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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs
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• India tiger census shows rapid population growth
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• Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
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• Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage
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• Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S
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• Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
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• What’s New in ES2019
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• Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax
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• Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app
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• Blender 2.80
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-29

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

• Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills
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• The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions
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• GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea
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• Data Engineering Cookbook
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• YouTube faces creator backlash
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• Slack Is Down
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• Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval [pdf]
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• Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining
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• Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
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• Uber Lays Off 400
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-28

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

• The Problem of Mindfulness
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• Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer
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• Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction [pdf]
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• Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning
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• How I use the good parts of AWS
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• Burnout
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• Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
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• Surprisingly popular
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• A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets
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• Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-27

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

• Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface
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• Firefox Reality
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• Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
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• Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research
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• How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
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• Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth
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• Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time
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• Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
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• Adblocking: How about Nah?
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• The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-26

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

• A History of Visa
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• Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
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• Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful
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• “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
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• What Stress Does to the Brain
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• Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
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• Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware
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• Users hate change
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• The UK authorities made illegal copies of the Schengen Information System
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• IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-25

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

• What If Consciousness Comes First?
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• How not to sign a JSON object
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• Fast Software, the Best Software
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• Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
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• The Rust compiler is still getting faster
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• Some items from my “reliability list”
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• Vital Wikipedia Articles
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• Saving Lydia
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• CERN migrates to open-source technologies
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• Alibaba partner announces 16 core RISC-V chip
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-24

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

• Space Engine
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• Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia
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• Lyft releases self-driving research dataset
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• Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…
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• Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
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• About the “Security Issue” on VLC
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• Use plaintext email
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• Visual Information Theory (2015)
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• Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone
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• FTC Imposes $5B Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-23

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

• Who Pays Writers?
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• When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
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• How to assess the quality of garments (2014)
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• Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
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• Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox
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• I'm writing a book about algorithms and Lisp
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• New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data
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• No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
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• Want to hire the best programmers? Offer growth
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• Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-22

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

• How is it like to be a dev in Iran
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• Google AI Education Resources
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• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
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• GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely
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• Quiet Hacker News (2017)
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• Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
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• Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
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• Ubisoft joins Blender Development Fund to support open-source animation
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• Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners
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• GitHub is down
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-21

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

• I work in an Amazon warehouse in West Sacramento
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• Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors
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• Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic on Fire
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• Photorealistic Path Tracer
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• Why wasn't this page found?
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• Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft
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• Game Source Code Collection
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• Puffer – Stream live TV in the browser
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• Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
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• YouTube was launched as a dating site
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-20

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

• Bypassing anti-incognito detection in Google Chrome
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• Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
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• QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack
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• History and Effective Use of Vim
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• Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died
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• Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random keys for delivery receipts
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• Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee
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• Stunnel and How to Get Free Airline Wi-Fi
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• Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
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• Let's talk about peeing in space
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-19

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

• The Loneliness Epidemic
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• How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account
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• AT&T to Face EFF Class Action for Selling Customers’ Location to Bounty Hunters
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• TinyGo: New Go Compiler Based on LLVM
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• Argdown
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• Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive
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• A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing
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• Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems
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• Show HN: I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics
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• Slack Security Incident
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-18

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

• Google Search is routinely gamed by private blog networks
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• Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: practices I learned
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• What's Coming in Python 3.8
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• Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
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• Think in Math, Write in Code
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• 33 dead after arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio, dozens injured
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• FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names
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• HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide
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• At what time of day do famous programmers work?
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• MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-17

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

• Your nines are not my nines
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• What every computer science major should know (2011)
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• Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try”
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• The PGP Problem
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• Neuralink Live Stream [video]
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• How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb
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• Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew
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• Zelda Screen Transitions Are Undefined Behaviour
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• The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan
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• How can phone companies detect tethering?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-16

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

• Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
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• Ownership and Borrowing in D
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• Cargill: The Worst Company in the World
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• How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there?
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• Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
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• Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete
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• Let's Build a Compiler
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• Show HN: OctoSQL – Query and join multiple databases and files, written in Go
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• DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
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• YouTube video has its own URL in it
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-15

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

• YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
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• Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated
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• After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day
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• You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)
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• Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
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• Florida DMV sells personal info to private companies, marketing firms
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• Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
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• To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
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• Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
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• Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-14

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

• VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports
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• Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC
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• Why the C++ standard ships every three years
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• Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range
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• One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
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• What is Silverblue?
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• Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
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• Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
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• Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working (2017)
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• India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-13

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

• AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
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• Costa Rica has run on 100% renewable energy for 300 days
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• Show HN: Listmonk – Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager
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• Seattle Faces Backlash After Easing on Crimes Involving Mental Illness
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• Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
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• How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have?
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• Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database
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• Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
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• Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
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• Google Photos is making photos semi-public
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-12

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

• My First Fifteen Compilers
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• No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game
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• 1Passwd: Standalone / Local Vault Option Gone?
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• I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)
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• Hostyoself: Server in a browser – host from your computer, your phone, etc.
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• Blender 2.80 release candidate
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• Statistics with Julia [pdf]
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• Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
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• Strava cuts off Relive
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• Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-11

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

• A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles
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• Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet
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• DeepMind’s StarCraft II agent will play anonymously on battle.net
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• Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
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• Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
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• How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to
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• QuickJS JavaScript Engine
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• Shopify and the Power of Platforms
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• France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by US
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• Twitter was down
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-10

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

• Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed out alternatives
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• Zoom fixes major Mac webcam security flaw with emergency patch
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• Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502
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• I Can’t Stop Winning
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• PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4
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• Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
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• Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
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• Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website
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• Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches
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• Developers don't understand CORS
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-09

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

• Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing
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• It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done
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• 3D Wireframes Using SVG
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• Clear is better than clever
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• Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
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• John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better
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• IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B
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• Firefox 68.0
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• Ross Perot Has Died
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• Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-08

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

• Learning Golang – From Zero to Hero
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• Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
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• African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone
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• How to Use User Mode Linux
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• iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
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• Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices
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• RSA is a fragile cryptosystem
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• Open-Source Slack Alternative Mattermost Gets $50M Funding
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• Ten Years of Erlang
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• Being Bored Is Good
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-07

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

• Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised
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• How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox
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• Breaking max efficiency of solar cells by activating 2 electrons with 1 photon
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• Debian 10 “Buster” Released
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• A Secure Runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Built with V8, Rust, and Tokio
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• Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 Released
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• The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar
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• How to write idempotent Bash scripts
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• The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
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• Strong_password Rubygem hijacked
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-06

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

• A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
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• Understanding Kafka with Factorio
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• Run Your Own Website
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• How much free time do you have?
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• 81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent
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• Wringing
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• So you think you know C? (2016)
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• VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
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• 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California
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• Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-05

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

• Why am I interested in Elixir?
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• Public Domain Movies
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• Monte Carlo methods – Why it's a bad idea to go to the casino
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• California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
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• How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow
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• Is this Paypal experience customary?
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• Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers
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• Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way
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• Bladder cancer 'attacked and killed by common cold virus'
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• How the Dat Protocol Works
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-04

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

• Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages
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• Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars
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• Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen
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• Amazon can be held liable for third-party seller products: U.S. appeals court
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• Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy
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• YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
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• A better zip bomb
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• Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook
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• The Coming Boeing Bailout?
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• Announcing Rust 1.36.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-03

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

• Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
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• How Diablo Was Reverse-Engineered Without Source Code [video]
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• A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”
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• I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Wasn't Easy
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• Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments
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• Why we're ending support for MySQL
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• Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists
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• Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
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• User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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• YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-02

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

• Choose Boring Technology
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• Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
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• Senate passes bill to decrease grid digitization, move toward manual control
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• Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
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• The First Sony Walkman Was Released 40 Years Ago
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• Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
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• Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
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• Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns
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• Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-01

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

• SwiftWebUI
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• Go Slices Are Fat Pointers
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• Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses
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• Why plants don’t die from cancer
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• Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server
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• Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot
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• The rise of remote working will continue
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• Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018)
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• Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
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• I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-06-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military
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• Live coding a vi for CP/M from scratch
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• PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
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• How to pick a random number from 1-10
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• Lazydocker: a terminal GUI for Docker
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• Tell HN: Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder
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• The Cost of JavaScript in 2019
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• “New home page seems like Stack Overflow doesn't allow free use any more”
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• Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL
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• The German Tank Problem
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