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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-29

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

• Add-on support in new Firefox for Android (2021)
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• FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs
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• Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed
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• Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Attorney General
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• Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021)
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• Thunderbird 102
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• Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace every year (2013)
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• TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
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• The Nettle Magic Project: Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes on edges
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• FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-28

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

• Why America can’t build
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• Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3
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• Show HN: PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL
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• Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice (2021)
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• Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch
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• The PocketReform is a made-in-Berlin Linux handheld
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• Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't
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• Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno
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• Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to assembly
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• Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-27

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

• The Seiko TV watch
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• The SQLite Code of Ethics
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• What does an idle CPU do? (2014)
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• ‘Blade Runner’ at 40
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• What's New in Python 3.11?
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• Outlook scans emails arriving in your inbox and sends all found URLs to Bing
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• How to set junior employees up for success in remote
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• Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
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• Things to know about databases
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• Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-26

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

• A picture of me
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• What is `Box<str>` and how is it different from `String` in Rust?
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• Xlite: Query Excel and Open Document spreadsheets as SQLite virtual tables
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• Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
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• VirtualBuddy: Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon
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• Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
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• Why I still recommend Julia
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• Where did the long tail go?
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• Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
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• Life is not short
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-25

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

• Ask HN: How to level up your technical writing?
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• Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found
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• Five planets are lining up in the sky in June and will peak tonight
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• ffsend: A fully featured Firefox Send command line client
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• How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices
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• Oh Shit, Git
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• Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?
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• My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span
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• Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]
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• AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-24

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

• Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
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• OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful
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• FTC action against Harley-Davidson and Westinghouse for limiting right to repair
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• How We built a $1M ARR open source SaaS
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• Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipient in crypto transfers
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• Tell HN: Brother printers now locking out non-OEM paraphernalia
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• Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
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• SMS phishing is way too easy
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• Goodbye Zachtronics
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• What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-23

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

• FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market
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• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
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• Twitter Notes
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• Introducing PyScript (summary of PyCon keynote)
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• Copilot sells code other people wrote
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• YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters
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• Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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• Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20
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• Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
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• Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-22

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

• Surprising result while transpiling C to Go
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• Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
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• HDMI Firewall
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• Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (2019)
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• OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
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• Crafting Interpreters: A Review
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• Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice?
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• Tailscale SSH
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• Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules and filters
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• The Grug Brained Developer
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-21

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

• Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
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• My 40-liter backpack travel guide
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• Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from reality'
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• WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?
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• Cloudflare down worldwide (not worldwide but a lot of places) (up now)
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• One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding
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• Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
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• One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite
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• GitHub Copilot is generally available
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• Deno raises $21M
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-20

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

• Stolperstein
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• Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children
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• We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel
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• Orkut
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• Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
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• Writing one sentence per line
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• We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
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• Terminated
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• Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
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• I fucking hate Jira
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-19

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

• Voyager spacecraft begin to power down
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• The dissolution of Apple’s legacy design team
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• Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively
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• V Language Review
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• Citybound – A city building game using actor-based distributed simulation
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• Don't use Kubernetes yet
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• Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining
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• Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
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• Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts
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• Webcams aren't good enough
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-18

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

• CreuSAT: Formally verified SAT solver written in Rust and verified with Creusot
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• Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time?
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• Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency
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• Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
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• Apple has a bug in its disk I/O throttling code that affects raw disk copies
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• Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets
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• Construction is life
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• Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
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• DOE announces breakthrough in residential cold climate heat pump technology
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• Cold Showers
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-17

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

• The animated elliptic curve
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• Cool desktops don’t change
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• macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
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• Make enterprise features open source
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• Why am I no longer qualified to be a Brex customer?
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• SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
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• Ante: A low-level functional language
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• Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked (2021)
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• Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire
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• The most satisfying checkbox
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-16

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

• Price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life
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• Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien
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• Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
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• Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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• Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
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• Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project
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• Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
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• The computers are fast, but you don't know it
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• The Cult Inside Google
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• Tell HN: Triplebyte is, yet again, making user profiles public without consent?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-15

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

• Japan asteroid probe finds 23 amino acids, researchers confirm
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• Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla
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• Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US
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• Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
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• Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)
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• Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else
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• Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support
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• Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
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• Purdue Starts Comprehensive Semiconductor Degree Programs in U.S.
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• Federal Reserve raises rates by 0.75%
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-14

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

• We will never have enough software developers (2020)
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• Thank HN: Five months ago, I was feeling like a loser, now I am opposite
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• Stanford’s war on social life
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• Scotland starts renewed case for independence
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• Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
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• Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
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• Grafana releases OnCall open source project
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• Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura
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• Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees
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• Hertzbleed Attack
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-13

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

• The State Finally Letting Teens Sleep In
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• Fresh – Next-gen web framework
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• LaMDA is not sentient
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• Major crypto lender Celsius freezes withdrawals as markets tumble
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• Tether is starting to depeg from USD again
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• Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance
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• Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
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• A prank cursor resulted in an employee being fired before they started (2020)
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• FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics
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• The Floppotron 3.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-12

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

• The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by a SQLite3 database with 1.2GB of metadata
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• Ask HN: Best beginner friendly linear algebra book?
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• Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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• How to Do a Handstand
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• Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
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• 15.ai
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• Shortsightedness has become an epidemic
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• Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electric aircraft [video]
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• New UUID Formats
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• ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-11

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

• Xbox 360 Architecture
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• Write HTML Right
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• Tell HN: Google does not list application permissions in the Play Store any more
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• Data Race Patterns in Go
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• A Trail Tale
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• I turned down $500k, pissed off my investors, and shut down my startup (2016)
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• DNS Toys
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• AirPlay and Touch Bar = Network Disaster
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• Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?
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• US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-10

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

• Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
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• The collapse of complex software
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• You need to know what right-half-plane zeros are
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• Coinbase employees petition to remove execs
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• uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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• MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips
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• Microsoft Announces It Will Include Pay Ranges in All U.S. Job Postings
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• New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function
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• “Code” 2nd Edition
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• If OpenSSL were a GUI
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-09

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

• Show HN: Read Wikipedia privately using homomorphic encryption
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• Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words
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• Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow
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• 50th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos (2018)
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• Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
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• We got Linux on the iPhone, iPad and other idevices
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• Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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• I cut GTA Online loading times (2021)
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• Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
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• Do Kwon Sent $80M a Month to Himself
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-08

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

• MicroPython – Python for Microcontrollers
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• Show HN: The Bitcoin Note – Secure, Self-Custodial Bitcoin Wallets in Cash Form
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• Inbound container volumes to the US are reverting to pre-pandemic levels
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• Man sues American Airlines over identification, jail time
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• Deepkit – High-Performance TypeScript Framework
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• Find a good available .com domain
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• Blender 3.2
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• Sunsetting Atom
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• The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021)
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• Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to election fraud charges
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-07

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

• Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta
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• Tools for Better Thinking
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• Tell HN: I used the same computer since 2007 (with minor upgrades)
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• Deepfake Offensive Toolkit (real-time deepfakes for virtual cameras)
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• Please, don't build another Large Hadron Collider
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• We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon
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• EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
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• I've locked myself out of my digital life
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• Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab
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• Welcome to the M1 Windows project
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-06

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

• Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon
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• LeekWars, program your AI to destroy your leek enemies
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• Dashy – A self-hosted homepage for your homelab
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• Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (2019)
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• Plain text, with lines
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• Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture
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• Pilot explains how he Survived Blackbird Disintegration at Mach 3.2
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• Apple Passkey
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• Apple Unveils M2
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• Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-05

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

• Ask HN: Anyone else quickly losing confidence in Amazon?
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• How to stop junk mail
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• GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
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• RNA forms on basalt lava glass in the presence of nucleoside triphosphates
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• It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal
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• I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)
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• Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
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• Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise
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• A cancer trial’s unexpected result: Remission in every patient
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• I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-04

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

• Dangerous Gift
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• Confess your love with zero-knowledge
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• Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs
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• What rr does
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• Pixel Art: Common Mistakes (2020)
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• Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
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• Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
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• Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers
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• Norway to track all supermarket purchases?
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• Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-03

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

• Installing a payphone in my house
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• Update on Hiring Plans
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• Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)
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• Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
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• Zero-Day Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence
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• Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price
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• VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
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• Dalle2 generates fascinating images of Kermit The Frog in various films
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• Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
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• Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-02

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

• Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers
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• Turkish Magician Built a $600M Nasdaq-Listed Scam Based on Lies
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• Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
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• How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
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• Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
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• Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount (2018)
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• Show HN: Svelvet – A component library for building interactive flow diagrams
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• Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
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• CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”
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• Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-01

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

• Ffmpeg Buddy
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• RCE over ham radio – Reverse shell via WinAPRS memory corruption bug
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• Find Wikipedia photos needed near you
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• I got hacked and Facebook banned me
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• Science needs more research software engineers
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• Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
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• Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data
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• Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
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• Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-05-31

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

• Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities
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• Asking robots to design stained glass windows
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• Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
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• WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets
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• SumatraPDF 3.4 Released
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• So I took a corporation to arbitration
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• After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’
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• SomaFM
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• Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
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• DALL-E 2 has a secret language
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