Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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For security reasons, the following information is not to be shared with enduser
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MarkMonitor left 60k domains for the taking
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Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
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Stop Waiting for Godot
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Writing Programs with Ncurses
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French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid
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If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?
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China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
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Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
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The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [video]
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Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021
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Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)
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FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent
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A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI
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An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux
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Summary After Four Months with Ada
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Hell Is Other REPLs
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Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
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Train Wheels Are Cones
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I hacked an office telephone to play Doom
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Launch HN: Hotswap (YC S21) – Easily migrate customers away from competitors
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Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier
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Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
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Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
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The Future of discord.py
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Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
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Weird Languages
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The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
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Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
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Why are hyperlinks blue?
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Work Hard (2007)
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Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
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Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP
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Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers
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Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal
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Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
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App store payments will have increased competition
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Arm China Has Gone Rogue
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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My dead dad’s journal
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The rise of user-hostile software
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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
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Canistilluse.com
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Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021
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mRNA vaccine trial for Lyme disease
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TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage
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Sailfish 4
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Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%
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I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The most underused browser feature: reader mode
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Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust
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API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
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An Introduction to JQ
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A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical
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OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
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Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data
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OnlyFans suspends plan to ban sexually explicit content after outcry
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Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
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Burning Out and Quitting
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes
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A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead
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Gail.com
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Apple’s crackdown on multicast
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Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader
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Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
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Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
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Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
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Charlie Watts has died
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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands
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On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
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Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking
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How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video]
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Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires
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Deno on MDN
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My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)
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The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
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FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine
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How I Experience Web Today
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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We built a system like Apple’s to flag CSAM and concluded the tech was dangerous
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Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store
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How to Remember What You Read
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Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse
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Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft
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Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)
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Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson
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A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence
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ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors
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PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly
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Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional
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Generics enabled by default in Go tip
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Patterns in Confusing Explanations
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I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers
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Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”
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Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad
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An Opinionated Guide to Xargs
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Urban Dictionary on Hacker News
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EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Performance Improvements in .NET 6
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Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server
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The thing standing between procrastination and daily progress is ritual
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FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook
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Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without user intervention (2019)
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Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
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Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
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A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong
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Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos
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Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster
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Richard Bartle releases his classic “Designing Virtual Worlds” book for free
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SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring
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Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash
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Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim
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The Polar Bear – Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis
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Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
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Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%
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ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
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OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror
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Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
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Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it
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Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
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Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX
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German parliament pens letter to Apple with concerns over CSAM detection system
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Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
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Apple is suing Corellium
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Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?
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Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone
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T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked
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Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
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Economic costs of war
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The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011)
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A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way
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Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
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Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
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Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
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Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Nerds Don't Respond to Marketing; Try Technical Documentation Instead
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How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
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T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach
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Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, Dmarc, and SPF
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Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game
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A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics
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U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes
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Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping
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Why is it so hard to be rational?
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Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
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Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs
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I hate almost all software (2011)
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Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
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SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec
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The rise of the one-person unicorn
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MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine
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India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption
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Introducing the PineNote
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OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI
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Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)
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Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]
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Second IC
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AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses
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macOS in Svelte
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Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body problem
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Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads
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Debian 11
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Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings
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Internet of Snitches
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Git password authentication is shutting down
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Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
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Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders
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Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
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Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
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It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record
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Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
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FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Launch HN: Slip (YC S21) – Build and sell interactive programming courses
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Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
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Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition
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Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support
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Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship
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Mosh: The Mobile Shell
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ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning
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Life Improvements Since the 1990s
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A future for SQL on the web
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The Deceptive PR Behind Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children”
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Interactive introduction to game theory and trust
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Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
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Please log in with router's password
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The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020)
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The Problem with Ethereum
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Australia is becoming a surveillance state
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Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
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An old hacker's tips on staying employed
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GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
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1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)
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Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
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New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest
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Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
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Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
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Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
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Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing
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Elementary OS 6 Odin
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TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 09, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929
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Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
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Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science
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Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
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WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan
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Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
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Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells
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Messaging and chat control
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Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap
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Apple’s Mistake
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 08, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Sci-Hub is fundraising
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Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
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Very fast rocket
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A street snack that has baffled botanists
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Space Station incident demands independent investigation
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Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
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1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults
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Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free
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Apps Getting Worse
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One Bad Apple
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 07, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Dating in Delhi when you're poor
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Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view
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The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
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“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.”
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Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities
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Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes
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In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features
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Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence
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An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
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After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 06, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse
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LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences
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Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter
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U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research
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On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story
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An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
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Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming
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Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
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New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
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CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 05, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
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Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
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Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
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Airyx OS
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Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
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Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report
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Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
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Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
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Kid Pix as a JavaScript App
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Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 04, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance
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The 5-Hour CDN
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Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (2012)
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Where are the robotic bricklayers?
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Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat
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My small revenge on Apple
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The surreal experience of my first developer job
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PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter
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The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
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Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 03, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
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How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion
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Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework
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FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization
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Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster
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Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them
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Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code
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Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?
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NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]
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Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 02, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B
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The rise of never-ending job interviews
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Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal
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Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%
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Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement
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Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
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The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
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Life before smartphones
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WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 01, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission
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Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)
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The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure
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Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9
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Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
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Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020)
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New in Git: switch and restore
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My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry
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U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds (2020)
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Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-07-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Craig Murray will surrender himself for prison
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Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver
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B-tree Path Hints
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We Still Don’t Get Things Done
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs
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Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file
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Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment
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Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages
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Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
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Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)
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