Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure
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ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
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Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics
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Fomos: Experimental OS, built with Rust
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Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
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Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe
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Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN
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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
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A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care
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My Caste
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 29, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact
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An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space (2021)
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Serial adapter/reboot controller for Apple M1/M2
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Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader
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Abandoned and little-known airfields
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Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs
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Grave flaws in BGP Error handling
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Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
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Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)
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Ask HN: Why did Python win?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 28, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude
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A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells
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Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’
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CLI text processing with GNU awk
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Fortran
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What do I think about Community Notes?
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OpenTelemetry in 2023
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Amazon acquires Fig
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ChatGPT Enterprise
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When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 27, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Thoughts about what worked in math circles
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Linux on a Commodore 64
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If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you
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Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
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Prisoners of Google Android development
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Lie still in bed
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WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets
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Overthewire.org
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Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
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Where do fonts come from? This one business, mostly
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 26, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
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The EU's war on behavioral advertising
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Web scraping for me, but not for thee
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Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
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Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B
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Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now (2022)
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Fish – A friendly interactive shell
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E-ink is so Retropunk
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Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture
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90% of “eco-friendly” paper straws contain traces of toxic forever chemicals
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 25, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
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FreeBSD on Firecracker
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Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
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Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”
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The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
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Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager
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How to drill your own water well
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Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency
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Factorio: Space Age
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OpenTF announces fork of Terraform
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 24, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Common mistakes in salary negotiation
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Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
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Bun v0.8
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Leaving Haskell behind
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Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in Go
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Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
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Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
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Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia
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Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop
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Hacker News Guidelines
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 23, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp
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GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
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I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS
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Eye scans detect signs of Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before diagnosis
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Add dir=“auto” to your inputs and textareas
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Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
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Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?
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Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
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AI real-time human full-body photo generator
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An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 22, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music
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Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free
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Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
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Electrolyzer efficiently converts CO2 into renewable propane fuel
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I walked across Luxembourg
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Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering
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A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
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Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
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Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America
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The first conformant M1 GPU driver
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 21, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco
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Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation
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Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation
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FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs
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We’re all just temporarily abled
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GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
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Don't fire your illustrator
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Saving Lives
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I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images
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uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 20, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Rivet – Open-source game server management with Nomad and Rust
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Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
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Clone-a-Lisa
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Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret
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The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency
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Shit Life Syndrome
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John Warnock has died
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Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?
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Kris Nóva has died
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So you want to learn physics (2021)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 19, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well
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Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly
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Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python
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Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
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Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
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Stable Diffusion in C/C++
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Windy.com: global weather website with live filters
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Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars
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Why do old books smell so good?
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How do we pay for parking?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 18, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole
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StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet
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GIL removal and the Faster CPython project
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China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan
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micro – A Modern Alternative to nano
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TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers
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Railway Oriented Programming
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Short session expiration does not help security
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Ask vs. Guess Culture
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The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 17, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
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Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
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Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
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Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites
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Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say
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Mullvad Browser
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Debian celebrates 30 years
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Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools
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1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards
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JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living allowance
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 16, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion
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ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule
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How should I read type system notation?
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How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible?
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Modern CSV version 2
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NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN
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Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator
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Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manager moving apps around
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Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)
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LK-99 isn’t a superconductor
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 15, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
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OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge
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Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media
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Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript
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Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains
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Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
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Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration
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The OpenTF Manifesto
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Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider
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We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 14, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words
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Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit
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Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python
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A video game where you are an operating system
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Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
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Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better
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Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions
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Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models
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Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
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Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 13, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Every phone should be able to run personal websites
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Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
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Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk
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A Blog Post with Every HTML Element
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NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
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Cargo Cult Science (1974) [pdf]
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PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
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The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity
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Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio
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Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 12, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I'm OK, the bull is dead (2004)
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Tailscale vs. Narrowlink
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Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
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80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans
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We need scientific dissidents
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How a startup loses its spark
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tRPC – Build and consume typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation
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The Carrot Problem
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Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01
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A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 11, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive
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HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
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My Overkill Home Network
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Source code for Quake 2 rerelease
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Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser
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Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
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Fastest branchless binary search
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YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
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Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 10, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP
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SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge
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Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference
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CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking
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Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
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Speed Test
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The Future of the Vim Project
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Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?
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MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names
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Vim Boss
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 09, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing
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LCD, Please
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Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features
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G9.js: Automatically Interactive Graphics
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Llama from scratch, or how to implement a paper without crying
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Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
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Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security
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I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
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Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office
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Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 08, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
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Raku: A language for gremlins
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I would rather see my books get pirated than this
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Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels
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TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, and NXP to build fab in Germany
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Blocked by Cloudflare
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Your computer should say what you tell it to say
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Uninstall the NightOwl app
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Downfall Attacks
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What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 07, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September
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Meta blocking news links in Canada
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We are all animals at night
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Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2000)
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Google Maps has become an eyesore
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GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
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Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts
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Some tactics for writing in public
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PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
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Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 06, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99
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New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
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nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990
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The Sad Bastard Cookbook
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Postgres Language Server
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Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
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Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
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I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (2022)
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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
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Water
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 05, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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LK-99 is an online sensation – but replication efforts fall short
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Terraform best practices for reliability at any scale
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IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
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Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
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Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
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Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker
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Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
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NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2
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Bram Moolenaar has died
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Just normal web things
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 04, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch
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AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
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FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls
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Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)
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Color-Diffusion: using diffusion models to colorize black and white images
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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
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Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
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Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99
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Comcast, CenturyLink fail to derail Utah community-owned gigabit fiber network
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 03, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A non-mathematical introduction to Kalman filters for programmers
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Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rated rivals
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Observation of zero resistance above 100 K in Pb₁₀₋ₓCuₓ(PO₄)₆O
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Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery
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Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
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A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team
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Netscape Meteors
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Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
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Elixir for cynical curmudgeons
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Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 02, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging
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Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
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Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of AC
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Electronic Structure of LK-99
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Patterns for building LLM-based systems and products
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I'm betting on HTML
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The underground world of credit card network exploitation
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Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio
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Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
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LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 01, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
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How to get ChatGPT to stop apologizing?
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Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt
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Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99
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Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
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Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2
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First claimed successful replication of LK-99
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Nim 2.0
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
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A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-07-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux
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Show HN: Khoj – Chat offline with your second brain using Llama 2
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Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator
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What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated
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Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix
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LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor
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NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
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Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?
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The BBC on Mastodon
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Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock
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