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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-29

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

• Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
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• Curation and decentralization is better than millions of apps
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• JupyterLite: a JupyterLab distribution that runs in the browser
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• JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
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• Keyboard shortcuts for GNU Readline
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• Goodbye, data science
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• An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole
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• Emacs 29 is nigh
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• Tales of the M1 GPU
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• WebTorrent
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-28

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

• CRDT: Fractional Indexing
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• Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on
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• FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client
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• Photography for geeks
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• Guide to FFmpeg
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• Everything I wish I knew when learning C
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• The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers
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• Intentionally Making Close Friends
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• Crypto firm BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads
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• AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-27

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

• Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science
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• Paredit 25 released, after 8 years
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• Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918
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• Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos Monday
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• FCC Bans Authorizations for Devices That Pose National Security Threat
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• A bug fix in the 8086 microprocessor, revealed in the die's silicon
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• Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020)
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• The world of pipe fittings
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• A hundred UK companies sign up for four-day week with no loss of pay
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• Git Notes: Git's Coolest, Most Unloved­ Feature
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-26

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

• Coding Curves
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• Choosing Nim out of a crowded market for systems programming languages
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• AI Art Panic
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• The Impossible Port: MacOS
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• Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
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• The Need to Read
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• I/O is no longer the bottleneck
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• German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is incompatible with GDPR
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• Fantasy Jodorowsky Tron visualisations
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• Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-25

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

• Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub
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• I over-engineered a Fast Fourier Transform for Arduino
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• Introduction to Genomics for Engineers
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• “You don't have a voltmeter. Do you have a potato?”
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• Issue dialing 911 on Google Pixel 6 cell phones
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• Factorio runs on Apple Silicon
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• Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore so how do they connect to the internet?
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• Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
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• KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration
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• Tesla.com/.gitignore
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-24

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

• Being OK with not being extraordinary (2021)
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• Last.fm turns 20
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• Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor
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• Stable Diffusion 2.0
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• The Art of Command Line
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• maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
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• Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
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• Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad
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• Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
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• A 3D-printed ethernet RJ45 clip to secure/repair/fix broken tab
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-23

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

• Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
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• Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically
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• Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
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• WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of documents disappear
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• Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game
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• An interactive guide to Flexbox
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• Ooh.directory
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• Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
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• Valve Introduces Proton Next
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• What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk about young people’s?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-22

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

• Betting on things that never change (2017)
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• The genius of binary space partitioning in Doom (2019)
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• Is wine fake?
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• Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
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• D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source
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• Extremely Linear Git History
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• Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
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• CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people
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• High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
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• Dwarf Fortress – randomly generated, persistent fantasy world
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-21

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

• Music Mouse
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• While crypto bro scammed clients, reporters scammed readers
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• For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain
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• Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
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• AWS and Blockchain
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• France bans Office 365 and Google Docs from schools and public administration
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• Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers
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• Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?
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• Show HN: A color picker for named web colors
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• CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-20

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

• Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix
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• The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
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• Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?
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• Putting Z-Library on IPFS
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• Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs
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• Greg Bear has died
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• Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
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• Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party
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• Show HN: Haxophone
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• Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-19

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

• The 12-bit rainbow palette
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• Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
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• Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
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• $477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure
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• Quake 1 port for Apple Watch
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• Tree views in CSS
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• The truffle industry is a scam
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• Consider working on genomics
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• Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
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• I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-18

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

• Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy
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• Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
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• Tailscale Funnel
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• Fred Brooks has died
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• Go Style
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• “Judas goats” were once key players in meatpacking plants
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• Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research
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• Exec who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess 'unprecedented'
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• The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks
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• Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-17

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

• Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video]
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• Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
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• Laying myself off from Amazon
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• Robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals [video]
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• Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer
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• My ADHD founder toolbox
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• Z-library founders arrested in Argentina
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• FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows
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• Apple Rankings
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• Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-16

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

• Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”
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• Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)
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• All companies are fucked up
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• Digital books wear out faster than physical books
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• Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?
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• What’s so great about functional programming anyway?
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• Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks
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• Notion AI – waiting list signup
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• Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile
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• Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-15

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

• PayPal inactivity fee
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• FTX Was Registered with and Licensed by the CFTC, Which Failed to Regulate FTX
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• My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator
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• What Happened at Alameda Research
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• I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
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• Emergency SOS via satellite
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• Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners
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• Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
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• Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
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• Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-14

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

• Building an e-ink weather display for our home
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• “When we all have pocket telephones”
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• Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
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• Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
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• Proposed class action alleges that Apple tracks users despite privacy assurances
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• Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
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• Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals
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• Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins
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• Making a Go program faster with a one-character change
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• FTX’s balance sheet was bad
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-13

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

• Show HN: A GitHub business card generator
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• Iranian man who lived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years dies
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• FTX balance sheet, revealed
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• From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
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• Why does calloc exist? (2016)
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• What do numbers look like?
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• Where has the passive radar code gone?
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• Build Your Own Text Editor (2017)
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• Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.
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• Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-12

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

• The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off
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• Demystifying financial leverage
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• Size is the best predictor of code quality (2011)
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• AWS IAM Roles, a tale of unnecessary complexity
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• Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image
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• Show HN: Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp
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• FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M
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• 97.7% of tokens launched on Uniswap were scams and rug pulls
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• What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?
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• Ur
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-11

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

• Seeing through hardware counters: A journey to 3x performance increase
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• We should have Markdown-rendered websites
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• Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other
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• FTC restores rigorous enforcement of law banning unfair methods of competition
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• CRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments
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• A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993)
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• YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option
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• Resolving the great undo-redo quandary
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• FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
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• Bubbles
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-10

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

• Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design
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• The Age of PageRank Is Over
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• Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright
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• We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX
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• Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device
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• GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
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• Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
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• Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass
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• US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected
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• FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-09

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

• Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert
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• NightWare helps disrupt nightmares for those with PTSD
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• Why are glasses so expensive? The industry prefers to keep that blurry (2019)
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• Let’s build a container runtime using only the chroot system call
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• Writing down what I do in Obsidian
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• Meta lays off 11,000 people
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• Affinity 2
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• My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal
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• Why is Rosetta 2 fast?
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• Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-08

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

• US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road
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• Signal Introduces Stories
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• You Might Also Like
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• Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
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• Show HN: Cozo – new Graph DB with Datalog, embedded like SQLite
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• Just don’t
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• Nvidia PhysX 5.0
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• Binance to acquire FTX
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• Binance Acquires FTX
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• Story: “It would be career limiting...\"
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-07

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

• Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)
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• Barilla passive cooker
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• Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing
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• Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial
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• Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls
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• Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
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• India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
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• Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house
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• The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015
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• Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-06

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

• Quantum winter is coming
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• The RS-232 protocol [video]
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• Negative 2000 Lines of Code (1982)
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• Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot
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• Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
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• Git as a janky Twitter replacement
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• Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing
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• EU Voice
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• 3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)
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• Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-05

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

• Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web
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• Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs
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• White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note
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• In defense of linked lists
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• Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica
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• MDN converted to Markdown
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• Birdwatch, Twitter's collaborative fact checking system
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• Multiple assertions are fine in a unit test
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• TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough
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• Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-04

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

• Universal Paperclips
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• FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]
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• Sugar Substitutes Surprise
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• Privately-Owned Rail Cars
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• ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
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• Tinygrad: A simple and powerful neural network framework
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• I fought the PayPal and I won
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• Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
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• Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)
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• UK Government scans all web servers hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-03

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

• American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class
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• Justice Department announces takedown of catalytic converter theft ring
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• Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency
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• Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
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• Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation
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• Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
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• Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
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• Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap
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• Rust 1.65.0
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• We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-02

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

• An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
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• Twitter Blue for $8/Month
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• Laws barring noncompete clauses spreading
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• Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
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• NASA finds super-emitters of methane
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• Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares
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• TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem
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• The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry
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• An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek
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• Dozens of malicious PyPI packages discovered targeting developers
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-11-01

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

• U.S. workers have gotten less productive – no one is sure why
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• Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?
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• Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move
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• Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (2014)
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• Is Turbopack 10x Faster than Vite?
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• Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell
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• Show HN: I made an offline-ready hiking trail companion app
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• Falcon Heavy Launch [video]
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• As last module docks, China completes its space station
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• OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes X.509 email address buffer overflows
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-10-31

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

• How Iran can track and control protesters’ phones: hacked documents
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• Solarized
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• We need a replacement for TCP in the datacenter [pdf]
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• Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet
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• New York could become first state with a ‘Right to Repair’ law
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• Musk’s inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans
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• Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
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• Nord – An Arctic, north-bluish color palette
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• I’m taking some time away from comma
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• Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
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