Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter
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Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design
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Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation
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Pony – High-Performance Safe Actor Programming
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u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania
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Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders
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Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
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Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)
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Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Coinbase announces proposed direct listing
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Losing faith in UX
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Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
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Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
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Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy
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Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account
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A Look at iMessage in iOS 14
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Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
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Factorio 1.1 stable
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Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Automating my job with GPT-3
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WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
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Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
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Open-source, not open-contribution
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EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals
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Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)
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We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
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Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
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Robinhood Hit with Class Action Lawsuit After Halting GameStop Stock
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
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Nq – A simple Unix job queue system
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Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
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I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
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IKEA Buys 11,000 Acres of U.S. Forest to Keep It from Being Developed
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Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
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My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR
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U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years
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GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
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The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The high price of mistrust
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Introducing Open Web Docs
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Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states
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FDA approves first monthly injectable to treat HIV infection
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Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
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Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
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Postgres scaling advice
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Firefox 85
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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)
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WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
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Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
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PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space
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Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hacker News
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Firefox Relay
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Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians
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Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani
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Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
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Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
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Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]
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I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them
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Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium
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Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
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Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
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Pip has dropped support for Python 2
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SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world
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Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
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Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
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Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
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How hard should I push myself?
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Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
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Brad Cox has died
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One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected
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Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
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Please don't say just hello in chat
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Larry King has died
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Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Over 700k paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free
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The database servers powering Let's Encrypt
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Retiring Tucows Downloads
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Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature
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DeLorean considering all-electric reboot
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Still alive
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Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
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Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II
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Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Linux Running on Apple M1
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FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks
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I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019)
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Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
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Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019)
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Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
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Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 Microcontroller
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New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects
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Rust for Windows
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AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
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The State of State Machines
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Anthony Levandowski Pardoned
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Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys
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Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process
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Update: YouTube-dl reinstantiated thanks to EFF (2020)
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Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn vim faster
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I no longer trust The Great Suspender
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Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
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Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers
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Tech companies are profiling us from before birth
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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
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What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
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Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
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Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?
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Intel Problems
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Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
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GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
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IPFS Support in Brave
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper
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The Buy Nothing Project
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Context switching costs more than we give it credit for
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HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
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GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free
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Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation
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We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
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That XOR Trick (2020)
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Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies
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Software effort estimation is mostly fake research
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Big O Notation – Explained as easily as possible
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A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2
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Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP
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Signal Is Back
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The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is now commercially available
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JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
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Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features
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‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years
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BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass
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The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
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Why cancer cells waste so much energy
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Be My Eyes
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WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash
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Escaping VirtualBox 6.1: Part 1
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Rust is a hard way to make a web API
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Computer System Engineering
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Running a fake power plant on the internet for a month
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Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
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Toxic positivity does more harm than good
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Wine 6.0
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Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
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Aquafaba
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Ask HN: What are you working on?
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Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World
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New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports
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Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
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Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living
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Signal is having technical difficulties
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Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
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Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
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Null
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Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
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We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers
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Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
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10 years-ish of Elixir
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'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude
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Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
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Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I received my first donation on my open-source side project
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U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers
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Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block
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Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
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Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”
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BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
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Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him
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Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
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WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
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Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 via USB ethernet
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Steam's login method is kinda interesting
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Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
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Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute, real or fake?
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Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol
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Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)
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Plain Text Accounting
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Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
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How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
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If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not
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Stripe bans Trump campaign
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Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
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Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
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Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
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Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)
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Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
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China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group – Report
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Ubiquiti Networks Breach
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)
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AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86
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Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
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PeerTube v3
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Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS
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Wikipedia is 20
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Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform
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Algorithms for Decision Making
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Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal'
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GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’
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Best of show – abuse of libc
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Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
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When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
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Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
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Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants
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You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA
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Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020)
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Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Simple Bank Is Closing
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Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video]
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Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach
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Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data
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Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content
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WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys
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Signal WhatsApp Chats Import
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Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Memory access on the Apple M1 processor
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The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
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Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach
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Traffic Simulator
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Donate to Signal
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Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
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Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
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No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I
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Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Termux no longer updated on Google Play
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Wasmer 1.0
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How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus
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Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
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How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products
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GNU Units
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Facebook senior software engineer interview
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What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
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U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
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WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with FB or stop using the app
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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On Repl-Driven Programming
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After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
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My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero
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Telegram publishes users' locations online
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GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
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Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
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GitHub is fully available in Iran
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DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
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Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later
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URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies
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Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
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USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment
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Julian Assange extradition to US blocked by UK court
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A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize
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Slack is down
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Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
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Slack is down
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Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Yale Manual for Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy of Depression
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Pixar's Render Farm
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How to overcome Phone Addiction
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Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App
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DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when state secrets involved
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The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious
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ECC matters
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I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
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Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks
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Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring
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Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly
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Horrifying PDF Experiments
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A half-hour to learn Rust
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US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies
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Open Source Smartwatch
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Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company
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WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history
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Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues
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Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction
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MF DOOM Has Died
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Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)
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TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
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California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
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State machines are wonderful tools
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EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology
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My Experience at Apple
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School or Prison
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Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 31, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
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How We Built the GitHub Globe
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HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash
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LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
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Linux Hardening Guide
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Why Jira Sucks
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WebAssembly Studio
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SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
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Happy New Year HN
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Bitcoin is a disaster
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