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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-30

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

• In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
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• Home Assistant OS Release 8
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• Algorithmic stablecoins are provably impossible without continuous funding
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• I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge
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• How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey
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• A decade of dotfiles
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• Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
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• California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee
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• Programming in the Apocalypse
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• Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-29

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

• Ask HN: How to learn math from zero for adults?
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• Time Series and FoundationDB (2019)
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• System Font Stack
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• My students cheated... a lot
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• Britain should scrap its online safety bill
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• Electronic Catan LCD Tiles
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• Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server
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• Why does this code execute more slowly after strength-reducing multiplications?
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• Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules
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• Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-28

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

• A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)
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• How do video games stay in sync?
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• Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
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• Architecture Notes: Datasette
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• Tell HN: My early access eBook over iOS made $120k in 1 year
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• Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health
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• Marginalia Goes Open Source
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• Neon – Serverless Postgres
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• Terraform should have remained stateless
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• Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-27

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

• Magical SVG Techniques
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• What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)
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• Ultra compact GAN ATX power supply delivers up to 250 Watts
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• Internet drama in Canada
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• NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
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• Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
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• GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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• Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)
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• S.F. population fell 6.3%, most in nation, to lowest level since 2010
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• Knots 3D – Learn how to tie over 150 useful knots
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-26

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

• A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS
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• Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
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• Bolt announces layoffs
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• Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor
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• I was forced to be a child star. It was never my dream or my idea
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• Implementation of Imagen, Google's text-to-image neural network, in PyTorch
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• Show HN: I turned my face rec system into a video codec
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• Broadcom to Acquire VMware for $61B
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• SQLite 3 Fiddle
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• Which dinosaurs lived in your hometown?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-25

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

• Morrowind 20-year anniversary book
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• Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard
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• Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession
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• Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
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• The great junk transfer is coming
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• The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces
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• Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
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• Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
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• Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo
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• FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-24

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

• When everything is important but nothing is getting done
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• Starlink for RVs
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• I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it
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• What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software
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• Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the intended effect
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• A group of open source Android apps without ads or unnecessary permissions
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• DuckDuckGo’s Microsoft deal disallows blocking MS trackers on 3rd party sites
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• Symbian Source Code
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• Cat S22 Flip Phone
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• YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-23

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

• Faster CRC32 on the Apple M1
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• Grandpa’s Basement House
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• “What if it changes?”
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• Useless Use of \"dd\" (2015)
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• Keep the web free, say no to Web3
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• How Uber Uses Zig
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• Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power
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• Firefox's protection against fingerprinting
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• Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)
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• Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-22

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

• Windows XP Delta Edition
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• The balance has shifted away from SPAs
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• Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013)
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• Kinopio
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• We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service
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• Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
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• Louis Rossmann: “The Verge is so bad they have ME defending Apple ”
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• Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons
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• How This Ends
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• Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific – research
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-21

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

• A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’
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• Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k
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• Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old
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• HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS
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• On Aging Alone (2021)
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• Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
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• Rustdesk – Remote desktop software, an open source TeamViewer alternative
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• Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery
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• List of Worker-Owned Tech Cooperatives Worldwide
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• Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-20

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

• Department of Justice announces new policy for charging cases under the CFAA
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• Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
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• Render mathematical expressions in Markdown On GitHub
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• HTTP Cats
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• New York rolling out noise law, listening tech for souped-up speedsters
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• PBS SpaceTime
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• 9-Euro-Ticket
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• Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police
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• ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years of Published Records
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• “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-19

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

• I'm an addict
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• Duck Chess
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• YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42m in funds from 4878 customers
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• FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware
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• Outhorse Your Email
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• Rust: A Critical Retrospective
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• The new and upgraded Framework Laptop
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• Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
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• Y Combinator's Message to Founders
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• Vangelis has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-18

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

• Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals
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• NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality
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• Netflix lays off about 150 employees
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• Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
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• Oauth2 support for GMail
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• Please Stop Using Grey Text
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• I spent two years launching tiny projects
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• Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
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• Accelerated PyTorch Training on M1 Mac
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• Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-17

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

• Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives
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• Living Worlds: 8 Bit art animated with palette cycling (2012)
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• Inkscape 1.2 released
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• Common libraries and data structures for C
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• Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious
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• SEC charges Nvidia with inadequate disclosures about impact of cryptomining
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• The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence
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• Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner
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• I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
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• Using a \"proper\" camera as a webcam
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-16

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

• The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
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• Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic
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• Modern JavaScript Tutorial
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• Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard
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• Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots
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• McDonald’s to Exit from Russia
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• Web3 is expensive P2P
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• Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
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• Nearly 20% of active Twitter accounts likely to be fake or spam
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• $3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST from collapse
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-15

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

• Linux Insides
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• Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database
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• Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage
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• Long-term benzodiazepine use causes synapse loss and cognitive deficits in mice
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• Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]
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• KDE Connect Now Available on iOS
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• `curl wttr.in`: Weather in your terminal
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• Cron-based backup for SQLite
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• Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy
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• The problem with Bitcoin miners
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-14

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

• Employers’ Use of AI Tools Can Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act
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• Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go
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• Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke
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• A clean start for the web (2020)
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• Tilde.town is a computer meant for sharing
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• Dokku – Free Heroku Alternative
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• Former employee blows whistle on baby formula production plant tied to outbreak
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• Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements
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• Eight hundred employees resign after WhiteHat Jr asks them to work from office
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• You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-13

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

• I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called
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• DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
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• Map of Reddit
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• Wireless is a trap (2020)
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• Show HN: A Visual IDE for React
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• Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
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• The other kind of staff software engineer
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• The Apple GPU and the impossible bug
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• Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero
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• Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-12

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

• Flutter 3
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• Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
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• Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
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• EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of private communications
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• The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)
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• Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
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• Show HN: Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs
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• Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
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• Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
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• Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-11

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

• Why I left Google: work-life balance
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• Show HN: 1,900 remote company profiles with tech stacks and employee benefits
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• Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)
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• Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
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• D1: Our SQL database
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• When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps
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• Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework
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• Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick
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• Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated
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• Nvidia transitioning to official, open-source Linux GPU kernel driver
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-10

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

• I’m going to miss you, but I am taking a sabbatical
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• UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
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• Coinbase stock lost over 75% value
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• Oxygen Candles: Providing Emergency Air
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• No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
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• We need a middle class for startups
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• Give me back my monolith (2019)
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• Apple is discontinuing the iPod
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• The ACLU Has Lost Its Way
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• Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance plan on May 11
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-09

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

• Everything with a battery should have an off switch
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• Emerging evidence that mindfulness can sometimes increase selfish tendencies
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• Vitamin D and Depression (2020)
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• I saw a cool truck today
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• MVC frameworks aren't dinosaurs but sharks
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• “It Is Getting Worse. People Are Leaving”
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• Preview, the Mac app people forget about
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• Yep, I created the new Avatar font
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• Fly.io buys Litestream
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• NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-08

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

• When buying the dip doesn’t work: An analysis of the dot-com crash
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• Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support
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• Singapore Government Tech Stack
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• Deletionpedia: Rescuing articles from Wikipedia's deletionism
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• Unauthorized gem takeover for some gems
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• Web Development for Beginners – A Curriculum
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• Donald Knuth was framed (2020)
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• No Fixed Address Bank Account
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• PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
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• Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-07

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

• Show HN: Tetris, but silly
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• “Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t” crosses citizen science with environmentalism
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• Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll
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• The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)
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• Unix command line conventions over time
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• I made a virtual bookshelf
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• Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money
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• Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized warehouse
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• Xilem: An Architecture for UI in Rust
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• Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-06

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

• Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles
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• Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard
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• Shopify to Acquire Delivrr for $2.1B
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• Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
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• Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
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• How many radioactive bananas would you need to power a house?
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• When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number (2016)
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• Microsoft insults dev, then takes credit for their idea
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• GraphQL Is a Trap?
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• Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-05

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

• I fell in love with low-JS
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• Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management
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• Stripe Financial Connections
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• IBM's Asshole Test
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• Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]
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• Heroku Security Notification
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• I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Production
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• 7GUIs
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• Please stop disabling zoom
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• Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-04

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

• Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people
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• Bash-oneliner: A collection of handy Bash one-liners and terminal tricks
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• Porting Zelda Classic to the web
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• The strange business of hole-in-one insurance
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• 100-year-old Brazilian breaks record after 84 years at same company
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• Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code
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• Tailscale raises $100M
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• What are your most used self-hosted applications?
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• The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
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• Mechanical Watch
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-03

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

• Show HN: PostgresML, now with analytics and project management
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• An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
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• Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava
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• A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028
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• OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models
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• Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap data
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• When I made another Monkey Island
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• Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments
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• Considered \"18+\"
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• Kaketsugi – A technique for repairing holes or tears in fabric (2021) [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-02

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

• Distributed Systems Shibboleths
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• Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’
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• DALL-E 2 open source implementation
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• My experience getting a tech job with no degree or relevant work experience
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• Occlusion Grotesque Experimental Typeface (2021)
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• I won free load testing
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• The Game: A continually-run D&D campaign, since 1982
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• Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
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• Brendan at Intel.com
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-01

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

• Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color
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• GnuCash
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• Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act”
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• Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
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• Fig
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• I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
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• We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it
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• The Niche Programmer
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• How to professionally say
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• 90% of software engineering done today is integrating poorly documented APIs
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-04-30

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

• Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
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• Founding Uber SRE
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• Ask HN: Teach me something new
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• Web scraping via JavaScript runtime heap snapshots
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• The Owen Wilson Wow API
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• Show HN: Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations
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• How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File
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• Achieving 5M persistent connections with Project Loom virtual threads
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• Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?
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• I've used all the notebooks
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