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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
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• FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an Indie Retail Website
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• California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it
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• Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
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• Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
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• Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener
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• K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
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• We Need Chrome No More
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• Immersive Linear Algebra
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• Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 26, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Practical Facts about the Human Brain
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• Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video
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• Myths in Machine Learning Research
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• Go 1.12 Released
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• Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences
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• Universal Binaries Using WASM
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• Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL
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• Linux Desktop Setup
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• Show HN: Zero Server – Zero configuration web framework
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• Top ten most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 25, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory
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• ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts
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• Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart
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• My Twitch Live Coding Setup
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• Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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• FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
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• Books I Recommend
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• Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
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• Famous Laws of Software Development
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• The Gyllenhaal Experiment
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Julia
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• Halley: Lightweight Game Engine Written in C++14
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• A Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material (2016)
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• Google Maps: Bird Mode
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• Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line
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• “Illegal” Lego Builds (2006) [pdf]
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• Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments
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• How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017)
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• CSS-Powered 3D Engine (2014)
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• Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Trolls Are Real
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• Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet
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• Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls
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• An update about Redis developments in 2019
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• New ‘more’ link on HN front page
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• New York governor orders probe into Facebook access to data from other apps
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• Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups
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• Why Language-Oriented Programming? Why Racket?
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• Upvote for HN Darkmode?
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• Cleave.js – Format input text content when you are typing
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Indonesia reports reduced deforestation, triggering carbon payment from Norway
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• France Enters the Matrix
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• Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
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• Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
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• Hayabusa-2: Japan Spacecraft Touches Down on Asteroid
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• Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default
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• Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space
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• A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf]
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• Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago
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• You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
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• Linux Kernel Through 4.20.10 Found Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution
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• A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
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• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
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• Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
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• My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC
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• Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf]
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• COI – Chat Over IMAP
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• We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts
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• Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable Go programs
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Code Shelter: A Maintainer Community for Abandoned FOSS Projects
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• Dear OpenAI: Please Open Source Your Language Model
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• WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable
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• Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret
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• Y Combinator Resources for Developers
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• This Cat Does Not Exist
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• Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)
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• Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive
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• U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property
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• I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 19, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• An Honest Living
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• Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave
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• Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia Is Connected to Our Guts
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• Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug
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• Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
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• “Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphones near a crime scene
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• Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
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• Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk?
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• Public protest against Amazon
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• Leukemia Has Won
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hexagonal Grids (2013)
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• On Being an Engineering Manager
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• WireGuard for MacOS
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• LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve
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• Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (2014)
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• The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals
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• I took 50,000 images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon
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• Magic Lantern
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• A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
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• Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why I hate the weekends (2017)
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• Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
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• Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers
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• Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch
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• What ABC called \"pink slime,\" USDA now says can be labeled \"ground beef\"
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• Going Solo, Successfully
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• Faceswap Github repo is public but only accessible by logged-in users
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• We Lost Our Ability to Mend
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• You probably don't need a single-page app
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• Flightradar24 – how it works
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Leon: An open-source personal assistant
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• Build your own old-school 3D shooter in a weekend
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• Audio AI: isolating vocals from stereo music using Convolutional Neural Networks
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• Google needed to build a graph serving system
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• Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ
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• Modern Alternatives to PGP
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• First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant
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• Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near
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• How to Secure a Linux Server
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• Google .dev domain early access
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Problem solving with Unix commands
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• You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make
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• Better Language Models and Their Implications
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• Introducing draft pull requests
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• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction
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• RISC-V on the Verge of Broad Adoption
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• Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page
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• My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
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• Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine
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• Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Earnest Capital is live
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• The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised
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• FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls
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• Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
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• Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021
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• Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use
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• I Bought a House with Solar Panels
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• Fully managed PostgreSQL databases
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• Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
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• Winning the Blackbird Battle
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• This person does not exist
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• Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
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• Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency
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• Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results
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• Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview
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• SQL: One of the most valuable skills
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• White space killed an enterprise app
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• The Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine
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• Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
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• Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods from Their Massive Stumps
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• The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind
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• What's next for SemVer
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• An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers (2018) [pdf]
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• Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt
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• Amazon is buying Eero
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• Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women
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• Show HN: Open source balloon simulation with Three.js
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• Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses
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• 1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Case for Transmissible Alzheimer's Grows
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• Space Colony Art from the 1970s
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• Google Edge TPU Devices
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• 38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types
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• Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many
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• The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
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• The Psychological Trap of Freelancing
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• Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS
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• None of my projects want to be SPAs
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• Google Docs gets an API for task automation
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Effectiveness of Photodynamic Therapy in Elimination of HPV in Mexican Women [pdf]
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• PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years
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• Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control – Free Textbook (2017)
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• Explain shell
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• Proposed Jail Time for Tech Companies Who Steal Data
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• A 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
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• Show HN: Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in the browser
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• PKI for busy people
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• An ex-YouTube whistleblower on their recommendation engine
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• On Being a Principal Engineer
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall
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• I scanned Austria
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• So you want to be a wizard
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• Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage
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• Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug
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• Building a RISC-V PC
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• Orca – Live Programming Environment
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• We need to talk about systematic fraud
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• Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant
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• Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
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• Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code
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• No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
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• Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail
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• FindChips – Get instant insight into any electronic component
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• Moving from Go to PHP Again
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• Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file
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• New pill can deliver insulin
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• Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
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• Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• About V, the language Volt is written in
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• There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord of the Rings
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• Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
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• Why Nasa Converted Its Lessons-Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph
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• Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 percent of people
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• Sr.ht becomes Sourcehut
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• Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions without asking
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• Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting
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• Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge
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• Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tarrare
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• How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death
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• Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure
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• Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
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• Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road
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• With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release
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• Compounding Knowledge
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• Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes
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• What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
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• Instacart and DoorDash’s Tip Policies Are Delivering Outrage
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• MyBrandNewLogo – A 3-step Logo Generator
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• A Humility Training Exercise for Technical Interviewers
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• Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook
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• “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
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• Data Structure Visualizations (2011)
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• Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks
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• Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better
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• HTTP/3 explained
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• Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
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• Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Event Sourcing is Hard
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• Interactive 3D ASCII scenes
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• Bye, Bye, Google
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• The Art of PNG Glitch (2015)
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• Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016)
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• Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
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• If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed
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• If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source
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• MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools
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• Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tiny PWAs and why I keep building them
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• What Impossible Meant to Feynman
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• Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums
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• McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says
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• I have chosen the wrong flight dates because your date picker is broken
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• Blackmailers use false copyright claims to shut down victims' YouTube accounts
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• React as a UI Runtime
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• Let Children Get Bored Again
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• Things that are more inequitable than road pricing
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• Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace (2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business
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• Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code
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• Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
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• AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income
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• More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision
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• Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay
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• Sex censorship killed the internet we love
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• Dotfile madness
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• A Python Interpreter Written in Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies
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• Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017)
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• The UAE’s secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries
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• Interactive SICP
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• Show HN: Learn React fundamentals
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• Show HN: GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS
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• A small notebook for a system administrator
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• EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone
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• New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking
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• One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lock-Free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019
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• Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript
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• Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing
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• Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
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• Statistics Done Wrong
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• Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
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• U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
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• Germany, France, Britain to Launch Mechanism for Trade with Iran
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• Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games
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• Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
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