Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2018)
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OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor
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Everything I know about freelancing
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died
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What Finally Killed AirPower
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Scientists discover the chemicals behind the unique Parkinson’s smell
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The Programming Language Conundrum
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Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering
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RSS Is Better Than Twitter
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Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Common statistical tests are linear models
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Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved
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Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
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An amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known”
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Lyft prices IPO at top of range
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I Miss Rails
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Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]
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Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans
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Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
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Apple Cancels AirPower Product
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Storing UTC is not a silver bullet
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How Spotify and Discover Weekly Earn Me $400/month
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Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia
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Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent
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IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit
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I Built a Lisp Compiler
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Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few
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YC Interviews in India
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Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe
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Why Bother with What Three Words?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Add detailed message to NullPointerException describing what is null
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Google launches AMP for email
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On Internal Engineering Practices at Amazon
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The Illustrated Word2vec
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Paul Graham inspired the creation of Redis
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Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
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Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?
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Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
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Keybase is not softer than TOFU
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Facebook to ban white nationalist content
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 26, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Fuchsia OS Introduction
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Interviews with developers who became managers
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Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
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Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
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A guide to difficult conversations
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Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
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European Parliament approves copyright reform
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Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software
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Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission
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FTC Issues Orders to Examine Privacy Practices of Seven U.S. Broadband Providers
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 25, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Fyne: Cross-Platform GUI in Go Based on Material Design
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The cortex is a neural network of neural networks
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Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again
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U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces
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Procrastination Has Nothing to Do with Self-Control
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Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service
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Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)
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Apple announces Apple Card credit card
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Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help
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The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016)
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Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schemaless search back end in Rust
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Dell Autism Hiring Program
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Show HN: Editable, royalty-free SVG illustrations
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On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python
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Chrome “clear cookies on exit” feature does not work
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KaTeX – Fast math typesetting library for the web
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Man Stole $122M from Facebook and Google by Impersonating Quanta
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Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents
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Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Redis streams as a pure data structure
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Women: Learn to Program This Summer
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Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit
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Pinterest S-1
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AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds
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Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes
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Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 Degrees Celsius in Seconds
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“Every minute I spent thinking about competitors was a minute wasted”
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Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies (2015)
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Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Remastering Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Machine Learning
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Ask HN: Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?
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Show HN: A Color Picker I Made
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A Julia Interpreter and Debugger
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Repl.it GFX: Native graphics development in the browser
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Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries By Running Hidden Video Ads In Android
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Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan
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At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard
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South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake
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Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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AirPods with Wireless Charging Case
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After 6 months of working fine, Tesla software update drives at barriers again
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Why Hashbrown Does a Double Lookup
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Scientists rise up against statistical significance
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A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (2017)
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How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
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Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
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Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out
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There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway
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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Implementing a NES Emulator in Rust
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A new class-action lawsuit takes aim at real estate agents and their 6% fee
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Google terminated our startup's developer account – what do we do?
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Java 12
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Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 on the Day Before Deadly Crash
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China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do
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Rules for Autocomplete
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Commento: Open-Source Disqus Alternative
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Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising
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8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 19, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty
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Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts
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Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch
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Stomach of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing but Nonstop Plastic'
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x86 Bare Metal Examples
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KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
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Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
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Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed to Make Money
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Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
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Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania
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Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers
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Vim Anti-Patterns (2012)
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Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (2017)
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Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003)
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Matrix 1.0 – Are We Ready Yet?
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Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015
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Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
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What Working at Stripe Has Been Like
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EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
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‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student mental health crisis
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Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy
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Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study
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As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
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Suse is once again an independent company
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Thinkpad X210
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What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance
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737 MAX Explanation by a Software Engineer
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Rust Cookbook
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)
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California declared drought free for first time in seven years
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Easy to Remember Color Guide for Non-Designers
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XXH3 – a new speed-optimized hash algorithm
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PagerDuty S-1
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Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1
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School is all about signaling, not skill-building
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Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
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The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’
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Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December
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My Salary Progression in Tech
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Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
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Dynamic Programming for Technical Interviews
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Tesla Model Y
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How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
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Addressing Spotify’s Claims
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Germany to make it a crime to run a Tor node or website
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Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
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CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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JIT-Less V8
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Iodide: An experimental Mozilla tool for data exploration on the web
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Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
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Write yourself a Git (2018)
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Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users
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Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
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Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
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DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
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Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox
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Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme
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Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw
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Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair
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Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
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Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users
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Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics
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Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
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Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
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U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
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Give Me Back My Monolith
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Open Distro for Elasticsearch
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Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry
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Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup
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Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'
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30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [video]
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Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
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A JavaScript-Free Front End
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Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
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E.U.’s Biggest Economies Ban Boeing Max 8 Jets
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Graying Out
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
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Peak California
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Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today
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How the Internet Travels Across Oceans
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Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (2017)
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Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
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Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
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Sway 1.0
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DTrace on Windows
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Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Speedrunning Windows 95
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What Happens Now That China Won't Take U.S. Recycling
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ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archive
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Gotify – a self-hosted push-notifications service
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The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple
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GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up in Crowdfunding
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Ask HN: How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?
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Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets
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Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish
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Winding down my Debian involvement
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 09, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Dutch join backlash at expensive drugs by making their own
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People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
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Hard disks can be turned into listening devices
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Usability Improvements in GCC 9
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Animals are no less emotional than we are
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Updates from YC
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SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight
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A generalised solution to distributed consensus
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An “acoustic metamaterial” that can cancel 94 percent of sound
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“No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java”
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 08, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The rise of wgpu
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Scheduling in React
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What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)
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How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer
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800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service
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YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”
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Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depends on Image Rotation
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How random can you be?
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Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
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Myequifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 07, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
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Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Minutes
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Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone
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Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing
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Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database
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Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging
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ARM processors like A12X are nearing performance parity with desktop processors
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PureOS is convergent
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Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases
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Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
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Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
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The Troika Laundromat
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Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
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Democrats to push to reinstate repealed 'net neutrality' rules
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European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
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Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed
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Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python
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Serious Chrome zero-day
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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 05, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins
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Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search
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Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
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USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB
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HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient
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Studying the demise of historic civilisations
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A random dungeon generator in C, small enough to fit on a business card
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Debian Buster will only be 54% reproducible, while we could be at 90%
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Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir
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How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 04, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO
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Python Data Science Handbook: Full Text in Jupyter Notebooks
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The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times
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Google reveals “high severity” flaw in MacOS kernel
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Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting
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China's social network surveillance databases are apparently leaked to Internet
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Everyone should read support emails
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TLDR Stock Options
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Building Fast Interpreters in Rust
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Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 03, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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An introduction to distributed systems (2017)
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Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties
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What Happened to OpenStack?
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Functional Programming in OCaml
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Square Inc. Co-Founder Tristan O’Tierney Dies at 35
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Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (2012)
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What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only
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SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station
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Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks [pdf]
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Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 02, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Simpson’s Paradox (2016)
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Ask HN: Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?
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Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat
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The periodic table is 150 years old this week
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React Native Open Source Update
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UI redesigns are mostly a waste of time
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SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video]
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Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple
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EditorConfig: Consistent coding styles across various editors and IDEs
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A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 01, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Uyghurs in Xinjiang – Onward to the Inevitable
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Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
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Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly
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Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
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JSON with Sqlite
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AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to
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Revolut CFO resigns following money laundering controversy
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Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
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Lyft Files S-1
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-02-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base
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Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill
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Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose
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Formally Specifying UIs (2018)
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Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset
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Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform
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Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust
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UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access
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YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
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$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now
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