Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search
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Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
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Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]
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A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
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Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock author
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Terry Pratchett warned Bill Gates about fake news (1995)
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Google – My Activity
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Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
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Switch from Chrome to Firefox
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Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms
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Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone
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Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG
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Wireguard-docs: Setup, usage, configuration, and a full example
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Removing duplicate lines from files keeping the original order with Awk
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Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain
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A website that runs on a solar-powered server in Barcelona
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0x Launch Kit – Launch your own cryptocurrency exchange or marketplace
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Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
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Advanced Data Structures
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX
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The multi-armed bandit problem (2012)
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Power Is Overrated
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What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns
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Translating math into code with examples in Java, Racket, Haskell, Python (2011)
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I can see your local web servers
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W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
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Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010)
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Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default
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Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?
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Scrum is fragile, not Agile
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AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
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Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs
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On SQS
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Ask HN: How can I work towards building a company while employed?
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Syntax highlighters are wrong (2014)
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Why I'm still using jQuery
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Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
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Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 26, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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GDPR After One Year
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Ask HN: Starting Your Own LLC?
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How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?
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Self-distancing can help you make better decisions
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Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels
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Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole
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Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017)
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Logical fallacies in software engineering
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‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns
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Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Texts
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 25, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker
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Murray Gell-Mann Has Died
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OKRs from a development team’s perspective
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Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?
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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records
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The lingua franca of LaTeX
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Details about MIDI 2.0
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Show HN: A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js
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Founder Books
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In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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BigInt Shipping in Firefox
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Notre Dame is unstable: a strong wind could make the walls collapse, report says
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Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown
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Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder
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H.264 is magic (2016)
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Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system
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The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
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The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android
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Making a Game Boy Game in 2017
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Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library
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Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
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SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics
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Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
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The Art of Command Line (2015)
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GitHub Sponsors
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“Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan
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Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash
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After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
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Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)
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Economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal
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The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack
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Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
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Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion
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Go is Google's language, not ours
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Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own design review
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IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
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Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
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Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Employing QUIC Protocol to Optimize Uber’s App Performance
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The State of Apple's Developer Documentation
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Niki Lauda has died
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Show HN: Turn an Excel file into a web application
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I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code
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Firefox 67.0 Released
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Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
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A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests
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Technical Debt
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Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How to do hard things
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Leaving Google Fi
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Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from an abandoned building
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A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)
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“It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net”
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Linux distros without systemd
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MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries
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Geoff Ralston taking over as President of YC
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DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
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WebGL Fluid Simulation
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 19, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)
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Show HN: The Cyber Plumber's Handbook – SSH Tunnel Like a Boss
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Flexible data tables with CSS Grid
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“Python's batteries are leaking”
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Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
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Why Racket? Why Lisp?
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
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“A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”
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A Decade of Remote Work
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Google suspends some business with Huawei
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Get Your Book, Make It Free
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Guide to Deep Work
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Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles
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Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets
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Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete
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Game Engine Black Books Update
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users
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Three.js Fundamentals
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South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
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I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Firms That Promised Ransomware Decryption Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers
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SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
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Sony and Microsoft set rivalry aside for cloud gaming alliance
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Zero Cost Abstractions
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Can we all stop using Medium now?
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The struggles of an open source maintainer
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Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
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New Game: Minecraft Earth
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Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter
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Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Fundamental design principles for non-designers
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Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous
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TaiChi: Open-source computer graphics library
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Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time
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My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting
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Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked
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Racket 7.3
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We froze the salaries of 20 executives and improved the lives of 500 employees
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I turned my interview task for Google into a startup
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Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
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Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max
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Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says
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John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (1996)
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Things to use in Python 3
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A critical step to reduce climate change
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PHP in 2019
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YTMND has shut down
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FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default
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I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites
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WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones
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Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy
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Going Critical
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Oh shit, git (2016)
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YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history
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Show HN: 30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks
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AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break–it cut 23,000 jobs instead
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ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs
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Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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3D Game Shaders for Beginners
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How I Run a Company with ADHD
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Ask HN: Which books teach mental models?
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CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history
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China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia
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Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs
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Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed
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Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets
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U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly
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Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Calculus with Julia
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Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to shut off MCAS
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A city for the rich, built poorly: The construction of Hudson Yards
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What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft
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Why Recycling Doesn't Work
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Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs
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They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia
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Show HN: Koonchi – Convert Photo to Hand-Painted Painting by Artists from India
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Senate Testimony on Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy
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Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Beauty of Calculus [video]
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40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research
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Libmill: Go-Style Concurrency in C
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U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange
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Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made
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Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics
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Twilio Super SIM
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Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study
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Show HN: Python Machine Learning – A Crash Course
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Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords
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We Can Do Better Than SQL
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Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
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Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage
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Blue Moon
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Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?
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Git rebase in depth
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IT Runs on Java 8
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Uber opens at $42 per share
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GitHub Package Registry
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 09, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
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We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible
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Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
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Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
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For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection
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Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes
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Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
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We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
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All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward
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Why open source firmware is important for security
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 08, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?
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Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild
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Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica
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Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
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Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
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GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud
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HTTP headers for the responsible developer
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Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects
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CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment whose topic was Chinese censorship
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Google Fights Back
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 07, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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JMAP: A modern, open email protocol
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Efficient IO with io_uring [pdf]
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Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python
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Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
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Open source collaborative text editors
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
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Researchers identify sleep as a reason why personality traits predict longevity
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Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long
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The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)
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Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]
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Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard
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Clear is better than clever [pdf]
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Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says
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Go-perfbook: best practices for writing high-performance Go code
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Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
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A final proposal for Rust await syntax
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Windows gets a new terminal
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.NET 5
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Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 05, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?
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500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app
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Cost of serving billions of images per month
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Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)
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Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places
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Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki
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Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified
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UX clichés
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Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
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Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 04, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Unraveling the JPEG
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A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
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Paying for Open Source Contributions
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America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
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Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
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Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
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Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials
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Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox
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Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 03, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Guardian records first operating profit since 1998
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Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
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Show HN: Risp – Lisp in Rust
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Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others
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JetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face
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Android App Reverse Engineering 101
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Huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission
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Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
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I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]
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Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 02, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)
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World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
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Use mmap with care
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GNU Guix 1.0.0 released
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Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote
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Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance
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Google Will Soon Let You Automatically Scrub Your Location and Web History
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TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat
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Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 01, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin
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Soul – A language and IDE for audio coding
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Golden: Mapping human knowledge
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Show HN: CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images
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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
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Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months
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Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)
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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
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Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-04-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps
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WeWork Files for IPO
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Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle
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SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space
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I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)
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Have a personal web site
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I made a smart watch from scratch
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How pharmaceutical industry financial modelers think about rare diseases
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Python at Netflix
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Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors
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