Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain
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WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world
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IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program
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Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet
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Unfork()
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Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
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The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
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Thank You, Guido
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Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says
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Twitter to ban political advertising
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
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Adopting Erlang
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Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
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The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (2012)
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Text Editing Hates You Too
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Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
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Goodbye, Flash
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How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game
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Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet
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Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behaviour on GitLab.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: pg_flame – flamegraph visualizations of PostgreSQL query plans
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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
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Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
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Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
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Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing
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Tether: The Story So Far
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AirPods Pro
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Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
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The “Talk”
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After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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One Page Dungeon Generator
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Tor Browser 9.0
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Ask HN: How do B2B startups sell to corporations?
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Exxon accurately predicted 2019's climate change and CO2 emission in 1982
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Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud
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PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]
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Before Deadly Crashes, Boeing Pushed for Law That Undercut Oversight
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The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5
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PHP-FPM remote code execution bug exploited in the wild
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Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 26, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
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Who Killed the Scrollbar?
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Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization
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Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
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Don Valentine has died
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Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
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Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman
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An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools
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Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels
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Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 25, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
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Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests
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Hacker‘s Manifesto (1986)
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MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work
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How SSH Port Became 22
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An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect
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Gmail marking email from me as spam
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قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
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Perfectly Cropped
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My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How to not rewrite it in Rust
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Comcast Is Lobbying Against DNS Encryption
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Stealing Ur Feelings
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Tesla Q3 Financial Results
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Stripe to move to South San Francisco
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Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?
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BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
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Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry
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Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?
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React Concurrent Mode
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third
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Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation
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Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy
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We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes
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We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
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Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
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IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy
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US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
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Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined
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The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
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Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
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Firefox is getting language translation
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Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf]
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Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
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Firefox 70
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Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
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Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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38 People are looking at this post right now
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The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
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Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM
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63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions
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Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
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Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say
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“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
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BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers
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NordVPN confirms it was hacked
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Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?
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Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0
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Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
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Lesser Known Coding Fonts
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Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)
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What should have been an IMG element became this
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Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA
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How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts
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Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company
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Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 19, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
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Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]
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New pathfinding algorithm
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Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?
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Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US
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Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
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All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic: researchers
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ML From Scratch, Part 1: Linear Regression
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An electric crate motor you can drop into your car
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir
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Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]
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Aquameta: Web development platform built in PostgreSQL
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New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics
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Zappos 2012 data breach settlement
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Bazel 1.0
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My Favourite Git Commit
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Four kinds of documentation
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Coffee Is Hard
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Earth and Sun
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Yahoo Groups to remove all content December 14
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After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty
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FPGA Design for Software Engineers
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Rejected from YC (Again)
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Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
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Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
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Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook
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Stupid Unix Tricks
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TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free
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BrachioGraph – a cheap, simple pen plotter
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector
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California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
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Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules
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Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
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Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event
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Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
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The benefits of a more asynchronous workplace
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Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links
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Soli
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Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS
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YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos
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What’s New in Python 3.8
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Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
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Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses
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I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
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Meetup.com alternatives
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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
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DuckDuckGo Search Improvements
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OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
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Costco gained a cult following by breaking every rule of retail
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Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
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Counterfeit books “shipped and sold by Amazon”?
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More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive
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My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
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Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
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“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
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Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster
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Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year
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Everything Is Getting Louder
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A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundred Published Studies
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Ask HN: What do you self-host?
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Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete=\"off\"
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How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs
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Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]
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Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks
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LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles
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Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, has died
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Uber Go Style Guide
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SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering
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I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s
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Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China
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Show HN: Bel
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Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier
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What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
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A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
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Bullshit.js
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What Happens to the Body on No Sleep
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Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the internet
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System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open-Source Firmware
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Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
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600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015)
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Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
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Why Enterprise Software Sucks
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Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey
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Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators
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Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2
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A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
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Pair Locking Your iPhone
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Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
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Some corals regrow after 'fatal' warming
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Apple Has Removed a Mapping App That Let Protesters in Hong Kong Track Police
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After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protesters
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The State of Machine Learning Frameworks
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Broken
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 09, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched
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U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
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Dark mode in a website with CSS
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Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm
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Personal information and ads on Twitter
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I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced
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Ken Thompson's Unix Password
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Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident
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Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
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Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 08, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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macOS Catalina
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Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible
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99% of the Git commands you'll need at work, demonstrated in a single script
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After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web
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'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology
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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
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Habits of Expert Software Designers
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N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier
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NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
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The China Cultural Clash
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 07, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption
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Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
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Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
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Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.
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My application ran away and called home from Redmond
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Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type, researchers say
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For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate
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Collapse OS
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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
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Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?
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Streamlit: Turn a Python script into an interactive data analysis tool
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Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access
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VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN
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CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
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Tools I Recommend for Building Geospatial Web Applications
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Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands
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Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language
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macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address
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Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 05, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer
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Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]
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A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM
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Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
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Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
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A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
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Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency
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Sqlite 3.30.0
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Galactic Algorithm
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An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 04, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Auto-Antonyms
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Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple
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EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use
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Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor
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Political Operatives Faked Millions of Comments Against Net Nuetrality
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Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source
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Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?
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Calibre 4.0
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Making My Own Glasses
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Pricing niche products
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 03, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
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Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019
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No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy
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Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
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Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
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Samsung ends mobile phone production in China
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Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
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Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel
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Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
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SQL queries don't start with SELECT
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 02, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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This To That
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Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS
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The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
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I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
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New In Postgres 12: Generated Columns
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Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project
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Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says
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How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution
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Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 01, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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20,000 Startup Ideas
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Hard comp-fi reading list
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HEAD – A guide to <head> elements
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Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him
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EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances
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My Time at Snap
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Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles
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Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Like Silicon Valley
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Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
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The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-09-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code
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Which companies are using Erlang, and why?
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Ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pollution into sea
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KDE is adopting GitLab
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Mesh Spreadsheet
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In Defense of Richard Stallman
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Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis
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Instagram Threatened Removal of Verified Status for Posting Snapchat Content
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WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO
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Tensorflow 2.0
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