Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A new funding model for open source software
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Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA
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Zoom Security Exploit: Cracking private meeting passwords
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Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense
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Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data
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Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
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Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund
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You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends
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The Haskell Elephant in the Room
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Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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One hour of slow breathing changed my life
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Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series database
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ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
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1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App
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Hiring Without Whiteboards
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Del.icio.us
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Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening
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When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple doesn’t refund the 30% cut
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Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund
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RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Double Entry Accounting for Developers
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How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations
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Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests
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Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
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Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays
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Not an Amazon Problem
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Google’s top search result is Google
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Firefox 79
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GitHub Public Roadmap
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Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Small mail server best current practices
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Cracking down on research fraud
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ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data
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Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers
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How to pay your rent with your open source project
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How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers
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Google to keep employees home until summer 2021
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Apache Arrow 1.0
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Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
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The code I’m still ashamed of (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
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Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn business administration/finance?
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Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions
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OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub
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Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited packages of seeds
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No more religious exemptions: Montreal is taxing churches (2017)
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Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps
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Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth
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Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)
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New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities
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Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund
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To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)
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I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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Regional Air Mobility: Why we don’t plan to operate flights under 20km
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On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services
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Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise in brain plasticity: study
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Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq
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LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison
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Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Who gets invited to the party?
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Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space
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Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders
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More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts
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Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
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Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things
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I made a simple geolocation service
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The Four Quadrants of Conformism
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Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
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When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
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Apple Security Research Device Program
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1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click
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Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript
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Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
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The personal info of what could be Instacart customers is being sold online
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KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000
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Nubank acquires Cognitect
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Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi
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Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide
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India, Jio, and the Four Internets
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How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life
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Terry Tao on some desirable properties of mathematical notation
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Medium is not the home for your ideas
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Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear
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Design Docs at Google
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Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective
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Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy
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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mars images rendered in 4K [video]
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The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool
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Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust
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Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
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Essays on programming I think about a lot
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Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
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Wiki.js
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Invert, always, invert
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Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire
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Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away
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'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle
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I Don't Want to Be a Founder
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DIY Video Hosting
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OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI
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Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator
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Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
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Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
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Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
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Reasonably priced color e-ink display
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know
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Hugelkultur: Raised Garden Beds
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OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
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Low-Background Steel
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Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
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Things Unexpectedly Named After People
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Tired of note-taking apps
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Worms Armageddon Patch 3.8
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Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
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The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
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Ways to make a web component
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The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus [pdf]
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UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs
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Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s repairmen
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Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
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Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org
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An update on our security incident
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NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go
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On Trouser Pockets
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months
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Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat
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Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
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What’s New in Thunderbird 78
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Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work
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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
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Things I wish I’d known about CSS
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Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard
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NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
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Cloudflare was down
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]
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Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone
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Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack
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Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears
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Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings
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Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit
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Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress
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When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
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Rust 1.45
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Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
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Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved
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The global fertility rate is falling
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Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
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Riot is now Element
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Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (2018)
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Orthodox Privilege
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Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Atlas of Surveillance
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The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”
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Grant Imahara Has Died
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Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design
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Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
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German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
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Resignation Letter
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Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
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How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
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U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student visas
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel
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Text-Only Social Network
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WindowSwap: View someone's window somewhere in the world
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Your DS18B20 temperature sensor is likely a fake, counterfeit, clone
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Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia
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Rust Is Surprisingly Good as a Server Language
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The most remarkable legacy system I have seen
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Google to Invest $10B in India
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Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
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I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature
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Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your window open
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PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN
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Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub
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Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)
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Tour of Rust
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Just Too Efficient
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IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration
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US citizens warned they face arbitrary arrest in China
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July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better
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Ask HN: Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?
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Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
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Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say
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Linux kernel in-tree Rust support
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Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning
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CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]
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How to Understand Things
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Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
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How much your computer can do in a second (2015)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (2012)
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How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less
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Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr
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Sampler for Mac Touchbars
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Neural programmer better than Quicksort
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LibreOffice: The Next Five Years
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App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m
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Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in
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Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’
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Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 09, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine
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Flutter for Linux
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Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
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We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
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Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
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Unit Testing Is Overrated
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Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps can charge restaurants
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New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans
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U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
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Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 08, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Help Message for Shell Scripts
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Ron Graham has died
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New Stuff
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How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)
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Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks
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Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits
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EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages
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A graphical analysis of women's tops sold on Goodwill's website
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SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
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Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 07, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater
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Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year
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Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
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A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
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Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
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Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood
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Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes
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YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]
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Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages
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Searchable PPP Loan Data
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 06, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers
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UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster
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I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua
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Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal
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Ennio Morricone has died
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Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
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Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan
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H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)
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Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory
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1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 05, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune
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De-escalating social media conflict
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The Fourth of July
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Repairing your smartphone or installing a ROM will now be a crime in Mexico
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Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code
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Bible API
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Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves
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Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'
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China suppression of Uighurs meets U.N. definition of genocide, report says
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The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 04, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?
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Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing
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2+1=4, by quinoa
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The Silence Is Deafening
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Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1
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Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
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A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web
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Scuba diver accidentally discovers prehistoric industrial complex in Mexico
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Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
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Websites that look like desktop GUIs
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 03, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Hazard pay in focus as essential workers earn less than the jobless
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A researcher on how to live a happy life
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Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers
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Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets
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EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation
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Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs
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Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?
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Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight
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Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking
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Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 02, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Not a Wheelchair [video]
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Lights and Shadows
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A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts
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How the 2021 Ford F-150's onboard generator works
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Apple Lightning
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DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
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Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive
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The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations
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Abstract Wikipedia
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LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 01, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How Did Vim Become So Popular?
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Holographic optics for thin and lightweight virtual reality
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Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench
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Linear – A fast issue tracker
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YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
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New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
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Mozilla Common Voice Dataset: More data, more languages
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Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)
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Oppose the Earn IT Act
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-06-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Keep Your Stuff, for Life
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Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff
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The KDE community is moving to GitLab
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Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly
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Hyperapp – A tiny framework for building web interfaces
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Disclosure: Another macOS privacy protections bypass
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The End of the Redis Adventure
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Firefox 78
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EFF and heavyweight legal team will defend Internet Archive against publishers
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Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests
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