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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-29

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

• Temporal: Getting started with JavaScript's new date time API
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• Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook
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• A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database
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• Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible
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• Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood
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• New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed
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• MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U
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• How to Work Hard
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• GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer
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• Stepping Back from Speaking
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-28

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

• Ask HN: Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers?
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• Let's code a TCP/IP stack (2016)
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• FCA bans largest crypto-currency exchange Binance
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• Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend
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• JavaScript Is Weird
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• Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist
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• I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
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• Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
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• SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon
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• The 'Fuck You' Pattern
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-27

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

• Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
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• So you want to build a house more efficiently
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• The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media
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• YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative
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• I spent 5 years writing my own operating system
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• Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat
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• Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions
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• Unison Programming Language
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• Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna
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• Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-26

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

• Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling
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• Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
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• Functors and Monads for People Who Have Read Too Many “Tutorials”
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• Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
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• Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?
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• Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2
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• Reddit’s disrespectful design
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• Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
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• Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
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• CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-25

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

• Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11
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• Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games
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• Tiny Acquisitions
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• WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
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• Nvidia Canvas
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• Open Source Farming Robot
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• Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out
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• “Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches”
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• I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern
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• User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-24

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

• Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups
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• Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
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• Alias-Free GAN
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• Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?
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• Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage
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• Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank
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• Facebook keeps recommending political groups
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• Microsoft announces Windows 11
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• Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status
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• Google turned me into a serial killer
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-23

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

• PNG files can be animated via network latency
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• Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app
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• The Most Dangerous Censorship
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• What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
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• The Teamsters announce coordinated nationwide project to unionize Amazon
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• A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
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• Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days
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• Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
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• New GitHub Issues Beta
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• John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-22

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

• GAN Theft Auto [video]
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• Rhizome – A pedagogical example of a JIT for Ruby, implemented in Ruby
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• Rhode island makes financial literacy classes required for high school students
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• Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
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• Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M
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• Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
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• What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
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• Brave Search beta
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• Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work
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• A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-21

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

• What every programmer should know about SSDs
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• Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split
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• USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
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• Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network
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• JPEG XL
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• Fluid Paint
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• LibreCellular
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• Ask HN: I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?
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• Git undo: We can do better
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• Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-20

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

• Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
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• Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021
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• U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing
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• Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection
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• How I Found a Vulnerability to Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted to It
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• Internet in a Box
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• AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
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• Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?
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• A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years
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• Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-19

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

• Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit
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• SNES – Super Mario World Widescreen
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• CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)
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• State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
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• Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps
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• Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
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• Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge
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• Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
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• North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
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• Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-18

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

• 1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI
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• Rethinking Triplebyte
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• The Hair Dryer Incident (2014)
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• The Document Culture of Amazon
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• HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users
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• HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law
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• TDD from the Factorio Team
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• StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data
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• Brave, the false sensation of privacy
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• 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-17

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

• Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
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• Kids need freedom, too
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• The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)
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• 4-day workweek boosted workers' productivity by 40%, Microsoft Japan says
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• PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey
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• Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python
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• Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband
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• Start Your Own ISP
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• The collapse of the IRON stable coin
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• I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-16

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

• Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth
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• Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)
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• Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game
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• Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a Public Holiday
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• GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell
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• Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads
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• Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”
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• Cryptanalysis of GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 suggest intentional weakness
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• Why I no longer contribute to Racket
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• Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-15

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

• The 88x31 GIF Collection
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• I teach Python on the Raspberry Pi 400 at the public library
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• Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower
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• Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News
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• Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll
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• The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air
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• Europe's Software Problem
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• Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life
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• Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC
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• How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-14

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

• Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application
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• Ripgrep 13.0
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• Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead
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• Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]
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• ‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great ideas
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• “Great resignation” wave coming for companies
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• Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
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• Irish police to be given powers over passwords
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• Stripe Identity
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• Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-13

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

• How to think clearly
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• Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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• Taildrop was kind of easy
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• The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning
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• Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game
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• The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable
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• How to handle secrets on the command line
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• I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
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• The Elephant at WWDC
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• “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-12

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

• Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games
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• As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen
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• Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home
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• Surprising Shared Word Etymologies
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• J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer
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• It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel
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• 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale
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• Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL
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• How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)
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• Win at Risk by using systems thinking
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-11

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

• Developers can't fix bad management (2020)
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• Try APL
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• The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains
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• Good and Bad Elixir
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• Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
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• OpenHistoricalMap
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• New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
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• ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program
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• Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right
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• Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-10

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

• Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020)
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• 2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident
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• Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
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• How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
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• Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees
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• Always Be Quitting
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• iOS 15 Humane
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• Stripe Tax
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• Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines
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• Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-09

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

• Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file
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• A Project of One’s Own
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• Grafana 8.0
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• Terraform 1.0
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• Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
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• Bosch opens German chip plant
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• Vivaldi 4.0
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• Tell HN: SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure
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• El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender
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• If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-08

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

• IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
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• IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
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• IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
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• IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
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• IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
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• IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
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• IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
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• IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
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• IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
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• Fastly Outage
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-07

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

• Once a bastion of free speech, the ACLU faces an identity crisis
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• The SaaS CTO Security Checklist Redux
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• Keep Your Identity Small (2009)
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• Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors
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• Sorry everybody, I failed with you
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• Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
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• Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images
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• Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
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• FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
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• The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-06

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

• Password Managers
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• Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA Today records ID'ing readers
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• El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
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• Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater
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• Publish and Perish
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• Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters
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• Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams
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• In Praise of Open Source Textbooks
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• An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
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• A New Future for Icanhazip
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-05

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

• Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’
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• Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone 12 in a Berlin canal
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• Not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack
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• Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen
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• John Carmack on JPEG
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• Google can't pass its own page speed test
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• 3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California
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• Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins
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• G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
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• Zero to Production in Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-04

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

• Stanford CS Curriculum 2021
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• The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
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• HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
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• An Unbelievable Demo
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• You can not advertise on Google if you use Google Analytics Competitors
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• Why We Should End the Data Economy
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• There are no results for tank man
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• The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer
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• Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++
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• Lol just got kicked out of @ycombinator
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-03

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

• Blender 2.93 LTS
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• Leaky Abstractions
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• Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery
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• Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September
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• When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020)
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• A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)
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• United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
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• Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
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• US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf]
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• U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-02

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

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
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• America has a drinking problem
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• Best practices around creating production ready web apps with Docker Compose
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• OBS Studio 27.0
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• DIY Book Scanner
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• Pesticides are killing the world's soils
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• Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study
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• NixOS 21.05
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• Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
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• PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-01

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

• Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept
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• We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor
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• On Smoking
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• AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC
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• Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home
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• Firefox Release 89.0
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• YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
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• Driving with D
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• Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing
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• Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-05-31

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

• Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years
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• Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)
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• Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
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• NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report
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• Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?
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• Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)
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• Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
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• Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120
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• PostGIS at 20, the Beginning
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• The most expensive number in engineering
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