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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-29

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

• Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch
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• Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley
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• The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0
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• The relative performance of C and Rust
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• How counterfeits benefit Amazon
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• Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
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• Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
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• DuckDuckGo Traffic
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• Solid – Reshape the web as we know it
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• Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-28

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

• People can die from giving up the fight
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• Introducing Cloudflare Registrar
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• Hayabusa 2 rovers send new images from Ryugu surface
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• Tailwind: A Utility-First CSS Framework
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• This blog has moved
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• LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of the Sednit group
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• Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds
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• Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
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• How a Website Exploited Amazon S3 to Outrank Everyone on Google
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• Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-27

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

• How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems
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• Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR System
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• Stripe Is Now a $20B Company
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• How to visualize decision trees
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• Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
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• After century of removing appendixes, doctors find antibiotics can be enough
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• Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'
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• Hire people who aren’t proven
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• What Is This Thing: Found Hooked Up to My Router
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• Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-26

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

• Anatomy of a Killing
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• 'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record
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• Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
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• Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
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• WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
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• Oracle’s Java 11 trap
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• How to Build a Low-Tech Website
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• Mmm, Pi-hole
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• WhatsApp founder says Facebook used him to get its acquisition past EU regulator
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• Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-25

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

• Killing processes that don't want to die
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• Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company
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• Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
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• Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
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• Instagram’s CEO
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• Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam
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• Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control After a Data Breach
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• Amazon donates $1M to Wikimedia
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• PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
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• Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-24

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

• Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration
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• Open Machine Learning Course
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• News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder
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• Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
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• Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
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• Self-solving Rubik's Cube
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• YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
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• Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint
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• Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
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• Police forcing me to install Jingwang spyware app, how to minimize impact?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-23

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

• SpaceX's rise can be traced to a critical launch from a Pacific isle
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• The Little Typer
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• 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae
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• Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
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• Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas?
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• Generative art: New and recreated vintage art, made with code and imagination
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• Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit
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• Let Teenagers Sleep In
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• Murdered body found after tree ‘unusual for the area’ grew from seed in stomach
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• Why I’m leaving Chrome
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-22

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

• Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation
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• Apple File System Reference [pdf]
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• A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago
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• Functional core, imperative shell (2012)
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• Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
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• Postgres 11 – A First Look
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• AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI
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• John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”
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• A Programming Language Underdog
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• Hayabusa2 Now
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-21

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

• How to create an OS from scratch – tutorial
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• Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?
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• Becoming a Better Software Developer: A Handbook on Personal Performance
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• Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture
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• People Like You More Than You Know
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• Show HN: Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search
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• Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
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• Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple
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• NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner
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• Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-20

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

• Javascript: call functions without using parentheses
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• GitLab raises $100M from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1B valuation
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• Putting This Blog on IPFS
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• Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]
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• Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
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• Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub
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• Idle Until Urgent
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• The Making of Underrun – A WebGL Shooter in 13kb of JavaScript
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• CLIP OS – France’s cybersecurity agency’s open source, secured operating system
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• On generative algorithms
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-19

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

• Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce
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• Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”?
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• Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record
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• Firefox Reality Now Available
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• Falling in love with Rust
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• Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?
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• iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug
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• Build Impossible Programs
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• Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
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• Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-18

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

• Wharton professor says America should shorten the work day by 2 hours
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• David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Languages
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• Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?
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• How to fail as a new engineering manager
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• Dear Moon
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• Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling
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• Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
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• Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), mathematician
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• Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements
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• GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-17

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

• So Good They Can't Ignore You
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• The strength of a monopoly can be guessed at by calling customer support
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• Ask HN: What is the dark side of working at a successful startup?
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• Gell-Mann amnesia effect
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• US Congress passes bill to help advanced nuclear power
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• Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway
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• Stripe Terminal – Programmable point of sale
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• iOS 12 released
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• EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
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• IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-16

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

• How to be alone: the difference between loneliness and solitude
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• Raytracing a Black Hole
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• In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users
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• Was ditching the headphone jack a good idea?
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• A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iPhone
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• Getting started with Tmux
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• Amazon Investigates Employees Leaking Data for Bribes
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• Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
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• Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015)
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• Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-15

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

• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard
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• Airware is shutting down after raising $118M
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• Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
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• Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’
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• You Don't Need Moment.js
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• Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
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• A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer and a Crazy Carrier Landing (2015)
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• E Ink Waveforms are a closely guarded secret
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• Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics
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• SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-14

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

• Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
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• Remote Code Execution in Alpine Linux
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• Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach
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• Cycling Is Key to Safer, Healthier, More Vital Cities
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• What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
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• Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists
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• Apple's best product is now privacy
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• Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals
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• x86 finds its way into the iPhone
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• The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it’s dead
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-13

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

• Facebook open-sources LogDevice, a distributed storage for sequential data
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• China now the most prolific contributor to physical sciences, engineering, math
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• Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
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• Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack
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• Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules
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• UK’s mass surveillance regime violated human rights law, finds ECHR
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• Where in the World Is Larry Page?
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• Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
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• Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China
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• SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-12

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

• Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Questions
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• Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity (2017)
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• Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build
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• EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
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• Preventing Muscle Loss as We Age
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• LOLWUT: a piece of art inside a database command
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• Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you
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• Brave files adtech complaint against Google
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• Google is discontinuing Inbox
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• Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-11

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

• What Is Systems Programming, Really?
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• Serverless: Cold Start War
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• Show HN: Hacklily – sheet music editor
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• Pigeon Maps – Maps in React with no external dependencies
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• Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?
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• India’s Aadhaar Software Hacked, ID Database Compromised, Experts Confirm
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• The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis
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• The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security
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• Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
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• Dry Water
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-10

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

• A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia
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• D3-dag – Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acylic graphs
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• Build a better Bookshelf
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• Show HN: Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud
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• Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber
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• Australia's anti-encryption law will merely relocate the backdoors: Expert
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• Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy
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• Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go
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• Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (1943)
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• How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-09

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

• Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
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• OxyContin billionaire has patented a drug to wean addicts from opioids
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• Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web
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• Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible?
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• Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
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• XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust
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• Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chromebook
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• First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?
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• Isochronous Curves
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• Infectious Theory of Alzheimer's Disease Draws Fresh Interest
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-08

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

• Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be
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• Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure
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• My Story as a Homeless Developer
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• Intel can’t supply 14nm Xeons, HPE recommends AMD Epyc
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• Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3
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• YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content
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• Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
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• Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
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• Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms
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• A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-07

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

• Breaking bad news
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• Medieval Fantasy City Generator
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• A rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery
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• Show HN: Py-spy – A new sampling profiler for Python programs
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• Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives
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• Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
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• Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It
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• Try OCaml
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• Firefox about:config privacy settings
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• EU copyright reform: the facts
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-06

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

• How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels
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• Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
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• Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates
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• Elastic files for an IPO
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• A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers
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• Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages
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• GIMP receives a $100K donation
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• Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience
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• Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]
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• Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-05

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

• Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
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• The Tools I Use to Write Books
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• YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers
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• Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve
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• ‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data
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• How to Make a Big Decision
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• How true hackers write JavaScript
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• The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light
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• Is the Lean Startup Dead?
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• Google Dataset Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-04

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

• A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads
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• Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market
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• A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes
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• Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book
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• Stellarium Web: Online Planetarium
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• Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
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• Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015)
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• Show HN: Magic Sandbox – learn Kubernetes on real infrastructure
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• Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
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• Terry Davis has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-03

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

• Modi’s Cash Crackdown Failed, Indian Bank Data Shows
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• PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink
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• An Introduction to Modern CMake
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• Why Read the Classics? (1986)
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• All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders
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• 20M historical artifacts destroyed in Brazil National Museum fire
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• Learning BASIC Like It's 1983
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• Shifting Gears
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• Source for theguardian.com
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-02

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

• Prediction Markets: When Do They Work?
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• India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants
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• Web Design Museum
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• How to teach yourself hard things
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• MatchSticks: Portable CNC System for Automating Wood-Working Joinery
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• SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 – Onyx RealityEngine² [video]
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• TypeScript at Google
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• USB-C Explorer – A development board to get started working with USB Type-C
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• An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography
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• Japan starts space elevator experiments
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-09-01

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

• Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time: study
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• New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017)
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• React Fire: Modernizing React DOM
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• After 24 years, Doom II's final secret has been found
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• A Conversation with Paul Graham [video]
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• I don't want to learn your query language
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• Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among the young
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• Rails, still?
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• $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
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• Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-08-31

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

• Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel for Meltdown, Spectre Response
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• My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb
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• Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales
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• Blackened Buildings of Manchester Before the Clean Air Act
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• Can Beethoven send takedown requests?
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• Cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies
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• EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time
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• x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu
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• Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers
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• Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support
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