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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-30

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

• YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
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• π in Other Universes
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• AI.gov
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• Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding
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• I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
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• The costs of microservices (2020)
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• Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI danger
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• Global CO2 Levels
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• Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
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• Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-29

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

• Show HN: WireHole combines WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound with an easy UI
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• Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
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• Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign
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• FCC wants to bolster amateur radio
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• 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
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• Running Speeds
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• Giving a Shit as a Service (2022)
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• NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
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• The product manager role is a mistake
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• Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-28

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

• Ensō: write now, edit later
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• iPhones have been exposing MAC addresses despite Apple’s promises otherwise
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• Show HN: ScratchDB – Open-Source Snowflake on ClickHouse
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• Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell
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• Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
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• Large Balloon Reflector: a potentially game-changing antenna design
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• Algebra
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• The fun factor of the video game Uplink
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• Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic
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• MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-27

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

• Cold war satellite images reveal unknown Roman forts
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• Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan
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• Interactive intro to shaders
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• How to draw software architecture diagrams (2022)
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• Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper
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• Why you should probably be using SQLite
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• Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering
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• The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy
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• Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution
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• 'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-26

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

• Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
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• Internet Artifact Museum
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• How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
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• Was Rust Worth It?
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• Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding
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• People who made the original Super Mario Bros shipped Wonder 38 years later
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• The Cloud Computer
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• The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
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• Exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested
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• I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-25

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

• Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
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• I face investigation for terrorism
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• Why we don’t generate elliptic curves every day
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• The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (2018)
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• Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source
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• Flawless – Durable execution engine for Rust
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• First malaria vaccine reduces early childhood mortality
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• Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec
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• Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation
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• iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-24

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

• Java implementation of a quantum computing resistant cryptographic algorithm
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• SumatraPDF Reader
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• 1Password detects \"suspicious activity\" in its internal Okta account
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• NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
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• Unified versus Split Diff
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• The risk of RISC-V: What's going on at SiFive?
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• Animated AI
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• Halfsies
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• Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing
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• California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-23

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

• Ruffle: Flash Player Emulator
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• How to Make a CPU – A Simple Picture Based Explanation
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• Base64 Encoding, Explained
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• Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly – part 1
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• Cooler screens
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• Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world
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• Shopify files lawsuit over DMCA abuse
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• Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
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• Software disenchantment
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• Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-22

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

• I, Voyager: Open-Source Software Planetarium
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• 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)
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• The Pixel 8 Pro's Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud
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• Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
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• Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru Outback battery
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• Startup CTO's Handbook
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• A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
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• Stealing OAuth tokens of Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App
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• The C4 model for visualising software architecture (2017)
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• Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-21

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

• Nakatomi Space
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• EU Commissioner as double agent of foreign interference
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• Hackers stole access tokens from Okta's support unit
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• Progress on No-GIL CPython
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• Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident
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• \"No, it's less effort than that\"
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• O3DE
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• We have used too many levels of abstractions
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• What every developer should know about GPU computing
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• FPGA N64
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-20

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

• Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts
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• Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer
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• Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
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• ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
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• Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts
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• Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
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• Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service
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• In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)
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• Cops Are Suing a Teen for Invasion of Privacy After False Arrest Vid Goes Viral
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• The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-19

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

• Write more \"useless\" software
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• Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization
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• Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota
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• DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019)
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• Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
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• Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
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• Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine
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• Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
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• Build your own BitTorrent
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• Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-18

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

• Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
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• Llemma: An Open Language Model for Mathematics
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• Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
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• Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem
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• Psytrance Guide
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• 4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution
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• Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
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• What is the Demoscene? An interview
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• USB-C head-to-head comparison
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• Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-17

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

• MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context
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• Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched
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• About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
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• Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
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• Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police
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• Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty
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• Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
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• Frasier Fantasy
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• Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
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• Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-16

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

• Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple
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• SSH-audit: SSH server and client security auditing
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• Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data
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• Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers
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• Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22
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• Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft
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• \"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today\"
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• Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic
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• LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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• Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-15

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

• Implementing a GPU's programming model on a CPU
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• PostgresJs: PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno
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• Kalman filter from the ground up
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• Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor
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• Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends
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• Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
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• Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder
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• \"Hacker News\" for retro computing and gaming
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• Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
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• Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-14

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

• Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)
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• Takeaways from hundreds of LLM finetuning experiments with LoRA
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• The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online
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• TimeGPT-1
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• How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision
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• ChatGPT’s system prompts
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• Linux Performance
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• F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect
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• Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance
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• Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-13

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

• Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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• Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons
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• Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)
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• OpenAI is too cheap to beat
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• One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly
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• Scrollbars are becoming a problem
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• Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook
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• The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (2003)
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• Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator
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• Every app that adds AI looks like this
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-12

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

• Grind – A first person shooter for Amiga 500
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• US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks
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• Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
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• Metric Time
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• Introduction to Modern Statistics
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• First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
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• The Twelve-Factor App (2011)
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• Desmos 3D graphing calculator
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• Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt
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• The midwit home
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-11

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

• Disney packed big emotion into a little robot
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• Postgres: The next generation
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• Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
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• Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves
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• Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art
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• Log is the \"Pro\" in iPhone 15 Pro
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• Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer
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• We’ll call it AI to sell it, machine learning to build it
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• A suicide crisis among veterinarians
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• Starlink Direct to Cell
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-10

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

• The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)
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• Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage
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• DSLinux – Linux for the Nintendo DS
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• ECC RAM on AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs
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• Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
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• Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started
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• The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack
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• The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps
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• Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players
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• Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-09

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

• What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
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• Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder
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• Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users
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• My personal C coding style as of late 2023
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• Impacts of lack of sleep
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• Blackmagic Camera for iPhone
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• Show HN: I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance admin tasks
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• Ardour 8.0
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• Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
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• John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-08

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

• Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains
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• The Economics of Programming Languages [video]
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• Subtraction is functionally complete
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• Berry is a ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language
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• Decomposing language models into understandable components
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• Organization probably doesn't want to improve things
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• How to compete with Patreon
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• Why is Debian the way it is?
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• Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
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• OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-07

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

• Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor
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• What is in that .git directory?
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• Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes
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• Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder
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• 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack
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• Show HN: DotBigBang – Multiplayer game engine with 120fps and 2 second load time
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• Documented source code for Elite on the NES
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• The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
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• Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
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• Wired has removed \"How Google alters search queries\" story
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-06

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

• How I stay motivated as a solo creator
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• Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
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• HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on printers when ink runs low
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• How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)
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• Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
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• NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty
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• Llama 2 Everywhere (L2E): Standalone, Binary Portable, Bootable Llama 2
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• We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms
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• Making Hard Things Easy
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• AMD may get across the CUDA moat
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-05

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

• Pixel 8 Pro
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• Eliminating radio interference from Apple charger
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• Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company
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• Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)
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• Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports
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• HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
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• Krita fund has no corporate support
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• Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search
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• Database Performance at Scale – A free book
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• Where does my computer get the time from?
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-04

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

• Predictive policing software terrible at predicting crimes
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• Hey, computer, make me a font
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• Graph Mining Library
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• Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level
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• BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon
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• Career Advice (2013)
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• Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
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• Show HN: Classic Video Poker
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• The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”
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• An interactive intro to CRDTs
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-03

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

• Exploiting the iPhone 4
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
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• Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
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• Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks
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• First blood test for dozens of hereditary cancers approved by FDA
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• Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors
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• UltraRAM
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• Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station
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• Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres
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• Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-02

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

• Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak
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• 12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed
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• Learn and Test DMARC
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• Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
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• Nomnoml
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• What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
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• Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
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• Python 3.12
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• Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
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• Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-01

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

• The presumption that computers are working correctly
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• Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
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• How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
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• PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)
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• Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
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• The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)
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• Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
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• DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing
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• Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust
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• Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-09-30

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

• Things Every Hacker Once Knew (2017)
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• Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)
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• 50 years later, is two-phase locking the best we can do?
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• Meta in Myanmar
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• Flexbox Froggy
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• ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants
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• Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency
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• A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations
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• Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring
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• Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
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