Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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&& operator chains (and ||, possibly) generates unoptimizable LLVM IR
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Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses
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Problems with low DNS TTLs
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Show HN: I wrote a program to convert lines of text into trees
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68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News
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Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (1996) [pdf]
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Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative
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Numi. Calculator app for Mac
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USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)
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Hello, HPy
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
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Text to Image Generation
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Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field
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Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work [pdf]
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PHP's Git server compromised, moving to GitHub
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Ever Given Everywhere
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The Deno Company
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Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
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Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated
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Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Does Amazon make more from ads than AWS?
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400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (2016)
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How can you tell if someone is lying?
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Piano Practice Software Progress
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Formal Methods of Software Design an Online Course by Eric Hehner
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New 5G protocol vulnerabilities allow location tracking
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Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink
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I made an eInk newspaper
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Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
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Addiction to Outrage (2020)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Socat – A utility for data transfer between two addresses (2018)
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Louvre makes its entire collection available online
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First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified
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FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the official homepage
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Open Source Security Foundation
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French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers
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Figma to React
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Ohm – A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc.
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EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
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I tracked down my impostor
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez
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An ancient method that keeps Afghanistan's grapes fresh all winter
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Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support
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Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
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Annie of Annie's Mac and Cheese
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Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper
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Beverly Cleary has died
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In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway
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PlenOctrees for Real-Time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)
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Tesla broke US labor law with anti-union efforts – watchdog
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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America’s bald eagle population continues to soar
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The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher
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Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
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Do you really want Linux phones
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SQLite is not a toy database
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Julia 1.6 Highlights
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RIP Google Reader
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Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you
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All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
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Is that ship still stuck?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Groove Pizza
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The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now
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TLS 1.0, 1.1 officially deprecated
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Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
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Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
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Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
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The Python Package Index is now a GitHub secret scanning integrator
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'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]
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Show HN: I wrote a book about Go
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Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Early-Retirement Update
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In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
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U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit
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Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
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Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
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Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace
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Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default
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Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
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0 A.D A free, open-source game of ancient warfare
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme
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GPT Neo: open-source GPT model, with pretrained 1.3B & 2.7B weight models
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Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
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Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook
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Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
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The absolute worst scenario happened
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Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
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The S in IoT is for Security
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Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
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Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Nyxt Browser
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Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION
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My self-study plan for electrical engineering
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Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
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Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)
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Godot Engine Web Editor
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CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
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CUPID – the back story
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John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT
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Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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CodeTour: VS Code extension to record and play guided walkthroughs of codebases
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Sensible macOS Defaults
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What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App
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Hacker's Guide to Numerical Analysis
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Click
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Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous
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Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that can modify microcode
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The Invention of a New Pasta Shape
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Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
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Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How to Design Programs (2014)
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Show HN: Video Game in a Font
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Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland
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ShellCheck: A static analysis tool for shell scripts
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We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling
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Docker for Mac M1 RC
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Cookie Consent Speed Running Game
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The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene (2019)
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Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp
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Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Let there be more biographies of failures
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Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants
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Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos
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Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
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We bootstrapped to $11M in ARR
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WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
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Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk
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Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
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Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine
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Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
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Why in the world would you own bonds?
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Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison
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Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky
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Irish webapp to recreate pub atmosphere at home
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FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience
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Charts.css
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Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40%
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Audacity 3.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
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A hacker got all my texts for $16
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Zoom Escaper: self-sabotage audio, making your presence unbearable to others
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Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash
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We Don’t Use Docker
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Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
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Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
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Swift Evolution: Actors
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Moore's Law for Everything
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GitHub, f ck your name change
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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LeoCAD 21.03
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Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed
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Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?
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The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption
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Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
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Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
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Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu
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Facebook's GDPR consent bypass reaches Austrian Supreme Court
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HN was down
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Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Docker Security Cheat Sheet
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Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the floor
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Vaccines should end the pandemic, despite the variants, say experts
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Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
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I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries
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Reprojecting the Perseverance landing footage onto satellite imagery
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EBPFSnitch: An eBPF based Linux Application Firewall
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Security.txt
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Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
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Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board
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Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern
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RegEx Crossword
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Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
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How to convert your old laptop screen into an external monitor
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RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)
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Speed of Rust vs. C
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Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
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Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
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Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Sweden Solar System
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Backblaze is now a Terraform provider
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A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
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My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card
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Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
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Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone
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UK to depart from GDPR
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Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?
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The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram
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What's New in SQLite 3.35
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding
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Launch HN: Remora (YC W21) – Carbon capture for semi trucks
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Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome
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netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go
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Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972)
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Based Cooking
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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
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How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
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Write Simply
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Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Webmention.io
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UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
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Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning
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Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jail, hospital
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Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
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Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
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We created a fake language to root out resume liars
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Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died
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Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible
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U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving time permanent
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 09, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Year at Google Brain (2020)
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Fuckin' user interface design, I swear
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Excel Never Dies
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MIPS Becomes RISC-V
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New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations
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I want a computer that I own
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5k Year Old Bog Oak Table: Digging up 4k-year-old trees for furniture
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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
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Write libraries instead of services, where possible
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ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 08, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
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The Kilobyte’s Gambit
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Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch
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Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
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Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes
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Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life
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Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable
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Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
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-2000 Lines of Code
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“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 07, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code
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Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge
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FFMPEG from Zero to Hero
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Nodes.io – A new way to create with code
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Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen
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NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
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Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
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Let's Encrypt's performance is currently degraded due to a DDoS attack
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Donate Unrestricted
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Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 06, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Symbolics.jl: A Modern Computer Algebra System for a Modern Language
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Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
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Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
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Fusion startup plans reactor with small but powerful superconducting magnets
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Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI
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30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
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Coursera S-1 IPO
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Burned House Horizon
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Zero Data App
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Animated Engines
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 05, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
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DuckDuckGo – two non-JavaScript versions of search results
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Female Founder Secrets: Fertility
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Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?
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100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
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Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
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Open source projects should run office hours
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'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
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Bring Your Own Client
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Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 04, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
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The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber
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Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
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Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation
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It Can Happen to You
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US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up
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HTTPWTF
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Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
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“User engagement” is code for “addiction”
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Git's list of banned C functions
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 03, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis
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The MIT Press launches Direct to Open
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NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images
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Microsoft Power Fx – A low-code general purpose programming language
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ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’
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PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
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Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
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Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
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Killing TurboTax
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Flutter 2
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 02, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Internet Archive Infrastructure
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Lyra audio codec enables high-quality voice calls at 3 kbps bitrate
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'
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Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts
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Publisher Nacon Cracked and Pirated Our Game: The Sinking City
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Speed Is the Killer Feature
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LastPass Android app has got 7 trackers in it
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Bitcoin Is Time
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Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution
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Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 01, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, Inspired by I3wm
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Little League wants all your information
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On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
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The Last Message Sent on AIM
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Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
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Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf
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Generate Flowcharts from Text
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
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Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
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If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-02-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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In Defense of Dumb TVs
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Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?
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A new chapter – full-time working from a van in a forest
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SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak
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How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)
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Actually Portable Executables
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Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the Turkish government
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Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with
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The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly
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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
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