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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-29

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

• The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney
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• The code worked differently when the moon was full
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• Dude, where’s my stuff
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• Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok
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• Offline First
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• Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
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• Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Page Run by Foreign Troll Farms
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• I'm working on open source full time
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• Making Bracket Pair Colorization Faster
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• YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-28

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

• IMGZ – Paid image sharing
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• What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
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• Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
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• Spaces launch in Element
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• Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up
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• Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password
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• Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
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• Masscan: TCP port scanner, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes
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• You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
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• My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-27

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

• Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
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• I just don’t want to be busy anymore
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• Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013)
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• The Mom Test – How to talk to customers
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• How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
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• Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
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• I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2
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• Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox
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• Something weird is happening on Facebook
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• Imgur Acquired by Medialab
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-26

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

• Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
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• AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules
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• JSFuck (2012)
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• The Problem of Marital Loneliness
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• Category Theory Illustrated – Logic
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• Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange
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• Designing Low Upkeep Software
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• Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever
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• Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind
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• Moiré No More
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-25

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

• No, we won’t have a video call for that
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• Asynchronous Programming in C#
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• Nginx Playground
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• Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research
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• Engineers are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel
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• 200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring
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• A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas
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• AMD’s Lisa Su
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• The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen
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• Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-24

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

• Reactive Clojure: A web language
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• Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
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• Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
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• Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Working
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• Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities
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• Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn
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• Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag
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• Submarine cable map rendered onto a globe
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• Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades
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• A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-23

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

• A different kind of keyboard
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• Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind
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• Reasons to Quit Social Media
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• How we got to LiveView
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• Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat
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• Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time
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• Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account
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• The NSA and CIA use ad blockers
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• Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt
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• Facebook paid billions to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-22

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

• Mister Rogers had a simple set of rules for talking to children (2018)
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• Manyverse – A social network off the grid
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• That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job
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• TikTokers Are Trading Stocks by Copying What Members of Congress Do
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• The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning
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• DIY RGB Icosahedron
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• Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
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• Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
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• Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings in pricing by procedure
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• Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-21

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

• The Truth, by Stanisław Lem (1964)
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• Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless future
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• What is this Gemini thing, and why am I excited about it? (2020)
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• Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10
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• Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythonic Interfaces
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• I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
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• While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working
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• A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley
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• More Casio Watch Mods (2017)
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• The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-20

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

• Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication
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• Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
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• If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
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• Google Docs in a clean-room browser
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• There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives
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• Home Price to Income Ratio
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• As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support
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• FBI says seized fortune was criminals’ loot—owners say: Where’s the proof?
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• ClickHouse, Inc.
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• Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning´
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-19

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

• WireGuard for Windows now uses high speed kernel implementation
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• AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories
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• Excision's CRISPR HIV therapy is heading into human testing after FDA clearance
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• Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England?
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• Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud
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• Russia restricts opposition election voting app
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• University of Florida gets a 1% cut of Gatorade profits
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• Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]
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• Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS
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• Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-18

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

• Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022
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• On YouTube’s recommendation system
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• Seed – A Rust front-end framework for creating fast and reliable web apps
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• Transforming OpenStreetMap into thick roads and intersections
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• Headscale: Open-source implementation of the Tailscale control server
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• Borb – A Python library to read, write, and edit PDF files
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• Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords
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• Sysz – An fzf terminal UI for systemctl
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• How to Rapidly Improve at Any Programming Language (2016)
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• Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-17

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

• The Crime of Curiosity
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• iOS on QEMU
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• The Perils of an .xyz Domain
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• Windows 11: Just say no
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• Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale
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• Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
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• Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
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• Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown
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• Building apps in minutes, not months
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• Gitlab S-1
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-16

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

• How much faster is Java 17?
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• Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)
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• Home Assistant – open-source home automation
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• Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater
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• Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
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• A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
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• The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN
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• The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
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• Sir Clive Sinclair has died
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• Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-15

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

• Turing Oversold?
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• Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
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• Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer
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• Anonymous Hacks Epik
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• Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
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• Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed
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• Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American
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• Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
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• Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development
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• Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-14

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

• Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use
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• Firefox Browser: best for a free web
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• Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships
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• Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect
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• Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide
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• Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
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• Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
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• Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit
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• How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages
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• Norm Macdonald has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-13

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

• Transmission torrent client ported to C++
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• Epiousios
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• Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules
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• Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
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• OpenRA: Red Alert, Command and Conquer, Dune 2000, Rebuilt for the Modern Era
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• Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules
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• I refuse to let Amazon define Rust
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• YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording
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• NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
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• Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-12

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

• Checkboxland
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• PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams
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• Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020)
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• Phony diagnoses hide high rates of drugging at nursing homes
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• My Room in 3D
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• New alternatives to HSL and HSV that better match color perception
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• Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay if you don't click agree
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• Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)
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• Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations
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• 17Bn life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-11

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

• Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
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• Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
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• Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
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• Mistakes I've Made in AWS
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• Geizhals – Tech Product Price Comparison and Tracking
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• Rouille
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• Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux
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• September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time
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• No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)
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• Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-10

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

• A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room
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• Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon
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• New math book rescues landmark topology proof
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• New details on silicon, subatomic particles and possible ‘fifth force’
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• A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
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• Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America
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• Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
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• Problems with Oracle SQL
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• Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers
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• Windy.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-09

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

• The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade
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• How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres and Go
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• How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
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• mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours
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• OWASP Top 10 2021
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• California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
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• 60x speed-up of Linux “perf”
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• Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules
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• Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today
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• Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-08

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

• Deploy a website on imgur.com
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• Unity patents ECS
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• Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
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• The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why
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• Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS
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• 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
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• Monitoring my home's air quality with AirGradient's DIY sensor
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• Maintain It with Zig
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• LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop
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• MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-07

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

• Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption
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• Minus
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• Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China
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• MangaDex infrastructure overview
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• Htmlq: like jq, but for html
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• The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated
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• ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested
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• Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot
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• Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly
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• My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-06

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

• Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action
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• Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)
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• ZFS is mysteriously eating my CPU
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• Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
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• After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high
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• US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing
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• Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life savings
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• Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates
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• Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist
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• Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-05

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

• The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just make more?
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• How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players
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• Writing Well-Documented Code – Learn from Examples
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• 200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor
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• Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
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• Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016)
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• Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
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• Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)
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• Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role
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• Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-04

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

• Z3 approach to discover that “q_rsqrt” is in Copilot's slur list
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• Operations is not Developer IT
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• MIT Mathlets
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• uBlock Origin review
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• How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?
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• Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network
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• Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
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• Migrating from Docker to Podman
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• Back Orifice (1998)
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• GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-03

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

• Gift card gang extracts cash from 100k inboxes daily
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• Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)
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• GateBoy – A gate-level simulation of the original Game Boy hardware
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• Web-based editor
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• OpenMoji: Open-source emojis
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• Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features
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• Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
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• Rejected internal job applicants are twice as likely to quit
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• Software Piracy and IP Management: Strategic Responses to Imitation
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• Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-02

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

• Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
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• How to Study Effectively
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• Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says
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• The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight
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• Old photos of Bedouin nomads, 1898
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• Opendesktop.org – Libre Cloud Services
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• UK ISP Sky feeds realtime customer bandwidth data to litigous anti-piracy firm
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• Record €225m fine for WhatsApp Ireland over data protection breaches
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• O.mg Cable
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• Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-09-01

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

• Why Erlang?
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• Rugby: Head impact study shows cognitive decline after just one season
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• The art of not taking things personally
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• My House
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• A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos
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• How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and security
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
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• Linux on the Framework Laptop
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• Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications
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• Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-08-31

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

• The complicated reality of doing what you love
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• Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
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• Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
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• Apple and Google must allow other payment systems, new Korean law declares
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• Extreme Ironing
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• Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
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• Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020)
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• Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours
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• Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel
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• System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock
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