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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-27

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

• Gitlab Critical Security Release
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• GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source
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• MetalNES: Transistor Level NES Simulation
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• No_color
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• Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?
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• New JSON query operators in SQLite 3.38.0
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• Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
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• Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis
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• Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)
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• BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-26

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

• You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill deep enough
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• Project Oberon
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• Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?
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• Make Linux look like Windows 95
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• Strange plant-like formation captured by Curiosity rover on Mars
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• Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees
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• Bitconnect founder indicted in global $2.4B cryptocurrency scheme
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• '50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments
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• Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare
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• Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achieved, process has begun
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-25

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

• A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters
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• Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C
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• Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
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• OrioleDB – solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems
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• On the removal of Come Back Alive
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• Radiation spikes in Chernobyl
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• Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine
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• Learn Rust by writing a small OS
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• How I learned French in 12 months (2020)
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• Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-24

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

• NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android
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• Indian teen chess grandmaster beats Magnus Carlsen in online rapid tournament
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• Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
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• Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4
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• Twitter based map of Russian troop movements
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• Custom JavaScript controls can't capture the nuance of form fields (2021)
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• Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)
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• Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking
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• Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
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• As JetBrains we condemn the attacks taking place
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-23

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

• Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world
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• Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam
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• I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
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• In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously
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• Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes
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• Wordle is pretty damn smart in many subtle ways
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• The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8
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• EU to mandate public salary information for all job postings [pdf]
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• Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer
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• I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-22

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

• Show HN: Google Drive to SQLite
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• Coinbase CEO tweets how they came up with Super Bowl ad, lied about it
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• I have no capslock and I must scream
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• Why I will never buy another Samsung device
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• Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness
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• A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find/replace regex engine
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• A career ending mistake
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• Ukraine Conflict Live Map
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• Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)
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• Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without trial or legal recourse
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-21

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

• How relationship satisfaction changes across your lifetime
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• Neural nets are not “slightly conscious,” and AI PR can do with less hype
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• Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
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• Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
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• Automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently
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• Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices
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• Chris Lattner left Swift core team
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• Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes
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• What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?
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• I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-20

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

• Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
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• Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes
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• Fall of Civilizations Podcast: Vijayanagara – The Last Emperors of South India
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• Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
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• Fengari – Lua for the Browser
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• The fastest GIF does not exist
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• A pentester gets root - step by step example
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• Things that used to be hard and are now easy
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• Be anonymous
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• Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-19

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

• Littlefs – A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
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• Nix: An idea whose time has come
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• Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
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• An example of why RSS is useful and important
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• Facebook Shadow Profiles [pdf]
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• Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets
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• A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world
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• Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting?
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• Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
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• Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-18

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

• My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
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• A 13-year-old used my artificial nose to diagnose pneumonia
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• Quordle: Four Wordles in One
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• Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning
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• Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories
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• Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
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• Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots
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• Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech
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• Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts
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• Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-17

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

• Audiblegate
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• No one cared about my spreadsheets
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• Music theory for nerds (2016)
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• Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors
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• New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars
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• Building for the 99% Developers
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• Worldle
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• Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity
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• AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button
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• The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-16

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

• Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant
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• Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information
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• DuckDuckGo \\u202E
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• Newegg has a bit of a scandal on its hands
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• Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died
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• LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly
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• Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays
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• 1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
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• Passwordle
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• A new wave of Linux applications
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-15

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

• Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
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• A database of broken things to identify common failure modes and how to fix them
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• MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
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• Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?
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• That wild Ask a Manager story
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• Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website
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• Building an iPod for 2022
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• My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash
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• Google Search Is Dying
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• Akamai to Acquire Linode
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-14

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

• Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions
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• What to know about the stock market (2007)
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• A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
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• Text Rendering Hates You (2019)
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• Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects
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• Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here
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• Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
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• Lets Get Arrested (2019)
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• Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
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• City Generator
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-13

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

• Joke written by an AI: “A basic program walked into a bar ”
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• Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs
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• FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling
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• Traffic Simulator
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• Prosecutor won't charge reporter who uncovered database flaw
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• I have never read a business plan or balance sheet
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• White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug
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• Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH
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• Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?
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• What does it mean to listen on a port?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-12

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

• Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer
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• SNES Development Part 1: Getting Started
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• YSFlight – A free flight simulator where anything is possible
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• Building an Intelligent Emacs
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• CAD files for the external shell (surface topology) of Steam Deck
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• Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms
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• Discord is a black hole for information
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• Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
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• Server-Sent Events: an alternative to WebSockets
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• Sci-Hub statistics and database
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-11

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

• Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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• An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
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• France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors
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• Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)
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• Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA bulk collection
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• Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
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• Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
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• Feynman on group decision-making at Los Alamos (1985)
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• Why won’t anyone teach me math?
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• The Factorio Mindset
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-10

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

• Back-end languages are coming to the front-end
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• The data are clear: The boys are not all right
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• Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
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• How PostgreSQL stores rows
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• Aspect-ratio is great
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• Peloton – A call for action [pdf]
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• Web hacking techniques of 2021
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• Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
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• uBlock Origin 1.41
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• Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-09

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

• Gyroflow: Advanced open-source gyro-assisted video stabilization
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• Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
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• Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
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• Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
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• Spinal implants allow paralysed people to walk, swim and cycle again
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• Open Textbook Initiative
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• Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
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• The dangers of high status, low wage jobs
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• TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
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• Words known better by males than females, and vice versa
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-08

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

• IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access
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• Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow
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• SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO
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• I would like a job writing Haskell
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• Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor
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• Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution
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• Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel
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• Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
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• Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
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• Heuristics that almost always work
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-07

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

• BeeWare – write Python, run everywhere using native UIs
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• My seatbelt rule for judgment
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• Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health
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• Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?
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• Ten Years of ThinkPadding
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• Thank You, Valve
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• Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
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• How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (2013)
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• Can a $310M startup avoid due diligence?
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• You can change your number
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-06

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

• High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime
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• First images of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during sleep (2019)
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• Spam blacklisting is out of control
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• Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)
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• Send your email right to the other person's spam
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• Lon Lat Lon Lat
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• Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
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• J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story
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• Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
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• Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-05

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

• The Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii
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• Do things, tell people (2012)
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• For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
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• Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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• Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list
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• Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
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• Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables
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• Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract
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• Unlearning perfectionism
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• The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-04

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

• An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf
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• DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games
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• Slackware 15.0
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• Amazon Pip Horror Story
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• Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands
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• Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B
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• Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines
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• Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
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• A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner
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• Poll: Where do you live?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-03

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

• Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi
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• North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet
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• Settings are not a design failure
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• Rustenstein 3D: Game programming like it's 1992
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• Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook
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• Facebook loses users for the first time
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• In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether
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• Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
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• iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm
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• Building a modern home in the woods
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-02

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

• How to Mislead with Facts
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• Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
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• Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
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• America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich
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• Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off
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• Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong's Sudoku Solver (2018)
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• GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
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• Postman Now Supports gRPC
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• Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
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• Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-02-01

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

• Pay attention to WebAssembly
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• Red Light Green Light
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• Nearly 1k mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center
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• Fetch API has landed into Node.js
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• Tell HN: Replace the X with a 5 in arXiv.org to display a paper in HTML
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• Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
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• MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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• Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
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• The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae
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• Framework Raises $18M Series A
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Don't forget Microsoft
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• Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
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• Please make a dumb car
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• Decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex for sale
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• My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi
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• Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results
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• Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
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• The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
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• Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials
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• The New York Times buys Wordle
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