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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-29

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

• Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
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• National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers
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• CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library
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• Kagi raises $670k
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• The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
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• Programming languages going above and beyond
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• Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
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• Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time
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• Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam
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• Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-28

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

• Is ORM still an anti-pattern?
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• Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress
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• The hidden cost of air quality monitoring
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• The damaging results of mandated return to office
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• Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning
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• Plastics are poisoning us
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• Fast machines, slow machines
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• Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits
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• Show HN: Open-source background removal in the browser
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• We raised a bunch of money
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-27

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

• Monitoring Is a Pain
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• Text rendering hates you (2019)
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• Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh
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• P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)
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• Build your own Docker with Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot
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• The Deep Sea (2019)
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• macOS command-line tools you might not know about
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• FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans
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• Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
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• The Password Game
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-26

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

• XML is the future
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• Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1
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• John Goodenough has died
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• JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records
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• Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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• I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
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• Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas
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• Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration
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• Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation
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• Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-25

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

• Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around
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• Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed
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• Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road
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• Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero
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• Towards a “PCB Drone” – Making a PCB Motor which reaches 30k RPM [video]
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• Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
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• The 'fuck you' pattern
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• Tintin, Hergé and Chang
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• Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser
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• Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-24

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

• Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
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• Tell HN: Interview take home assessments without feedback are frustrating
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• Show HN: A gallery of graphs built with React and D3.js
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• Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or tracing GC
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• Full ignition for ESA’s reusable rocket engine
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• What is a transformer model? (2022)
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• Jessica Livingston (2015)
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• The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”
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• Why doesn't TypeScript properly type Object.keys?
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• Do, or do not. There is no try
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-23

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

• Cookie Clicker saved my PhD
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• Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative
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• Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
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• Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library
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• Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
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• About GitHub’s use of your data
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• Show HN: An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor
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• Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?
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• Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet?
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• EU Advocate General: Technical Standards must be freely available [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-22

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

• Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
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• Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3B requests later
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• How to do the thing you've been avoiding
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• French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists
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• Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business
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• Svelte 4
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• People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI
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• Debris found came from missing Titan sub, says friend of passengers
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• Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits
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• Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-21

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

• “Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013)
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• Minimal downtime major PostgreSQL version upgrades with pg_easy_replicate
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• Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering
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• Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'
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• Building a Slack/Discord alternative with Tauri/Rust
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• A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)
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• GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params
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• Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo
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• Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
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• Maps distort how we see the world
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-20

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

• Show HN: Slint – A declarative UI toolkit for embedded and desktop
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• AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years?
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• A daytime nap is good for the brain
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• Hashing
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• Style your RSS feed
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• Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
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• Loneliness is stronger when not alone
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• Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs
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• Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it
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• Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-19

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

• Sketch.systems
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• Show HN: Answer Overflow – Indexing Discord content into the web
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• HDR QR Code
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• Keycloak – Open-source identity and access management interview
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• Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing financially (2016)
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• OpenLLM
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• TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'
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• Display brighter-than-white color on Apple devices
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• Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
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• PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-18

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

• GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoy
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• Bullshit Jobs (2018)
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• The Secret Sauce behind 100K context window in LLMs: all tricks in one place
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• A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop (2021)
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• I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
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• Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod
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• Jellyfin: Free software media system
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• Imaginary problems are the root of bad software
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• Goodbye, Twilio
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• Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-17

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

• Two years of teaching high school CS
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• Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes
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• Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps
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• Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones
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• Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor
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• European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
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• Daniel Ellsberg has died
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• Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback
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• London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface
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• Update: U+237C ⍼ &Angzarr;
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-16

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

• My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do
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• Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
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• Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
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• Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
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• Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit
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• DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
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• Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
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• Full Time
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• Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews
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• The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-15

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

• Moving fast with the core Vim motions
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• Quake's lightning gun bug explained [video]
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• First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources
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• Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted
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• I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet (2015)
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• Native JSON Output from GPT-4
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• Effective Rust (2021)
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• Our Plan for Python 3.13
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• Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely
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• Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-14

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

• Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React
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• Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
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• Finish your projects
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• Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates
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• JupyterLab 4.0
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• McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
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• Open source hospital price database
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• The Reddit blackout will continue
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• I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours
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• New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-13

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

• Killing Community
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• The US government is buying troves of data about Americans
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• US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to kill bad patents
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• BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due
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• Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration
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• Rewriting the Ruby parser
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• Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted
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• Comic Mono
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• AWS us-east-1 down
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• Cormac McCarthy has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-12

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

• How to make a QR code with Stable Diffusion
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• Intel is all-in on backside power delivery
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• Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?
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• Video to video with Stable Diffusion
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• Fark redesign is now live (2007)
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• Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
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• Cloudflare Is Having Issues
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• The concurrence of three climatic events
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• Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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• Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-11

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

• List one task, do it, cross it out
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• The computer graphics industry got started at the university of Utah
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• Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California
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• New York City will charge drivers going downtown
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• Barracuda urges replacing, not patching, its email security gateways
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• Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid
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• Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks
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• Before he was the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski was a mind-control test subject
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• The Dutch government wants automatic permission to target victims of hackers
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• Reddit Strike Has Started
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-10

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

• A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a compression algorithm
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• OpenMW: Open-source TES3: Morrowind reimplementation
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• Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment
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• Turkish citizens' personal data offered online after government site hacked
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• Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?
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• Bad waitress: Dying on your feet
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• Debian 12 “Bookworm”
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• MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation
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• Ted Kaczynski has died
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• OBS merges WebRTC support
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-09

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

• Average color of the NYC sky every 5 minutes
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• Understanding GPT tokenizers
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• Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch
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• Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark
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• ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links
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• Apollo Back end just made public
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• June 2023 Data Dump is missing
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• Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
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• Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
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• Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-08

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

• Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning
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• Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 17 and macOS 14 betas
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• Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy
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• SEC granted emergency restraining order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets
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• Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
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• Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits
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• The Last Egg
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• iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on
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• Apollo will close down on June 30th
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• Reddit is Fun will shut down on June 30th in response to Reddit API changes
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-07

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

• US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles
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• Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
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• Notes on Vision Pro
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• Royal Navy says quantum navigation test a success
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• Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 MBP
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• uBlock Origin 1.50.0
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• Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL
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• Reddit's Recently Announced API Changes, and the future of /r/blind
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• Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
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• Tell HN: \"I don't care about cookies” extension bought by Avast, users jump ship
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-06

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

• Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics
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• An Excel error led Austria's SPÖ to announce the wrong candidate as the winner
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• Apple Introduces M2 Ultra
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• Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami
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• Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
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• US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance
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• OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux
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• GGML – AI at the Edge
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• Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
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• Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-05

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

• Generative AI learning path
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• Moderation strike
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• Sandstorm: Open-source platform for self-hosting web apps
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• The Rust I wanted had no future
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• Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
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• GPT Best Practices
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• SEC Sues Binance and CEO Zhao for Breaking US Securities Rules
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• Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat
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• Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
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• Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-04

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

• This site is no longer solar powered for now
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• Still Love Telnet
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• GPS (2022)
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• DreamBerd is a perfect programming language
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• Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?
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• Apple Virtualization Framework
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• High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students
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• Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
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• Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS
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• WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-03

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

• The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer
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• System76's coreboot open firmware manages to disable Intel ME for Raptor Lake
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• He made linear algebra fun
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• Speed running Monkey Island
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• Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time
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• Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems
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• The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support
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• Decoding small QR codes by hand (2012)
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• Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
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• Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-02

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

• Judge rules Wyoming corner crossers did not trespass
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• Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0
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• Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset
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• Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
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• Vectorization: Introduction
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• How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
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• California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working
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• Radiation-hardened Quine (2014)
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• Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases
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• 27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-06-01

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

• Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)
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• When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs
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• OpenAI's plans according to sama
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• Japan’s government will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training
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• Lost John Coltrane recording, from experimental phase with Eric Dolphy, emerges
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• Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design
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• Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites
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• Zig is hard but worth it
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)
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• Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-05-31

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

• Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup
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• Hacking my “smart” toothbrush
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• Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
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• Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
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• Nvidia DGX GH200: 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System
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• Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
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• Rarbg Is No More
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• Slide to Unlock
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• The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself
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• Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
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