Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading
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Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux
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Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
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Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
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Unauthorized access to Docker Hub database
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Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
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Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?
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Giving up on wlroots-rs
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Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]
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Jenkins Is Getting Old
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007)
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PostgreSQL Features to Try
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The Embedded Rust Book
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I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape
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The inception bar: a new phishing method
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How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (2016)
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Police misconduct: Search discipline records for thousands of cops
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The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections
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Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting
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Software Projects and Heroes: Lessons Learned from GitHub Projects
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (2014)
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Show HN: Sauron – A web framework in Rust that adheres to the Elm architecture
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Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)
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When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup
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Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006
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Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
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Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled
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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)
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Apple has removed or restricted several screen-time and parental-control apps
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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 26, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Name one thing in this photo
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A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
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People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours
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Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs
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Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex
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Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y.
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Principles and Techniques of Data Science
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Google Is Eating Our Mail
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Slack S-1
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TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 25, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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NYC scientist fired after raising questions about a DNA test gets $1M settlement
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The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought
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Ask HN: How to Teach Coding?
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Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease
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Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
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Vim.wasm
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Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag
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Flutter desktop shells
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Bullshitters. Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? [pdf]
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MuseNet
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Foundations of Databases (1995)
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A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions
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Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution
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Relearning Matrices as Linear Functions
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Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
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Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries
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QEMU v4.0.0 released
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OpenBSD 6.5
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Private Key Extraction from Qualcomm Hardware-Backed Keystores
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Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Amazon Quits China Market
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Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School
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Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]
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Modern C++ Won't Save Us
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Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
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OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor
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I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money
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V8: A Year with Spectre
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I Sell Onions on the Internet
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I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index
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Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo
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Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong
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Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos
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Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
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PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again
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TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes
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Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity
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Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
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Beyond Meat S-1
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us
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A visual proof that neural nets can approximate any continuous function
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Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says
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Antenna Theory (2016)
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Goodbye Joe
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It feels like everything today is a multi-level marketing scheme
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SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release
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Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
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Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
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Joe the office mate
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole
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Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions in engineering culture
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Applied Category Theory
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Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
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26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband
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The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway
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Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out?
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Commit messages guide
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Joe Armstrong has died
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We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 19, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author
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Keeping master green at scale
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How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer
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Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64
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Mozilla WebThings
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Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
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Ikonate – fully customisable and accessible vector icons
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Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
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Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source
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Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Google Decides to Monetize Maps
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Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg but can’t do anything
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Popular Google Play store apps are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud
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Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust
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I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs
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Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library
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Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
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Advanced NLP with SpaCy
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First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus
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The Healing Power of Gardens
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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EU gives 'high-level' protection to whistleblowers
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Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation
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Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser
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Panic’s Next Editor
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Intel Exiting 5G Modems
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Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
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Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root
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Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations
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Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist
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Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mastodon and Keybase
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LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise
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Ripgrep 11 Released
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Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
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Microsimulation of Traffic Flow
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“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
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Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
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Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years
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5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Org-mode parser in Rust
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Learn TLA+ (2018)
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Icons: Avoid temptation and start with user needs
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Want to learn a new skill? Take some short breaks
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1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by amateur astronomers
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A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla
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GameBoy CPU Manual (2013) [pdf]
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Baked MacBook Air: A cautionary recipe
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How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
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Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How a Single Raspberry Pi Made My Home Network Faster
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500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time
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Construction has kept rent in Chongqing, China to $75 a month
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Emissions fall in Madrid city center thanks to new traffic restrictions
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Aphex Twin Speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)
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Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers
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Web Developer's Guide to DNS
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Single-dose propranolol tied to ‘selective erasure’ of anxiety disorders
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What Is a Manifold?
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America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink
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Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
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As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned a Blind Eye
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I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash
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VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trackers
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Ola Bini, Swedish Software Developer with Ties to Assange, Arrested in Ecuador
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The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism
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South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
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Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
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JSON as configuration files: please don’t
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Google makes BigQuery available in Sheets
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Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash
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Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
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Arabsat-6A mission [video]
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Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?
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Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life
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Great developers are raised, not hired
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Slack Is Not Where 'Deep Work' Happens
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SpaceX nails triple booster landing after satellite delivery
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Emacs 26.2 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News
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996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening
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Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it
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Random Forests for Complete Beginners
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Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
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Julian Assange arrested in London
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Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law
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Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it
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Rust 1.34.0
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Uber S-1
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Monotype launches the first redesign of Helvetica in 35 years
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Announcing Building Git
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Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers
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Gov. is about to permanently bar the IRS from creating a free e-filing system
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Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)
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Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)
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Tesla Model 3 becomes best-selling car in Switzerland
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Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad
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Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
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EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 09, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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BASIC Computer Games
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Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go
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A majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities
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US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums
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No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick
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Zig 0.4.0 Released
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Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption
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Congress Is About to Ban the Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
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Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta
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Netlify Dev
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 08, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Busy Person Patterns (2006) [pdf]
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When to Use TypeScript – A Detailed Guide Through Common Scenarios
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How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera
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Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better
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Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner
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VPN – Very Precarious Narrative
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Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil
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It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
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58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
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Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 07, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat
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Overview of differential equations [video]
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I let a stranger watch me work for a day and I've never been more productive
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NirSoft, a collection of small and useful freeware utilities
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Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize
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Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer
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An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)
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How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook (2018)
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All of Toyota’s electric vehicle patents are now royalty-free
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I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed
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Buy Yourself a Latte
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Mate: Netflix browser extension for learning words via subtitles
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2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail
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Battery Power's Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas
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Quirk – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never have dreamed of (2017) [video]
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Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 in Indonesia
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Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away
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Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 05, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner
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The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally Makes That Plain
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Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (2016)
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The 3dfx Voodoo1
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Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?
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Design Tools for Everything
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Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017)
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Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
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CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust
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Computer Graphics from Scratch
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 04, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership
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The Lobster Programming Language
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Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Huawei driver
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When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too
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But I'm Not a Lawyer, I'm an Agent
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Agile Lite: Agile without all the burnout
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Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking
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Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it
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You Are Not Google (2017)
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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 03, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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From Show HN to Series D
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Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains
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Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information
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Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
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A16Z is registering as a financial advisor, renouncing its status as a VC
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Show HN: Gimli – A Visual Studio Code extension for front-end developers
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Why there’s so little left of the early internet
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Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops
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Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook
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The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disruptive Yet
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 02, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle
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San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance
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Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other transportation modes
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French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen
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Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox
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Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?
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Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
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Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
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I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
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No one should have to travel in fear
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 01, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles
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The one-salary experiment, ten years in
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Different ways to build a $100M business (2014)
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OpenTTD Compiled to WebAssembly
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WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors
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Productivity Is About Attention Management
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Git implemented in Rust
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Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
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Warp – Mobile VPN
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-03-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 31, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Raster CRT Typography According to DEC
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Boss is 90% of the 'Employee Experience'
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Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread
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Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number (2013)
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Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data
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On Being a Free Software Maintainer
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Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show
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PHP 8 to Add a JIT
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Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
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Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York
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