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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-30

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

• Wikipedia had wrong Vatican flag for years – now incorrect flags are everywhere
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• Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
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• HBO Max new Captcha system
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• An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
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• I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (2016)
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• Rust has been forked to the Crab Language
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• Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf]
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• JMAP – a modern email open standard
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• I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me
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• Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-29

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

• Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (2017)
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• Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for
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• Libuv – Linux: io_uring support
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• Lua: The Little Language That Could
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• How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter
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• Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
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• Let us serve you, but don't bring us down
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• Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer
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• 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
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• India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-28

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

• Oxidizing OCaml: Locality
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• Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
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• TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)
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• No_color
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• Former Dolphin team member addresses Steam/Valve’s takedown of Dolphin emulator
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• Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp
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• Why I Left Rust
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• ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important
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• YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube
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• Rust: The wrong people are resigning
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-27

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

• There oughta be a bullet time video booth
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• Micromouse: The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth [video]
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• 0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years
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• Times New Bastard
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• Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed
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• Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust
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• Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013)
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• Tarkovsky's films online for free
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• Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations
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• Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-26

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

• War Is a Racket (1935)
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• Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet
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• Neanderthal Flute
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• Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page
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• htmx
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• Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost
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• Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023
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• Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond
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• Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases
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• Paper Airplane Designs
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-25

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

• Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
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• The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives
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• The brand new Thunderbird logo
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• Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions
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• SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
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• The tiny corp raised $5.1M
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• How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
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• Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]
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• AI Canon
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• Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-24

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

• Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and NAT
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• Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)
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• How to start a Go project in 2023
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• Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support
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• Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software
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• Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Google
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• Regent – Electric coastal travel
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• Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page
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• Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)
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• PyPI Was Subpoenaed
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-23

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

• Memory Allocation
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• The Open Buddhist University
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• Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
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• RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
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• SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago
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• FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year
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• Ableton Push 3
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• Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber
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• Launch HN: Common Paper (YC W23) – SAFEs for Commercial Contracts
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• Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-22

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

• Show HN: Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps
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• The DRAKON Language
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• How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?
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• PrivateGPT
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• Noise is all around us
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• Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser
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• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
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• Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift
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• Deep sleep may be the best defense against Alzheimer’s
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• Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-21

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

• U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce
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• Using ChatGPT for home automation
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• We will be shutting down neeva.com
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• Rodney Brooks on GPT-4
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• Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
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• Writing Python like it's Rust
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• GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers
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• Suspicious iOS KeePass Client
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• Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled
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• The end of the accounting search
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-20

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

• I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)
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• Migrating from Supabase
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• Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
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• PyTorch for WebGPU
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• Rooms.xyz
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• Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline
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• People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living
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• FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says
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• Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
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• Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-19

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

• Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement
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• A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
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• Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage
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• Orb Farm
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• Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video]
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• Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks
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• Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd
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• Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine
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• FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
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• Venture Predation
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-18

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

• Retro Computer Museum
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• Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way
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• Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features
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• Numbers every LLM developer should know
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• What happened with ASUS routers this morning?
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• User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)
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• European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects
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• Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days
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• ChatGPT app for iOS
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• Why is my dryer radioactive?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-17

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

• Smol Developer
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• Bun 0.6
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• Rekt.network
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• BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPT
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• Lately I've been using timers daily
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• Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a New Job
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• The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
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• Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers
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• Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible
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• Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-16

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

• Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
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• Pixpaint
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• random(random(random(random())))
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• My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated
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• JPMorgan Chase & Co tracks employees to dystopian extents
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• Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
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• Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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• Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features
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• The Sourdough Framework
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• A guidance language for controlling LLMs
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-15

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

• Get started making music
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• Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal
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• Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide
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• Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office
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• This blog is hosted on my Android phone
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• Come back, c2.com, we still need you
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• Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health
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• Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
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• LobbyFacts – Exposing lobbying in European institutions
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• IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-14

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

• Fairbuds XL review: noise-cancelling headphones you can fix
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• Monte Carlo methods
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• How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page
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• Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects
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• Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy
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• My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it
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• What Wikipedia Did
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• The networkQuality tool on macOS
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• The World is Built on Probability (1984)
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• Run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-13

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

• Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines
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• Windmill: Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs
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• GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt
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• GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt
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• RNA repair mechanism discovered in humans
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• Intel One Mono Typeface
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• Rails Cheat Sheet
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• Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
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• TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges
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• HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-12

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

• Fuck being productive
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• Pharo 11
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• Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password
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• YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail
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• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
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• Implement DNS in a Weekend
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• Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
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• Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
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• Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
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• The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-11

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

• Story: Redis and its creator antirez
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• PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
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• YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
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• Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG
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• Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)
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• When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think
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• Go with PHP
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• Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide
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• 100K Context Windows
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• Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-10

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

• Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
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• Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
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• The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
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• See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
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• The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals
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• Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”
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• Google I/O 2023
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• Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days?
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• Infosec company pwned by 4chan user
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• Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-09

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

• 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”
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• Cantonese Font with Pronunciation
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• Ancient Greek terms worth reviving
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• Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians
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• Learning DNS in 10 Years
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• UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill
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• CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers
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• Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad
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• James Webb Space Telescope reveals Fomalhaut's disk in detail
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• Language models can explain neurons in language models
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-08

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

• Ask HN: Suing Facebook in small claims?
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• Large-scale study reveals autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten
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• Contrast Rebellion
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• Ancient Earth Globe
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• You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)
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• Please don’t upload my code on GitHub
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• Street Fighter II, paper trails (2021)
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• KeePassXC pull request to add basic support for WebAuthn
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• FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup
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• Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-07

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

• Give It the Craigslist Test
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• EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees
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• I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky
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• macOS Internals
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• Belgium legalises ethical hacking
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• Walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees
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• EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones
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• I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again
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• Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled
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• The Prime Video microservices to monolith story
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-06

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

• A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge
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• Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
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• Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input
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• Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama
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• When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”
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• Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
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• Open source Background Remover: Remove Background from images and video using AI
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• Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg
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• Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database
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• Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-05

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

• Writing a SQLite Clone from Scratch in C (2022)
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• America’s first high-volume ‘PFAS Annihilator’ is up and running in W. Michigan
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• Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request
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• I found the best anagram in English (2017)
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• Public Money, Public Code
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• What is a Vector Database? (2021)
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• Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government
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• Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
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• Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
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• Htmx Is the Future
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-04

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

• A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
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• How Does an FPGA Work?
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• The money spent on lotteries doesn’t go to the park
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• Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs
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• Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
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• The seven programming ur-languages (2021)
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• Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics
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• Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC
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• EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and safety of law-abiding users
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• So this guy is now S3. All of S3
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-03

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

• Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card
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• News Minimalist – Only significant news
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• Bank Failures Visualized
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• OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA
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• MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry
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• It's A(door)able
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• I want to talk about WebGPU
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• Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
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• The Framework Laptop 13
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• Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-02

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

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
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• A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?
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• The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
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• PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
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• Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy
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• faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets
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• Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge
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• Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
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• Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers
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• Eye Candy
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-01

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

• Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals”
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• Pure Sh Bible
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• Minetest: An open source voxel game engine
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• The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]
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• JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank
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• Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
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• Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
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• Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
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• Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
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• Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-04-30

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

• New York to ban natural gas, including stoves, in new buildings
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• MRSK: Deploy web apps anywhere
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• Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
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• Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale
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• Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices
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• My favorite C compiler flags during development
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• Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you
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• Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs
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• Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
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• MLC-LLM: GPT/Llama on consumer-class GPUs and phones
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