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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-29

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

• LibrePCB
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• Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?
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• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
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• Show HN: Generative Fill with AI and 3D
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• Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
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• Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
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• Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted
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• Draggable objects
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• Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips
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• RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-28

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

• Uiua: A minimal stack-based, array-based language
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• First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)
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• Deno Queues
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• Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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• Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
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• Open Source does not win by being cheaper
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• Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?
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• Raspberry Pi 5
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• That's a Lot of YAML
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• WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-27

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

• A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
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• macOS Sonoma is available today
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• EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
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• The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
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• Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
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• I got robbed of my first kernel contribution
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• Judge rules Google trial documents can be posted by U.S. online
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• The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)
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• Mistral 7B
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• Live near your friends
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-26

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

• An analysis of the Google antitrust trial
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• The casino in your pocket
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• DJI Mini 4 Pro
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• The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tracking the stars
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• macOS Containers v0.0.1
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• Who lusts for certainty lusts for lies
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• Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer
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• Firefox 118
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• FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
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• Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-25

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

• There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org
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• Choose Postgres queue technology
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• Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic
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• Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
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• Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
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• The Fantilator Page
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• We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
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• Rhythm 0
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• Ian's Shoelace Site
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• Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-24

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

• Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot
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• EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access
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• SpamChannel: Spoofing emails from 2M domains and virtually becoming Satan [pdf]
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• Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust
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• Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
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• A hacker's guide to language models [video]
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• Full Resolution Photo Archive
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• Workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis
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• Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria
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• Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-23

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

• It's okay to make something nobody wants
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• The Frustration Loop
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• I made a transformer to predict a simple sequence manually
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• Turning an old car into a powerful generator
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• Ways to capture changes in Postgres
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• Java 21: The Nice, the Meh, and the Momentous
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• Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
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• My solopreneur story
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• Blocking Visual Studio Code embedded reverse shell before it's too late
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• iCloud Drive silently deletes your content
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-22

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

• The WebP 0day
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• NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
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• LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
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• Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam
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• Nintendo 3DS Architecture
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• I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
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• Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
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• GitHub Actions could be so much better
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• Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
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• 0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-21

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

• 78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code
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• Toyota Research claims breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors
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• UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
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• Cisco Acquires Splunk
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• Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes
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• Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV
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• Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
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• Lead poisoning causes more death, IQ loss than thought: study
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• Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?
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• Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-20

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

• A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
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• YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform
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• Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)
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• FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones
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• OpenTF is now OpenTofu
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• Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps
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• My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
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• Svelte 5: Runes
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• Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
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• DALL·E 3
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-19

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

• The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)
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• Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration
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• Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
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• Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition
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• Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022
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• I digitalized Berlin's registration form
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• Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers
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• Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
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• We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score
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• Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-18

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

• Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style
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• Brian Bucklew Porting Caves of Qud from Unity to Godot
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• Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems
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• OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
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• What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (2014)
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• NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (2002)
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• Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig
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• Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
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• Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative
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• Apple TV, now with more Tailscale
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-17

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

• Pineapple ONE: open-source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home
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• The Sound Proof Booths of Silence
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• Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
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• Generative Image Dynamics
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• Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training
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• Java 21 makes me like Java again
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• Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model
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• Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (2014)
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• Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade
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• CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-16

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

• Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages
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• Shrinkflation Tracker
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• Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
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• I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
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• Building an economy simulator from scratch
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• Inflation in Austria
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• Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain
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• How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
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• Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
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• Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-15

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

• In a Git repository, where do your files live?
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• iNaturalist strikes out on its own
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• Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes
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• B612 Font Family
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• Willingham sends Fables into the public domain
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• FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
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• Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source
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• TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts
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• Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands
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• My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-14

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

• When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished
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• Don’t mess with a genius (2010)
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• Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
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• How mobile apps illegally share personal data
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• Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts
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• How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?
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• PostgreSQL 16
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• The Tyranny of the Marginal User
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• Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
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• Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-13

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

• Credit card debt collection
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• Interactive Map of Linux Kernel
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• Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
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• iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
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• Exllamav2: Inference library for running LLMs locally on consumer-class GPUs
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• LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
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• Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion
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• Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus
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• A DIY near-IR spectrometer
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• Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-12

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

• Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes
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• Show HN: Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting in WebGL
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• Death by a Thousand Microservices
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• Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
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• Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP
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• Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
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• We built the fastest CI and it failed
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• New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
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• Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4
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• iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-11

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

• New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory
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• How does Linux NAT a ping?
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• Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
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• UK air traffic control meltdown
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• Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray telescope
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• HDMI ISA graphics card for vintage PCs by improving the Graphics Gremlin
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• A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions
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• Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
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• The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
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• Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-10

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

• SmartKnob – Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents
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• Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
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• Memories from old LAN parties
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• Coffee in a Can
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• Nginx Unit – Universal web app server
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• I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
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• “Make” as a static site generator (2022)
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• Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather
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• Peredvizhnikov Engine: Lock-free game engine written in C++20
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• Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-09

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

• An Internet of PHP
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• I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17
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• Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters
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• Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution
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• Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018)
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• Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you
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• FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”
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• Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
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• Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)
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• Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-08

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

• How Query Engines Work
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• Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
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• Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers
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• Touch Pianist
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• Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later
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• Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy
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• Emoji Generator with AI
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• Bun v1.0.0
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• Procreate Dreams
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• Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-07

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

• Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
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• Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition
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• jq 1.7
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• My favorite Erlang program (2013)
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• Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
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• Kagi Small Web
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• Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad
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• North Korean campaign targeting security researchers
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• Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot
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• NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-06

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

• The Federal Helium reserve is for sale
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• Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs
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• If you can use open source, you can build hardware
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• Can LLMs learn from a single example?
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• Molly Holzschlag has died
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• How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?
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• Linux network performance parameters
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• Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla
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• Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?
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• UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-05

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

• So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2020)
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• Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python
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• Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on Kickstarter
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• Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)
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• ZFS for Dummies
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• A currently maintained fork of SSHFS
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• Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React
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• OpenTF repository is now public
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• Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
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• Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-04

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

• Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying
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• Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories
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• Google preemptively banned hundreds of millions of 'pirate' URLs last year
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• Cola: A text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing
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• Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard
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• Plastic Money
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• TV Museum will die in 48 hours unless Sony retracts YouTube copyright strikes
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• VSCodium – Open-source binaries of VSCode
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• Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64
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• Tidal energy is not renewable
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-03

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

• Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (1996)
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• Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs
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• PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
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• How to type “blimpy” in Emacs [video]
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• Hacking the Timex m851
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• The boiling frog of digital freedom
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• The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)
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• Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
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• Climate Change Tracker
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• I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-02

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

• Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?
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• Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)
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• Doing laundry on campus without a phone
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• Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline
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• Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
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• The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
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• Tesla, Rivian Put on Fake Show of Support for ‘Right to Repair’
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• The worst programmer I know
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• Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-01

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

• The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated
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• RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
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• Teaching with AI
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• AWS Icon Quiz
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• Modern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individuals
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• Animated Knots
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• Organic Maps
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• Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?
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• X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training
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• Doug Lenat has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-08-31

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

• Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID
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• Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
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• Show HN: I automated half of my typing
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• Absurd Success
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• RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator
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• UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
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• Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
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• Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software
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• When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020)
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• CT scans of coffee-making equipment
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