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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-30

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

• Show HN: FFmpeg Command Visualizer and Editor
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• The SAFe Delusion
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• Freetone – Pantone-ish colour palette for Adobe products
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• Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
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• The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus
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• Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches
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• Charts.css: CSS data visualization framework
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• Wiring my home with fiber
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• How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind
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• Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-29

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

• Bumble bees play, according to new research
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• The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report
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• Nvidia’s hot adapter for the GeForce RTX 4090 with a built-in breaking point
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• “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”
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• Why is D's garbage collection slower than Go's?
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• Taking Lichess to the next level
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• WireGuard in FreeBSD
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• Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died
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• Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org
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• How I make a living working on SerenityOS
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-28

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

• VHS: CLI home video recorder
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• Making an SSH client the hard way
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• Pokemon Card Animation
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• I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India (2020)
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• This file has Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black
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• Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available
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• How to communicate effectively as a developer
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• Open letter to Gitea
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• SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS
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• Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-27

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

• The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (1997)
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• Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims
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• Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children
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• Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
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• Signal says it won’t compromise on encryption
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• Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting things
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• Ad blocking is under attack (2017)
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• Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
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• Which emoji scissors close? (2020)
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• We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-26

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

• Employers should prioritize retention over hiring, study suggests
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• NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay
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• Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory
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• Most people don’t finish online job applications
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• Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills
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• I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)
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• Disabling the Intel Management Engine
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• Python 3.11 is faster than 3.8
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• SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
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• Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-25

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

• Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies
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• My next Mac might be the last
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• Salary Transparency
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• The cult of dd (2017)
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• What “work” looks like
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• Python 3.11.0 final
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• Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite
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• From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
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• My dad's resume and skills from 1980
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• Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-24

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

• 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
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• Why are there so few dead bugs on windshields these days?
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• Fake Books
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• I help seniors with technology issues
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• Plastic recycling remains a 'myth': Greenpeace study
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• Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
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• A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]
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• What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames
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• macOS Ventura is now available
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• Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-23

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

• Eglot has landed on master: Emacs now has a built-in LSP client
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• Archery World Record: Most arrows through a keyhole [video]
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• The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)
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• Linux: What Can You Epoll?
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• Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
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• Pocket Casts goes open source
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• A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes
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• Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?
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• Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain
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• Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-22

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

• Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS
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• State of CSS
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• Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' return in 1997?
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• AI models that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest
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• Blending Modes
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• 5 Years of Pop _OS
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• Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty
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• Ask HN: HNers with multiple sclerosis, can we get in touch?
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• Hyundai suspending two US suppliers because of child labor
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• Heroku Free Alternatives
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-21

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

• Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu
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• CT scans of batteries
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• MagicDNS is generally available
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• Another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis
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• The HTTP crash course nobody asked for
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• SHA-3 Buffer Overflow
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• Stop Scanning Me
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• Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
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• Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests
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• The Commodordion
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-20

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

• Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
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• Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform
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• NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation
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• How to use a watch as a compass
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• AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers
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• Your account is permanently suspended
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• Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
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• Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister
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• DevOps is broken
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• DaVinci Resolve for iPad
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-19

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

• Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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• 75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12
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• Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s
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• Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
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• Starlink Aviation
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• Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?
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• Write better error messages
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• Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
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• Inside the Proton
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• EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-18

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

• The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961)
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• North Paw
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• Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped
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• AI Data Laundering
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• How to become a pirate archivist
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• Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
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• TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch
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• Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job
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• I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems
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• Sound
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-17

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

• Ask HN: How to learn to sell?
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• XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works
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• The Z80's protected mode discovered after 40 years [video]
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• Kanye West is buying Parler
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• Former FBI director said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money
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• Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe
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• Never trust a system that seems to be working
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• American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants
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• Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem – an interactive tutorial
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• GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-16

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

• We're moving on from Firebase
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• Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
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• Moving from React to htmx
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• Apple bought out all of Newsweek's 1984 Election issue ad space for Mac
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• Google search was giving errors when searching “how many emojis on iOS”
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• Trying new programming languages helped me grow as a software engineer
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• Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists
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• Feather – open source icons
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• Compiler Explorer
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• GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-15

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

• Why I Don't Use Netscape (1999)
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• Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest
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• Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
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• Unlaunching the 12GB 4080
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• Vogtle Unit 3 starts nuclear fuel load
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• Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built
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• Disposable Root Servers
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• Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)
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• Google engineers joked about how incognito mode isn't incognito
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• Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-14

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

• Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
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• Teenager solves stubborn riddle about prime number look-alikes
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• A database without dynamic memory allocation
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• Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
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• Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
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• Some remotely exploitable Linux kernel WiFi vulnerabilities
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• On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage
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• Ex Police Officer Used Law Enforcement Tech to Hack Women’s Explicit Photos
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• Low Earth Orbit Visualization
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• Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-13

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

• Apple to withhold its latest employee perks from unionized store
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• Students break acceleration world record for electric vehicles
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• BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
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• Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software
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• California man fined for selling maps of property boundaries without a license
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• Taildrop
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• Meta executives ‘inadvertently’ identified in OnlyFans bribery suit
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• Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
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• PostgreSQL 15
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• TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-12

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

• Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study
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• How to prove you know a secret without giving it away
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• How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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• Seven sins of numerical linear algebra
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• Wikipedia is not short on cash
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• JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
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• Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies
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• MAR1D: First-Person Mario
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• Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
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• Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-11

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

• Show HN: Minimal, no-JS web forum software
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• Show HN: InvokeAI, an open source Stable Diffusion toolkit and WebUI
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• How Wine works 101
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• Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics
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• Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization
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• Blender: Wayland Support on Linux
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• Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs
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• /r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story
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• I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
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• Meta Quest Pro
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-10

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

• CS631 – Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
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• I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it [video]
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• Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
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• Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
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• Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain
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• Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS (2020)
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• The 4th Year of SerenityOS
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• An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets
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• We should measure well-being instead of failing to measure economic productivity
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• Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-09

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

• Cassandra at Apple: 1000s of Clusters, 300k Nodes, 100 PB
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• Lufthansa has not banned AirTags
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• DALL·E 2 vs. $10 Fiverr Commissions
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• Day.js – Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API
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• Stripe is PayPal circa 2010
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• Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners
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• Take a break
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• Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court
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• The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum
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• Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-08

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

• Reality is just a game now
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• Mortal Kombat+
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• AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing
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• My Favourite Computer, an Old Mac
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• Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
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• Patients can now access all their health records digitally
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• Top USB Drives on Amazon are a Scam
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• My Trip to Space Filled Me with Overwhelming Sadness
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• I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls
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• Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-07

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

• Pimp My BBC Micro
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• A Universal Cancer Treatment?
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• Staff Engineer Archetypes (2020)
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• How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive
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• Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1
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• Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit
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• Mastodon.technology Shutdown
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• Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year
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• School vs. Wikipedia
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• JetBrains Ring UI
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-06

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

• TV backlight compensation (2020)
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• Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production to India
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• What does the ??!??! operator do in C?
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• A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
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• Kim Jung Gi has died
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• Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think
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• Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta
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• SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc
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• Celsius Execs Cashed Out $40M in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers
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• Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-05

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

• Matter – Protocol to connect compatible devices and systems with one another
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• The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
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• Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
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• “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?” (2017)
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• The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
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• Castopod – Open-source podcast hosting platform
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• Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 to Avoid Damaging the Display
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• Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning
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• FCC to remove companies from robocall database for non-compliance [pdf]
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• Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-04

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

• The Fundamentals of Control Theory
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• We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
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• Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?
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• How fateful?
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• EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
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• The deception of “buying” digital movies
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• “The Onion” Files a Supreme Court Brief
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• Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
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• LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape
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• Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-03

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

• Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots
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• Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites
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• A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (2017)
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• Linux Kernel 6.0
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• PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy [pdf]
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• Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living
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• The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken
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• Postgres WASM
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• Show HN: I finished v5 of a JVM framework I've spent spent half a decade making
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• Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-02

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

• Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic
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• TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app
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• Stellarium 1.0
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• 230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establish Extraterritoriality
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• Stadia died because no one trusts Google
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• NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS
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• LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
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• Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
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• How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists
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• Matrix-webcam displays your webcam video feed in the console
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-01

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

• Get things done with Emacs
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• Show HN: uFuzzy.js – A tiny, efficient fuzzy search that doesn't suck
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• House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition
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• Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B
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• Hacking Google
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• The 'Egg' Laptop
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• Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’
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• Enhanced noise suppression in Jitsi Meet
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• A surprising way to lose your files on Windows
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• The self-taught UI/UX designer roadmap (2021)
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-09-30

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

• Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran
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• Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam
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• Why modern software is slow
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• Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
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• Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
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• We worked for 4 months to build a port for Stadia and today we finished it
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• Select * from cloud
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• OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022
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• Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
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• Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18
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