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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-29

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

• The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by
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• Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
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• WebGL Water
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• Tiny
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• Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
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• The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016)
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• Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
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• Winamp source code leak
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• I resigned from Twitter
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• Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-28

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

• VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.x
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• Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (Part 1)
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• SQLite Release 3.37.0
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• Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?
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• My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours
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• Books that changed my career as a software engineer
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• Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote
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• Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
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• Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case
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• Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-27

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

• Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
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• Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge
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• Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern
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• The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
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• Teach Yourself Computer Science (2020)
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• Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
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• Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain
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• Bank transfers as a payment method
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• Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?
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• Tell HN: GitHub is down again
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-26

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

• Batteries included with Emacs
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• A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today
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• PHP 8.1.0
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• 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
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• Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
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• Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map
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• The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018)
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• Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet [pdf]
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• Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org
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• Show HN: Randomly create beautiful website layouts
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-25

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

• Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate
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• The Joy of Cryptography
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• GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17
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• Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming (2020)
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• Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
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• OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware
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• Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
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• TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm mutiny
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• The fish shell is amazing
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• New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-24

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

• Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1970s
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• The Max Headroom Incident
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• An engineer's observations on Web3 and its possibilities
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• Things I learned from building a production database
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• California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide
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• QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
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• Overengineering can kill a product
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• Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas
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• The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto
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• Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-23

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

• The World's Deadliest Thing
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• Unmasking the most viral page on Facebook
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• Books I loved reading this year
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• Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX
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• Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC
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• Flatpak Is Not the Future
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• Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s
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• Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional
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• Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs
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• Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-22

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

• The Stroad
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• Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?
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• Functorio
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• Writing is networking for introverts
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• Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
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• How to Learn Nix
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• ‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries
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• Fingerprints can be hacked
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• Rust Moderation Team Resigns
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• The latest EU plan to outlaw encryption and introduce communication surveillance
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-21

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

• Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
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• How to programmatically find out if computer is on
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• LLVM relicensing update and call for help
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• Advent of Code 2021
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• Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop
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• Tell HN: Amazon fraudulently canceling orders as returned items
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• .NET 6 vs .NET 5 speedup
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• An introverts guide to increasing energy
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• Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
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• Wolves make roadways safer
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-20

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

• Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single register value
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• I Love Arch, but GNU Guix Is My New Distro
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• Adults who microdose psychedelics report lower levels of depression and anxiety [pdf]
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• Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
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• Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
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• The ‘Zelle fraud’ scam: how it works, how to fight back
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• Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format
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• Vertiwalk Vertical Walking
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• Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware
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• Experts from a world that no longer exists
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-19

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

• Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
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• Notes on Web3
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• SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
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• Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
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• 80386DX ISA single board microcomputer
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• Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)
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• Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries
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• Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations
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• Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
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• Crypto Wash Trading
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-18

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

• Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website
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• Netlify Drop
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• To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions
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• Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster
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• XMPP, a comeback story
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• 10 years of whatever this has been
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• Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
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• German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
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• Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
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• Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-17

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

• What elements does a plant need to grow?
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• List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers
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• .plan
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• Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
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• The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark
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• “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
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• Microsoft calls Firefox’s browser workaround “improper,” will block it
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• Apple announces Self Service Repair
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• Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures
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• How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-16

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

• How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend
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• Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
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• Air cargo is suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping
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• Blender 3.0 takes support for AMD GPUs to the next level
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• Individuals Matter
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• Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox
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• I hate password rules
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• There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
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• Error 404 (Not Found)
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• Security issues related to the NPM registry
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-15

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

• Bayesian Optimization Book
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• Apple buying Google ads for high-value subscription apps
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• Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say
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• Colorado 'solar garden' is a farm under solar panels
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• Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)
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• macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good
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• Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop
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• Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations
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• If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
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• YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-14

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

• Project Euler
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• The case of the 500-mile email (2002)
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• Hoax email blast abused poor coding in FBI website
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• Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
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• U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google
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• Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016)
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• Apple isn’t patching all the security holes in older versions of macOS
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• Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
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• The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
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• Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than TVs themselves
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-13

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

• Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
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• How not to sort by average rating (2009)
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• Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours
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• Why Lisp?
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• Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure
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• Higher Math for Beginners (1987)
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• Email from FBI Looks Odd
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• Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
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• Restic – Backups Done Right
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• Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-12

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

• Scattered thoughts on why I waste my own time
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• Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
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• How to build a second brain as a software developer
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• How trains could replace planes in Europe
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• Useful sed scripts and patterns
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• ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
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• M1 Pro 14“ MacBook Pro Running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux ARM
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• Google Outage in Europe
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• Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
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• Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-11

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

• How my genius roommate changed my perspective
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• Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due
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• The gradual extinction of softness
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• Google Summer of Code in 2022 – No longer limited to students
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• Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store
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• Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful dies
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• American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
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• I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
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• Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
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• 3D printed mirror array
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-10

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

• “This project will only take 2 hours”
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• Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
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• Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer
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• Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store
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• The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
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• Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
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• Business Essentials
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• How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation
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• Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B fine
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• Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-09

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

• The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression
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• Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-plus engineers
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• How I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors (2017)
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• It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere
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• My Emacs Lisp book is finished
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• Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
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• ProctorU is dystopian spyware
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• Lesser-known Postgres features
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• We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
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• The U.S. Treasury is buying private app data to target and investigate people
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-08

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

• Don’t do interviews, do discussions
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• Playstation 5 root keys obtained
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• Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
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• iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
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• Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
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• Library Genesis Desktop app, now with IPFS support
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• The benefits of staying off social media
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• .NET 6 Released
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• Pinterest ruined photo search on the internet
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• Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-07

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

• How to Learn Stuff Quickly
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• Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
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• Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
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• What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
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• Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom?
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• Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)
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• Spiders are much smarter than you think
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• GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town
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• A terrible schema from a clueless programmer
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• Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-06

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

• Never update anything
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• IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in breach of GDPR
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• Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers
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• Pdfsandwich
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• Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution
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• AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives
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• Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
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• An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins
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• Don’t be spooky
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• An Epic future for SPJ
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-05

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

• Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13
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• Why is Excalidraw so good?
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• Timeline of the Human Condition
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• Gitlab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks
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• Happy birthday Vim (2020)
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• Scrape like the big boys
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• Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%
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• Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
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• Helion
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• How credit cards make money
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-04

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

• Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts
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• Luau goes open-source
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• Reporter who told Missouri officials of website flaw did 'nothing out of line'
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• Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?
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• Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards
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• An oral history of Bank Python
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• Our self imposed scarcity of nice places
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• Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops
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• Finishing my first game while working full-time
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• HashiCorp – S1
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-03

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

• How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams
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• The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
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• Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed
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• An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software
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• Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s most innovative drug lord
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• Backblaze IPO
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• Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
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• New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
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• US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist
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• Thank you, GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-02

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

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
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• MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative
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• Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets
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• Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
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• Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
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• Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
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• Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
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• People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency
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• Curves and Surfaces
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• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-11-01

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

• Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
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• It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is
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• An Update on Our Outage
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• Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is
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• ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code
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• Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions
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• University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting rights case
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• EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]
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• As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show
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• Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-10-31

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

• Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector
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• Async Ruby
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• Fundamentals of Piano Practice
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• Substantially more monarch butterflies have arrived in California to overwinter
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• All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected
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• Get started making music
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• A developer's guide to programatically overcome fear of failure
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• Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
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• CT Scan of a Pumpkin
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• Bash functions are better than I thought
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