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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-30

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

• Don’t think to write, write to think
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• Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
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• Why are you so busy?
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• Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
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• AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
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• What would a “good” WebMD look like?
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• Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards
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• 1 week of Stable Diffusion
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• 4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything
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• Mikhail Gorbachev has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-29

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

• We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson
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• Open Circuits – No Starch Press [pdf]
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• Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
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• Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
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• Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode
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• Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
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• Welcome Home, Garry Tan
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• Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle
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• 90s Cursor Effects
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• The Big [Censored] Theory
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-28

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

• Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js
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• American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists
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• Time Till Open Source Alternative
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• Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?
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• JSON Visio – Visualize JSON data into graphs
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• They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
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• 30TB Portable SSD Hits Walmart for $39 but Stay Away from It
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• Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough
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• Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
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• Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparent court order
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-27

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

• Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
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• Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013)
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• Ghana bans a Delta Boeing 767 (yes, just one)
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• Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
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• The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)
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• We disabled Google AMP at Tribune Publishing
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• Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
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• Chrome allows websites to write to the clipboard without the user’s permission
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• One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
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• Tool beeps every time data is sent to Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-26

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

• Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)
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• DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
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• “Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”
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• Creativity requires solitude
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• What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video]
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• Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
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• SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas
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• Why no Roman industrial revolution?
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• Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute
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• Finnish as a world language?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-25

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

• Why do arrays start at 0?
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• Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
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• A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
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• Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (2019)
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• Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (2019)
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• Orcas are breaking rudders off boats in Europe
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• Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection
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• The coming tsunami of fakery
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• Removal of Heroku free product plans
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• Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-24

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

• TypeScript is terrible for library developers
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• Common tech jobs described as cabals of Mesoamerican wizards
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• The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
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• Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn
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• Things people blamed on bicycles
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• How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)
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• Mainnet Merge Announcement
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• Rust – A hard decision pays off
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• Accounting for Developers, Part II
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• Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-23

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

• Why is Snowflake so expensive
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• Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories
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• Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled
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• An odd discovery on Spotify
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• Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
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• “10% error rate is okay“ – Leaked EU Commission document regarding Chat Control
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• Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies
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• Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine
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• Design the next iPhone
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• Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-22

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

• uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
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• Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi
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• Applying a rule from Pixar with a camera from 1961
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• Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
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• The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool
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• Workplace surveillance is coming for you
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• Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks
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• Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
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• Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor
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• Stable Diffusion Public Release
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-21

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

• There’s no speed limit (2009)
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• Coping with Copilot
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• Tell HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else)
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• Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
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• A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
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• Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database
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• Nobody wants to teach anymore
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• LibGen's Bloat Problem
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• Hacker News Official API
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• Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-20

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

• Shazam turns 20
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• LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
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• “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
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• Resolving an unusual WiFi issue
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• Diablo 1 for Web Browsers
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• Visual Sum of Cubes
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• Zig is now self–hosted by default
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• AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage
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• Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)
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• Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-19

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

• I have complicated feelings about TDD
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• PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal
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• Whytheluckystiff's original domain back as an archive
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• Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]
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• I love my GPD Micro PC
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• See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
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• A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers
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• Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
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• John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
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• App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-18

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

• It wasn't for nothing
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• Programming breakthroughs we need
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• 6 Raspberry Pis, 6 SSDs on a Mini ITX Motherboard
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• Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
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• Tesla Virtual Power Plant
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• Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?
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• I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
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• Learn to sew your own outdoor gear
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• TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month
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• Supabase – Realtime: Multiplayer Edition
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-17

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

• Raft Consensus Animated (2014)
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• SSH tips and tricks
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• VPNs on iOS are a scam
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• Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2
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• RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
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• Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
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• Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
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• Why I left Pine64
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• Accounting For Developers, Part I
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• Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-16

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

• Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
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• Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card
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• How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
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• A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout
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• How and why I built Japan Dev
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• Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?
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• Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
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• .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
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• American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
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• Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-15

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

• Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy
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• Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability
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• Horizon Linux: arm64 Linux patched to run programs for the Nintendo Switch
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• Second-Order Thinking
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• Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
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• Big changes ahead for Deno
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• Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150
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• Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux
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• Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
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• MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-14

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

• What is TTY?
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• “Logistics”, an 857-hour movie, tracks a pedometer from shop back to factory
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• Quirky computing books
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• Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero
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• OctoPrint: Snappy web interface for your 3D printer
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• Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown
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• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)
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• Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system
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• Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot
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• The layoffs at Klarna
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-13

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

• Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
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• Cancer in the Cold
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• The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal
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• CEO Shadow Program
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• Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
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• The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
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• I hacked my car
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• Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?
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• Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text
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• It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-12

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

• Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
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• From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story
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• Is this the end of social networking?
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• Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
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• Goat Rental – Hire Goats
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• Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
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• The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun
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• Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
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• Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle
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• Excel is pretty dang cool
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-11

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

• Freeciv – open-source Civilization clone
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• Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
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• The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN
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• Let websites framebust out of native apps
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• Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
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• Mindustry – Open-Source Game
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• A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
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• Rust 1.63
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• Redis explained
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• Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-10

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

• “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
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• Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
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• Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)
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• Why aren't smart people happier?
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• U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
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• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
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• 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
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• How SQLite Helps You Do ACID
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• Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
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• OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-09

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

• Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
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• I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
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• Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case
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• Write a note to your spouse every day
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• How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?
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• Thank You, Firebug (2017)
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• The Story of Mel (1983)
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• GitHub accounts of people who contributed to tornado repos just got deleted
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• From novice to master, and back again (2013)
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• An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-08

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

• Oncall Compensation for Software Engineers
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• Mysterious holes on the seafloor
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• Look at median, and not mean GDP per capita
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• Why does gRPC insist on trailers?
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• I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case
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• A physical wiring diagram for the human immune system
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• Open AirPlay 2 Receiver
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• MiniRust
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• No More “Insight Porn”
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• To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-07

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

• Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
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• Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years)
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• The Scottish Highlands, Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range
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• Electronics are built with death dates. Let’s not keep them a secret
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• Solar canopies on parking lots
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• Our Roadmap for Nix
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• How to stop being “terminally online”
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• Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game
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• The case of fake IMDB credits
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• “Code” 2nd Edition Now Available
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-06

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

• Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
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• StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song
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• Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy
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• I assure you, medieval people bathed (2019)
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• Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
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• MyNoise – Background Sound Canceller
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• GraphQL kinda sucks
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• Simulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise) [video]
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• Google Trying to Solve a UUID
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• Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-05

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

• Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software
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• Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died
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• We're improving search results when you use quotes
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• Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story
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• My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
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• Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED
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• Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
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• DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source
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• Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
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• NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-04

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

• Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
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• Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing
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• The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection
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• Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
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• Cut the cutesy errors
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• Sending spammers to password purgatory
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• Part of my code makes Copilot crash
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• Botspam apocalypse
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• C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
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• Old jokes
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-03

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

• DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]
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• I still love PHP and JavaScript
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• Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding
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• FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
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• MIT invents $4 solar desalination device
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• Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform
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• Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
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• Being swamped is normal and not impressive
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• What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
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• Productivity porn
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-02

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

• Introduction to Apple Silicon
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• The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives
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• What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?
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• Crimes with Python's pattern matching
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• Understanding Jane Street
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• Coding as a greybeard
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• Oracle Suspended My Account
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• Use one big server
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• I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo
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• Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-01

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

• Nuclear energy is clean
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• Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
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• Why I built a dictionary app
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• Linux 5.19
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• Show HN: Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression
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• You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)
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• Librarian's Letter to Google Security
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• How I regained concentration and focus
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• What's TypeScript compiling? Use a treemap to find out
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-07-31

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

• Tor is fighting and beating Russian censorship
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• Clojure needs a Rails
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• MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
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• Famous HNers and their sites
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• Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 years
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• Shor, I’ll do it (2007)
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• When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders
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• Google Timer is gone
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• Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
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• EasyRPG
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