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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-29

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

• Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
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• Make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions
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• Finishing a side project
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• Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns
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• The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China and other countries
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• Windows98 Running in the Browser
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• Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns
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• India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
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• Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
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• Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-28

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

• Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown
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• Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea
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• How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
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• Xi-Editor Retrospective
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• Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave
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• Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub
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• How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
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• Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination
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• Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
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• Why Does DARPA Work?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-27

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

• Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest
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• The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers
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• Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
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• Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
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• Dynamic linking
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• Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
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• Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper
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• Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids
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• Show HN: Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor
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• Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-26

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

• Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin
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• When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
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• Quora goes permanently remote-first
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• Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott
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• Curl Wttr.in
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• Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
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• There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff
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• Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
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• Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores
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• Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-25

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

• Eastern European Movies
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• Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking
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• Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (2011)
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• Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
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• I deleted my Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts, and felt great since
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• An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
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• Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
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• Symbian Won
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• Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says
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• Olympus quits camera business after 84 years
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-24

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

• You can't tell people anything (2004)
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• Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website
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• What I learned from looking at every AI/ML tool I could find
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• Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
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• Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' personal Whois info
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• Facial Recognition Leads To False Arrest Of Black Man In Detroit
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• Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
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• Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly
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• Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
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• iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-23

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

• Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick
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• Reflections on Being a Female Founder
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• A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic
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• What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines
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• I Am Deleting the Blog
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• Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
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• I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
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• My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
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• Is WebP really better than JPEG?
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• The End of OS X
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-22

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

• Video Games Are the Future of Education
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• WireGuard Merged into OpenBSD
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• ARM Mac Impact on Intel
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• ‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments
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• The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age
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• Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads
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• Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021
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• Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
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• Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
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• Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-21

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

• A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot
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• How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
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• Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use
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• NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance tech
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• FlexBuffers
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• Teach Yourself Computer Science
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• Wireless Is a Trap
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• Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Big Tech frame the debate
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• “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)
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• Bye
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-20

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

• Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’
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• Hypothes.is: An Open Annotations Platform
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• Researchers and Founders
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• Ghoti
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• Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
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• Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random business using it on Maps
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• RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS
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• A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi
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• Why Figma Wins
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• Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-19

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

• Practical Python Programming
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• We need to do the math, even on “small” projects
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• 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)
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• The Return of the 90s Web
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• Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014
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• Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia
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• Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores
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• BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory
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• Written communication is remote work super power
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• You download the app and it doesn’t work
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-18

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

• Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques
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• Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness
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• Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics
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• Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
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• Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?
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• Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to stop pretending we do
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• The Coming Chip Wars
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• GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
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• Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut
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• Mozilla VPN
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-17

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

• A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess
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• For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
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• Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations
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• Bootstrap 5 alpha
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• No Paint
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• GitHub isn't fun anymore
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• Facebook to let users turn off political adverts
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• Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
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• Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying
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• AWS Snowcone
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-16

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

• How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
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• On Coding, Ego and Attention
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• Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing
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• T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US
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• How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance
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• Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert
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• Apple, ARM, and Intel
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• 3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust
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• FFmpeg 4.3
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• The Next Step for Generics
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-15

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

• Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised
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• Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?
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• George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
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• How to create a video call application with WebRTC
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• Build yourself a weather station
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• Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed
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• U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections
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• Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
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• After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
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• Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-14

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

• SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System
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• Music Grid
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• Fast 2D Rendering on GPU
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• Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
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• Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015)
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• Never Hertz to Ask
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• Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
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• Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the U.S. on an L1B visa
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• Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS
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• Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-13

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

• Twilio Super Sim – Public Beta
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• Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
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• Facebook fires employee who protested inaction on Trump posts
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• Design electronics like it is 70s at CERN
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• Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request
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• HSBC moves from 65 relational databases into one global MongoDB database
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• SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)
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• Flow browser passes the Acid tests
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• The American Press Is Destroying Itself
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• Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-12

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

• Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
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• OpenAI API
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• Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
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• University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs
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• New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize” in workplace chat
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• Async Python is not faster
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• Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
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• Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3
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• California bans private prisons and immigration detention centers
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• Biohacking Lite
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-11

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

• Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe
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• YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS
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• A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
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• Woodworking for Engineers
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• Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site
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• Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
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• Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots
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• MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
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• Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
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• A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-10

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

• 25 Years of PHP
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• Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
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• First U.S. woman to walk in space dives to deepest point in the ocean
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• Teaching my MIT classes with only free/libre software
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• Create diagrams with code using Graphviz
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• After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
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• Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019
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• Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people
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• You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain
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• Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-09

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

• Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019
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• Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences
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• Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack
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• Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job
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• IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition or analysis software
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• CapRover: Build your own PaaS
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• Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old
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• Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system
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• New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly
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• Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-08

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

• VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing
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• Cloudflare TV
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• $1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn
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• Interactive Map of Linux Kernel
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• I got a Ph.D. at age 66 (2018)
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• NoDesign.dev – Tools and resources for non artistic developers
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• Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s
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• The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
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• DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
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• Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-07

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

• Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
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• How we use HashiCorp Nomad
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• Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
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• Choose Boring Technology (2015)
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• Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
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• C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf
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• Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes
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• Ideas That Changed My Life
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• Most tech content is bullshit
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• America is giving up on the pandemic?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-06

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

• CMU’s ‘Penrose’ Turns Complex Math Notations into Illustrative Diagrams
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• Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
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• Looking back at how Signal works
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• IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for macOS and iOS
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• Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)
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• eBay is port scanning visitors to their website
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• Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science
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• A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)
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• New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie
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• The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-05

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

• Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem
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• macOS in QEMU in Docker
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• Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere
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• The Beauty of Unix Pipelines
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• Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
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• SimRefinery Recovered
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• Mental Wealth
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• Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
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• There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs
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• U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-04

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

• GitHub Classroom
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• Weirdos in the depression
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• A photo is crashing some Android phones
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• OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
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• SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange
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• Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms
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• Blur Tools for Signal
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• Anxiety in product development
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• I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
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• A History of Clojure [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-03

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

• Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
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• Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64
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• The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source
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• People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee
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• DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors
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• Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
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• Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends
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• Software Engineering Within SpaceX
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• In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed
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• ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-02

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

• As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS
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• Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure
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• Google Is Not God of the Web
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• De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
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• Guide to Python Debugging
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• Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
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• Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
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• Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear
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• Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
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• P2P Matrix
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-01

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

• Solid – A declarative JavaScript library for building user interfaces
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• Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (2019)
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• SpaceshipGenerator: A Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships
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• This Website Will Self Destruct
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• Twitter, Reddit support challenge of visa applicant social media reg requirement
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• How to Become a Hacker
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
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• How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
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• Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
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• Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-05-31

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

• Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?
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• Making a SNES game in 2020 using modern tools
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• Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor
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• Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
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• Google gave our business listing to a competitor
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• What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? (2015)
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• A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
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• Crew Dragon Docks with ISS
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• Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests
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• This has to stop now. Website which aims to build library of police brutality
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