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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix
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• ‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos
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• SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity
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• Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc
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• Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection
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• Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money
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• Are You Trading or Gambling?
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• A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
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• Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups
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• Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, easy online transactions
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• A solo journey to $100k in sales
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• The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets
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• Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
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• Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex
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• ISO 8601: a better date format
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• Actually Portable Executable
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• Blender 2.92
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• Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
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• Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems
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• 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed
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• Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
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• Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store
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• Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
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• Coinbase S-1
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• DigitalOcean S-1
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• Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
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• Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees
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• The Framework Laptop
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 10 Years of Open-Source Visualization: Did I learn anything from D3.js?
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• M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time
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• Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer
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• Fry's Electronics is closing all stores
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• LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace
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• State Partitioning
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• California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs
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• The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed
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• My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
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• Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
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• Covid vaccination linked to 'substantial reduction' in hospital admissions
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• Abundant Capital
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• Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help
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• Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm
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• I heat my home by mining crypto currencies
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• Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers
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• Total Cookie Protection
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• Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer
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• Free for Developers
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nuklear: A cross-platform GUI library in C
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• Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager
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• YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
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• Go is not an easy language
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• Lena
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• Daft Punk Break Up
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• Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
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• Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates
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• We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
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• Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Destroy the Earth (2006)
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• New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
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• We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus
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• 0 A.D. Alpha 24: Xšayāršā
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• United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine
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• NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy
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• OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware
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• A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture
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• Choose Boring Technology (2015)
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• Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Brave Browser leaks your Tor / Onion service requests through DNS
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• Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step
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• Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues
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• Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers
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• Margaret Mitchell fired from Google
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• Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
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• I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)
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• M1 Macs have another hidden boot mode
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• New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped
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• How can you not be romantic about programming?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
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• Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?
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• I Miss My Bar
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• 12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks
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• Monolith First (2015)
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• “I will slaughter you”
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• WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash
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• Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers
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• Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
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• Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Visualization of 40M Cell Towers
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• Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia
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• Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
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• Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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• Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
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• There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”
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• Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
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• Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August
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• Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
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• NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources
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• Why Is Esbuild Fast?
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• Functorio
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• What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
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• IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run
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• Always Bet on Text (2014)
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• Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
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• Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
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• Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (2018)
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• Show HN: Ray.so – Create beautiful images of your code
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers
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• Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
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• Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
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• Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online
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• Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage
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• Many small queries are efficient in SQLite
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• Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
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• “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
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• 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
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• What I Worked On
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
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• Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibodies
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• Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
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• Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
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• Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp
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• SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president
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• Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine
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• Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler
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• Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
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• Faster JavaScript Calls
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenStreetMap in Realtime
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• Our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines
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• Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs
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• US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins
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• Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned
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• Statement on New York Times Article
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• GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3
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• Learn Functional Programming Visually
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• The complexity that lives in the GUI
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• K-9 Mail is looking for funding
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool
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• Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills
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• Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
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• FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open source and uses Rust
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• Short fat engineers are undervalued
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• Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
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• Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation
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• Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
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• Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform
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• 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
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• Rust 1.50
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• Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel
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• Why I Built Litestream
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• Kubernetes Failure Stories
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• Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use
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• Apple redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through proxy servers in iOS 14.5
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• Chick Corea has died
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• Self-organising textures from cellular automata
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• “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete
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• Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023
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• 8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
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• What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it
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• System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code
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• Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)
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• Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test
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• MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies
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• TurboTax Just Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes
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• America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pattern matching accepted for Python
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• OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities
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• Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
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• Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs
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• Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies
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• Timezone Bullshit
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• Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
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• Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
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• CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS
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• Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
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• New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies
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• Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says
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• 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
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• Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform
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• Algorithms by Jeff Erickson
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• No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack
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• José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio]
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• Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data
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• Cops are playing music while citizens are filming to trigger copyright filters
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit
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• An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later (2013)
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• Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game
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• Don't Offer a Free Plan
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• TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)
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• Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10m users with one update
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• Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
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• Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
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• Rust Foundation: Hello, World
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• Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Inkscape Ray Tracing – an extension for Inkscape to draw optical diagrams
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• Paul Taylor, the engineer who created the TTY machine for the deaf, has died
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• Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons
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• A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher
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• Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
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• How to lower the price of plant-based meat
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• Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon
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• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
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• Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood
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• A visual guide to SSH tunnels
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Veloren – Open-source MMORPG written in Rust
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• Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
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• I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website
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• Show HN: Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust
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• Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?
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• Complexity Explained
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• NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
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• Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud: study
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• Programming for Cats
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• Architecture.md
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Making Vaccine
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• Peter Naur's view of programming
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• Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers
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• Disqus, a dark commenting system
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• The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years (2018)
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• FOSDEM 2021
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• Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims
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• Homebrew 3.0
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• The Elements of Computing Systems, Second Edition
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• Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My product is my garden
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• DVD Laser Scanner Microscope
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• Apache Arrow 3.0
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• Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny
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• I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub
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• Parler CEO says he was fired by board
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• Waiting for PostgreSQL 14 – SEARCH and CYCLE clauses
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• McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source
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• Native Mac APIs for Go
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• Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review
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• GoboLinux
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• SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing
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• Bluetooth Trackball Mark II
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• How to Lose Money
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• A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker
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• Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose
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• I Still Use RSS
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• Yellen Summons Regulators to Discuss Financial Market Volatility
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• Computer Graphics from Scratch
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land
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• An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space in PostgreSQL
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
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• FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
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• A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
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• Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone
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• I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
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• Getting better at Linux with mini-projects
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• A Framework for Writing Better Documentation
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• Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to increase your luck surface area (2010)
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• Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS mesh communicator
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• Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (2005)
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• NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework
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• Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting and stock manipulation
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• Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers
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• SpaCy 3.0
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• Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes
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• Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus
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• VideoLAN is 20 years old today
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts
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• Offline Algorithms in Low-Frequency Trading
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• Regular afternoon naps linked to improved cognitive function
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• Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS
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• My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television
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• CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs
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• How to Turn an IKEA Coffee Table into a DIY Server Rack
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• The MIT License, Line by Line
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• Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells
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• GitHub Should Start an App Store
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