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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-27

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

• Help! Is This Arabic?
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• Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow
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• Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery
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• From Go on EC2 to Fly.io
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• Most data work seems fundamentally worthless
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• Steam Deck: First Anniversary
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• Turn your backyard into a biodiversity hotspot
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• Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT
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• The Camera-Shy Hoodie
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• Keep your AI claims in check
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-26

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

• Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market
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• Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
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• Using GPT3, Supabase and Pinecone to automate a personalized marketing campaign
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• Bloom's 2 sigma problem
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• Bizarre and unusual uses of DNS
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• Awesome Docker Compose Examples
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• SymPy makes math fun again
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• Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi
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• Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says
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• 2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton (2017)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-25

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

• Paper Models of Vintage Computers
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• Show HN: Sail a historical full-rigged ship in real global weather
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• Analysis finds Australia’s inflation being driven by company profits, not wages
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• John Boyer, blind software engineer, has died
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• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
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• My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
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• A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
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• Open Airport Map
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• Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved
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• Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-24

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

• The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web
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• KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop
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• Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a \"phone lookup\" service
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• DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20B Figma Deal
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• FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms
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• Google search for a local restaurant returns scammer’s ad as top result
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• LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model
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• I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to
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• U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds
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• Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-23

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

• Show HN: We’re open-sourcing our session replay tool
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• Poste.io – Complete Mail Server
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• LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night
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• Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub
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• Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab
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• Show HN: Mox - Modern full-featured low-maintenance self-hosted mail server
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• Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)
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• I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended
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• Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical
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• Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-22

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

• Show HN: Phind.com – Generative AI search engine for developers
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• The age of cargo cult Agile must end
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• Spy Balloon Simulator
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• World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back
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• Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible
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• AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency
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• Apple orders entire supply of TSMC's 3nm chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs
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• Show HN: AskHN
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• Google stopping coding competitions
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• Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-21

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

• Creation happens in silence
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• 5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
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• Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives
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• Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them
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• Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phenomena'
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• Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and academic performance
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• Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
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• Software 2.0 (2017)
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• Prompt Engineering Guide: Guides, papers, and resources for prompt engineering
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• Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-20

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

• Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
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• Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process
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• Facebook Announces Meta Verified
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• Self hosting in 2023
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• Goodbye, CSS-Tricks
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• Infinite-Storage-Glitch – Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files
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• Show HN: Turn Your Pandas Dataframe into a Tableau-Style UI for Visual Analysis
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• Running large language models like ChatGPT on a single GPU
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• California AG and state senators introduce bill to ban hidden fees
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• CheatGPT
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-19

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

• Email: Explained from First Principles
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• Internal review finds falsified data in Stanford President’s Alzheimer research
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• Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
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• Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers
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• Setting up an electronics workshop
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• Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro
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• 80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City (2021)
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• CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d
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• New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint
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• Local-First Web Development
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-18

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

• Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week
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• Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
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• First UK child to receive gene therapy for fatal genetic disorder is now healthy
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• Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI
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• Making macOS Apps Uninstallable
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• The Janet Language
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• Doom the Way It Was Meant to Be Played – v1.1 Multi-Monitor
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• TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
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• Text Is All You Need
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• Password protect a static HTML page
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-17

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

• I don't like making the best things
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• Launch HN: Neptyne (YC W23) – A programmable spreadsheet that runs Python
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• We Found an Neuron in GPT-2
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• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
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• Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
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• Sloth – A Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, etc.
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• Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey
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• Is the Living Computer Museum dead?
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• Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
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• Replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-16

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

• The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google
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• AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline
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• The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning
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• WebKit Supports Nested CSS
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• CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum by Carnegie Mellon
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• Homebrew 4.0.0
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• Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
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• Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
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• Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
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• Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-15

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

• Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar regolith simulants
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• Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
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• Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
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• What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?
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• Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
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• Introduction to Datalog
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• Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
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• Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
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• Last Flight Out
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• Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-14

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

• Z-Library Returns on the Clearnet in Full Hydra-Mode
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• AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack
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• So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)
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• Google’s fully homomorphic encryption compiler – a primer
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• Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding
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• BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout
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• Turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer (2022)
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• Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
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• Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT
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• Normalization of Deviance (2015)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-13

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

• A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (2012)
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• Multi-Account Containers
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• <3 Deno
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• KiCad 7.0
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• We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability
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• Launch HN: Lago (YC S21) – Open-source usage-based billing
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• GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
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• Twilio is laying off 17% of workforce
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• Bing AI can't be trusted
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• Let Teenagers Sleep
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-12

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

• Aurora
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• Jupyterlab Desktop
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• Why does the SARS-Cov2 genome end in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? (2020)
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• Another UFO shot down over Canada by US
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• U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities
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• StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
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• The
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• Let's write a setjmp
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• IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system
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• John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-11

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

• My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder
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• Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk
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• Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution
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• QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed
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• Ask HN: Why did medium.com \"fail\"?
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• US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast
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• Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?
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• A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs
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• Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
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• A Heisenbug lurking in async Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-10

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

• Comcast gave false map data to FCC
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• The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption
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• The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020)
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• Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii
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• Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
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• Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks
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• Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace
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• “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
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• Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon
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• Wi Flag (2002)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-09

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

• Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction?
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• Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control
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• Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows
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• Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative
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• Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
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• ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web
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• The Future of Thunderbird
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• A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
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• GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
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• GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-08

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

• Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit
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• Google's Bard shows incorrect information in its launch ad
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• Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More
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• ‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
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• Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
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• “How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”
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• Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
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• The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012
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• Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years
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• Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-07

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

• All programming philosophies are about state
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• The Samsung Galaxy S23’s bloated Android build somehow uses 60GB of storage
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• Visual design rules you can safely follow
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• Run CLIP on iPhone to search photos
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• Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
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• Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
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• Big data is dead
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• Zoom lays of 15% of employees
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• Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave
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• Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-06

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

• As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
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• If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough
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• Stable Attribution
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• Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science
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• Ask HN: Did anyone else lose their marbles?
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• How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
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• Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company
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• The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
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• Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM
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• Bard and new AI features in Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-05

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

• Reversing UK mobile rail tickets
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• De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
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• Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone
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• Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees
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• SICP: the end of an era (2021) [video]
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• U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
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• I use C when I believe in memory safety
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• Poline – esoteric color palette generator
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• Ghost boat with GPS leads father-son duo to man overboard
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• Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-04

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

• The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering
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• Show HN: Glidesort, a new stable sort in Rust up to ~4x faster for random data
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• Universal Summarizer
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• MDMA and psilocybin are approved as medicines in Australia
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• Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
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• 43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
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• FOSDEM 2023 is live now
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• ESP32 Buyer’s Guide: Different Chips, Firmware, Sensors
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• Open Assistant – project meant to give everyone access to a great chat based LLM
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• Scalability is overrated
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-03

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

• Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
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• I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer
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• Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
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• Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs
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• Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer
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• Show HN: DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps
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• Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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• ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
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• Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
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• Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-02

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

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)
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• Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s
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• AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch
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• Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
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• The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation
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• Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts
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• Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU
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• Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser
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• Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch
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• Math breakdown: Anime homing missiles
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-02-01

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

• Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
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• New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
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• Hermes: An open-source document management system
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• Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose access to the original
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• Ask HN: How do you test SQL?
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• A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
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• Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eyesight
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• Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
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• ChatGPT Plus
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• Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Over the past 21 months I’ve written a code editor from the ground up
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• Cargo airships could be big
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• Automerge 2.0
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• Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
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• I want to lose every debate
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• Japanese explained to programmers
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• W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization
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• “In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be wiped”
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• Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
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• Tell HN: Heroku deleted my database with no warning
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