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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966
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• Room 641A
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• Simplifier
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• Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
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• US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis
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• Godot Editor running in a web browser
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• Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
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• SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
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• Zero-day in Sign in with Apple
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• Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-29

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

• Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion
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• Tools for Better Thinking
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• Idea Generation
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• I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
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• GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
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• Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
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• CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
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• Introduction to Apache Airflow
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• How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?
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• The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-28

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

• Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation
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• Guerrilla Public Service Redux (2017)
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• Rediscovering the Small Web
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• Htmx – high power tools for HTML
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• The Day AppGet Died
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• The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions
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• The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)
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• AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor
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• Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page
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• Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-27

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

• Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so
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• How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive
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• I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next
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• Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative
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• Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
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• After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media
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• Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
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• Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
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• YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments
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• Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-26

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

• I bought netflix.soy
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• The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains
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• Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?
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• I've collected over 600 pitch decks
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• Why is AI so useless for business?
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• AWS services explained in one line each
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• I won’t buy ebooks anymore
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• Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
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• Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
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• Speed.cloudflare.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-25

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

• How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users
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• The Big List of Naughty Strings
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• Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs
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• GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code
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• A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”
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• Software will eat software in a remote-first world
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• Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text
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• Two capacitor paradox
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• Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
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• I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-24

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

• Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables
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• First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store
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• SQLite 3.32
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• Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
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• Show HN: A dependently-typed programming language with static memory management
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• Push-Button Installer of macOS Guests in VirtualBox for Windows, Linux, macOS
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• Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems
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• Product Marketing for Engineers
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• Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
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• Habits of High-Functioning Teams
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-23

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

• Gitlab phished its own work-from-home staff, and 1 in 5 fell for it
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• Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health
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• Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
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• I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
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• FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a warrant, rules judge
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• Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
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• Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
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• Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint
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• Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims
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• Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-22

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

• Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets
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• Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
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• YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy
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• Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income
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• TI removes access to assembly programs on the TI-83 Premium CE
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• Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
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• The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
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• Siri, What Time Is It in London?
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• Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
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• MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-21

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

• The death of corporate research labs
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• Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
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• Surviving Depression
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• Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work
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• Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images
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• What Is Nix?
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• Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory
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• X
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• An introduction to RabbitMQ
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• Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-20

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

• The Miracle Sudoku [video]
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• Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app
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• Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
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• Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
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• Introducing Facebook Shops
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• Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
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• DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
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• Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
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• Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS
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• EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-19

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

• The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days
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• Termux and Android 10
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• WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web
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• I trick my well-developed procrastination skills
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• Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
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• Woman who designed Florida's Covid-19 dashboard removed from her position
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• New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
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• A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
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• Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data
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• Notion for everyone
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-18

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

• Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
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• Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd edition
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• Don't set the language of your website based on user location
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• Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
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• Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
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• New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML
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• Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms
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• Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
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• Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
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• John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-17

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

• Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs
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• What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka
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• Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency
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• No One Goes There Anymore
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• It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
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• Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission
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• Whale fall
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• Common mistakes using Kubernetes
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• It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
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• US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-16

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

• So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering
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• Our Chrome Extension Is Safe
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• Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments
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• Google Erases Thousands of Links, Tricked by Phony Complaints
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• Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
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• Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions
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• uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview
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• Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
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• Game Programming Patterns (2014)
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• If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-15

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

• Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem
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• TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
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• TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Semiconductor Fab in U.S.
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• Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
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• The unattributable “db8151dd” data breach
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• Show HN: A tool to scrape senators' stock transactions for your own analysis
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• Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
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• US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home
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• A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub
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• Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-14

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

• OTP 23
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• Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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• Deno 1.0
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• Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data
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• 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
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• Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
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• Patriot Act ammendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails
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• Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU
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• Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently
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• Do not Draw a Penis
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-13

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

• Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
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• React Native for Windows and Mac
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• Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think
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• Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp
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• Linux containers in a few lines of code
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• Show HN: SHA-256 Animation
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• Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
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• A first look at Unreal Engine 5
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• Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
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• Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-12

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

• Scraping Recipe Websites
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• New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificity and 100% sensitivity
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• Webrecorder: Make an interactive copy of any web page that you browse
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• Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order
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• Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth
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• A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
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• Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
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• Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
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• Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow
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• Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-11

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

• Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps in C
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• My blog is now generated by Google Docs
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• MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life
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• Pi-hole 5.0
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• Second-Guessing the Modern Web
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• Make LLVM Fast Again
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• Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io
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• Encouraging a culture of written communication
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• We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology
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• Bitcoin Halving Just Occured
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-10

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

• The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter
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• Little Richard has died
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• First, it was Craigslist, next it's Zapier
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• Iridescent Tempered Chocolate
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• Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper
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• Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
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• AWS services to avoid
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• Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
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• Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?
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• Tell HN: Call Mom
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-09

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

• 4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020
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• OpenCV in the browser using WebAssembly and web workers
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• Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over safety
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• U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients
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• Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding
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• Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
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• Fast or Slow
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• Write Libraries, Not Frameworks
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• Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models
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• Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-08

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

• Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life
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• Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake
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• The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret
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• Making Emacs Popular Again
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• Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
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• Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal
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• We Chat, They Watch
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• The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)
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• Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
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• Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-07

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

• Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
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• Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition [pdf]
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• Florian Schneider has died
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• Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
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• GitHub Codescanning
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• Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
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• GeckoView for Android
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• Zoom Acquires Keybase
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• Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
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• Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-06

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

• Firefox 76
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• Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)
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• Humans Not Invited
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• Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere
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• Take care editing bash scripts (2019)
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• Inkscape 1.0
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• No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
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• Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
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• GitHub Codespaces
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• Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-05

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

• Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
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• FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of net neutrality commenters
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• SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019
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• Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
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• I gave away my books and sales increased
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• Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)
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• Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
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• A look at modern PHP
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• How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
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• Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-04

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

• Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS
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• A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship
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• Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds
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• Bye, Amazon
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• Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes
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• Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe
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• New 13-inch MacBook Pro
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• Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
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• Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs
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• Show HN: Caddy 2
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-03

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

• My First Year as a Freelance AI Engineer
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• Pricing Your Product
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• The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014)
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• Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise
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• So I reverse engineered two dating apps
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• What would you do if you lost your Google account?
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• Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
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• Making Rust as Fast as Go
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• Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot
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• Re: Integrating \"safe\" languages into OpenBSD?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-02

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

• Complexity Has to Live Somewhere
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• The weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping
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• Virtual tour of the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses VI
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• Show HN: Ameelio.org – Free Prison Communication Platform
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• Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
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• Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days
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• How to sell a B2B product
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• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
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• I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves
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• Medium-hard SQL interview questions
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-01

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

• Enigma: Erlang VM Implementation in Rust
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• Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education
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• Jukebox
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• Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
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• Xiaomi Recording ‘Private’ Web and Phone Use
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• I’ve Consed Every Pair
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• ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
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• Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
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• Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-04-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories
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• Lithuanian capital to be turned into vast open-air cafe
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• WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
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• Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19
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• SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
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• Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life
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• Rules of thumb for a 1x developer
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• Redis 6.0 GA
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• Rust/WinRT Public Preview
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• Over 275 days since Equifax’s data breach settlement and no one has been paid
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