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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-29

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

• DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist
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• ButtFish – Transmit Morse Code of chess moves to your butt
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• RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs
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• How to build a personal webpage from scratch
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• Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1
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• Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text
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• Google is shutting down Stadia
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• Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring
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• DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
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• Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-28

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

• Soldering Wires – Here's a different way
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• Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling
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• Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
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• Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding
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• Integrating with Fastmail
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• High-performance image generation using Stable Diffusion in KerasCV
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• Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons
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• We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS
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• Ken Thompson really did launch his \"trusting trust\" trojan attack in real life
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• I spent $3k on a Samsung Smart TV and all I got were ads and unwanted content
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-27

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

• A CTO should be technical
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• Go runtime: 4 years later
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• Experimenting a new syntax to write SVG
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• How history/tech YouTube channel Asianometry reached 270K subscribers, $5K/month
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• Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
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• Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
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• Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
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• WhatsApp Remote Code Execution in Video Call
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• Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”
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• Someone is pretending to be me
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-26

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

• Pdfgrep – a commandline utility to search text in PDF files
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• Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
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• macOS Free and Open-Source Security Tools by Objective-See
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• Traffic cameras expose your location through parking apps
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• Turns are better than radians
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• Learning Is Remembering
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• Zero Trust SIM
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• Zen4's AVX512 Teardown
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• Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates
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• Dear Chess World
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-25

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

• Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six
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• iPhones and action discoverability
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• webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device
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• This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (2019)
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• C++20, How Hard Could It Be
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• Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos
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• Analysis of Apple Watch running data
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• 58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
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• 3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror
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• Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-24

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

• Be critical or be corrupted
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• Wails v2 Released
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• Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers
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• At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot world record
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• A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
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• Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (2009)
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• Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software
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• Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers
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• Aging programmer
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• Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-23

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

• Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
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• Avoiding homework with code and getting caught
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• We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity
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• Nightdrive
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• Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
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• Matrix web-based green code rain, made with love
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• The journey to Nintendo Switch
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• The road to Zettalinux
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• Software I’m thankful for (2021)
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• The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-22

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

• Meta and Google are cutting staff
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• AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
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• Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
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• Olive.c: a simple graphics library that does not have any dependencies
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• The Strid: The ‘deadliest stretch of water’
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• Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way
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• Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
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• Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health
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• American Data Privacy and Protection Act
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• Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-21

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

• uBlock Origin Lite: Description
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• EU Open Web Search project kicked off
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• YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations
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• Can I use a system call?
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• Effects of grill patterns on fan performance/noise (2011)
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• LiteFS
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• Tether ordered to produce documents showing backing of USDT [pdf]
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• The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition
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• New Webb image captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings in decades
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• Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-20

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

• Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represents small developers
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• It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++
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• Cache your CORS
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• Stable Diffusion based image compression
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• What I’ve learned from users
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• Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about
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• React I love you, but you're bringing me down
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• You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list
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• Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript
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• Wasmtime 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-19

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

• America’s most remarkable kid died in Newcastle, Utah
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• An X11 apologist tries Wayland
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• Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl
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• Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run
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• Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair
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• I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fruit fly
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• “Return to Monkey Island” is out today
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• 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]
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• 2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer
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• I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-18

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

• Ask HN: How to validate a startup idea whilst employed?
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• Super apps are proliferating across emerging markets
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• Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
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• Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?
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• Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
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• GTA VI Leak [video]
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• Finding the “second bug” in glibc’s condition variable
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• Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast
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• Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty with legal language
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• The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-17

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

• What it takes to make a game by yourself
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• Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years
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• Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
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• FogBugz new owners attempting to auto-upgrade all free plans to paid
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• Introduction to Algorithms (2020)
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• Saul Kripke has died
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• The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy
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• U.S. appeals court rejects big tech's right to regulate online speech
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• Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax
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• FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-16

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

• Godot 4 Beta 1
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• The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game
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• Plasma Bigscreen
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• Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
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• Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy
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• US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years
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• 35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx
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• Figma Alternatives
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• GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge
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• EVGA terminates Nvidia partnership [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-15

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

• How a QR code works
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• About Lockdown Mode
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• Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers
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• Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat after fatal F-16 crash
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• Victorian Hacker News
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• The Ethereum merge is done
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• Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake
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• Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
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• Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform
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• Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-14

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

• Senior engineers are living in the future
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• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer
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• “Secrets” about the consumer audio business you may find interesting
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• Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?
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• Why car wheels are so flat these days
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• Color fonts on Google Fonts
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• Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide” (2019)
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• Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
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• DVD Bouncing Logo
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• Patagonia founder gives away the company
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-13

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

• Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows
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• Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children
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• Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31
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• Jean-Luc Godard has died
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• The last person standing in the floppy disk business
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• Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
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• FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
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• Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff
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• W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth
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• Increase: Banking API
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-12

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

• Build your career on dirty work
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• .ai
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• Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else
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• Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac
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• Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?
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• MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
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• The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
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• Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
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• Bikes, not self driving cars, are the technological gateway to urban progress
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• Who cares about diversity?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-11

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

• Flanderization
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• Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
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• Rethinking GPS: Engineering next-gen location at Uber (2018)
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• Empty offices are becoming apartments in Texas’s big cities
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• Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
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• Rendering my (billiard) balls in a fragment shader
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• Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers
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• Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
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• Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
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• Shortest URLs on the Internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-10

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

• Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone
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• Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983)
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• The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube
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• A Web UI for Stable Diffusion
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• On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services
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• CS 168: The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox
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• Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
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• Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
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• Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
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• YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-09

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

• My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
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• Stop measuring community engagement
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• Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
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• Accelerate Python code by importing Taichi
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• Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
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• Patreon laid off their security team
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• It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over
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• What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
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• Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says
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• Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-08

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

• Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
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• “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
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• iOS 16 Available September 12th
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• Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity
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• Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
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• I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)
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• Reddit's favorite products in one place
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• San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics
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• Queen Elizabeth II has died
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• Congress.gov API
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-07

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

• Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
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• NASA can now reliably produce a tree’s worth of oxygen on Mars
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• Difftastic, the fantastic diff
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• Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch
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• WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing
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• How the SQLite Virtual Machine Works
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• Tell HN: Otter.ai bot recording meetings without consent
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• Zig, the Small Language
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• IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system
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• Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-06

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

• Don't ignore the janitor
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• Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis
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• Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes
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• Bitwarden raises $100M
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• Vulnerability Management for Go
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• Someone’s Been Messing with My Subnormals
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• TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML
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• Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices
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• NASA selects SiFive and makes RISC-V the go-to ecosystem for future missions
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• Judge rules Facebook parent Meta intentionally violated campaign finance laws
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-05

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

• Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant
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• Reviving the Pakon film scanner
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• Show HN: Zelda Breath of The Wild Street View
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• Unreal Rust
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• Has tiktok_us been breached?
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• Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest
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• Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
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• Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service
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• Common Lisp vs Racket
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• All poverty is energy poverty
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-04

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

• The forty-year programmer
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• Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers
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• Less is more agile
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• I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
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• Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM
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• New performance materials are coming
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• C Integer Quiz
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• Thunderbolt, Displayport and Docks
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• Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
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• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-03

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

• Making iron from sand [video]
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• If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever
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• Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)
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• IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power
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• Peter Eckersley has died
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• Tell HN: The 10-bit timers are about to overflow on September 17th
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• Jetbrains Space
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• Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
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• The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
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• Blocking Kiwifarms
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-02

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

• How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020) [video]
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
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• Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location
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• FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet
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• We clone a running VM in 2 seconds
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• Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
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• Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port)
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• Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
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• Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers
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• Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-01

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

• Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven
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• Want to found a startup? Work at one first
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• Cognitive loads in programming
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• WebKit on GitHub
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• US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
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• Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final
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• Falsehoods programmers believe about email
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• Kagi/Orion status update: First three months
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• The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
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• Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-08-31

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

• Stable Diffusion is a big deal
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• Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux
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• Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion
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• DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest
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• Stable Diffusion animation
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• Things not available when someone blocks all cookies
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• Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
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• Snap lays off 20% of employees
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• Final thoughts on Ubiquiti
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• DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
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