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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-29

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

• Tensorflow 2.0 AMD Support
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• Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?
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• Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
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• Siberia: 18,000-year-old frozen 'dog' stumps scientists
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• Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
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• An Overview of Cryptography
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• Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
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• The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
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• The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
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• Open-Source Home Automation
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-28

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

• How to annotate everything
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• Thousand year-old windmills in Iran (2017)
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• Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis
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• Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service
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• RoughViz: JS library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn style charts in the browser
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• Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo
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• Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
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• The Great American Eye Exam Scam
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• Firefox Replay
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• Why I Voted to Sell .ORG
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-27

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

• Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool
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• Reverse Engineering for Beginners [pdf]
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• Fibery – yet another collaboration tool
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• It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
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• I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off
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• Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
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• Lessons learned building an ML trading system
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• Off-Grid Cyberdeck: Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit
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• Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia
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• Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-26

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

• Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)
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• Novelty and Heresy
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• The California DMV Is Selling Drivers’ Personal Information
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• RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
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• The Real Class War
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• Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest
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• Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
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• Machine Learning on Encrypted Data Without Decrypting It
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• Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access
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• Eternal Terminal
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-25

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

• Recreation.gov
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• ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .org heist
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• I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
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• AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review
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• Interactive Linear Algebra
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• Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice
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• Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed
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• The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
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• Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true
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• Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-24

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

• The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (2012)
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• Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
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• An 84-year-old Japanese app developer
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• Show HN: Hacker News Title Edit Tracker
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• Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
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• Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished
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• The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)
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• Today’s Top Tech Skills
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• Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results
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• Beating C with one line of Brainfuck
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-23

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

• How does a video codec work?
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• Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming
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• The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated
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• Microsoft REST API Guidelines
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• Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance
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• Tesla PowerWall 2 Hack
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• Save .org
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• PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns
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• The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
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• AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-22

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

• Google to restrict political adverts worldwide
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• Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut
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• An update on YC China
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• Google Kills Cloud Print
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• Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file
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• Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car
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• Tesla Cybertruck
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• Google Quietly Kills Cloud Print
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• Personal and social information of 1B people discovered in data leak
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• Sacha Baron Cohen: Facebook would have let Hitler buy ads for 'final solution'
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-21

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

• The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components
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• Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG
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• Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)
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• Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
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• Developer Roadmaps
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• Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet
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• Microsoft's “Love” of Linux
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• 1000fps image projection on deforming non-rigid surface
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• When will Google shut down Stadia?
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• Half-Life: Alyx
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-20

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

• Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
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• \"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it\"
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• How to run your own mail server (2017)
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• My years working on black programs
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• Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
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• Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
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• uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
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• Apple has locked me out of my developer account
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• China
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• Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-19

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

• Office noise bothers some people more than others
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• How Containers Work: Overlayfs
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• Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
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• MacBook Pro 16\" 2019 Teardown
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• Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
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• Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam
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• Some users say they're getting rid of Fitbit because they don't trust Google
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• We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
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• Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday
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• How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-18

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

• Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Drift, Zendesk, FreshChat
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• A foundation course in reading German
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• Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time
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• Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing predators
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• Tunnel Boring Machines (2018)
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• Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life
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• Intel's CIP wants to collect the “categories of websites you visit”
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• FedEx challenges New York Times to public debate
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• The cognitive costs of air pollution
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• Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-17

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

• The Mind of a Mathematician
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• CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (2017)
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• Infectious Executable Stacks
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• Internet in Iran gradually shuttting down due to protests
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• Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
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• Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web
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• Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us
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• The Power of Shower Thoughts
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• Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices
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• The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-16

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

• The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
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• How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results
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• The Value in Go’s Simplicity
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• To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done
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• Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals
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• Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal: US Supreme Court
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• Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
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• I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe
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• Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight
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• Microsoft Advertisement Inc.
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-15

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

• If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011)
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• Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10k jobs per second (2013)
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• Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes
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• PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
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• Eigenvectors from eigenvalues
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• Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images
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• Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)
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• Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'
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• Sourcehut's Year in Alpha
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• Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-14

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

• Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
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• GitHub for Mobile
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• GitHub Archive Program
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• Sir Rod Stewart reveals his epic model railway city
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• Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues
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• John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
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• Moto Razr 2019: A foldable smartphone with no display crease
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• In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A
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• AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review
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• Build Your Own React
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-13

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

• How VCs Make Money
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• The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable future for WebAssembly
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• How to sleep at night having a cloud service: common architecture do's
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• Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
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• Privacy: Is That iPhone?
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• Announcing .NET Jupyter Notebooks
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• More Intel speculative execution vulnerabilities
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• 16-inch MacBook Pro
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• Brave launches 1.0
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• AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-12

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

• When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques
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• My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition
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• Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the water [video]
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• Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well
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• Copyright Troll May Have Set an Expensive Precedent for Copyright Trolls
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• PeerTube v2
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• Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
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• Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?
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• The Google Squeeze
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• Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-11

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

• Chicago book returns surge 240% after city eliminates fines
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• California’s Criminal Cops
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• Ableton Connection Kit (2016)
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• Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary
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• Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings
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• Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban
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• Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'
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• Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
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• How Not to Die (2007)
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• Google's ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-10

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

• Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes
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• Let's Create a Simple Load Balancer with Go
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• Time Series Prediction – A short introduction for pragmatists
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• German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nuclear, last half as long
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• Fast Markov chains in ~20 lines of sh, grep, cut and Awk
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• Why the Boeing 737 will never take the place of the 757
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• Andrej Karpathy talks about how Tesla's NNs are structured and trained [video]
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• Audio Processing for Dummies
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• We are making Sandboxie a free tool, with plans to transition it to open source
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• Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-09

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

• Go Turns 10
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• Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint
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• Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms
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• We do not use foreign keys (2016)
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• Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too
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• Curl to shell isn't so bad
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• I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)
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• It’s Not Enough to Be Right – You Also Have to Be Kind
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• My name causes an issue with any booking
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• The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-08

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

• Designing the Facebook Company Brand
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• A woman with a rare genetic mutation that has protected her from dementia
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• RISC-V OS Using Rust: Memory Management Unit
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• Being a good guy boss left me £1.2m in debt
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• Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
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• Parse, Don’t Validate
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• Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis
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• NASA Flew Gas Detectors Above California, Found ‘Super Emitters’
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• System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server
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• Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-07

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

• In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
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• Better World Books and the Internet Archive Unite to Preserve Millions of Books
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• What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?
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• Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia
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• Comparing Parallel Rust and C++
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• Bypassing GitHub's OAuth Flow with a Head Request
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• I was an astrologer
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• Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails published online
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• Async-await on stable Rust
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• How to Find Consulting Clients
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-06

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

• Magnet doubles hydrogen yield from water splitting
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• Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming
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• The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP
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• When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)
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• TypeScript 3.7
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• Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
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• Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy
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• Congolese doctor discovered Ebola, but didn't get credit until now
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• Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk
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• Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-05

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

• The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
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• The manager’s schedule is holding remote work back
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• Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained about FP
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• U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year
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• I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock
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• We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
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• Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound
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• Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake
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• Stripe CLI
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• Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-04

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

• Alcohol breath tests are often unreliable
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• Audio Fingerprinting using the AudioContext API
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• Stop using low DNS TTLs
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• Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store
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• Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia
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• Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
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• Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm
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• Pure CSS – Lace
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• I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
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• Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-03

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

• Shared Cache Is Going Away
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• SSH Handshake Explained
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• NeverSSL
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• Build Your Own X
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• AMD is having its day
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• Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware
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• 'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded
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• Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
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• Microsoft Japan’s 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity
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• PostgREST
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-02

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

• The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds
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• Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust
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• Show HN: Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
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• Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard
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• Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5M students in the US
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• Chrome 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium
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• Opinion: Standard Time all year round is the healthy choice
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• Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
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• They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-01

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

• Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
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• The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing
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• Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins
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• Htop Explained
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• The Fantasy of Opting Out
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• Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
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• Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
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• Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
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• U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly
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• Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-10-31

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

• Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat
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• Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die
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• Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study
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• I Miss the Old Internet
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• Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets for Vertical Landings Like SpaceX
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• Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban
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• I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
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• Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
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• Restic – Backups Done Right
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• NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
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