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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
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• Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
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• All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (2019)
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• Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1
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• Please commit more blatant academic fraud
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• After a week at my mom’s house I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand
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• Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer
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• Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
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• Overkill objects for everyday life
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• It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-29

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

• Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser
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• Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (2019)
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• Charter charges more money for slower Internet on streets with no competition
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• Why Russians do not smile (2002)
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• Overwork killed more than 745k people in a year, WHO study finds
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• Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam
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• Pwned passwords, open source in the .NET foundation and working with the FBI
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• The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection
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• Yamaha MOTOROiD
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• Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-28

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

• Eric Carle has died
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• Show HN: NocoDB – The Open Source Airtable Alternative
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• The media's lab leak fiasco
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• QUIC is now RFC 9000
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• Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
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• Safari tries to fill username
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• Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
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• I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
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• It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
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• Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-27

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

• USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops
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• Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
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• Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
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• Life after an internet mob attack
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• Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research
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• River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
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• Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
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• How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
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• Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
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• MDN Plus
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-26

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

• Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
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• M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
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• Freenode ops take control of 700 channels
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• Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked
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• The Expanse UI Design
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• One week of Libera Chat
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• Upheaval at freenode
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• Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
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• Neovim 0.5 is overpowering
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• Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-25

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

• Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
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• DOOM Captcha
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• Inkscape 1.1
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• Use native context menus on Mac OS
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• EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
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• Magit 3.0
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• It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
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• Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal
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• Stripe Payment Links
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• YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-24

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

• Dorodango: the Japanese art of making shiny mud balls (2019)
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• Teardown of a PC Power Supply
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• Why I prefer making useless stuff
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• The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
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• Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
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• Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed
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• A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
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• Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
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• Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
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• In praise of --dry-run
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-23

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

• Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
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• KolibriOS
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• Monetizing open-source is problematic
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• Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations
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• Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
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• Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua
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• One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
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• Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days
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• Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
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• Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-22

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

• Text editing hates you too (2019)
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• Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force
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• Microsoft and Apple wage war on gadget right-to-repair laws
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• Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing
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• Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restrictions
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• A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more
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• NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)
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• Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally
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• An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring Improvements
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• Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-21

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

• Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
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• Spintronics: Build Mechanical Circuits
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• WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
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• Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings
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• Sublime Text 4
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• Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak
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• Learn CSS
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• Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges
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• 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
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• Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-20

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

• Squeezebox Keyboard
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• FTC and several states sue Frontier Communications regarding internet speeds
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• Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
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• Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
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• Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs
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• Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0
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• Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
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• Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called \"feature phones\"
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• How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix
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• Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-19

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

• Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit
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• Site Isolation in Firefox
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• Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
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• Researchers, lawmakers want Facebook's mental health research
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• A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
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• Elixir 1.12
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• Poor in Tech
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• I'm leaving Freenode for a new network
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• Welcome to Libera Chat
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• Improving Firefox stability on Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-18

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

• More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins
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• A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop
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• Positions chess engines don't understand
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• Terms and Conditions Game
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• AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search
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• Microsoft Authenticator Chrome Extention is not from MS and is phishing
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• Fierce Nerds
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• Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
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• The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company
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• Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-17

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

• Half a million lines of Go
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• Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack
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• Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy efficiency
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• CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries
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• Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0
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• Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack
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• How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
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• Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
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• Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
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• Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-16

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

• Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (2019)
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• The True Size of Africa (2015)
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• I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack
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• Observing my cellphone switch towers
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• Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
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• SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017)
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• Building a personal website in 2021
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• The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos
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• Washington state removes all barriers to municipal broadband
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• Systemd: The Good Parts
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-15

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

• Lima: Linux-on-Mac
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• Rust Weird Expressions
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• Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response
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• Quake3e, a modern Quake III Arena engine
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• The Return of Fancy Tools
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• TikTok Remix Culture
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• TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter
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• China lands rover on Mars
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• Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)
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• Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-14

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

• Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
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• $365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin
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• Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor
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• Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
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• Ads are impersonating government websites in Google results, despite ban
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• Scala 3.0
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• FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
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• I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
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• DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
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• A URL Lengthener
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-13

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

• Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
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• Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
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• Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue
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• Midair Collision over Denver
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• Google fined €100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominance
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• What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages
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• Movies every physics lover should watch
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• Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan
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• Notion API – public beta
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• Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-12

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

• We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon
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• Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns
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• Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
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• Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?
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• Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement
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• Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator
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• Erlang/OTP 24 highlights
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• Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
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• Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
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• Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-11

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

• Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
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• Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse
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• Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE
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• Can I Email?
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• Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
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• Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
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• Amazon Sidewalk
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• ●●|●●●●●|●●|●
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• I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
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• FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-10

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

• A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes
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• Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?
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• The Animal Is Tired
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• Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access
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• US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
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• The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day
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• The word “decide” has deadly origins
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• Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
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• Writing books is not really a good idea
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• Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-09

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

• How I Practice Piano
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• Linux Foundation starts AgStack, an open-source agtech initiative
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• If I fits I sits: illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats
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• Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)
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• Gravity is a double copy of other forces
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• There’s no such thing as a tree, phylogenetically
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• The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
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• Wikipedia is up (2001)
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• AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years
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• The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-08

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

• Honeywell gets hit with $13M fine for defense export violations
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• WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy
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• I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
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• iPad Camera Multitasking
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• Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React
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• The Byte Order Fiasco
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• FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
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• Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them
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• Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay
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• Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-07

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

• \"To our surprise\"
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• Starting a crypto project
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• Google Dataset Search
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• Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
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• The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box?
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• Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
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• Searching the web for under $1000/month
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• Analytics Suggest 96% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5
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• Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach
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• Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-06

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

• Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale
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• Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time
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• HTML Tips (2020)
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• Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
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• LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
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• Why I Work on Ads
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• IBM creates 2nm chip
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• Crazy New Ideas
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• Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
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• Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-05

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

• Observable Plot
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• Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
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• Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
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• Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
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• 60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent
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• ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
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• White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
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• Is this what enterprise means?
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• Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
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• Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-04

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

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
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• ShellCheck: Finds bugs in your shell scripts
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• Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class
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• Show HN: Control Your Bose Headphones From Your Mac's Menubar
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• Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
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• How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions
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• uLisp
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• Efficiency Is the Enemy
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• On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
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• Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-03

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

• The compiler will optimize that away
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• How Tech Loses Out
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• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part IV
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• Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website
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• The End of AMP
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• Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers
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• Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust
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• Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales
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• Practical SQL for Data Analysis
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• The Unix Magic Poster
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-02

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

• Scaling monorepo maintenance
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• Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme
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• What can mRNA treat next?
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• A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014)
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• Will Linux phones stay around this time?
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• California appeals court finds Amazon responsible for 3rd party sellers products
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• Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code (2020)
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• Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
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• Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
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• Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-01

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

• Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
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• Show HN: Second-Chance Pool
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• New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses
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• SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty
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• So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
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• Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]
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• GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down
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• Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
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• List of apps people pay for but have low rating
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• Torvalds: Shared libraries are not a good thing in general
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-04-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• CSRF, CORS, and HTTP Security Headers Demystified
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• Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken
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• Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir
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• QEMU 6.0
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• Internal Combustion Engine
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• EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
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• YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google contract dispute
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• A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
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• It's your device, you should be able to repair it
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• “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”
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