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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-29

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

• Please – A cross-language build system
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• No Config for Old Men
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• 30 years later, QBasic is still the best
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• Growl in Retirement
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• Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
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• Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites
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• Watercooling a Canon R5 to enable unlimited 8K recording
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• YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”
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• Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses?
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• Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-28

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

• Digital Tools I Wish Existed
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• Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake
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• Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized
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• Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework
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• Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting
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• K6: Like unit testing, for performance
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• Tony Hsieh has died
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• Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
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• Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months
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• Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-27

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

• Ragya – Indian classical music played by time of the day
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• Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects
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• Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging
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• Due to a problem with AWS, many \"smart\" vacuums or doorbells will stop working
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• Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance
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• Tell HN: Thank You Dang
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• Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries
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• CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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• How to Think for Yourself
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• ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-26

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

• Diego Maradona has died
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• Mmhmm
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• Blender 2.91
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• Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor
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• I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track
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• An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools
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• Magic mushrooms are changing the lives of terminal cancer patients
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• PHP 8
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• Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad
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• io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-25

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

• Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition)
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• Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
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• Raspberry Pi 4 V3DV graphics driver achieves Vulkan 1.0 conformance
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• 1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland
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• Apache OpenMeetings – Video chat, messaging, white board, doc editing and more
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• macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years
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• AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green
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• Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Silicon Valley Censorship [video]
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• Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
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• hCaptcha now runs on 15% of the internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-24

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

• Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices
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• On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics
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• Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case
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• Convolution Is Fancy Multiplication
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• You might not need machine learning
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• What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
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• Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
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• Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
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• Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
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• Email a Dumpster Fire
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-23

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

• On the Loss of a Cofounder
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• A bird feeder that accepts bottle caps for food
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• Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
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• DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev
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• The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
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• Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'
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• The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code
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• WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
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• Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
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• Zoomquilt (2004)
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-22

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

• Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax
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• I'm building a Minecraft clone in hardware, on a tiny FPGA with 143kb of RAM
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• Linux on iPad
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• X11 Library Sees Lots of Fixes with LibX11 1.7 Release
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• Gimp is 25 years old today
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• WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic
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• The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan
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• Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy
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• Booting from a vinyl record
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• Building Your Color Palette
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-21

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

• Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)
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• Eight Years at Roblox
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• PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database
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• I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
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• Why We're Building Observable
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• Transitioning from Docker to Podman
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• Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
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• Cover Your Tracks
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• Mvp.css – build your landing page with only semantic HTML
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• I Miss Working from the Office
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-20

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

• As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
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• Show HN: Zfs.rent
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• Rust 1.48
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• Full text search on 400M US court cases
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• Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
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• Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
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• TypeScript 4.1
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• An Introduction to ZFS
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• Dev Fonts
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• Moving from Macbook to Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-19

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

• I should have loved biology
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• My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
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• Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping
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• Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic
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• DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
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• Beirut Port Explosion
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• YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
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• Google to end the “top stories carousel” benefit to AMP next spring
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• Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled
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• 1MB Club
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-18

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

• To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills
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• Hemingway Editor
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• We can do better than DuckDuckGo
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• Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser
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• Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program
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• Six Months of Tiny Projects
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• Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
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• Free and liberated e-books, carefully produced for the true book lover
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• TailwindCSS v2.0
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• ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-17

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

• What Gödel Discovered
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• Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
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• Airbnb S-1
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• “You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation
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• Git is too hard
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• Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
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• Graphics for JVM
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• 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
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• ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
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• Servo’s new home
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-16

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

• The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection
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• Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
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• On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years
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• Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs
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• Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
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• Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection
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• YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
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• Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back
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• Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
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• Yelp Is Screwing over Restaurants by Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-15

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

• Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look
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• An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
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• Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur
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• Ask HN: Are you depressed?
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• Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter
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• BetterExplained: Clear, intuitive lessons about mathematics
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• Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
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• Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight
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• Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution
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• “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-14

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

• SLS vs. Starship
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• DoorDash S-1
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• GFXBench: Apple M1
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• Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript
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• Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
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• Don't use third party auth to sign in
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• Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps
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• Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
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• Intel's disruption is now complete
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• Pimp My Microwave
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-13

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

• Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should
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• Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing
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• Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is able to make a release?
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• Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT
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• Your Computer Isn't Yours
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• Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA
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• Paul's Online Math Notes
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• Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression
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• So you've made a mistake and it's public
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• Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snubbed government leaders
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-12

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

• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004)
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• Notion Timeline View
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• An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall
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• YouTube Down
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• Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
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• Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
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• Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
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• macOS Big Sur
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• Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon
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• macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-11

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

• Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan
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• Origins of the youtube-dl project
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• Eleven Years of Go
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• My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
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• How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
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• Postgres Observability
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• $200k in sales from a $6k advertisement
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• Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python
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• Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
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• Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-10

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

• McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
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• Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
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• How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges
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• I sold Baremetrics
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• One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study
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• On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
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• .NET 5.0
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• The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
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• Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
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• Introducing the next generation of Mac
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-09

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

• AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
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• I now have an Oculus paperweight
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• Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer
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• A fun website that simulates fluid
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• No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
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• Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
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• Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver
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• The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
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• Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
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• Amazon Review Scam
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-08

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

• Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler
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• Marketers are addicted to bad data
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• Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved
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• Mutt 2.0 Release Notes
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• Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches
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• WinApps: Run Windows apps in Linux as if they were a part of the native OS
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• Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
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• Alex Trebek has died
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• About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
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• EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-07

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

• Standing on our own two feet
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• A Linux sysadmin's introduction to cgroups
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• Iron, How Did They Make It, Addendum: Crucible Steel and Cast Iron
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• Gimp 2.99.2 – GTK3 user interface toolkit
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• Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill
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• Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
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• Why not use GraphQL?
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• Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
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• Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
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• SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-06

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

• U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road
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• San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses
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• Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s
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• RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos
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• Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service
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• Deprecating scp
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• Gron – Make JSON Greppable
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• Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
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• Technical debt as a lack of understanding
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• HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-05

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

• A pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg
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• Denmark to cull millions of minks over mutated coronavirus
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• Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform
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• New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression
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• GitHub Source Code Leak
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• Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
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• Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux
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• Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular programming language
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• AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review
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• SVG Path Editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-04

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

• A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers
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• Why do printers still suck?
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• Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs
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• Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video]
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• Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms
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• Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data
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• RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
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• Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
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• U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord
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• eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-03

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

• Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
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• How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub
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• The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off
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• Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
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• eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement”
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• Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence
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• We made our SaaS home page cookie-free
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• Dark’s new backend will be in F#
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• GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions
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• A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-02

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

• 7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser
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• Winamp for Windows 10
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• Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
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• Rendering photo-realistic glass in the browser
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• Google users locked out after 15 years' use
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• Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
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• Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?
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• South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes
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• “Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following”
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• No More Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-01

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

• Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code
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• Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React
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• AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball
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• NAT Slipstreaming
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• Toronto-area lawyer had to flee Canada after taking on the tow truck industry
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• An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V
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• 7GUIs
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• WordPerfect for DOS Updated
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• New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1
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• Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-10-31

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

• I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call
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• From McDonald's to Google
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• Goodbye IFTTT
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• YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
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• Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models
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• How to deal with extreme physical pain
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• Foundations of Software Engineering
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• Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
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• Sean Connery has died
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• Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine
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