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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”
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• Eva – A distributed entity-attribute-value database in Clojure
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• $499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE
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• Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
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• New Property of Light Discovered
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• Microsoft's Linux Kernel
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• I’ve spent five years writing a JavaScript framework
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• Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign in with Apple
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• SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack
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• The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble
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• Everything everywhere is securities fraud
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• Welcome to the Old Internet Again
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• On Jony Ive Leaving Apple
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• One In Five Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout (2018)
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• NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time
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• US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries
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• Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
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• Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first time since records began
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• NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-27

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

• The Toyota Way
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• Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving
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• ‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation
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• Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
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• FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes
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• A 30th anniversary note to Prince of Persia fans
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• Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side
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• Reinventing Firefox for Android
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• “The books will stop working.”
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• Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-26

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

• I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business
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• GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines
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• Rich Felker of musl libc comments on Google's LLVM libc proposal
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• Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai
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• Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine
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• HTML is the Web
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• Hey advertisers, track this
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• HTTP Cats
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• I was seven words away from being spear-phished
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• Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-25

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

• Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number
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• A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)
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• The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I.
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• Learning Synths
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• Microsoft Flight Simulator
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• The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive
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• Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care
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• How Discount Brokerages Make Money
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• How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit
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• What's Salesforce?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-24

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

• Building an LTE Access Point with a Raspberry Pi
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• What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
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• Mastery with SQL: Learn Modern SQL with Postgres
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• Raspberry Pi 4
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• I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is siding with the thief
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• Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare
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• Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone
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• Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
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• Elixir 1.9
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• Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-23

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

• US Senate report on Equifax breach [pdf]
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• Google CTF 2019
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• Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech
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• Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region
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• Startup idea checklist
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• Give Firefox a chance
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• I’m not really a good web developer, I'm just good at Googling things
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• Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
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• AMP for email is bad
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• The internet is an SEO landfill
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-22

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

• India has the highest data usage per smartphone
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• Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street
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• Why brilliant people lose their touch
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• YInMn Blue
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• Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files
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• Get an Acme Klein Bottle
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• We tried to publish a replication of a Science paper in Science
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• An ‘extraordinarily severe’ emergency: the radioactive leak at Harborview
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• Mimalloc – A compact general-purpose allocator
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• Learning to Build Distributed Systems
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-21

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

• Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby
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• Forget monoliths vs. microservices: cognitive load is what matters
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• Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes
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• Which has more sales: a single long checkout form or a multi-step one?
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• Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (2012) [pdf]
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• SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks
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• Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain
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• Gmail confidential mode is not secure or private
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• Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy
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• Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-20

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

• Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?
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• Math.Round opens the browser print dialog
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• Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
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• Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
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• Ask HN: What are the signs that you have a great manager?
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• Why Google+ Failed
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• AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench
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• Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May
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• Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows
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• Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-19

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

• Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
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• Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug
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• Facebook Cryptocurrency Plan Faces Opposition in France
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• The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced
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• Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM
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• macOS-Simple-KVM: A New Way to Create macOS VMs in Linux
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• Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
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• We tried to hustle our way into YC after we got rejected
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• Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
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• A Janitor at Frito-Lay Invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-18

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

• Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste
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• SACK Panic – Multiple TCP-based remote denial-of-service issues
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• The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)
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• Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
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• Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development
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• Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
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• Google Calendar Is Down
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• Transforming a Tesla Model 3 into a Pickup Truck
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• $1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes
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• How LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from the browser
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-17

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

• All Of Argentina, Uruguay Without Electricity After Massive Outage
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• Show HN: Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
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• HAProxy 2.0
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• Why Hong Kong Is Still Marching
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• uBlock Origin 1.20
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• Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
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• Carnival Cruises emits ten times more sulphur oxide than all of Europe’s cars
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• SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Google won't help
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• Mathematician Disproves Hedetniemi’s Graph Theory Conjecture
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• Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-16

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

• Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit
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• U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid
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• When to use web workers
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• Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour of LaTeX
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• Soviet Arcade Games from the 70s and 80s
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• Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml
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• Apollo 11 in Real Time
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• People Met in Hotel Lobbies (2017)
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• Relearn CSS layout
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• About 2M People Rally in Hong Kong Weekend Protests
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-15

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

• Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014)
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• Luna – A WYSIWYG language for data processing
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• Observable’s Not JavaScript
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• YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior
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• Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (2011)
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• How to Remember
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• 8chan served with search warrant [pdf]
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• Google refunded $200 because I missed 5 lines of Code
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• Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way
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• Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-14

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

• Software Below the Poverty Line
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• Level Design Patterns in 2D Games
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• Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (2012)
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• How Nike sold its first shoes
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• Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required
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• Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Dockerfiles
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• I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today
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• My Personal Journey from MIT to GPL
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• Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers
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• Show HN: Enviro+ for Raspberry Pi – Environmental sensors
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-13

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

• Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threatens to leak them
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• To be great, be good repeatably
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• The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
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• Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games
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• The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now open-source
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• US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media
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• WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that knows everything about me
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• Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
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• How to parent more predictably (2018)
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• Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-12

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

• IPFS, Again
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• The Thing
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• RAMBleed Attack – Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them
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• You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA
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• Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing
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• The new Dropbox
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• Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S.
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• Green threads explained in 200 lines of Rust
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• Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters
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• AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is the fastest processor on Geekbench
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-11

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

• Couple wins millions using lottery loophole
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• GrapheneOS – A privacy and security-focused mobile OS with Android compatibility
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• From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)
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• AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome
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• Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working
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• Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
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• Canada to ban keeping whales, dolphins in captivity
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• No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
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• Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity
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• Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-10

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

• Day of the Tentacle
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• Matlab–Python–Julia Cheatsheet
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• Apple Is Listening
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• Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (2015)
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• Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications
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• Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
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• Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
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• Always Own Your Platform
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• Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
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• US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Stolen In A Data Breach
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-09

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

• The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature
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• It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say two experts
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• Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
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• iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you
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• Huawei Accused of Technology Theft
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• The Open Source Seed Initiative
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• Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes
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• AWS costs every programmer should know
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• Blender Is Free Software
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• Practical Deep Learning for Coders
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-08

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

• Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut
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• Nasa to Open International Space Station to Tourists
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• Open Source Electronics Lab for $30
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• Barnes & Noble Set To Be Sold To Elliott Management For About $683M
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• The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
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• Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
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• WeChat and the Surveillance State
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• Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System
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• I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project
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• New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-07

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

• How to get rich without getting lucky (2018)
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• Joyent Public Cloud EOL
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• Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text
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• Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem
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• Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
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• I left the ad industry because of data tracking
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• Python in the Windows 10 May update
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• Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
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• People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge
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• Sign In with Apple
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-06

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

• The cutting-edge of cutting: How Japanese scissors have evolved (2018)
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• I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
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• Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
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• CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox
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• macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl
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• Open Source Game Clones
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• How to Draw Animals (1930)
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• Google to Acquire Looker
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• Why Medium Sucks
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• The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-05

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

• How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018)
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• Show HN: This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
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• When it comes to privacy, default settings matter
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• National Park Typeface
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• Relicensing CockroachDB
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• An update on last week's customer shutdown incident
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• Firefox Monitor
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• Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
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• Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust
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• “Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-04

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

• iPadOS
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• Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers Join In
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• Zero Rupee Note
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• Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac
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• Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
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• Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company
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• Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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• Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
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• If 'Big Tech' Is an Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?
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• SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-03

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

• Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology
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• Animated Knots: Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation
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• Password expiration is dead, long live passwords
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• US demands social media details from visa applicants
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• A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean
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• Show HN: ZeroHTTPd: A web server to teach Linux performance, with benchmarks
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• Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship
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• Apple Sign In
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• SwiftUI
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• New Mac Pro
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-02

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

• Moscow Publishes Photocopies of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Secret Protocols
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• Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change
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• Tips for Writing a Technical Book
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• Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study
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• Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice
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• TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
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• India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius
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• Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
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• A home microhydro plant (2009)
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• Google Cloud Is Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-01

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

• California is cracking down on the gig economy
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• Unity Editor for Linux
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• Why Was Mini USB Deprecated in Favor of Micro USB?
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• Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres
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• Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google
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• Facebook reportedly argues there's no 'expectation of privacy' on social media
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• Google's PageRank patent has expired
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• The XY Problem (2014)
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• Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance'
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• Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-05-31

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

• SaaS CTO Security Checklist
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• How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years
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• Betrayed by an app she had never heard of
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• Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?
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• I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected
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• James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test
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• Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
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• Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well
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• Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
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• \"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company\"
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