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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-29

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

• Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS
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• All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
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• The SaaS website content you need to close sales
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• YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions
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• Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
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• Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
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• Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
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• Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic
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• Social Cooling (2017)
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• Writing a book: is it worth it?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-28

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

• Hotel guest in Thailand jailed for defamation after posting bad online reviews
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• Universal Split Screen
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• Won’t Subscribe
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• Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro
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• Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
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• Assange Trial Day 18
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• Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
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• Zig's New Relationship with LLVM
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• CRDTs are the future
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• How to Get Promoted
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-27

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

• Ora2Pg – Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter
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• LEd: Open-Source 2D Level Editor
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• How to properly manage SSH keys for server access
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• Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
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• Ask HN: How to learn sales?
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• Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes
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• Things I Was Wrong About: Types
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• foo@bar.com
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• Someone has stolen my Instagram account
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• Adequate Vitamin D Levels Cuts Risk of Dying from Covid-19 in Half, Study Finds
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-26

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

• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)
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• Bypassing Android MDM Using a $1.50 Electric Gas Lighter
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• Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II
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• Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound theory of patches
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• Swift System Is Now Open Source
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• Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
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• Toward a “modern” Emacs
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• Boeing cuts flight training pilots, will outsource jobs overseas
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• Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)
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• A Short Story for Engineers
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-25

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

• Work on What Matters
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• Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute
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• Calibre 5.0
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• Windows XP source code has leaked
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• BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
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• The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life
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• MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating
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• People expect technology to suck because it sucks
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• Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
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• PG and Jessica
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-24

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

• After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories
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• DOJ unveils proposed Section 230 legislation
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• California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035
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• Mathematics for Programmers [pdf]
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• Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%
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• Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
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• Assange Hearing Day 16
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• $1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss
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• PostgreSQL 13
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• An update to the Timescale license
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-23

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

• Check if your IP is exposing any ports. If you see 404 page, nothing is exposed
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• The Era of Visual Studio Code
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• Linux Journal Is Back
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• How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes
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• Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
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• Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images
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• Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven
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• Amnesia is now open source
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• Wikipedia is getting a new look
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• They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-22

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

• I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)
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• New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released
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• Things we learned running Postgres 13
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• X-COM
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• Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months
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• Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
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• China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
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• Firefox 81.0
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• Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
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• UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-21

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

• Why Not Rust?
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• Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
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• The Social Dilemma
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• On the Use of a Life
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• Domains for the Rest of Us
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• I no longer build software
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• Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity
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• Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?
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• Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
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• My least favorite Rust type
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-20

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

• The benefits of note-taking by hand
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• The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike
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• Bevy 0.2
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• DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features
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• Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
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• uMatrix has been archived
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• Dream Vendor \"Canna_Bars\" Sentenced to Prison
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• Laid Off, Now What?
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• FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks
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• We need physical audio kill switches
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-19

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

• John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video]
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• Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining
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• It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI
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• Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python
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• CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested by FBI, Facing Fraud Charges
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• Use long flags when scripting (2013)
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
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• SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating Vitamin D levels
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• Precursor – A mobile, open source electronics platform
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• Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-18

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

• To All the Jobs I Had Before
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• Ultra Safe Nuclear
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• 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird
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• FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
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• What happened to Firefox Send?
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• Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer
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• rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor
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• Vue.js 3
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• The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)
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• Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-17

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

• Oculus Quest 2
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• iOS 14 is available today
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• This electrical transmission tower has a problem
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• We Don’t Like Our Underground House
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• I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm
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• Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII
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• GitHub CLI 1.0
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• Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web
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• Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
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• An Introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-16

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

• Bubble barriers: a smart solution to plastic pollution in rivers
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• 91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
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• Remembering my father
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• When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
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• Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it
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• Why is Apple acting like an Asshole?
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• Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME
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• Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max crashes
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• The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents
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• Nova by Panic
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-15

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

• Project Oberon
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• Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)
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• Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications
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• A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation
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• How HTTPS Works
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• We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode
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• Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014)
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• Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language
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• Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
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• Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-14

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

• What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
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• Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS
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• Your Phone Is Your Castle
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• Teacher's low-tech laptop hack to display handwritten notes for online class
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• Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
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• Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
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• Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?
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• I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
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• Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
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• Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-13

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

• Why do so many people want us back in the office?
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• I Want to Fix Goodreads
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• SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B
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• Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
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• Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]
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• Makani source code released
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• Firebug
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• Happy 1600M epoch second
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• Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy
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• Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-12

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

• How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
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• Scaling Erlang Developer Experience at WhatsApp [pdf]
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• Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive
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• Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn
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• Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase
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• 'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
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• PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
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• Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri
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• The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
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• Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-11

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

• TikTok reveals details of how its algorithm works
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• What Clojure Spec is and what you can do with it
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• Analog Terminal Bell
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• How Do Routers Work, Really?
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• LLVM merges machine function splitter for reduction in TLB misses
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• How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku
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• Let employees sell their equity
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• Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
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• Security by obscurity is underrated
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• Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-10

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

• Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?
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• Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
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• New Zealand is about to test long-range wireless power transmission
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• Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
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• The amazing $1 microcontroller (2017)
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• Annoying website features I face as a blind person
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• Emacs is special regarding UIs
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• Relativty – An open-source VR headset
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• Traits of good remote leaders
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• Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-09

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

• Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
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• Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow
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• Non-Posix File Systems
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• I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS
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• AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a Cost
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• Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone”
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• The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
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• AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag
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• Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet
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• Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-08

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

• Controllable Video Sprites That Appear Like Professional Tennis Players
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• The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s
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• How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
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• Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
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• Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content
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• Assange Hearing Day 6
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• PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence
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• GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn
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• Ad Fraud on LinkedIn
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• FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-07

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

• Fennel – Lisp in Lua
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• Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated
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• Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby
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• Introduction to Computational Thinking
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• Pregnancy Test Doom: Doom running on a pregnancy test
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• Show HN: AI color palette generator for Tailwindcss
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• Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
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• At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
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• Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova 'snatched from street' in Minsk
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• BitTorrent v2
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-06

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

• Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design?
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• 8086 Microcode Disassembled
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• Traffic Prediction with Advanced Graph Neural Networks
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• Data Broker Opt-Out List
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• C++20 has been approved
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• Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
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• Attention is your scarcest resource
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• Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life
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• Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS
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• The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-05

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

• Snake in a QR Code
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• Bullfrog After Populous
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• Massacring C Pointers (2018)
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• We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it
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• PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board
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• FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona
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• Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
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• Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing
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• Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)
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• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-04

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

• Modern C
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• Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
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• EMule 0.60a
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• Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
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• Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad market
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• Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days
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• Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test
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• Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
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• Winamp Skin Museum
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• SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-03

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

• India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China
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• Programming with Categories
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• Bardcore
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• How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors
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• Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
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• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)
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• U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
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• React is becoming a black box
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• David Graeber has died
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• The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-02

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

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)
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• Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
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• Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993
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• Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
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• Lesser-known Web APIs
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• Most-favorited Hacker News posts
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• Police-issued \"courtesy cards\" help friends and family out of minor infractions
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• Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory
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• Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok
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• Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-01

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

• The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’
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• Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year
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• Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy
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• The database I wish I had
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• Applebot
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• Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
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• Htop 3.0
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• Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
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• Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
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• Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-08-31

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

• The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet
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• A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects
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• Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps
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• Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?
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• Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
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• PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
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• Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
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• App Review process updates
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• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
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• Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust
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