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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-30

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

• Semantic Diff for SQL
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• Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
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• Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1
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• Remote Attestation is coming back
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• US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design
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• C++ Asynchronous Framework
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• I miss the programmable web (2021)
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• Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points
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• Serverless DNS: Self-hosted DNS resolver at the edge
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• ImHex – A Hex Editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-29

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

• Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens
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• AWS us-east-2 outage
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• EdgeDB 2.0
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• The Best iPhone
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• Asus Zenfone 9
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• Map showing birthplaces of \"notable people\" around the world
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• Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
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• How far can you go by train in 5h?
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• Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down
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• Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-28

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

• You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes
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• Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened
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• How to create a Python package in 2022
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• A Framework for Engineering Managers
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• TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business
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• AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe
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• Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)
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• House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report
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• Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking
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• FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-27

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

• What they don't teach you about sockets
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• A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
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• Signal: You were the chosen one [video]
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• Twenty years of Valgrind
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• Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
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• Nikon releases bug fix firmware update for the 10 year-old D7100 DSLR camera
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• The History of ‘Ampersand’ (2020)
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• SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees
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• Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant
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• Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-26

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

• Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid
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• I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021)
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• Emoji Kitchen
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• The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton
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• Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z
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• Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
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• Why is it so hard to give Google money?
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• Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up
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• Mullvad is now available on Amazon
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• Tesla ransoms car owner remotely by cutting 1/3 of their range
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-25

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

• No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias
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• Performance comparison: counting words in Python, C/C++, Awk, Rust, and more
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• Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid
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• Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?
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• The Case for C# and .NET
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• Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
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• Finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable
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• The GNU Name System
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• Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy
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• It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-24

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

• Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS
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• The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time
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• Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k
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• A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent
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• “Burning Ship” fractal
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• Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are counterfeit
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• How to drive away your best engineers
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• Hexaflexagons [video] (2012)
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• Take more screenshots
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• Standard Ebooks
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-23

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

• Polio Detected in US
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• Teens are rewriting what is possible in the world of competitive Tetris
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• We're going to need a lot of solar panels
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• Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port
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• Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
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• Embed is in C23
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• A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter
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• Spain will introduce free train travel
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• Efficient dehumidifier makes air conditioning a breeze
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• More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-22

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

• Casio F91 smart watch reboot
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• Swallowing the elephant into Blender
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• Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s
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• Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud due to privacy concerns
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• Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
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• Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
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• A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s
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• UK intelligence recycles “think of the children” argument for borking encryption
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• How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing
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• Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-21

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

• Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide
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• Archive.org Seeks Summary Judgment in Lawsuit Filed by Publishing Companies
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• What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
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• I Regret my Website Redesign
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• Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment
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• Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme
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• Former Coinbase Employee Charged in First Ever Crypto Insider Trading Scheme
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• Tell HN: You can't hire because you don't post salary ranges
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• Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
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• Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-20

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

• Intel Microcode Decryptor
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• Build Your Own X
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• Fran Blanche: This Is Not Legal
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• “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels
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• Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
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• EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved
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• TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting
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• Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title
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• Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
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• DALL·E now available in beta
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-19

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

• Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems
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• New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking
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• Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates
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• Glassdoor not so anonymous
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• Nutanix Objects violates MinIO’s open source license
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• FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
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• Intel Microcode Decryptor
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• To download from Google Drive, you must enable third party cookies?
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• Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
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• Soft deletion probably isn't worth it
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-18

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

• Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping
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• Picking up free lithium cells off the street and making them safe for use
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• The case for bad coffee (2015)
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• Rowan Atkinson: Visual Comedy (1992) [video]
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• Paper Airplane Designs (2013)
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• Gnucash – open-source accounting software for personal and small businesses
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• Iceland’s forest and bush cover has increased sixfold since 1990
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• Ask HN: I love programming but hate the industry. Can anyone relate?
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• Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player
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• Tell HN: Internet Archive is facing a Big 4 Publishers lawsuit
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-17

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

• Why rails buckle in Britain
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• China mortgage boycott data erased by censors as crisis spreads
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• U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday
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• An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS
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• A systems model of anxiety-driven procrastination
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• Killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident.sh
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• I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
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• George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
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• Prose.sh – A blog platform for hackers
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• $9.99/month
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-16

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

• OpenDroneMap
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• Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (2019)
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• 10% of the top million sites are dead
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• I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
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• Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs
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• FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds to 100 Mbps
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• Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems
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• Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)
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• Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
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• Scratch is a big deal
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-15

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

• Lessons I wish I had been taught (1996)
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• Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
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• A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018)
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• Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings
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• Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]
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• SearchHut
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• From idea to paying customer
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• How I went about learning Rust
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• Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls
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• How I Experience the Web Today
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-14

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

• Unity merges with IronSource
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• Six programming languages I’d like to see
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• PostgreSQL 14 Internals Book
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• The effects of sleep debt
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• Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors
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• DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland
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• Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
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• Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer
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• It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot
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• Show HN: Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-13

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

• Responsible stewardship of the UEFI Secure Boot ecosystem
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• Guest WiFi using a QR code
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• Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling
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• My business card runs Linux
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• Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes
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• CP/M is really open-source now
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• Amazon admits giving police Ring footage without consent
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• Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Returns
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• Teams is killing my Mac every day
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• I made a Google sheet of local elections and it's been removed from Google Drive
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-12

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

• U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings
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• Deepest infrared image of universe
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• I watched a friend of mine pump a shitcoin on Binance by buying billboards
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• The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers
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• A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term
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• Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard
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• Photos Always Pointing at the Pointer (2012)
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• James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live
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• Giving a shit as a service
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• Compare Webb's Images to Hubble
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-11

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

• CS101: Introduction to Computing Principles
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• SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)
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• Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1
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• Love Song to Costco
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• Experian, you have some explaining to do
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• New in Calibre 6.0
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• Postgres 15 improves UNIQUE and NULL
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• Working in the software industry, circa 1989
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• Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill
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• GCC Rust Approved by GCC Steering Committee
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-10

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

• The dark side of Shopify
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• Elon’s Out
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• Using GPT-3 to explain how code works
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• Show HN: Copy React code from any site
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• Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
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• Why do so many brands change their logos and look like everyone else?
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• The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe
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• The world needs a non-profit search engine
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• Lichess: The free and open source chess server
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• Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-09

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

• Bad UI is causing people to get scammed
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• Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range
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• Why BART uses a nonstandard broad gauge
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• Programming Fonts
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• Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
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• Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
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• I should have loved biology
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• Weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples
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• LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor
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• Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth sounds
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-08

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

• Homeland security workers indicted in scheme to silence China critics in U.S.
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• July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
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• SOC2: The screenshots will continue until security improves
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• Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story
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• Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default
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• Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot
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• Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition
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• HN is up again
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• Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers
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• Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-07

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

• Defensive CSS
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• I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
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• Music for Programming
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• DRY is an over-rated programming principle?
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• Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
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• Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting banner?
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• Show HN: PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file
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• Problems at Roblox
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• Shader-like holographic effects with CSS
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• Starlink Maritime
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-06

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

• To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
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• GTA GeoGuesser
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• Absurd Trolley Problems
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• Did the early medieval era ever take place?
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• New MacBook Air with M2
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• Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order
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• A fake job offer took down Axie Infinity
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• Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
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• Apple previews Lockdown Mode
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• Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-05

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

• On the use of a life (2020)
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• Felt
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• How normal am I?
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• He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal
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• Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
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• FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
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• Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum
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• Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles
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• EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms
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• Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-04

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

• Functional programming jargon in plain English
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• How to fuck up an airport
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• Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
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• Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?
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• Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)
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• Popcorn Time Is Back
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• Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation
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• Mendon, Missouri
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• Tiny Core Linux 13.0 is a full Linux desktop in 22 MB
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• Ask HN: I'm disabled and out of money. Now what?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-03

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

• Found: The 'holy grail of catalysis'– turning methane into methanol
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• The new wave of React state management
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• Darktable 4.0
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• Watching an acquirer ruin your company
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• Documents reveal McKinsey's role increasing opioid sales until 2019
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• WeatherKit
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• They're made out of meat (1991)
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• 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
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• Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling
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• Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-02

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

• Logging in Python like a pro
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• An engineer’s tips for writing documentation devs love
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)
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• Learn TLA+
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• There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask
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• The GPU shortage is over
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• Tailscale ate my network (and I love it)
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• Scunthorpe Sans, A font that censors bad language automatically
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• Open source is not about you (2018)
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• How does rsync work?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-01

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

• Vim 9.0
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• Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes
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• Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco
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• Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died
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• Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’
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• YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips
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• Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company to Harvest User Data for Months
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• No Refrigerant Left Behind
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• How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public
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• What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-06-30

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

• Compound pejoratives on Reddit
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• Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present
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• Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform
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• Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable
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• Swedish Radio created fake pharmacy, reveals how Facebook stored sensitive data
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• Unity is laying off hundreds of employees
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• Give up GitHub: The time has come
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• Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE
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• MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)
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• Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
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