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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-29

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

• Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs
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• A developer goes to a DevOps conference
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• Learn Just a Little Awk (2010)
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• Unexpected cracking found on critical Boeing 737 Next Generation part
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• We asked three companies to recycle plastic and only one did
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• Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
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• Starship Update
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• Text Rendering Hates You
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• Berlin Key
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• Starship Prototype Unveiled
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-28

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

• Rudder, an open source Segment alternative
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• What do executives do, anyway?
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• Crafting Interpreters: Closures
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• The One Man MMO Project
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• Cash/Consent: The war on sex work
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• The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
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• Science’s pirate queen
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• Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator (2018)
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• Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer
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• Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-27

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

• GitHub Releases an ImageNet for Code
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• The Octopus: An Alien Among Us
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• Tesla Software Version 10.0
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• DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants
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• New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases
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• Elements of Clojure
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• Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes
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• MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud
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• The Spinner
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• Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-26

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

• Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
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• Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
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• U.N. postal union clinches deal to keep U.S. in
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• If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot
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• Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric
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• Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says
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• Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts
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• Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)
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• Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession
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• Programming Idioms
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-25

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

• OSSU: A path to a free self-taught education in computer science
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• Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic
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• V8 adds support for top-level await
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• Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
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• We are clueless about how long things should take
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• Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations
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• The one who kept VLC free
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• WARP is here
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• A patent lawsuit against GNOME
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• WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-24

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

• Gridgarden: A cool game to learn CSS Grid
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• Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?
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• Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
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• Tmux Tutorial
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• Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts
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• Pi-Hole 4.3.2
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• Comparing Database Types
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• iPadOS
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• WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO
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• WeWork CEO, Adam Neumann, Stepping Down Under Pressure
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-23

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

• Hacking the Brain
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• Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application
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• The Church of Interruption
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• Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country
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• Keyhut POS: Free Point-of-Sale Software for DOS
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• Serverless: slower and more expensive
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• Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier
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• Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas
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• .NET Core 3.0
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• Nim 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-22

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

• A website coding itself live
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• Show HN: Shiori v1.5 – Self hosted bookmarks manager, now with archival support
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• The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)
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• Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required
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• Hacker Who Revealed Soccer Secrets Is Charged with 147 Crimes
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• Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)
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• Brains are the last frontier of privacy
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• Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found
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• Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO
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• Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-21

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

• Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not
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• Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data from Scores of Companies
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• Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe
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• Common Systems Programming Optimizations and Tricks
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• What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
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• Do It Yurtself
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• WeWTF, Part Deux
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• Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contractor's vote to unionize
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• Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
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• Weld: Accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-20

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

• The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition
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• Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian
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• U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan
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• LLVM 9.0
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• Birds Are Vanishing from North America
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• The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so
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• A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics
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• Lectures in Quantitative Economics with Python [pdf]
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• Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari
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• ColorBox by Lyft Design
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-19

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

• Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook
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• The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation
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• Navy Confirms UFO Videos Are Real and Should Not Have Been Released
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• Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)
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• Pure Bash Bible
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• Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking
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• iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review
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• Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
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• Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B
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• Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-18

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

• Raising Prices Is Hard
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• Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game
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• NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B
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• Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated
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• Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1
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• .su
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• Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
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• Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
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• The cost of parsing JSON
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• Modern C, Second Edition
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-17

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

• Show HN: Darklang
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• Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
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• 100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
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• MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library
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• WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources
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• Richard M. Stallman resigns
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• Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125
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• Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor
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• Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO
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• The Internet Relies on People Working for Free
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-16

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

• Get Started Making Music
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• Google ML/AI Comic
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• HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print
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• TextMate 2.0
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• Neovim v0.4.0
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• Show HN: I built an online image editor using WebGL and CSS transforms
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• Why Go and Not Rust?
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• LastPass bug leaks credentials from previous site
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• Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products
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• The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-15

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

• Show HN: RemoteMore – We connect developers with full-time remote jobs
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• Warcraft 3: Remastered Will Work with Old Custom Maps
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• Little Alchemy 2
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• The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution?
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• Linux Kernel Fastboot [pdf]
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• Irish Teenager Wins Global Science Award for Removing Microplastics from Water
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• IBM introduces z15 mainframe
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• China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans from leaving
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• Let Children Get Bored Again
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• 3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-14

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

• Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)
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• The Myth of the Wealthy Welder
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• Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S.
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• DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer
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• BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful
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• Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sling costs $200
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• Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
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• MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14
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• France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
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• Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-13

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

• Google collects face data now – what it means and how to opt out
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• The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell
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• WebGPU and WSL in Safari
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• Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found
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• French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport
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• Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day
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• The SR-71's predecessor used cesium-laced fuel to create radar-absorbing exhaust
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• Color Emulation
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• Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness
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• The mineral content of vegetables has plummeted
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-12

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

• Malaria breakthrough as scientists find ‘highly effective’ way to kill parasite
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• Turn off DoH, Firefox
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• What is the new Apple U1 chip?
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• Why is Rust slightly slower than C?
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• A high-speed network driver written in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java
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• California Approves Statewide Rent Control
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• Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
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• Ask HN: Are you ok?
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• A lighter V8
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• California bans private prisons
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-11

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

• Apple Watch Series 5
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• An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
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• I Quit Social Media for a Year
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• California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees
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• Stop Infinite Scrolling
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• Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’
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• Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
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• Hong Kong Exchanges Bids $39B to Take over London Stock Exchange
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• Day Trading for a Living?
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• Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-10

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

• Project Naptha: Make Text in Browser Images Selectable
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• ‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’
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• 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google
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• Show HN: Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy
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• Stripe Corporate Card
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• It's later than you think
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• Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
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• Bring Back the SE
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• Uber lays off 435 people
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• iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-09

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

• Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList
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• The Cult of Kubernetes
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• Sunsetting Python 2
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• Google Feedback on TypeScript 3.5
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• Questions to ask a company during a job interview
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• Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager
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• 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
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• Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
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• Daytripper
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• 9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-08

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

• CSRF is really dead
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• From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out
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• Show HN: A simple Unix-like operating system that runs Doom
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• Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
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• A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf]
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• Glibc sysdeps: dl_platform detection effectively performs “cripple AMD”
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• Ethiopia beats its goal and plants over 350M trees in 12 hours
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• Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression?
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• Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
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• Tiler: Build Images with Images
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-07

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

• You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face
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• Favorite Interview Questions
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• Stellarium: A free open-source planetarium for your computer
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• M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
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• Troubles with the AWS web console
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• Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing
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• India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
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• Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them
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• Goodreads Is Broken
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• Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-06

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

• US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup
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• Sites with dumb password rules
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• How to do a code review
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• Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store
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• Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
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• 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
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• Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
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• Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
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• A Message about iOS Security
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• Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-05

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

• Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs
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• A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
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• Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research
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• Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
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• Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
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• Facebook Dating
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• A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble
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• How to learn D3.js
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• Stripe Capital
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• Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-04

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

• Go 1.13 Release Notes
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• USB4 Specification
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• Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 into liquid fuel
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• In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
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• Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times
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• Regex Crossword
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• Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill
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• TypeScript vs. ReasonML
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• Google’s GDPR Workaround
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• Google, YouTube to Pay $170M Penalty over Collecting Kids' Personal Info
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-03

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

• Show HN: Face Generator
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• South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
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• Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
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• Off-Grid, Solar-Powered, Zero-Battery Refrigerator
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• A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)
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• Firefox 69.0 Released
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• DeepFaceLab: A tool that utilizes ML to replace faces in videos
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
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• ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks
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• Android 10
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-02

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

• Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code
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• A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’
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• Escher-Like Spiral Tilings
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• Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries
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• The more you learn, the faster you can learn
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• Building Interactive SSH Applications
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• The Secret History of Dune
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• Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account
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• Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment
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• Tired of Stack Overflow
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-01

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

• Cue – A language for defining, generating, and validating data
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• TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files
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• I find journaling indispensable
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• Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome
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• What Happened in the UK Blackouts?
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• What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video]
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• The “mail is hard” myth
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• What 'RC' in '.bashrc' Stands For
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• Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note
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• Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-31

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

• The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award
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• Go Module Mirror and Checksum Database Launched
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• BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack
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• Anna Karenina Principle
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• On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe
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• Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine
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• Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters
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• Why I like Clojure
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• The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
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• Ask HN: How Do You Read?
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