Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
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AWS Ground Station
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Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place
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WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6
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Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
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French companies benefiting from state aid can't buy back shares
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Linux 5.6
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WireGuard 1.0
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Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers
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WeWork sells Meetup
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Boids
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From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages
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Ask HN: Books giving practical advice on starting a solo SaaS business?
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Japan set to ban entry from the U.S. as early as next week
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Log-log plot of new vs. total Covid-19 cases by country
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Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
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Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system
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How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure
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Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
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Show HN: From Markdown to Video
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?
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Show HN: Introvert – Generative artwork to keep you off your phone
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How are Unix pipes implemented?
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Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
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The Hardest Program I've Ever Written – How a code formatter works (2015)
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New Grad vs. Senior Dev
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Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client
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The northern-hemisphere winter of 2019-20 was the warmest ever on land
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Static Analysis in GCC 10
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The internet should be a public utility
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: A “living” Linux process with no memory
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Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler
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Dwarf Fortress: An actual look at graphical improvements
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It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to
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Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos
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Our list of free software for remote work
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God be with you till we meet again (1918)
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Mycroft – An open-source voice assistant
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Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing
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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: How to self-study physics?
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A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP
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Getting started with bare-metal assembly
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MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust
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Unity Learn platform free for three months
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Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
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Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too
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3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits
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Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
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Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Learn D3
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Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero
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How I became a better programmer (2017)
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I got my file from Clearview AI
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Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
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WebKit will delete all local storage after 7 days
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Speeding up Linux disk encryption
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Show HN: Skynet Simulator
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Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent
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Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?
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Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns
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Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
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Concurrent Programming, with Examples
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Don’t bail out the cruise industry
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Setting up Git identities
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A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax
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India announces nationwide lockdown to stop spread of coronavirus
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Albert Uderzo has died
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Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (2019)
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Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your Diaphragm (2018)
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A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites
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Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races
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Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month
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WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments
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Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business
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Using Zoom? Here are the privacy issues you need to be aware of
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?
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Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Apple CarPlay, Android Auto distract drivers more than pot, alcohol, says study
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Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers
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Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data
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Show HN: A Covid-19 testing location site that a group of us are building
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LibraryThing Is Now Free to All
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Technical Writing Courses
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Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
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Researchers say MS Edge's telemetry has worst privacy of any major browser
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Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coronavirus
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Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test
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Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust
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Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]
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If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?
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Kateryna Yushchenko
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Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips
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Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
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Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls
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Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
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Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model
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NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs
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The End of Starsky Robotics
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Things you can do with a browser in 2020
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Body Camera Once Again Catches an NYPD Officer Planting Drugs in Someone's Car
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Grief in Ethiopia as trailblazing Australian doctor dies
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California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order
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Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab
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Build stuff
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MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Free virtual tours of 2,500 museums around the world
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The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
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1% rule
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GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
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MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons
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Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment from Hospital with 0% fatality [pdf]
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CSS Zen Garden
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Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?
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GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
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Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor
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Cambridge University Press make their books free until May
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We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
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Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)
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Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award
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Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
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New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
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New MacBook Air
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Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
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Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Shelter in place for Bay Area counties
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Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers
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Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19
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50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic
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Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents
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ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
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4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery
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The state of the restaurant industry
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GitHub for mobile is now available
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Senate Pushing a Dangerous Surveillance Bill as Americans Focused on COVID-19
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack
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DefaultApp
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U.S. Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday
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Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing valves
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Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars
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Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all
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NPM Is Joining GitHub
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Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff
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Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1 Could Be Game Changer
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Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The most surprising Unix programs
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Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online
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Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?
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Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
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Lesspass – open-source stateless password manager
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Activists create a 12.5M block library in Minecraft to bypass censorship
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Employee Scheduling
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Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine
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Funding for Covid-19 Projects
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Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
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The Polygons of Another World: Atari Jaguar
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Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic
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Pandemic Ventilator Project
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Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
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Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to work fighting Covid-19
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FDA grants Roche coronavirus test emergency green light within 24 hours
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Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horsepower
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Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?
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Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70M years ago
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Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?
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Signs you're following a fake Twitter account
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Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (2011)
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Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in deaths and tactics
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Linux Kernel Teaching
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Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets
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Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web
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Slack account takeovers using HTTP Request Smuggling
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Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in
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Show HN: Visual SQL
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Don't Touch Ya Face
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Google Open Source Code Search
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U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
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Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote
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S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week
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Rust 1.42
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ACLU sues Homeland Security over airport face recognition program secrecy
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Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack
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Google recommends all North America employees work from home
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We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would like advice
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Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard
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AvastSvc.exe contains a full, unsandboxed JavaScript/DOM implementation
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How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
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Show HN: Fraidycat
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E3 2020 Cancelled
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Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
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San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software
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Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect user data
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Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country
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The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy
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COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
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Firefox 74
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Tips for the depressed
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New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave
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Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread
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MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 09, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Stages of denial in encountering K
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Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
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Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?
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Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs
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Gates Foundation program will issue home testing kits for Covid 19 in Seattle
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How I made a 3D game in 2 KB of JavaScript
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Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet
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“Just walk out” technology by Amazon
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S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt
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The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 08, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys
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Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak
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The human genome is full of viruses
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We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing
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On the shoulders of the giants
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Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous PDFs, documents, or images to safe PDF
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Do whatever you can't stop thinking about
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Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions?
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The Octo-Bouncer
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I Survived Being A $220k/year Intern
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 07, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far
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Not being an asshole will make you more money
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The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption
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YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day
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Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
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A googol-to-one gear ratio [video]
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The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
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I have seen things
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Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect
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Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 06, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Man built a bunker under Hampstead Heath and lived in it for two years
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Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust
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Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)
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Facebook sues Namecheap
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CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line
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Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
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Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?
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Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain
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Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates
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DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 05, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Please stop recommending Gitflow
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Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system
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Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
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Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
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“Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems
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Radiooooo – The Music Time Machine
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Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace
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Using Anki to remember what you read
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People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report
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Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 04, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago
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Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat
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What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
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Reddit has become a guide to personal finance
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SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
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Post YC Depression
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Spot the Drowning Child (2015)
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The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2
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Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
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Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 03, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
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LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
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Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence
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Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
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Postgres Explain Visualizer
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Revoking certain certificates on March 4
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What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
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Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration
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Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus
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Introduction to D3
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 02, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay
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Travelling with 24” Monitors
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Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering
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Clojure: A Lisp that wants to spread
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A journey to searching Have I Been Pwned database in 49μs
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Rust Ownership Rules
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Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default
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Windows93
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Payment Request API
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WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 01, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature
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2020 Leap Day Bugs
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64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks
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Flutter and Dart, or how to quickly build a mobile app without losing your hair
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Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?
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How many users block Google analytics? (2017)
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Learn Awk by Example (2019)
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Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers
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Better Business Bureau rejects Molekule’s air purifier claims
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NymphCast: Casual attempt at open alternative to Chromecast
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-02-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
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A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it
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COVID-19 Supply Chain Update
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How to brainstorm great business ideas
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FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data
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GDC 2020 has been postponed
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A half-hour to learn Rust
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A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
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Draft of the Fast.ai Book
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My Covid-19 Story in Brooklyn
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