Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China
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Adding comments to a static blog with Mastodon
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Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online
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20 Years Later
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Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out
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Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology
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Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK
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Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
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Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC
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Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
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Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
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Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display
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Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
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Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
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Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world
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Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail
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Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
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iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers
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Do You Love Me? [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii
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Systems design explains the world: volume 1
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SaaS We Happily Pay For
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Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page
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2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm
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Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library
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Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtually every person
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The Fight for WorldBox
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Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year
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Images of the the samples returned to earth from the asteroid Ryugu
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Father Reginald Foster has died
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Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
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Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking
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Starship / Super Heavy
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What If You Could Do It All Over?
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API pagination design
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California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M
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Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (2015)
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Complex Systems Fail
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Just Wanted to Say Thanks
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Mountain Peaks in WebGL
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Mutated Covid-19 strain confirmed in Japan as case tally hits record high
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New Linux port for the Nintendo 64
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ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
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A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators
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Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%
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1937 film explains how a car differential works
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Print this file, your printer will jam (2008)
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I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (2014)
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Fun with IP address parsing
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices
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I wired a Christmas tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates
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Craft – A fresh take on documents
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Sony publishes an official Linux driver for Playstation 5 DualSense controllers
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Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
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Ruby 3.0
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Working at Apple (2011)
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Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
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Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor
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Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tips for a Better Life
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Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed
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Comic Mono
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How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs
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Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers [pdf]
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How We Saved Dot Org
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Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
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Fantasy UI
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Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer
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How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (2017)
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SEC charges Ripple and two executives
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Things You're Allowed to Do
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Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
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‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)
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How bad is your Spotify?
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Interview advice that got me offers
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Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust
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No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019)
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Evidence of “modified gravity” in 150 galaxies bolsters dark matter alternative
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Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
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YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices
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Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.
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Congress Crams Language to Criminalize Streaming, Meme-Sharing into Omnibus Bill
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Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
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Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming
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Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
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U.S. approves NYSE listing plan to cut out Wall Street middlemen
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Lode Runner
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Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
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More challenging projects every programmer should try
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Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after legal threats
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iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
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Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
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Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
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Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills
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Ignore AMP
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Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
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Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks
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Back to the '70s with Serverless
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Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed
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All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
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Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V
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Raspberry Pi Server Mark III
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The web is 30 years old today
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Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you own
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FFmpeg is 20 years old today
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine
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Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
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Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
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Great American Rail Trail
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How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss
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California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state
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Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
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Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents
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New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
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Being kind to others is good for your health
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Centering in CSS
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Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years
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Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'
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Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
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Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds
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Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
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Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
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I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
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I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months
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Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Scientists tracked down a mass killer of salmon
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Blob Opera
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FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test
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A computer science study plan to become a software engineer
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Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
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States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]
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Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware
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SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources
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No Cookie for You
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Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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AWS CloudShell
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Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact
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EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
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Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
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Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
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Gmail having issues
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I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
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Vercel raise $40M Series B
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Firefox Was Always Enough
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Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence
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FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services
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Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
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The Case of the Extra 40ms
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EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants
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Minimal safe Bash script template
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Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone
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Shitlist Driven Development (2016)
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Firefox 84.0
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Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?
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Johnny.Decimal
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John le Carré has died
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Linux 5.10
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Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
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Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary
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Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
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Google outage – resolved
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Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
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U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Earnestness
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Become Shell Literate
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I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel
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Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz
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Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
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Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
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If-then-else had to be invented
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The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system
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ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
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U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How the Python object system works
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The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved
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Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
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Oracle Moving HQ to Austin
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The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
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Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
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Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
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GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark
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Chrome Is Bad
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SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
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Pointer Pointer (2012)
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New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
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After centuries, a seemingly simple math problem gets an exact solution
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Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds
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The Airbnbs
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A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
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Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max
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Who Americans spend their time with, by age
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Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Cameras and Lenses
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Rails 6.1
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Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
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SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first suborbital flight
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Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
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How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?
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Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage
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Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
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A former Uber engineer's disaster story
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Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 09, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
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Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
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CSS in GitHub Readmes
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Show HN: This website is valid JSON
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Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
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EU countries team up for semiconductor push
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YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
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Elon Musk moves to Texas
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FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
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Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 08, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Distributed Systems Reading List
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AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
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Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects
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Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard
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Hexagonal Grids (2013)
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Chuck Yeager has died
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Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
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AirPods Max
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Qt 6.0
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GitHub Releases Dark Mode
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 07, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots
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Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
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Show HN: Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform
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How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You
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Analog TV Station on ESP8266
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Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
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With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
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A Modern JavaScript Tutorial
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Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy
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Gitter now speaks Matrix
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 06, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Kaitai: Describe the structure of data, not how you read or write it
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Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
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Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays
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R adds native pipe and lambda syntax
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The Tragic Tale of DEC, the Computing Giant That Died Too Soon
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InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place
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LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
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How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant
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The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal
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EmacsConf 2020 Talks
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 05, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Billionaires Build
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CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs
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No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding
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Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock
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Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
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This is Real, That's Not
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Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
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72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings
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Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole
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The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 04, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (2017)
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An update to storage policies across your Google Account
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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)
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“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
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Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy
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System76 – Pangolin
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Self-host your fonts for better performance
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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
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EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
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About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 03, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch
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Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
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My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants
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M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
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S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021
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Stripe Treasury
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Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
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Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
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Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
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AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 02, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Self-Hosting Still Pays
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Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
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An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey
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S3 Strong Consistency
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Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
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Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance
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Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
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Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
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Kubernetes is deprecating Docker runtime support
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 01, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Raytracing in One Weekend (2016)
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I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
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OpenZFS 2.0
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South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at 100M degrees Celsius
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Why do I care the open web is dying?
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Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
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Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
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Ethereum 2.0 launches
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AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-11-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Chess tactics explained
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Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
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Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
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How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People
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A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
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E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online services
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AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
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No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19
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AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
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Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
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