Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Conference call simulator
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What Was the Microsoft Network?
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Google, but for colors
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We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It
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Bullshit Jobs
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CLI: Improved
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LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces
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Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on multi-terabyte heaps
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Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking
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California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 29, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Have you built a house?
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We are rewriting CodeMirror
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DuckDuckGo Raises $10M
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NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
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How the Dutch created a casual biking culture
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Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets
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LiteTree: SQLite with Branches
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Teens who refuse to use social media
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Bye bye BetterSlack
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Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 28, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I know why rejection emails suck – I write them
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GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development
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Pandoc
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What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD
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JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides]
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Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls
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Write – A word processor for handwriting
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Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter
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Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack
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Go 2 Draft Designs
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 27, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk
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IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services
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Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
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U.S. states reconsider confidential deals in workplace harassment
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Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout
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VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
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A Road to Common Lisp
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Real world SSD wearout
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How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap
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Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 26, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should
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Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network
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Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
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Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life
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Elm 0.19 Broke Us
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John McCain has died
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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists
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The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf]
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Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning
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WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 25, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream (2016)
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A2Z: A computer designed and built from scratch. Custom CPU on FPGA (2017)
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Don’t Shoot Messenger
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Traveler sues US Customs and Border Protection over iPhone search and seizure
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Supreme Court Should Say No to Patents That Take Old Ideas Away from the Public
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Be kind (2016)
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Redis is not “open core”
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The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon
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Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses
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Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (2013) [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 24, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Magic Leap One Teardown
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Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
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Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer
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Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes
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The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter
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IRC turns thirty
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What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?
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How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100M
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Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
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Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 23, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?
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Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
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Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow
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The Apocalyptic Architecture of One 1970s Retail Chain
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How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites
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Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed
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The Book “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” is now open source
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Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
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Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed
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Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 22, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]
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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
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Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire
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Commons Clause
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Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
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A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers
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The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source
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Redis will remain BSD licensed
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PyPy.js: Python in the web browser
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Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 21, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
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More Americans report near-constant cannabis use
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Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
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Minecraft Global Warming
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Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
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Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted
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Panic Attacks
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Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
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Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
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National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 20, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time
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The scientists who starved to death surrounded by food
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New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment
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What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?
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Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff
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Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source dependencies
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Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal
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Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace
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Bing.com now runs on .NET Core
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Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 19, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number
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Redux vs. The React Context API
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The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly
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Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him
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Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on social acceptance
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Is serverless insecure? Let's find out
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Introduction to Go Modules
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The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly
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Don't Do This in Production
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Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 18, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings
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Show HN: Find recommendations from good people
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Two French rivers disappear underground in cracks and sinkholes
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Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research
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Python Fire – Generates CLIs from any Python object
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U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger
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My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
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Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch
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Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy
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HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 17, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit
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Introduction to A* (1997)
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The Hacker News Habit
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How to Hire
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Traveling the World on a Third World Passport
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24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
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Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git
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Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming
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Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
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Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 16, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do
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Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes
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Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
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Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10k
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Twitter's Secret “Guest Mode”
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Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C
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China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone
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NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students
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FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen
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Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 15, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why you should, and shouldn’t, join a startup
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Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You Need to Know
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Katie's New Face
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YC China and Qi Lu
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Osx-kvm: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM
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SQLite Release 3.25.0 adds support for window functions
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Software development requires servant leaders
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TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C
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The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
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Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 14, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI
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Show HN: A side project in medical devices
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Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found
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Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
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Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX, a Raytracing GPU
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Programming in the Adult Entertainment Industry Is Broken
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Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22
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Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
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Google tracks users who turn off location history
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Serverless Docker Beta
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 13, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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One man designed and built the ultimate bush plane
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OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks
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Dijkstra's in Disguise
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Exapunks
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Google tracks your movements, like it or not
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AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
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The 10:1 rule of writing and programming
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Dear customers of Cloudflare: an appeal regarding Tor
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Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015)
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Original Source code for the Furby [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 12, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What the f*** is the edge?
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Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
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Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube?
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The Xi Text Engine CRDT
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Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
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Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?
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Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer
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Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available
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USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
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Thank you HN
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 11, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: A Rust macro that parses Java-like syntax and runs it as a Rust program
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Xinu – A small, elegant operating system
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You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation
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Introduction to OCaml
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China is detaining a million Uighur muslims in a secret camp
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The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
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TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes
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Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
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GitLab is now running on GCP
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Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 10, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Orange Juice Test (1985)
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Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey
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America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price
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Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed
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Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash
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Show HN: Curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL
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Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
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Google Boots Open-Source Anti-Censorship Tool \"Ahoy\" from Chrome Store
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Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++
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1/0 = 0
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 09, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Gerald M. Weinberg has died
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Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation
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The Secret API of Banks
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Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021
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New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers
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Julia 1.0
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I don't trust Signal
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Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness
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Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster
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A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 08, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Unix Syscalls
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To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)
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Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable
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Startup School 2018 – Curriculum
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Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake
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Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid
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Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak
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Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding
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Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate
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GLB: GitHub's open source load balancer
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 07, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Where Vim Came From
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Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
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Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production
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The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy
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FCC admits it was never actually hacked
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Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017)
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EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing
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How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
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Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
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Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 06, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How Does Mastodon Work?
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What did Earth look like X million years ago?
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Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (2014)
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I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
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Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative
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AWS icon quiz
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Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers
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Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs
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What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
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Introducing Android 9 Pie
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 05, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Internet Archive, decentralized
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Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig
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Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle
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Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful
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Generating random points inside a sphere
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Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
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G Suite Horror Story
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Loss aversion is not supported by the evidence
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Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
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The Stock Market Is Shrinking
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 04, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?
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Google Maps is no longer a flat map
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Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself
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The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext
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BYTE Magazine
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Firefox removes RSS support
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Filament: Physically-based rendering engine
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Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from being homeless?
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
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4D toys
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 03, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges
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A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
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The BASIC Engine
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In Pursuit of Production Minimalism
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JPL Open-Source Rover Project Based on the Rovers on Mars
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Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
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Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death
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Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds
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Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely
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Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 02, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How we scaled Nginx
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Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down
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Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust
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A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation
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How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours
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Paul Graham on SICP (2000)
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Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python
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You don’t need standups
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Building a Kickass Portfolio
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Apple becomes the first $1T company
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 01, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How America Uses Its Land
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WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion
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Introducing the Dweb
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Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
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My Own Car System, Rear Camera, Offline Maps and Routing with Go
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How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind
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Django 2.1 released
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
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Learning Math for Machine Learning
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A time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-07-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For
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Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
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Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times
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Amazon Dark Patterns
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Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro
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Show HN: Make a business model canvas in your browser
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That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to publisher, 0% to authors
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Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
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The Bullshit Web
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A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
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