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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Good writing is a business advantage
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• DigitalOcean VPC
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• IPFS 0.5
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• British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free
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• Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees
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• With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube
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• 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
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• Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
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• U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession
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• Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-28

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

• Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
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• How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
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• The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May
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• Let’s Invent B(+)-Trees
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• Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020
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• Tmux for Mere Mortals
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• Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address
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• Show HN: Editly – Declarative command-line video editing
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• The Anti-Amazon Alliance
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• “Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-27

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

• Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
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• A-Shell: Terminal for iOS
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• Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing
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• Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)
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• Lamest Edit Wars
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• textfiles.com
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• Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust
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• Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities
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• I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year
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• Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-26

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

• UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives
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• Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)
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• A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
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• Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember
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• Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
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• Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies
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• My NixOS Desktop Flow
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• Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)
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• Decrypt WhatsApp encrypted media files
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• Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-25

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

• Analyzing Analytics (Featuring: The FBI)
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• Long-lost U.S. military satellite found by amateur radio operator
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• Seinfeld Adventure
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• A Third Solution
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• Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
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• Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks
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• PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures
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• Time is the only real currency we have
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• A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`
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• In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-24

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

• Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies
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• How to make pizza like a Neapolitan master
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• Career advice for people with bad luck
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• Books I recommend to my software engineering students
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• PWA Store
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• Custom Game Engines: A Small Study
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• R 4.0
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• Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops
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• Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
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• Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-23

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

• Permanent.org – Nonprofit, secure cloud storage
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• List of oldest continuously inhabited cities
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• Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
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• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
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• Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021
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• YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
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• Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
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• If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
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• Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
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• When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-22

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

• Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
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• 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
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• Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
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• Patreon lays off 13% of workforce
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• Things I wished more developers knew about databases
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• Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
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• JPMorgan’s Small Business Loans Instead Went to Its Biggest Customers
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• Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees
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• Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
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• Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-21

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

• I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)
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• Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2
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• AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS
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• Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis
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• Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A
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• Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns
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• A possible new back end for Rust
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• Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers
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• Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
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• Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-20

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

• Psilocybin Produced in Yeast
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• A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs
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• Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?
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• Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination
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• Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
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• Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending
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• Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens
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• Shirt Without Stripes
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• In Pursuit of PPE
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• Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-19

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

• A Guide to Pricing Plans
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• Scuttlebot: Peer-to-peer database, identity provider, and messaging system
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• Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7
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• It’s Time to Build
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• When did I run that command? Update your Bash prompt with the command start time
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• Covid-19’s impact on Tor
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• Paul Graham’s thoughts, discoveries, and tricks on parenthood
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• Hands-on Scala Programming
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• OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover
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• Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-18

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

• Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds
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• NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch
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• Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day
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• Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)
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• Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM
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• X410 – X Server for Windows 10
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• Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls
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• U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests
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• I've been writing TILs for 5 years
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• TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-17

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

• Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health
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• Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free
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• Phoenix LiveDashboard
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• Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case
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• ICANN delays .org selloff after California’s attorney general intervenes
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• Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
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• Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
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• Learning to See in the Dark (2018)
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• Is BGP Safe Yet?
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• The Decline of Usability
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-16

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

• Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32
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• Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
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• Bouncing DVD Logo
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• Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization
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• Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020
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• GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
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• Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
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• For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression
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• Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
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• Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-15

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

• The Wolfram Physics Project
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• Airbreak.dev: Jailbreak your CPAP machine to turn them into ventilators
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• SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb
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• AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs
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• KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly language
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• Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
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• Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording
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• Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage
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• What Happened to Lee
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• New iPhone SE
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-14

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

• Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
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• As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting
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• Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times
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• Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming?
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• John Conway
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• The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper
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• Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
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• After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife
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• GitHub is now free for teams
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• Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-13

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

• Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
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• Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go
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• New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity
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• Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
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• Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
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• Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer
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• Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim
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• Your statement is correct but misses the point
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• Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate
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• Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-12

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

• Attack Matrix for Kubernetes
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• What's Next for Scala
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• Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
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• Moving Away from Gmail
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• John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]
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• Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update
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• Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
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• Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life
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• How to Speak (2018) [video]
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• Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-11

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

• Ask HN: How to properly manage a product roadmap?
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• Firefox 75.0
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• FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation
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• Senate Stock Watcher
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• COBOL programmers answer call
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• IBM will offer free COBOL training
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• After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
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• What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell
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• YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
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• John Conway has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-10

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

• Open-Source Virtual Background
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• Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists
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• Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera
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• First trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz
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• The software industry's greatest sin: hiring
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• A (possible) solution to Covid-19
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• Convert Markdown to a Mind Map
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• E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall
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• A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
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• Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-09

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

• The Power of Prolog
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• A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games
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• Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
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• Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom
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• I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust
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• Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
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• Why I’m Leaving Elm
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• Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100
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• Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China
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• Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-08

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

• This Video Has X Views
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• We abused Slack's TURN servers to gain access to internal services
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• Data Science: Reality Doesn't Meet Expectations
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• We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day
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• Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
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• An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
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• Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws
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• Jitsi Meet features update
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• New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
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• Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-07

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

• How SEO Ruined the Internet
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• Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
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• QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten
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• A new weapon in arbitration: sheer volume
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• Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
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• Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support
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• Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi
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• Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
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• A new form of brain stimulation relieved severe depression in a small study
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• Apple Faceshield
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-06

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

• All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong
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• Ask HN: What are you learning?
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• Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”
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• If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7, guess again
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• Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia
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• WhyTheName
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• Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers
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• IKEA Frekvens LED box hack
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• Coronavirus and Credibility
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• Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-05

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

• Ask HN: Best practices for ethical web scraping?
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• How Gov.uk Notify reliably sends text messages to users
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• Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax and other developers won’t
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• Yet another novel I will no longer write
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• New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system
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• Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report
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• We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir
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• A scheduling tool for bread baking
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• The Svelte Compiler Handbook
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• Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-04

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

• How We reduced our Google Maps API cost
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• Nim 1.2
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• OpenTTD 1.10
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• Secret iPad
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• Tell HN: Zoom runs application from Time Machine backup when uninstalled on Mac
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• How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
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• PostgreSQL's Imperfections
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• Show HN: 33 line React
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• Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
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• Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-03

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

• All Pluralsight videos are free for the month of April
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• ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' free to download
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• What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics
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• A crash course in compilers (2018)
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• Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests
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• Unauthorized access to cameras in Safari on macOS and iOS
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• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
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• Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
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• Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
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• Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-02

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

• How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection
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• How to SSH Properly
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• SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns
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• The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution
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• A Message to Our Users
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• Physics Travel Guide – Physics concepts explained in three levels of difficulty
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• Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners
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• How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
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• Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]
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• ‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-01

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

• Prisma 2.0 Beta: Type-safe Database Access
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• Trolls break into meetings on Zoom
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• Google emphasizes popularity over accuracy
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• Vim rendered on a cube for no reason
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• Planning and Managing Layoffs
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• State Machines in Rust
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• Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script
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• 1.1.1.1 for Families
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• OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-03-31

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

• Writing an OS in Rust: Async/Await
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• Please Fund More Science
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• Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing
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• How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’
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• Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking
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• Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
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• I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH
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• Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus
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• Apple acquires Dark Sky
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• FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]
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