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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny
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• The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed
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• Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (1996)
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• Google executive fired after female boss groped him
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• Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit
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• SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic
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• Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
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• Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power
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• The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs
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• How likely is losing a Google account?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Take more screenshots (2022)
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• The Untold Story of SQLite (2021)
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• Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?
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• Calculators now emulated at Internet Archive
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• Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills
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• 80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea
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• Ask HN: What's with the DIY state of the art long-range Wi-Fi?
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• The window trick of Las Vegas hotels
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• FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls
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• AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Best and worst decisions I’ve made
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• Natural language is the lazy user interface
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• Elite for Emacs (2015)
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• Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0)
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• Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders
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• “Pigeon Neck” Illusion (2014)
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• BBC Modi Documentary Removal
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• What is Google doing with its open source teams?
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• Chronophoto
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• Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rails on Docker
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• A dinosaur with a remarkably preserved face
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• DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request
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• Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide
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• Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
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• The Mystery of the Dune Font
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• Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing
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• OsmAnd (OpenStreetMap) 4.3 for Android is fast with a new rendering engine
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• Forking Chrome to render in a terminal
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• Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• US Marines defeat DARPA robot by hiding under a cardboard box
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• The audacity of Apple Podcasts
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• OpenJourney: Midjourney, but Open Source
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• I almost bought a scanner
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• Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked
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• An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down
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• Realistic computer-generated handwriting
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• Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
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• Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
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• Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
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• How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
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• Evidence that Adani Group has engaged in stock manipulation and accounting fraud
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• Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
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• Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You
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• 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)
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• LastPass breach gets worse
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• Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel
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• Mjolnir
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• Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Perplexity.ai prompt leakage
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• Wonders of Street View
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• Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks
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• Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes
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• Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations
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• Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives
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• Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, ad-free and text only
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• Wine 8.0
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• U.S. accuses Google of abusing monopoly in ad technology
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• Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Appalachian Apple hunter who rescued 1k ‘lost’ varieties (2021)
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• Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal
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• WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
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• Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
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• Rotation with three shears
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• PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework
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• Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%
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• OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership
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• Netflix's New Chapter
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• Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• GNU Octave
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• My husband was right about DVDs
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• Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app
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• What happened with the substation attack in North Carolina?
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• Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
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• Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions
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• ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut: Smart HomeKit Voice Assistant
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• Detect breaches with Canary credit cards
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• The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
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• Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 🥺: the best sudo replacement
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• Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
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• Job Hunting in 2022
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• GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
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• Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars
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• Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
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• Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment
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• IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free
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• A page with no code
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• Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016)
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• Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile
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• Stock market charts you never saw (2021)
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• Twitterrific has been discontinued
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• How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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• I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year
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• Google to reduce workforce by 12k
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• Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave
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• Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
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• NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records
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• HC-tree is an experimental high-concurrency database back end for SQLite
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• Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engineer (2021)
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• Amazon Closing AmazonSmile
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• Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?
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• What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
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• Pandoc 3.0
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• Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater
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• Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?
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• Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?
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• Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video]
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• Tailscale bug allowed a person to share nodes from other tailnets without auth
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• LangChain: Build AI apps with LLMs through composability
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• No Start Menu for You
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• Thonny – Python IDE for beginners
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• OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic
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• Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
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• Rust concepts I wish I learned earlier
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• U.S. military-run slot machines earn $100M a year from service members
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
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• Apple TV prompt requires another Apple device
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• Quitting the rat race
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• The Pretty Good House
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• Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?
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• The FBI Identified a Tor User
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• MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
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• Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
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• Git security vulnerabilities announced
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• Microsoft to lay off 11k employees
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Revisiting KDE
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• For your next side project, make a browser extension
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• Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport
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• We invested 10% to pay back tech debt
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• Windows 98 icons are great (2015)
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• 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)
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• A cab ride I'll never forget (1999)
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• Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition
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• Wobbly clock
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• The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to draw ideas
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• NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success
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• The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics
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• Four thousand weeks
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• CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code
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• Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?
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• The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (2014)
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• Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch
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• Google announces update to unlock Stadia controllers to work with other devices
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• The Shit Show
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Sierra’s Macintosh Timebomb (2021)
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• A 116kb WASM of Blink that lets you run x86_64 Linux binaries in the browser
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• Alpine Linux in the Browser (2020)
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• Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years
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• What the hell is Forth? (2019)
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• Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker
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• Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking
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• WInd3x, the iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late
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• YouTube Addiction
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• Always look down in London: Pavement oddities
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Bullshit graph database performance benchmarks
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• The UK is wasting a lot of wind power
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• Nintendo 64 Java
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• The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies
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• This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI
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• Twitter's API is down?
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• A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal
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• Alpine.js
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• Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?
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• Analog Chess
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Architecture diagrams should be code
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• Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?
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• Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)
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• A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system
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• Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?
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• Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm
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• The Yaml document from hell
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• Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
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• SQLite Wasm in the browser backed by the Origin Private File System
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• Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language
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• Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
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• Lessons in Electric Circuits
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• What happens when a CPU starts
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• NanoGPT
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• FAA NOTAM System Outage
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• Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp, is now out
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• Apple announces full Swift rewrite of the Foundation framework (2022)
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• Genders.wtf
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• NYC Slice
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• ‘That girl is going to get herself killed’ (2022)
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• 3D in CSS
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• Just: A Command Runner
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• Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
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• Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%
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• Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
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• Microsoft in talks to acquire a 49% stake in ChatGPT owner OpenAI
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• Taking over a Dead IoT Company
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• Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies
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• Pirate Weather: A free, open, and documented forecast API
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• CDC File Transfer
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• Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment
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• Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
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• Gail.com FAQ
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• VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
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• Identity thieves bypassed Experian security to view credit reports
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• Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror
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• How to store your app's entire state in the url
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• An Open Letter on the Open Gaming License, to Wizards of the Coast
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• England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The science of having ideas in the shower
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• The Safari bug that never was (2022)
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• Show HN: Futurecoder – A free interactive Python course for coding beginners
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• Post-processing is ruining iPhone photos
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• Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016)
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• The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
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• Will You Help Me Repair My Door [video]
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• If you like startups you should love anti-trust
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• Game prototype using AI assisted graphics
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• Apple fined $8.5M for illegally collecting iPhone owners' data for ads
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How transportation technologies shaped empires
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• U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022
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• Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
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• Why was Roman concrete so durable?
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• Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering
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• Epochalypse
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• The beauty of CGI and simple design
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• Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made
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• Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to Use Than Touchscreens
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• Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)
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• Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
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• Twilio’s toll fraud problem
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• Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?
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• Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
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• Ask HN: What's on your home server?
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• Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
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• My bad habit of hoarding information
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• GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing
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• Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
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• G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering
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• Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned
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• FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions
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• Apple Books digital narration
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• Slack's private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays
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• How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)
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• How to get 1.5 TFlops of FP32 performance on a single M1 CPU core
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• U.S. moves to bar noncompete agreements in labor contracts
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• FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Infinite AI Array
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• Scientists have discovered the first virovore – an organism that eats viruses
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• French startup unveils new residential thermo-acoustic heat pump
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• Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets
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• Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture
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• Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing
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• Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension
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• The expanding dark forest and generative AI
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• Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructuring
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• Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes
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• Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
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• The infrastructure behind ATMs
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• The strangest computer manual ever written
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• My Youtube earnings
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• Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs
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• Python 2 removed from Debian
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• Modules, not microservices
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• Start a fucking blog
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• Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation [resolved]
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Games people play with cash flow
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• Conversation skills essentials
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• Casio-F-91W die-shot
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• “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”
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• Why Not Mars
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• Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
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• How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?
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• AIOC: Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
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• Airbnb removed my negative review
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Raspberry Pi security alarm – the basics
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• The 5% Rule
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• Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone
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• The State of HTTP in 2022
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• Tell HN: Happy New Year
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• I am not a supplier
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• Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th – December 30
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• The internet wants to be fragmented
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• Rant: Year of Linux on the desktop
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• Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?
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Daily Hacker News for 2022-12-31

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

• Canary Tokens
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• NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
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• Why I'm still using Python
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• Phoenix 1.7 is View-less
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• Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Is Not in Amazon’s Kindle Store
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• Why does my SSH private key still work after changing some bytes? (2016)
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• JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become a megalandlord
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• Dinner for one: A little-known British comedy famous in Germany
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• Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones
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• Draw SVG rope using JavaScript
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