Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF
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Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your customers
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Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox
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New 50-metre deep crater opens up in Arctic tundra
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Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
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Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts
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Level 3 Global Outage
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Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation
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Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs
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After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019)
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Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb
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Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
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Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
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Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock
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American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
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Life Is Short (2016)
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Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps
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Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation
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I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?
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Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?
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Zoom still don't understand GDPR
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Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model
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Surprising new feature in AMD Ryzen 3000
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RFC8890: The Internet Is for End Users
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China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs
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Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
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Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code
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Ethereum Is a Dark Forest
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why Johnny Won't Upgrade
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New Racket Language Website
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D3 6.0
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The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft
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Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy
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Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
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Scrollbar Blindness
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Rust 1.46
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Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government
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ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes
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Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
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Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR
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Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence
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Want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip
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Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com
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Jacques Cousteau’s grandson wants to build the ISS of the sea
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Is TDD Dead? (2014)
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Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework
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MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Docker to rate limit image pulls
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Asana S-1
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Please read the paper before you comment
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OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD
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2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
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How to Write in Plain English
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Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
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Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data
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Firefox 80
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Africa declared free of wild polio
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder
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Patrick Collison's Questions
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αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε
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Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users
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A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React
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Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK
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Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
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Unity Software Inc S-1
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Being OK with not being extraordinary
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Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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College Notebook of Isaac Newton
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GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about
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Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test
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The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
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Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases
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Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny
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Show HN: Using Rust to write shell-script like tasks
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Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W
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Persisting as a solo founder
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US Border Patrol says they can create central repository of traveler emails
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Splitgraph Data Delivery Network – query over 40k public datasets
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Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902
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An Update on MDN Web Docs
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WordPressiOS Locked by App Store
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Activists find camera inside box on power pole near union organizer’s home
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Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution
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macOS Security and Privacy Guide
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VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
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Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools
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Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite
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New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others
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The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis
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Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable
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Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons?
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Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic
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ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
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Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
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Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
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Fast.ai releases new deep learning course
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras
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My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I
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How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL
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Can't you just right click?
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Citibank's $900M Blunder
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The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia
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Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
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The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary
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Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
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Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook
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Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)
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The Death of Corporate Research Labs
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Researchers can duplicate keys from the sounds they make in locks
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Open Problems in Robotics
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Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary
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Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
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Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap
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Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
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Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Karpathy's MinGPT
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Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation
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Dependency
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Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
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Modeling a Wealth Tax
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If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees
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Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics
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Laying the foundation for Rust’s future
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Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world
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Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode
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Factorio and Software Engineering
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Google: Open Letter to Australians
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Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
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Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor
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Response to Google open letter
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What’s Flying Above Us?
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Apple, Epic, and the App Store
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I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]
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Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall
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Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams
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The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all
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To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
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Using machine learning to recreate photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors
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Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster
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Mutt email client 25 years old
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Trump says he is considering pardon for leaker Edward Snowden
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Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court
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Web by Google (TM)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal
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Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
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Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps
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Report: Most Americans have no real choice in internet providers
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Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
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Mozilla’s Uncertain Future
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Fungus at Chernobyl absorbs nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis
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Amazon's ML University is making its online courses available to the public
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Ghost.org deleted my website
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Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
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A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32
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Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well
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Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut
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Factorio 1.0
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What's the future of Servo?
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Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
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Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes
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I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action
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Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Thank You MDN
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The new Jupyter Book
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Vitamin D, part 1: back to basics
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Young children would rather explore than get rewards
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Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash
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Epic direct payment on mobile
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\"Much\" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla
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Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
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Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Creating a QR Code step by step
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Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust
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Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming
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Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google
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Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
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Joan Feynman has died
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Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California
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70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without internet
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Mozilla Lifeboat
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Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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We Can Do Better Than SQL
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PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later
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Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip
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Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
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Celebrate Woz's 70th
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I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform
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Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
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How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model
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Single Page Applications using Rust
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
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I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency
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Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments
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How long does a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out?
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Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
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Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]
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CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better
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G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck
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Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 09, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company
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Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
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UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface
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Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript
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Firefox Voice
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Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok
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The German front in rare color photos, 1914-1918
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Fire your bad customers
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Adding a fiber link to my home network
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Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 08, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business
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Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN
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Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says
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Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish
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Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever
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Why is this idiot running my engineering org?
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Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)
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Oatly: The New Coke?
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Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
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Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 07, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh
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A crash course on hacking satellites
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US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
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Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias
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Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language
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I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base
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Mac keyboard shortcuts
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To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo
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Microsoft Fast Design
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Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 06, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after
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The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories
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Frances Allen has died
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Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected
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Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
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Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
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Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
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Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
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Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
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20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 05, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat
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27-inch iMac gets a major update
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Let's build a full-text search engine
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1Password for Linux development preview
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Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
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Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
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SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]
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Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime
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Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels
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Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 04, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook
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The UX of Lego Interface Panels
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Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
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Why is America stuck with bad headlights?
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Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot
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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
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The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
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Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis
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In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved
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We quit our jobs to build a cabin
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 03, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Briar Project
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US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
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The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
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Thomas Sowell interview
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Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission?
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System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
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The Art of Not Thinking
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A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 02, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness
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Hacking Portable Air Conditioners
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NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]
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Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle
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Low latency tuning guide
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GPU Accelerated JavaScript
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Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule
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Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up
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SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down in the Gulf of Mexico
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Laws of UX
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 01, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special over Being Happy
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IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
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Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations
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Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack
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Glucosamine Supplementation Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Study
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US to ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday
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What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days
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Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
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TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
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Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-07-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case
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Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
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Philosophers on GPT-3
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How Best Buy saved itself (2019)
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YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
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Google Earth Timelapse
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Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
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Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics
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Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
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Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”
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