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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly
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• Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL
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• Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App
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• Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications
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• AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs
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• The boss who put everyone on 70K
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• Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits
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• Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects
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• I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
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• Freeman Dyson Has Died
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market
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• YC’s new guide to raising a Series A
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• Cursed Adapters
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• The Simpsons in CSS
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• Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
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• Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close
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• Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths
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• Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers
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• CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, California hospital says
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• Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• MSPaint in JavaScript
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• Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position
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• Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
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• Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech
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• Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove
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• Assange Hearing Day 2
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• Tailwind UI
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• NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls
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• DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot
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• Hard Startups
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020
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• T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
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• We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%
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• Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password
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• Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
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• To get good, go after the metagame
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• Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference
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• Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi
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• An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)
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• Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
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• Haven: turn old Android phones into security cameras
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• Routed Gothic Font
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• Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner
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• EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
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• “We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”
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• Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101
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• Donald Knuth was framed
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• Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records
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• Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
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• Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”
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• M3DB, a distributed timeseries database
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• Monobloc chair
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• Learn TLA+ (2018)
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• My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech
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• Should you self-host Google Fonts?
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• Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
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• The Zen of Go
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• Guide to running Elasticsearch in production
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Guide to Equity Compensation
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• Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra
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• Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
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• The Bash Hackers Wiki
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• Maryam Mirzakhani
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• Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe
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• QEMU for iOS
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• Twitter is suspending pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
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• Learn Rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019)
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• Does memory leak? (1995)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation
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• A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
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• Suspicious Discontinuities
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• Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian
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• Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice
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• How to Write Usefully
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• Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
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• Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects
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• More bosses give four-day workweek a try
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• Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lambda School’s Misleading Promises
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• Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements
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• Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
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• Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)
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• Explorabl.es
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• Stop Using Encrypted Email
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• Bert Sutherland Has Died
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• Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned
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• Poolside.fm
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• DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971)
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• New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
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• Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas
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• Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
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• ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data
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• Larry Tesler Has Died
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• Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council
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• How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet
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• Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
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• IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
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• Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing
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• Don't touch my clipboard
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• The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software
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• Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
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• C4: C in Four Functions (2014)
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• Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video
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• Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
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• Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running
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• Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• An app can be a home-cooked meal
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• Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8
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• South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux
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• Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015)
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• What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019)
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• Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
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• Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning
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• How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)
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• Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax
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• Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
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• ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go
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• Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)
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• How to take smart notes with Org mode
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• FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI
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• \"This community is available in the app\"
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• Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (2016)
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• 1-on-1 meeting questions
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• How to Take Smart Notes
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• I Learned French in 12 Months
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• To become a good C programmer (2011)
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• Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
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• A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit
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• A Map of Mathematics
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• California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build
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• Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
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• The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
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• ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse
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• Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets
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• Signs you’re working in a feature factory
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.
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• The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering
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• Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
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• Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
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• Brown: color is weird [video]
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• Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs?
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• Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?
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• 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
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• Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
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• Apple Edge Cache
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React
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• SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM
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• Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt
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• Old book illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries: an online database
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• Ultimate Electronics
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• Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings
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• Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
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• I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
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• Burnoutindex.org
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• Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Where are all the animated SVGs?
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• A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
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• Swift Playgrounds for macOS
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• Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell
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• Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot
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• Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
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• Rotary Cellphone
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• No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
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• GitHub CLI is now in beta
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• Gears
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
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• Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece
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• SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
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• I've screwed up plenty of things too
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• “We already store data. In a database. It works well”
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• Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy
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• How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
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• Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
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• Firefox 73
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• N26 will be leaving the UK
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
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• Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years
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• Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend
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• I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca
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• Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
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• Why Google Did Android
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• Mondragon Corporation
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• Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
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• JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language
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• Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Colab Pro
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• The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church
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• Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)
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• Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale
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• A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command
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• Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?
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• Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck
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• Reasons not to become famous
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• Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
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• Living without a SIM card
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers
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• Our first patent troll
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• Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU
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• 95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
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• Simple, solar-powered water desalination
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• ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD
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• Time.gov was upgraded today
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• Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
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• Debt Is coming to the tech industry
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• My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
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• Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol
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• TV Backlight Compensation
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• FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
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• 1k True Fans? Try 100
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• Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice
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• Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
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• MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)
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• Python dicts are now ordered
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• Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
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• Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death
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• 0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras
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• Free OpenStreetMap tile library: watercolor, black and white, terrain
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• Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
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• Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk
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• Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care
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• SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic
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• Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
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• Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin
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• I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system
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• Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam
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• Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
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• What's SAP?
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• Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
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• Wacom tablets track every app you open
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• Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded
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• Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf]
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• Scaling to 100k Users
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The missing semester of CS education
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• Reviving Sandstorm
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• Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries
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• U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada
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• A new hash algorithm for Git
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• Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
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• Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
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• Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
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• Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina
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• Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OK Doomer
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• Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergencies
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• New in PHP 8
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• Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment
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• Things I Believe About Software Engineering
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)
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• Captcha.nsa.gov
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• TeamViewer stores user passwords in registry, encrypted with hard-coded key
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• Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate
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• Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Educated Fools
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• Deanonymizing Tor Circuits
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• Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)
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• Rust Moving Towards an IDE-Friendly Compiler with Rust Analyzer
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• Palindrome Day 20200202
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• Old CSS, New CSS
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• Game AI Pro
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• Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017)
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• Google Maps Hacks
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• China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains
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• EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
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• California Attorney General delays .org sale
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• TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex
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• Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally
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• Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment
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• OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
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• Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders
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• Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA
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• I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
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• Health-records software pushed opioids to doctors in secret deal with drugmaker
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• Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month
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• WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
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• Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse
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• Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (2018)
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• “Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“
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• Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet
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• My Second Year as a Solo Developer
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• The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it
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