WPA3 Security
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Berkeley Deep Drive Dataset
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Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python
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Norwegian Consumer Council report on how tech companies use dark patterns [pdf]
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Flights to Rome
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Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
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Why ActivityPub is the future
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Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 26, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Notes on Discrete Mathematics (2017) [pdf]
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Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall
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We're Baking ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox and 1Password
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Introducing A16Z Crypto
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Massacring C Pointers
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Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers
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Software-Defined Radio for Engineers [pdf]
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Show HN: Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript
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Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B
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Firefox 61.0 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 25, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Legend of Nintendo
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Facebook’s patents show a commitment to collecting personal information
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Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe
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DevTube: Searchable index of developer videos
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Losing 100 pounds in 276 days
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Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector
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The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
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OpenAI Five
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Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear civil forfeiture case
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 24, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
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Web Assembly and Go: A look to the future
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Masters of Love: Lasting relationships come down to kindness, generosity (2014)
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Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
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Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire and Went Too Far
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Bitcoin is a Cult
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Dealing with Hard Problems (2015)
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Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
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PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative
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How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 23, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power
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Gravity – An embeddable programming language
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A sad update about a scissors maker that went viral
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Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?
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GitLab 11 released
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Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life (2013)
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Filezilla installer is suspicious again
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Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In an Underslept State'
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A world of free movement would be $78T richer
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Facebook JavaScript SDK is often illegal under GDPR
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 22, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neutrality Law
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Announcing Rust 1.27
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Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
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One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla
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Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts
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Personalisation Is Asymmetric Psychological Warfare
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Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js
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Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone
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IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
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Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 21, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Surgeon Atul Gawande selected as CEO of new health care company from Amazon
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Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking, theft, and leaking to the press
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Keybase Exploding Messages
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Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us
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Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
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I discovered a browser bug
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Koko, a gorilla who could do sign language, has died at 46
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Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
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Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
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States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 20, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Bootstrapping an Online Fabric Shop and Growing to $20k per month
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DensePose – Dense Human Pose Estimation in the Wild
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React Native at Airbnb
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Microsoft ports Windows 10, Linux to homegrown “E2” CPU design
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OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns
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The Machine Fired Me
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Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
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European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
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YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)
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Certificates for localhost
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 19, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Face recognition in images and video with Python
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X86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary
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How modern Linux systems boot
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Amazon shareholders demand it stop selling facial recognition to governments
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Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee
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New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
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How I use Wireshark
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Show HN: Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects
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Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide
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Behind the Tech with John Carmack: 5k Immersive Video
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 18, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The SEC Will Leave Good ICOs Alone
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Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self-described influencers
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Forgotten Employee (2002)
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Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower
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World Airports Voronoi (2014)
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Pulumi – A new open-source cloud development platform
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YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
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Apple sets up iPhones to relay location for 911 calls
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Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game
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Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 17, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Confessions of a Disk Cracker: The Secrets of 4am
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Ask HN: Elizabeth Holmes has 200 patents – if tech didn't work, why not noticed?
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Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passengers in first six months
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The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room
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Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot
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No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (2010)
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Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist
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MIT Career Development Handbook [pdf]
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ActorDB – Distributed SQL database
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We Should Teach Music History Backwards
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 16, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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RetroBSD: Unix for microcontrollers
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White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech goods
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Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies
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Blooming Password – A banned password check using a bloom filter
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Why you should learn just a little Awk (2010)
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Ask HN: Who has started a business because they couldn't get hired for work?
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FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
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What do Unix command names stand for?
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Yam, cultivate and cook
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Amazon Is Complicit in Online Sales of Counterfeit Goods: Report
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 15, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Backdoored images downloaded 5M times removed from Docker Hub
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Earliest images of the moon were much better than we realised
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Elixir at PagerDuty
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Not Only Is the Mac Mini Outdated, It's No Longer Mini
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State of React Native 2018
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Blot – a blogging platform with no interface
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Let's code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet & ARP (2016)
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Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStreetMap iD Editor
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GitLab Web IDE
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U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 14, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals
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Console.table()
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Librarian wins surprise judgement against Equifax in small claims court
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Polly.js – Record, replay, and stub HTTP interactions
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Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web
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Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Train Bid
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Survivorship bias and startup hype
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Datasets for Machine Learning
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Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt
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Neural scene representation and rendering
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 13, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Node.js is now available on App Engine standard environment
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Psychedelics could heal brain cells in people suffering from depression: study
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AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner
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The Trouble with D3
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Id Software
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Vue Native
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Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
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Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say
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Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast
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Intel FP security issue
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 12, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago
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The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?
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American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults
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John Resig: Introducing the GraphQL Guide
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Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Prices Grew Most
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CopperheadOS has imploded
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Lasik’s Risks Are Coming into Sharper Focus
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Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S. Power
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Hair Ice
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Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 11, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Attacks against machine learning – an overview
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Alternatives to Google Products
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How Children in a Maya Village Do Chores
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Intel 28-core fantasy vs. AMD 32-core reality
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Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
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The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official
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USB Type-C is still a mess
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Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards
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Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
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Habits of Highly Miserable People
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 10, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors
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Show HN: Interactive guitar scales diagrams
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Lost John Coltrane Recording from 1963 Will Be Released
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Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers
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Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the brain
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Reddit DMs will not reach their destination if they contain certain text
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Homeland Security’s New Database to Include Faces, DNA, and Relationships
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Minimalist C Libraries
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GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged
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Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 09, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History (2017)
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DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed
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What to Do When a Loved One Is Severely Depressed
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How to Find Your Earliest Users
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Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children
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Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok
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Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
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JVM Internals (2013)
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The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015)
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Why does a spray bottle work?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 08, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress
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A Rust-Based Unikernel: First Version of a Rust-Based LibOS
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Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought
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For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose
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Justice Dept. Seizes Times Reporter’s Email/Phone Records in Leak Investigation
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Nearly 80% of Japan’s Airbnbs removed in response to new home-share law
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WebRTC Chat on IPFS
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Intel: We 'Forgot' to Mention 28-Core, 5-GHz CPU Demo Was Overclocked
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Anthony Bourdain has died
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Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 07, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Extracting the private key from a TREZOR with an oscilloscope (2015)
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GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
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Remote Only
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Cutter – A Qt and C++ GUI for Radare2 reverse engineering framework
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The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’?
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I Quit My Job to Live on Donations
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NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
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I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA
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NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
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AI at Google: our principles
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 06, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Advanced computing with IPython
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Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
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State of Washington sues Facebook and Google over failure to disclose spending
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U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress'
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AMD Reveals Threadripper 2: Up to 32 Cores, 250W, X399 Refresh
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Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency
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Phabricator – GitHub Alternative written in PHP used by the Wikimedia Foundation
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If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power
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Things I Regret About Node.js [video]
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Performance Reviews Are a Waste of Time
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 05, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why We Disagree with The New York Times
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iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time
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Apple introduces macOS Mojave
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Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL
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GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)
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Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
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The Cost of Developers
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Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a court order
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How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team
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GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 04, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker
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How I Came to Write D (2014)
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The Psychology of Money
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American tech giants are making life tough for startups
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NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
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GitLab sees huge spike in project imports
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Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
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GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)
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Microsoft acquires Github
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Hello, GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 03, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Has Died
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A Course in Machine Learning
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One year of C
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MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)
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The great video game exodus
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Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?
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Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount
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Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-controlled nodes
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The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure?
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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 02, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Politics is bad because we use an 18th century voting system
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Unfortunately, the Electric Scooters Are Fantastic
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What is 1e100.net?
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Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
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California approves $768M for electric vehicles
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YouTube’s top creators are burning out
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A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U.S. Customs took it
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Google quits selling tablets
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OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II
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China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-06-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 01, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS
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Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store
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Telegram App Says Apple Is Blocking Updates Over Dispute with Russia
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America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
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1.1.1.1 outage explanation
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Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
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Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
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How to get rich without getting lucky
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Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 31, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How to Sell – a guide for SaaS startups
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Actix: a small, pragmatic, and fast Rust web framework
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Uber, Google and others pay London Evening Standard for favorable coverage
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Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?
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China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data
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I Write Letters to CEOs
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The real power of Linux executables
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WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal
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Side-channel attacking browsers through CSS3 features
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Gnome has moved to GitLab
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