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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-29

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

• There’s more than one way to write an IP address (2019)
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• Is Gmail killing independent email?
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• U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic
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• Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
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• Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
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• Internet in a Box
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• Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients
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• Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings
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• Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app
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• Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-28

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

• Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software
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• Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
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• Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
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• ChatGPT for Hardware Design
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• Beautiful branchless binary search
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• Microsoft exec says Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside
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• Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam
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• How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery
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• Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
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• Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-27

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

• Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?
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• Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
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• Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
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• Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
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• A visual book recommender
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• Datomic is Free
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• Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff
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• Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere
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• As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
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• Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search results page
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-26

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

• Transformers from Scratch (2021)
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• A non-technical explanation of deep learning
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• Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)
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• Google Authenticator cloud sync: Google can see the secrets, even while stored
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• Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
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• UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal
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• Lessons by 3blue1brown
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• Colorado becomes first to pass ‘right to repair’ for farmers
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• Why did Google Brain exist?
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• Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-25

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

• Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
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• LAION, a high school teacher’s free image database, powers AI unicorns
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• Ox
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• Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS
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• Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules
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• People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
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• Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
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• Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’
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• The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
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• Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-24

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

• YouTube, the jewel of the internet
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• Some mistakes I made as a new manager
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• Bilingualism affords no general cognitive advantages: Study
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• DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
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• I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)
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• MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad
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• UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
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• Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework
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• Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption
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• Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-23

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

• Finetuning Large Language Models
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• Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed
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• The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion
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• Effective Immediately: A central hub for people who've been recently laid off (2020)
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• Saturn's Interior After the Cassini Grand Finale
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• iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
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• A social media site for chatbots to talk to each other
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• Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility
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• The dark side of the Mac App Store
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• LSD: Not Even Once
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-22

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

• The weird world of Windows file paths
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• Four-Byte Burger [video]
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• Windows on Btrfs
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• There is no A.I.
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• Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study
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• Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant
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• Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills
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• The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished
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• Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M
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• Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-21

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

• Bark – Text-prompted generative audio model
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• Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code
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• Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
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• Spinning Diagrams with CSS
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• CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
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• Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
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• Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration
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• Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see
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• The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
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• GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-20

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

• Space Elevator
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• Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
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• Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
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• US could soon approve MDMA therapy
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• Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
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• Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years
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• Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers
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• SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
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• BuzzFeed News is shutting down
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• Google DeepMind
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-19

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

• Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
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• Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years
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• Clock
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• Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”
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• Offline is just online with extreme latency
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• Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
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• Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way
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• Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
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• StableLM: A new open-source language model
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• User: Junnn11
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-18

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

• Load Balancing
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• OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
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• The Windows 11 Trash Party
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• Why don’t more people live close to friends?
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• Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)
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• Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content
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• An example of LLM prompting for programming
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• Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
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• Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
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• Astral
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-17

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

• Why flying insects gather at artificial light
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• I liked this simple calculus exercise
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• Booting Modern Intel CPUs
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• I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated
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• Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
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• MiniGPT-4
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• Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
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• iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone
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• Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
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• RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-16

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

• Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix
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• Exercism – learn programming languages for free
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• OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment [pdf]
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• The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
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• Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]
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• Dishwasher Salmon
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• Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
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• De-Stressing Booking.com
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• AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable
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• I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-15

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

• Aztec monks with 1/55 HP no longer die when picking up or dropping a relic
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• Prompt injection: what’s the worst that can happen?
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• ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons
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• The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
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• What are transformer models and how do they work?
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• Surviving Burnout (2015)
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• Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful
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• WebGPU Fundamentals
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• Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?
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• Lofi air traffic control – LAX
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-14

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

• The early days of Linux
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• Elixir and Rust is a good mix
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• Animated Drawings
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• End-of-Life Dreams
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• SQL:2023 is finished: Here is what's new
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• An open source AI tool to animate children's drawings
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• Temporal quality degradation in AI models
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• Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)
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• Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
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• Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-13

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

• Why Janet?
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• Databricks Releases 15K Record Training Corpus for Instruction Tuning LLMs
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• Use io_uring for network I/O
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• We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
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• The art of auto engineering
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• YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship
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• Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025
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• Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available
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• Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
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• Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-12

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

• The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
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• Deck.of.cards
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• Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair
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• Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
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• Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta
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• Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design
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• NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
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• Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers
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• Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
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• Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-11

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

• Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language
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• Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
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• Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
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• Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
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• The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale
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• We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
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• Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
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• I worked at Google for -10 days
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• Substack Notes Launched
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• SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-10

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

• A Baby GPT
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• Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
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• Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
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• RePalm
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• Effective Spaced Repetition
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• Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%
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• How To Get Started In Soldering
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• The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business
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• I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days
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• FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-09

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

• Google to ban financial lending apps from accessing user photos, contacts
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• Electricity Prices by Country
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• GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled, based on coreboot
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• A 1.5GB string
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• New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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• USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher handwriting
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• Sunset at the South Pole
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• EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany
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• From deep to long learning?
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• The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-08

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

• Lerp
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• U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables
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• We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
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• Go port of SQLite without CGo
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• Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? A study too good to be true
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• The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
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• Why human societies developed so little during 300k years
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• I wish GPT4 had never happened
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• FAA K-12 Airport Design Challenge in Minecraft
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• Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-07

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

• Defamed by ChatGPT
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• Buck2: Our open source build system
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• System design and the cost of architectural complexity (2013)
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• Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot
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• How does database sharding work?
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• Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days
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• Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
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• Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub
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• Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again
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• Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-06

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

• Grid World
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• A trick to reaching flow: Leave your work broken
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• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
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• Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)
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• Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon
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• The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
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• I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
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• Chrome ships WebGPU
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• If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
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• Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-05

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

• Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI
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• Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining
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• The case for banning children from social media
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• Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
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• Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
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• Former Square CTO Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Downtown San Francisco
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• CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
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• Segment Anything Model (SAM) can \"cut out\" any object in an image
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• Remembering Bob Lee
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• Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-04

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

• His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
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• Alibaba breaks itself up in six
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
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• How to do hard things
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• System76 Open Firmware
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• Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy
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• How to be a -10x Engineer
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• Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO
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• Supercentenarian records show patterns indicative of errors and pension fraud
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• Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-03

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

• Managers, stop distracting employees
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• Can water solve a maze? [video]
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• The day Windows died
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• Saying Goodbye to GitHub
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• Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
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• Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL
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• Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales
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• The Mullvad Browser
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• Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption
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• Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-02

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

• The Contradictions of Sam Altman
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• Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative
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• Hexatrek: The long distance thru hike in France
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• SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy
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• MIT 6.S191: Recurrent Neural Networks, Transformers, and Attention [video]
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• XUL Layout is gone
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• How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
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• For the first time, renewable energy generation beat out coal in the US
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• Thinking hard makes the brain tired
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• Ryuichi Sakamoto has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-01

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

• The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse was reported during beta
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• Janet for Mortals
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• Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen
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• Police relied on Clearview AI and put the wrong person in jail
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• Heat pump sales outpaced gas furnace sales in the US in 2022
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• Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser?
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• CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation
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• Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
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• Alexa, what is my wifi password?
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• Clocks and Causality – Ordering Events in Distributed Systems (2022)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-03-31

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

• The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained
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• San Jose police union executive director charged with smuggling fentanyl into US
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• Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
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• My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM
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• AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
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• Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
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• Postgres as a graph database
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• NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws
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• Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
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• Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now
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