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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-30

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

• Monkey Island PC-speaker music player
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• Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December
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• 38% of remote workers work from bed
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• DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components
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• Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
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• Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations
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• Who Owns My Name?
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• New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN
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• The Inter typeface family
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• 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-29

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

• Calculus Made Easy (1910)
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• The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
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• Command line tools for productive programmers
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• Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)
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• Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud
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• How Dwarf Fortress is built
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• Crafting Interpreters is available in print
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• Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
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• Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
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• “I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*”
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-28

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

• Google launches new vulnerability reward platform
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• Netcat – All you need to know
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• Discord Launches Threads
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• Windows 96
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• I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it
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• Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source
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• IPv4 pricing
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• France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes
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• Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code
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• Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-27

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

• Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research
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• The Insecurity Industry
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• Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
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• For developers, Safari is crap and outdated
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• Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
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• Naval Architecture
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• Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
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• Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
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• Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday
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• Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-26

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

• The SaaS Org Chart
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• Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes
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• Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
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• The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty of justice
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• Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep
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• TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
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• Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud
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• Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI
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• Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles
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• Apple fixes an in-the-wild exploited 0-day (iOS 14.7.1)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-25

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

• Empty storefronts are killing neighbourhoods
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• Amazon Echo Dot does not wipe personal content after factory reset
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• To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook
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• Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
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• Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks
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• Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017)
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• Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019)
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• Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)
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• Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion
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• Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-24

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

• We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship
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• Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
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• Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?
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• My Steam Game Revenue Stats
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• Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian warship sunk near Alexandria
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• Self hosting is important
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• Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
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• A database with 3.8B phone numbers from Clubhouse is up for sale
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• How the Python import system works
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• Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study finds
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-23

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

• It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
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• Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
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• California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment
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• The Tyranny of Spreadsheets
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• Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp
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• The Framework Laptop is now shipping
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• BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound
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• Syncthing: Syncing All the Things
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• 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
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• AWS's Egregious Egress
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-22

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

• A digital museum of video game levels
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• Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
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• Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as residents are pushed out
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• The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
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• A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
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• Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25
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• Open Source Alternatives to Popular B2B Tools
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• MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT
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• Starlink review, four months in
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• Akamai Edge DNS Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-21

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

• Software engineering research is a train wreck
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• size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer
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• Square Banking
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• Restaurant workers quit at record rate
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• Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?
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• A case against security nihilism
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• MAPS Celebrates California Senate Passage of Psychedelic Reform Bill
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• Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle
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• Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone
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• Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-20

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

• I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)
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• How to Learn Stuff Quickly
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• Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
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• Under the skin of OnlyFans
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• Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus
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• My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
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• Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)
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• Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)
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• Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards
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• Our lawsuit against ChessBase
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-19

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

• iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus
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• Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech
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• Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
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• Assange case: Key witness admits he lied, media ignores exculpatory revelations
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• Deurbanising the Web [pdf]
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• Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure
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• Julia Computing raises $24M Series A
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• Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV
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• Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?
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• Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-18

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

• What Went Wrong?
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• Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol
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• HaikuOS running on RISC-V hardware (HiFive Unmatched)
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• Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance
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• Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under a Minute
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• Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)
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• Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
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• Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists
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• Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
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• An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-17

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

• Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement
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• 112 Gripes About the French
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• Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions
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• We will win the war for general-purpose computing
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• Last Mile Redis
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• Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request
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• Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education?
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• A Short Guide to Iraq (1943)
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• TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0
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• GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-16

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

• Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking
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• Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B
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• The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?
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• Remote code execution in cdnjs of Cloudflare
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• Open Insulin Foundation
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• Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations
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• Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch
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• The case for banning non-competes
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• Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
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• Why we're blind to the color blue
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-15

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

• Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine
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• Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac
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• The Well-Tempered Traveler
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• I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”
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• CVE-2021-22555: Turning \\x00\\x00 into 10000$
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• Pharo 9
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• How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer
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• Valve Steam Deck
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• Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors
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• Alphafold
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-14

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

• The art of asking nicely
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• Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA
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• The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
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• A privacy war is raging inside the W3C
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• Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it
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• WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM
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• The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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• A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement
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• Goodbye, Fleets
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• Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-13

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

• Firefox 90 supports Fetch Metadata Request Headers
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• TinyPICO – tiny fully-featured ESP32 board
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• Reddit is forcing SaveVideo to shut down
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• Inventor harvests methane gas from ditches and ponds to power his moped
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• Firefox 90
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• Building a vision of life without work (2015)
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• Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
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• $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal
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• Give me /events, not webhooks
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• macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-12

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

• People Staring at Computers
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• Podswap: Keep airpods alive and out of the landfill
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• Biden launches action on \"Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag\" – can it be real?
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• Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
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• Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot
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• Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies
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• My business might have 32 days before it's shut down by NYC [video]
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• Dead Startup Toys
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• This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
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• Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-11

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

• Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use
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• Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some
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• Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful
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• Instagram Has Become SkyMall
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• Automated Hydroponic System Build (2020)
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• EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)
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• WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
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• Why do we use R rather than Excel?
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• Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash
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• Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-10

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

• Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back
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• SpriteStack Voxel Editor
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• Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (2014)
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• Generate a Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash
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• Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
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• Non Session Manager vs New Session Manager
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• Against SQL
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• 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
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• “One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”
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• Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-09

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

• List of Special Elevator Modes
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• Building a data team at a mid-stage startup
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• Google Internal Comics
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• Apple founder Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement
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• Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
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• New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C
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• How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub
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• NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
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• Do patents kill innovation? The US patent office is asking
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• Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-08

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

• Data Structure Visualizations
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• The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review
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• An Intern’s Guide to Trading
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• Runway – Create impossible video
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• All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
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• Compiling Rust is NP-hard
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• Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal
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• We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
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• The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)
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• EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-07

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

• Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs
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• Tell HN: YC will help you find a co-founder
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• Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better: study
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• Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night
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• Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study
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• Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising
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• What Does My Site Cost?
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• Haiti’s President Is Assassinated
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• Npm Audit: broken by design?
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• A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-06

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

• How to get better at painting without painting anything (2015)
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• Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting
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• No More Movies
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• “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
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• Leaving Google
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• Linux Rust Support
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• Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable
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• Poisson's Equation
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• Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says
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• European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-05

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

• Write a time-series database engine from scratch
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• Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly
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• Stockfish 14
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• Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)
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• Indiscriminate messaging and chatcontrol: Last chance to protest
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• GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
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• Everything useful I know about kubectl
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• XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Arm Cortex-A76
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• Music for Programming
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• Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-04

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

• Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning
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• Things I wish Git had: Commit groups
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• GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model
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• The Growth Ponzi Scheme
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• Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more
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• Soviet Venus Images (2004)
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• Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log
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• Blender and the Rabbids
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• The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field
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• Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-03

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

• Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
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• Steve Jobs in Kyoto
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• Using sqlite3 as a notekeeping document graph
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• Mise-en-place for knowledge workers
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• The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan
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• US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
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• The Untold Story of SQLite
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• Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots
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• GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
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• I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-02

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

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
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• Robinhood S-1 IPO
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• Check If Email Exists
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• Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
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• Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
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• Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
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• Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
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• Amazon Delivery Companies Revolt Against Amazon, Shut Down
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• Neovim v0.5
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• Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-01

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

• ‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect
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• Software Engineering principles to make teams better
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• SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll
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• The most precious resource is agency
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• Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020)
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• Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams
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• Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public
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• British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
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• Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)
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• Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-06-30

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

• Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents
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• What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t
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• HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests
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• Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice
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• Modular Homes for Under $50k
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• A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing
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• Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements
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• Software estimation is hard – do it anyway
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• GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?
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• Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit
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