Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?
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I Hate Coordinate Systems
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Wobblepaint
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MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform
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The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen
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Ruby on Rails in a week
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Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?
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Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response
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Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders
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Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presidential Election
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd
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AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
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Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]
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Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961
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FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals
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I Violated a Code of Conduct
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Image Scaling Attacks
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The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004)
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Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
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My Resignation from the Intercept
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
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Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency
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Google's new logos are bad
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Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
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A Theory of Software Architecture
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Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products
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Stripe Climate
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Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab
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On Abandoning the X Server
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Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Free Linear Algebra textbook
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Parsing Algorithms
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Apache Helix – Near-Realtime Rsync Replicated File System
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Org Mode's new site
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Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
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AMD to Acquire Xilinx
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Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
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RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
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Next.js 10
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Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%
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The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement
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I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
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New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars
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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
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‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
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Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young
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Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
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Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
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How journalists use youtube-dl
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
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A small but complete JavaScript engine
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Pandoc – A universal document converter
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Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
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YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
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The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
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Hackers hijack and publish mental health data of hundreds of people
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Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access
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Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
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Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Electoral College Decision Tree
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Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away
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The Right to Read (1997)
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The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it
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Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Political Ad Targeting
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GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)
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2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete
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Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
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Microsoft Tilecode
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I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication
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You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
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Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists
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California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees
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PHP 8: Before and After
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Be prolific
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Bongo Cat
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How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
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Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier
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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head
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The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
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Quibi Is Shutting Down
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1Password for Linux beta
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Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland
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Notes on My Colon Cancer
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Debian donation for Peertube development
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OAuth 3
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The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human
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“I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal API”
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
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Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust
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Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits
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My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
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SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE
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Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
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PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network
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United States vs. Google
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Facebook Container for Firefox
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James Randi Has Died
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
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Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain
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I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
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Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B
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Early Work
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America's True Unemployment Rate
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U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
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Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
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Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
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Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater
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Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime
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Discord Desktop App RCE
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Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer
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IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push
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Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition
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This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
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No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981
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Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
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How Discord Won
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash
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We deleted the production database by accident
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Chaos Ink
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Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware
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Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
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The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
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Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
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A legislative path to an interoperable internet
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Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy
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Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Excel warriors who save governments and companies from spreadsheet errors
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Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them
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Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod
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Uninstall Nano Defender
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Cat Gap
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Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
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Welcome to the Old Internet Again
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ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name
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How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer
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How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away
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Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
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Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses
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Hum to Search Song
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ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable
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Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output
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Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]
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AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
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So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
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Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, says WHO
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust
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Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones
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YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
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I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts
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Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
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Congress should invest in open-source software
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Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims
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A warning about Glassdoor
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Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform
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Google disabled my husband's account
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read
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Black Hole Visualization in Unreal Engine
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Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon
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Krita 4.4.0
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A 3D sculpting web application
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Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
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PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack
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Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
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HashiCorp Boundary
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Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
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When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home
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EULA Found on a Package of Fruit
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OptaPlanner – constraint solver for optimizing planning and scheduling problems
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When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook
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Why we’re changing to the AGPL license
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Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course
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14,000x Speedup (2015)
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San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.
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iPhone 12 Event [live]
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup
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A Note about Spotify Transfers
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Open Source Tools and Data for Music Source Separation
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Fuck You Sunday
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Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps
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Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows
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Cloudflare One
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Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground
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AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out
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Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street
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How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)
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Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic
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Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime
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Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries
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Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions
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There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014)
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We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal
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Rust After the Honeymoon
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The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing
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If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour
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Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
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Y Combinator Failed Startups
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Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B
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Good sleep, good learning, good life
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Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus
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Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid
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They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
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Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 09, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR
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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
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What Working At Stripe Has Been Like
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Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive
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Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee
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Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
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Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently
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Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet
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ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'
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“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 08, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y
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PostgreSQL community impact of 2nd Quadrant purchase
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An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
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Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says
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We Hacked Apple for 3 Months
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Rust 1.47
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Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
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Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
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AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
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IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 07, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of big tech firms: lawmaker
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Time for a WTF MySQL Moment
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Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready
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How I remember what I learn
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100k Stars
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From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit
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Leaving Mozilla
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Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
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PS5 Teardown [video]
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Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 06, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup
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Patent Lawyer Turned Judge Advertises for Patent Trolls to Come to His Court
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Python 3.9
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Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
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Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
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Elixir 1.11
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DigitalOcean App Platform
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Eddie Van Halen has died
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Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 05, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
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Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks
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Why I left my tenured academic job
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Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux
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Android In a Box – Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system
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Applying “make invalid states unrepresentable”
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Principles of Data Oriented Programming
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I built a lay-down desk
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Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
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Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 04, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Git Exercises
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Color blindness
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Actively speaking two languages protects against cognitive impairment
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Witeboard
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Reddit Rewrites History by Excluding Aaron Swartz
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Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)
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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) [video]
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French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs
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Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio
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Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 03, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of Covid-19, research says
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What is the best dumb TV?
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Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste
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Raycasting engine in Factorio 1.0 (unmodded) [video]
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GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
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The open source paradox
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Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (2010)
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Rust Starter Kit 2020
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Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
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Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 02, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
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One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
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Escaping strings in Bash using !:q
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Please Stop Imposing American Views about Race on Us
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“Really successful people say no to almost everything”
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Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
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Privacy is the most important concept of our time
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Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform
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Pressing YubiKeys
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Logging Everyone Out
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 01, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How Normal Am I?
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The Failed Promise of Web Components
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Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
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Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
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Say goodbye to hold music
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Car seats as contraception
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My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
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We Learn Faster When We Aren’t Told What Choices to Make
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USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess
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My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-09-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest
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Rust 2021: GUI
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OBS Studio 26.0
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Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics
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From zero to main(): How to write a bootloader from scratch
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Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak
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Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
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Six Figures in 6 days
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Gitter is joining Matrix
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DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
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