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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• War Is a Racket (1933)
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• Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)
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• Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable
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• Phone is still the best way to order pizza
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• Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life
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• John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)
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• Did I just lose half a million dollars?
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• GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts
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• Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire
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• A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
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• Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell
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• Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
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• Wire is now on F-Droid
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• Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
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• Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies
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• People don't work as much as they say
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• Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation
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• Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
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• Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• In the end, you're treated like a spy, says MIT scientist
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• Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox
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• We have jetpacks and we do not care
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• Writing an open source GPU driver without the hardware
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• Prime Video Uses WebAssembly
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• I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law
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• If Looks Could Kill
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• Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
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• Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta
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• I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work
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• Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
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• Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide
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• MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
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• Naomi Wu demonetized on YouTube
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• Searching for Susy Thunder
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• Reasons Kubernetes is so complex
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• I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to
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• Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution
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• Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Systemd by Example
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• I’m porting the TypeScript type checker tsc to Go
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• Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
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• The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
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• Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly
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• Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car
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• Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?
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• AirPods don't “just work”
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• Google rewrites many page titles
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• A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch
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• Nova by Panic
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• Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
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• Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile
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• James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away
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• Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
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• We purchased a machine from China and it came with malware preinstalled
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• The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation
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• Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
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• Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Alabama farmer sues John Deere for ‘right to repair’
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• I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and it worked
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• I got pwned by my cloud costs
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• Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
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• The Curse of NixOS
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• We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD
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• Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
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• How big was the Tonga eruption?
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• GitHub Actions by Example
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• PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Everything must be paid for twice
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• Audio Sparklines
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• Ant mill
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• I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
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• Why skyscrapers are so short
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• WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack
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• 22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
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• IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
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• Charm – tools to make the command line glamorous
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• Gmail account security is insane
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• International Linguistics Olympiad – Sample Problems
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• Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids, study finds
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• How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR
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• Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
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• Thich Nhat Hanh has died
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• My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
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• Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
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• On Leaving Facebook
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• How E Ink developed full-color e-paper
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• Amazon activist’s firing deemed illegal by labor board officials
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation
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• Google Camera randomly changes some QR code URLs on Android 12
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• UK is spending £500k on a PR campaign demonising end-to-end encryption
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• Free Postgres databases for small projects
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• The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward
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• Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review
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• FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
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• Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant
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• Danish government makes its new economic model open source
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• Open-Sourcing our Firmware
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Examining the covidtests.gov architecture
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• Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?
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• Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
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• The internet changed my life
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• Gitlab Handbook's HN Page
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• Number of people on government websites now
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• Make Front End Shit Again
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• No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation
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• JSON support
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• Roblox October Outage Postmortem
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens
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• CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
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• Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills
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• The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification
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• Wine 7.0
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• OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog
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• When my wife developed Alzheimer’s, the story of our marriage kept us connected
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• 1Password Has Raised $620M
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• I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
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• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)
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• Matrix Multiplication
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• Kakoune Code Editor
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• How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020)
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• A delightful quirk of relativity theory
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• Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
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• No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption
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• Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML
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• GPS
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• Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tarrare
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• Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?
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• The Color of Infinite Temperature
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• €2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP
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• The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
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• Hello Mac OS X Tiger
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• Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software
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• An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation
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• Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell
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• Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Emergent Behavior in Skyrim's Fox AI
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• Set up a practically free CDN
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• Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad
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• Switching from macOS to Pop_OS
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• Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch
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• Sci Hub Injector
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• Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub
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• Why Galesburg has no money
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• I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
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• Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition)
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Simple.css – A classless CSS framework
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• Woob: Web Outside of Browsers
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• How bad is my gas stove?
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• Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators
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• Show HN: RootMy.TV
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• It’s not still the early days of blockchain
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• Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji
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• Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal
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• Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves
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• Hiccupfx.js – Client side render feel
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Living on 24 hours a day
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• 5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds
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• Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters
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• Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
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• Train burglaries in LA
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• Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?
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• PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds
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• Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?
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• Poll: Why are people leaving their jobs?
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• Multiple Sclerosis Causality
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dear sir, you have built a compiler
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• I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
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• Dark Web – Justice League
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• Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)
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• Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
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• More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years
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• Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
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• Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt
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• Show HN: Login with HN (Unofficially)
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• Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’
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• Google says iMessage is too powerful
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• Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite
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• Is the madness ever going to end?
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• Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
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• Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
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• Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta
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• Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml
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• Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”
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• In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)
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• Show HN: I bought and tested the filtration of every mask on Amazon
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• U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
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• Michigan DOT Snowplow Names
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• Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
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• Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
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• Firefox 96
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• The optional chaining operator, “modern” browsers, and my mom
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• CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”
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• LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
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• Oh, 2022
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• See how DMARC, SPF, and DKIM work interactively
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• UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows
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• Who wrote this shit?
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• Deep Learning Interviews book: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions
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• YC’s $500k Standard Deal
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• More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
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• T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US
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• New Year, New CEO
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control
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• Approved Cameras
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• Tips for a Healthier Postgres Database
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• Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
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• Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017)
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• Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM
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• Simplicity of IRC
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• Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
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• Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card
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• The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (1972)
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: I'm 15 and building a live quiz app for classrooms: Quickz
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• Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'
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• Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)
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• 5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, TensorFlow and PyTorch)
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• A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions
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• Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil fuels to be burned
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• Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence
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• DuckDuckGo Traffic
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• Bevy game engine 0.6
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• James Webb is fully deployed
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Procrastinatory Doom Loops
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• New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads
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• Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
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• Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
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• Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
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• Computers as I used to love them
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• Intel completely disables AVX-512 on Alder Lake after all
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• A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor
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• Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
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• My First Impressions of Web3
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My Many Girlfriends
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• I Miss RSS
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• Best Pens for 2022: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
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• We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
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• Minecraft as a Kubernetes admin tool
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• Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
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• “I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
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• What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
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• Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years
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• Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
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• The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets
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• No Way to Grow Up
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• Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
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• Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business
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• Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review
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• Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
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• How to design a house to last 1000 years
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• I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
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• Darling – run Mac apps on Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU
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• Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories
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• Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language
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• Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done
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• Lab Leak 2.0?
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• Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
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• Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
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• Burn My Windows
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• Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton Crypto (NCrypt.exe)
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• The UX on this small child is terrible
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
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• Summary of Atomic Habits
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• An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)
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• Loving Someone with Depression
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• 2.3k Patch Would Improve Linux Build Times 50~80% & Fix “Dependency Hell”
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• “Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”
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• You don't need that CORS request
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• The Demise of Scientific American
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• Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
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• Search engines and SEO spam
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• All of Wittgenstein is now public domain
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• EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green
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• Book Review: “Viral” by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley
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• Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
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• Web3 is centralized
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• Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
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• OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
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• We need to reclaim our attention
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• Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64
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• Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Smartbolts
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• My progress in porting Wine
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• Intellectual Loneliness
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• Don't Waste the Good Days
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• Poll: Did you know that HN allows you to make polls?
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• Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
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• Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
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• 2021 Letter
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• Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022
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• Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-12-31

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

• iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
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• An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine
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• macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
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• Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
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• Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster
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• Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
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• Companies that had successful pivots
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• How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API
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• A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
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• Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf
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