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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better wine performance
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• Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
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• Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes
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• Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home
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• History of Techno
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• RotaJakiro: A long live secret backdoor with 0 VT detection
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• Yayagram
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• An Update on the UMN Affair
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• Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
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• U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams
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• Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
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• Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
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• The health benefits of better air
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• Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
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• Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
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• GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
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• Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware
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• The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years
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• Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-27

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

• Changes at Basecamp
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• Best practices for remote software engineering
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• Lambda School agrees to end deceptive educational financing practices
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• Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
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• Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
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• My Current HTML Boilerplate
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• Google promised its contact tracing app was completely private, but it wasn’t
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• Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac
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• Google have declared Droidscript is malware
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• My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-26

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

• How Facebook encodes videos
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• Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews through fibre cable
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• Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]
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• 2021 Williams F1 Computational Fluid Dynamics
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• We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
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• Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)
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• Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
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• Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
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• iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
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• CSS Tips
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-25

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

• Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared
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• Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
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• The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging
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• Show HN: Verilog2factorio
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• Rust Language Cheat Sheet
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• Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)
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• Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C
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• Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos
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• Job descriptions should show a salary or salary range
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• Has UML died without anyone noticing?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-24

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

• Lego Microscope
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• Light Pollution Map
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• Cycles X
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• Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage
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• A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
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• Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository
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• Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released
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• Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
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• Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20
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• Dan Kaminsky has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-23

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

• The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts
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• Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
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• Semgrep: Semantic grep for code
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• Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
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• Why Lichess will always be free
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• Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]
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• Get better at Googling
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• Apple Is Sued for Telling You That You're “Buying” Movies
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• Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system
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• The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-22

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

• Godot 3.3
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• Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure
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• EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
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• Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server
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• Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
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• “Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.”
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• Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols
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• Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer
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• Ubuntu 21.04
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• Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-21

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

• Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus
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• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube
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• .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI
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• “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
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• Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
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• Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research
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• Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data [pdf]
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• Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer
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• GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
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• UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-20

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

• Zenreader: A 4.7\" E-Ink RSS Reader
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• The “Granny Knot”
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• Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist
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• IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
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• The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
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• Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)
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• Apple Introduces AirTag
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• Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft
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• Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
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• YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-19

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

• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III
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• Unsettling capital letters
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• Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python
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• Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]
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• Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]
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• First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]
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• Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention
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• Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
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• Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations
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• Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-18

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

• The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations
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• The Story of the SolarWinds Hack
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• Show HN: Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners
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• Show HN: I built a Guitar Hero robot [video]
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• Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
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• Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
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• Bitcoin mining hash rate drops as blackouts instituted in China
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• Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?
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• Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir
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• Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-17

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

• 'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight
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• GANcraft: Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds
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• Kelly Criterion
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• Why has no one made a better Goodreads
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• Squarespace S1
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• QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta
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• Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
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• Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme
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• 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
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• Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-16

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

• TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022
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• Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
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• Bitcoin miners are buying power plants
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• Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network
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• U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown
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• Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel
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• Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
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• Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium
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• FTP is 50 years old
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• SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-15

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

• Logica, a novel open-source logic programming language
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• The first 18 months of a startup
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• An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel
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• SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
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• Don't Use Google Chrome
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• Calendso: An open source Calendly alternative
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• Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter
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• Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs
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• Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
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• Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-14

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

• 1Password Secrets Automation
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• The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
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• System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
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• Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices
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• WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
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• Pass: The standard Unix password manager
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• Yamauchi No.10 Family Office
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• YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability
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• Show HN: Lofi.cafe
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• Coinbase from YC to IPO
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-13

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

• Chrome zero-day released on GitHub – fixed on V8 but still works on latest
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• Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
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• Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (2015)
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• Just Be Rich
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• Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript
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• US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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• School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired
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• My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
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• A top-grossing scam on the App Store
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• Deno 1.9
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-12

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

• Technologies I thought my son would never use
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• MiSTer, an open-source FPGA gaming project
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• std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs
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• What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
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• Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video]
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• Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
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• Use console.log() like a pro (2020)
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• RMS addresses the free software community
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• OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
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• How People Get Rich Now
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-11

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

• Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas
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• Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
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• I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
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• A common mistake when NumPy’s RNG with PyTorch
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• Is It Pokemon or Big Data?
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• Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free
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• AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea
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• Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
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• Making Librem 5 Apps [video]
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• The Ponzi Career
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-10

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

• Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
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• Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out
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• AWS Lambda Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
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• Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs
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• The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple
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• Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
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• Setting up Starlink
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• Ink 1.0 – Open-source scripting language for interactive narrative
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• Donation page \"not compliant with Google Play Policies\"
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• Best practices for writing SQL queries
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-09

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

• A man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965
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• Monkey MindPong
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• CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
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• Docker without Docker
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• Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
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• Embrace the Grind
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• Prince Philip has died
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• Zoom zero-day discovery
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• Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
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• Why uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-08

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

• Surprisingly Slow
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• Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site
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• Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
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• FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease
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• How to make a Python package in 2021
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• New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity
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• An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
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• Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
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• The Real Book
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• The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-07

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

• The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (2019)
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• Eliminating Data Races in Firefox
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• Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency
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• Wuffs’ PNG image decoder
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• Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
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• All C++20 core language features with examples
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• Et Tu, Signal?
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• Screw it, I’ll host it myself
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• Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted
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• 34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-06

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

• Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
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• Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
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• Have I Been Facebooked?
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• Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)
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• Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
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• The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
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• Django 3.2
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• Programming is hard
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• I hope work from home continues
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• I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-05

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

• Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
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• HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach
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• How did Microsoft make Flight Simulator seem so real?
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• Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
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• LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
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• Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent
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• Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
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• Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
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• Writing tools I learned from The Economist
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• Show HN: My personal website is a shell
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-04

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

• MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
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• “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
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• How Doctors Die (2013)
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• How to bypass Cloudflare bot protection
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• My apartment was built on toxic waste
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• I can only think that modern front end development has failed
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• Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users
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• New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials
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• PDFs from HTML
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• Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-03

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

• The Norway Problem
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• IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials
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• Securing a Postgres Database
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• Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
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• Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
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• Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
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• ShipMap
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• 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
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• My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission
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• Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-02

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

• A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16
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• Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail
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• Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters
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• Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard
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• Every Noise at Once
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• Move Slow and Make Things
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• This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem
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• Microsoft Coffee
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• Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says
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• Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-01

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

• Voxel Space: Comanche's terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code (2020)
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• Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)
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• Signed Char Lotte
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• Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
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• Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust
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• Security Breach at US Universities
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• Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
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• Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
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• Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-03-31

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

• Let’s fix font size
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• PayPal launches crypto checkout service
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• Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
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• Voltswagen of America
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• 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
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• Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
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• Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
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• Kafka without ZooKeeper
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• What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur
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• UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview
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