Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?
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A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server
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French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold
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Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?
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The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)
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The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago
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The beta amyloid hypothesis has thwarted progress toward an Alzheimer’s cure
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What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
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Switching from Chrome to Firefox
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Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Betrusted: A Security Enclave for Humans
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Build an 8-bit computer from scratch
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Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)
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SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (2011)
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Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?
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Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
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Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?
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IncludeOS: a minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services
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Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018)
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Why are my Go executable files so large?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What happens when your career becomes your whole identity
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Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $3.7B bet on electric
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Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
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Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
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Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”
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Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client Written in Rust
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Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison
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Slack have blocked using the website on mobile
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Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
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Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Windows 95 UI Design
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Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 to 4 learn logic
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Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper
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88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV
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Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper
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Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease [pdf]
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C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
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WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security
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Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success
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Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 26, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Learning hardware programming as a software engineer
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines
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Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M
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Julian Assange contributed to PostgreSQL
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Tell HN: I used to be homeless and want to work as a software developer
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Go through your family's phone settings and turn on all the privacy features
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Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs
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Dropbox Transfer
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I love coding in C
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OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 25, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?
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Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
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A Twitter app bug was used to match 17M phone numbers to user accounts
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French cities trying to ban public adverts
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Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]
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Darktable 3.0
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Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console
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Merry Christmas HN
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Grumpy Website – a blog about everything wrong with modern web & tech
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T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Radeon Open Compute 3.0
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Things everyone in ML should know about belief formation in humans [video]
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Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health
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How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL
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How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)
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Open-Source Spotify App
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Working for a startup makes less sense
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An IT migration corrupted 1.3B customer records
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My Business Card Runs Linux
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Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
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UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create
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Fashionable Problems
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People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study
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Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
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Ram Dass has died
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WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets
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Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)
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Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
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Downsides to working at a tech giant
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Scaling Etsy
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Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (1998)
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Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared
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Go + Services = One Goliath Project
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Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
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Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline
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Paid Cerberus 'lifetime' licenses are expiring
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Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game
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Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?
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NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The sad state of personal data and infrastructure
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Guide to Software Defined Radio
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New boson appears in nuclear decay, breaks standard model?
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Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
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The modern web is becoming unusable
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Fast
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Monica: Open-source personal CRM
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The Deep Sea
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Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks
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U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained
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How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes
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The Amazon Premium
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Rust 1.40
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GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool [video]
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Severed fibre cables disrupted internet access in eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey
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Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner
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This Page is Designed to Last
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Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
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Tesseract.js: Pure JavaScript OCR for 100 Languages
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 19, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?
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PinePhone Review
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Undocumented Catalina file access change
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Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case
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State of JavaScript 2019
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Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
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Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
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How tracking pixels work
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Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
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Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity
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23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M
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Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
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The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]
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Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV
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Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
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The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity
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Google claims copyright on employee side projects
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Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace
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Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work
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Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation
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Hacking GitHub's Auth with Unicode's Turkish Dotless 'I'
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#include </etc/shadow>
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France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax
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An opinionated approach to GNU Make
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Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
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You might literally be buying trash on Amazon
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Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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BMW shares AI tools used in production
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Introduction to Stochastic Processes [pdf]
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The Higher States of Bromine
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Calm Technology
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SQL Murder Mystery
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ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval
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Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua
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Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
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WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
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Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
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If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead
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New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality
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Database Internals
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A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
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Stanford CS 144: Introduction to Computer Networking
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Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft
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Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
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JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
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Unbearable news
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug
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Cyc
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Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS
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Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
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49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
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Reputation management firms bury Google results by placing flattering content
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Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died
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Win32 on macOS
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Having Kids
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Challenging projects every programmer should try
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Thinking in React Hooks
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Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
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A podcast that hacks Ring camera owners live
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Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C
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Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture
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An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
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Happy Hues – Curated colors in context
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Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes
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If this project is dead, just tell us
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Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Things end users care about but programmers don't
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Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust
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API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
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I stood up to my boss, then he got promoted
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Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
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Switch to OpenStreetMap
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Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim
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We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)
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Music for Programming (2011)
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Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Things that are illegal to build in most American cities now
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Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without changing anything
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Speeding Up the Rust Compiler
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FUSE for macOS is no longer open source
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Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
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Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
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S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US
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Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
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A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”
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ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
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Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
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Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System
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The Nintendo Switch Switch
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Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market
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New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
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Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions
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White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit
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Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages
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ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 09, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last
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If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
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The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls
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Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
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Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups
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AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
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WireGuard is in net-next
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The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
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Operations for Effective CEOs
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O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 08, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas
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Indexing Billions of Text Vectors
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The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers
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The Product-Minded Software Engineer
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Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper
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GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC
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Far Cry
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Cairo Desktop Environment
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Learning to code vs. learning to automate
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Verizon/Yahoo Blocking All Attempts to Archive.org Groups. Deletion: Dec.14
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 07, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup
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Building a Search Engine from Scratch
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Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study
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Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website
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Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses
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Low-Cost VPS Testing
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Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch
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France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights
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Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
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The Lesson to Unlearn
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Amazon Builders' Library
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Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
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Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2
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Hexing the technical interview (2017)
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Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
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Show HN: Space Invaders in C
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No to Chrome
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NanoNeuron – simple JavaScript functions that explain how machines learn
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The Great Cannon has been deployed again
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W3C recommends WebAssembly
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 05, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later
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How I Switched to Plan 9
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How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?
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Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
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Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package
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I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit. AMA
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Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
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Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
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How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
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Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 04, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
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Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
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Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source
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Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)
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Sinkholed
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Google has handed information related to my account to the DoJ
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Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys
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United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
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Generating a Java program with 90% less code
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Fight back against Google AMP (2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 03, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Help me ask why you didn't just
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Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
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The Plain Text Project
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How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
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The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation
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A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)
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BPF: A New Type of Software
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My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
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Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down
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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 02, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Medieval Price List
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Advent of Code 2019
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Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology
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AMD’s Entire Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan
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PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
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Django 3
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Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance
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Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
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Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust
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0.30000000000000004
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-12-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 01, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Adventures in Netflix
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Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
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Garbage Collection (2017)
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Urbit
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Gnu: Net
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Small Projects, Big Companies
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Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage
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HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client
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Unbundling AWS
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The world needs more search engines
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-11-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion
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What is energy, actually? (2011)
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How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?
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Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018)
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Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions
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ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
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Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
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Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work
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Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014)
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My .in domain has been transferred to another registrant without notification
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