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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-29

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

• New links found between musical training and cognitive ability
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• 2022 Mac Studio (20-core M1 Ultra) Review
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• OpenRA: Open-source RTS game engine for games such as Command and Conquer
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• Bits of advice I wish I had known
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• Crafting Interpreters
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• Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
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• Is everything falling apart?
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• Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
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• Actual is going open-source
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• You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-28

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

• It took me 10 years to understand entropy
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• Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?
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• North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden media
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• I put my whole life into a single database
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• I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
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• I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)
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• E Ink Gallery 3
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• Snap launches its first drone
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• Lets talk about blockchains
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• Gnome patent troll stripped of patent rights
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-27

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

• Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker
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• SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way
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• Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school
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• Statistical Analysis shows Echos process voice to serve ads
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• MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker
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• Apple’s Self Service Repair now available
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• Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments
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• Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
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• I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)
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• Public Money, Public Code
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-26

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

• I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
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• Ask HN: What happened to Twitter poison pill?
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• Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure
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• Learn Go with Tests
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• Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
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• LineageOS 19
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• Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq
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• Infinite Mac
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• 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
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• An update on the campaign to defend serious math education in California
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-25

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

• Patching an embedded synthesiser OS from 1996 with Ghidra
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• Drones have transformed blood delivery in Rwanda
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• Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway
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• How easy is it in 2022 to find a SHA1 collision?
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• Why LSP?
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• Japan's Hometown Tax (2018)
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• Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?
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• Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
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• Principles of Engineering Management
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• twitter/the-algorithm
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-24

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

• U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts
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• Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
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• Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (2017)
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• Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
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• The afterlife of used hotel soap
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• No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing
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• Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications
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• Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies
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• French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020)
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• 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-23

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

• It is physically impossible to exceed the weight limit for a small flat-rate box
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• Repulsive Curves
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• Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf]
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• Hacker News Guidelines
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• Celebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum
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• Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?
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• Google, Meta, others will have to explain algorithms under new EU legislation
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• I stopped working on black hole information loss
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• My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
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• Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-22

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

• TX-6 – Teenage Engineering
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• What chords do you need?
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• Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me
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• ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law
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• I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”
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• The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)
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• The bottom is dropping out of Netflix
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• Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing
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• Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations
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• Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-21

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

• Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]
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• A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV
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• Memray: a memory profiler for Python
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• California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3
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• A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says
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• Go will use pdqsort in next release
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• Web color is still broken
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• Column – a chartered bank for developers
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• Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
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• Apple Discontinues macOS Server
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-20

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

• Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance
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• How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database
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• HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
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• The absurd complexity of server-side rendering
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• Framework Laptop Mainboard
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• Ruby YJIT Ported to Rust
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• Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
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• Show HN: Favicons for HN
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• How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?
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• Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-19

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

• Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off
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• BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking
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• The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
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• UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
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• Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
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• YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database
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• Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
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• Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser
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• De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy
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• Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-18

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

• Unreal vs. Unity Opinion
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• The Uber Bubble
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• The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten
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• Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
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• ‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania
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• Mental speed is high until age sixty
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• CatalanGate: Spyware operation against Catalans using Pegasus and Candiru
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• TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
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• James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature
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• Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-17

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

• 27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg hunt
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• Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems
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• The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)
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• 100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers
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• The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy
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• Why are some egg yolks so orange?
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• How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]
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• “YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG
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• The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today
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• Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-16

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

• Overengineered Japanese Mechanical Pencils [video]
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• Shirky.com is gone
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• The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land
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• Ten members of international stock manipulation ring charged in Manhattan
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• My take on Elon's offer for Twitter
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• Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators
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• When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
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• Heroku Security Notification
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• Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself
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• Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-15

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

• Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished
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• Youtube.js – full-featured wrapper around YouTube's private API
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• Ethereum Has Issues
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• StarBook 14-inch
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• 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
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• The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation
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• Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
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• Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
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• Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago
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• DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-14

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

• The most popular chess streamer on Twitch
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• US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation
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• You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen when mic is off
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• Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
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• Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
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• Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel
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• Apple's M1 Ultra comes with a 32MB TLB bottleneck
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• Why I quit this battle
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• Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
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• We lost 54k GitHub stars
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-13

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

• Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
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• A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem
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• WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app
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• BBEdit is 30 years old today
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• New(ish) command line tools
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• Git security vulnerability announced
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• Insider Trading at Coinbase
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• U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow
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• Inside the longest Atlassian outage
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• A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-12

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

• I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it
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• Real World Recommendation System
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• Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid
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• Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket
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• Impressions from a first-time Mac user
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• Success and Failure at Pebble
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• The endgames of bad faith communication
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• Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981
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• Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’
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• Eden
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-11

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

• Achievement unlocked: rustc segfault
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• Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
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• Van life (cancer edition) finale
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• Elon has decided not to join our board
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• I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing
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• Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
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• Node.js packages don't deserve trust
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• Etsy Strike
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• Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks
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• Europe is investing heavily in trains
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-10

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

• Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim
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• Google says AI generated content is against guidelines
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• Bore: A simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
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• Heaps: A free, open-source and cross-platform game engine
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• Super Simple Storage Service
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• Atlassian products have been down for 4 days
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• Ask HN: How to improve as a struggling junior software engineer?
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• How Intelligent Are Cats? (2004)
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• Heresy
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• An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-09

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

• Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page
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• Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames
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• The United States Digital Corps
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• Turning back the clock: Human skin cells de-aged by 30 years in trial
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• Drone footage of Tesla factory
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• Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat
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• Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
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• An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
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• MIT graduate students vote to unionize
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• I need to find an apartment
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-08

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

• Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search
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• What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast
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• Ruby 3.2 preview 1 with support for WASM compilation
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• The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter
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• Zas Editor
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• Measurement of the W boson mass reveals 7σ deviation from calculations
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• Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5
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• NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
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• Why I'll never use Affirm again
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• Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-07

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

• λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming language
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• Ask HN: Share your personal site
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• The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity
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• I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)
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• The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)
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• Welcome to 'Le Monde' in English
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• I stopped advertising and nothing happened
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• Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
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• Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions
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• The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-06

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

• My free-software photography workflow
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• Pharo 10
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• Show HN: Datagridxl2.js – Fast Excel-like data table library
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• 300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day
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• Ask HN: I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?
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• Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
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• What’s new in Emacs 28.1?
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• Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan
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• Dall-E 2
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• AMD Zen microarchitecture and Intel's Ocean Cove patent
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-05

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

• Exit interviews are a trap
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• Tinygrad
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• Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
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• Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it
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• Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
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• One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
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• The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk
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• Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
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• Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
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• The next Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-04

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

• Those HTML attributes you never use
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• We don’t use a staging environment
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• Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today
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• Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
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• Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
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• Jd
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• Are you a baby? A litmus test
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• Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech
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• What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
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• USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-03

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

• Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing
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• Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (1992)
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• Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls
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• Horrible edge cases when dealing with music
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• Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV
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• What are you doing, WordPress.com?
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• What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
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• Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists
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• Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
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• A project with a single 11,000-line code file
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-02

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

• Choose your status game wisely
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• I couldn’t get over my brother’s death
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
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• Authorization in a Microservices World
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• RFC 9225: Software Defects Considered Harmful
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• A database for 2022
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• MIT-0 License
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• YouTube cancelled my Nextcloud installation how-to
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• The human genome is, at long last, complete
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• Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-01

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

• Supabase Edge Functions
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• How Go mitigates supply chain attacks
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• “This shouldn’t happen”: Inside the virus-hunting nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance
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• Why have female animals evolved such wild genitals?
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• Pens and Tablets for Linux
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• Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK
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• The Gov.uk Design System is now live
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• A few things to know before stealing my 914
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• Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
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• Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-03-31

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

• The wild world of non-C operating systems
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• Jack Dongarra wins Turing Award
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• Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
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• Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
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• Hard to work with
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• Mastodon 3.5
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• Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool
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• Ubiquiti vs. Krebs
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• The smallest and worst HDMI display
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• I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
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