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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-29

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

• Writing documentation for your house
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• Microsoft open-sources ThreadX
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• Reasonable expectation of effectiveness for large dog lifespan extension
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• My $500M Mars rover mistake
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• The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster
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• Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware
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• Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com
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• Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud
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• Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
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• Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-28

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

• Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop
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• Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
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• Let's try to understand AI monosemanticity
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• Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch
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• PeerTube v6
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• Half Life:25th Anniversary Documentary
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• Modern C++ Programming Course
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• IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks
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• MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers
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• Charlie Munger has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-27

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

• Unciv
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• The Periodic Table of Tools
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• Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
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• Understanding Deep Learning
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• Google Drive files suddenly disappeared
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• Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating
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• Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
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• Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data
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• $20k bounty was claimed
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• My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-26

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

• MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?
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• Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it
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• The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
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• Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
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• Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat
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• They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
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• Making it clear when we're on a call with you to protect you from fraud
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• VectorDB: Vector Database Built by Kagi Search
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• Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit
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• Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-25

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

• Show HN: React Spreadsheet 2
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• Animotion – a visual CSS animation app
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• Making games in Go for absolute beginners
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• Ask HN: How should I setup a phone for a newly blind relative?
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• Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
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• Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall
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• Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs
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• The Bond villain compliance strategy
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• Normal Operating Sounds
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• Sqids – Generate Short Unique IDs from Numbers
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-24

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

• The secret language of ships
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• Ansel
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• Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems
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• Bluetooth stack modifications to improve audio quality on headphones without AA (2019)
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• YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
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• Things you're allowed to do (2020)
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• The Failed Commodification of Technical Work
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• Stripe live dashboard
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• Shopify live dashboard
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• Generative AI for Beginners
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-23

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

• VMware is now part of Broadcom
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• Fast self-hostable open-source workflow engine
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• How do I become a graphics programmer?
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• OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster
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• test, [, and [[ (2020)
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• Polio is on the brink of eradication
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• Despite just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community (2021)
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• US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records without warrant
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• Git Branches: Intuition and Reality
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• Developer account removed by Apple
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-22

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

• Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code
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• Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)
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• FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections
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• ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users
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• Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?
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• In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge
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• We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
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• LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs
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• Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor
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• Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-21

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

• Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?
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• Airlines will make $118B in extra fees
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• 15-150: Principles of Functional Programming
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• After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
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• OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired
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• Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh/kg
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• Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal
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• Claude 2.1
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• Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty
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• Stable Video Diffusion
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-20

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

• Friends don't let friends make bad graphs
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• Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
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• Krita AI Diffusion
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• Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
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• YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
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• OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain
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• I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
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• OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
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• 550 of 700 Employees OpenAI tell the board to resign
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• Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-19

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

• Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo
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• Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive
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• Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem
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• Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection
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• Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space
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• Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
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• Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team
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• HandBrake 1.7.0 – The open source video transcoder
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• Deep Learning Course
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• StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-18

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

• Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected
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• Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman
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• I Hacked the Magic Mouse
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• Greg Brockman quits OpenAI
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• Ilya Sutskever \"at the center\" of Altman firing?
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• Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
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• New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy
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• Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
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• Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
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• OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-17

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

• From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)
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• I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
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• Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
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• 'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months
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• Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening – EFF (2021)
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• Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
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• We Automated Bullshit
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• 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
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• Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
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• OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-16

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

• WASM by example
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• B-trees in Factorio
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• Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?
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• Push ifs up and fors down
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• Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)
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• DOS_deck: Play DOS games in the browser with full controller support
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• I think I need to go lie down
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• The real realtime preemption end game
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• Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
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• Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-15

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

• Reptar
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• Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion
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• Why do people still use VBA?
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• U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game
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• Curl on 100 Operating Systems
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• Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
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• The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)
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• Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?
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• David Attenborough is now narrating my life
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• Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-14

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

• Placemark is going open source and shutting down
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• Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration
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• Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
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• A coder considers the waning days of the craft
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• Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
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• EU Parliament Civil Liberties Committee adopts position on CSAR
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• Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition
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• Blender 4.0 release notes
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• A Lot of Damage in Grindavík
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• GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-13

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

• Lost \"Doctor Who\" episodes found but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC
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• Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time
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• 37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer
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• Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of freedom
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• Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge
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• Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]
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• Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)
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• Ship Shape
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• HTML Web Components
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• Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-12

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

• Show HN: DataSheetGrid, an Airtable-like React component
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• Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)
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• Find bilingual baby names
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• Qanat
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• Map of Space Invader Mosaics in Paris
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• Open, rigorous and reproducible research: A practitioner’s handbook (2021)
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• Casino-like apps have drained people of millions
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• GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age
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• The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs
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• HTML First
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-11

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

• Moving our Encrypted DNS servers to run in RAM
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• Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V
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• Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it
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• How to boss without being bossy
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• Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
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• Debugging tricks in the browser
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• Gnome Receives €1M from German Government
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• How I got here
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• Show HN: I spent 6 months building a C debugger as a 17-year-old
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• It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-10

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

• You Win or You Learn
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• Humane AI Pin
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• Monaspace
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• Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials
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• Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died
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• Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke
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• Switching to Elixir
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• Cursorless is alien magic from the future
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• Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly
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• I skipped to the ending
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-09

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

• Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
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• Quake Brutalist Jam II
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• Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine
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• SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle
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• Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-expression (2022)
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• Omegle 2009-2023
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• Using GPT-4 Vision with Vimium to browse the web
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• What I learned getting acquired by Google
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• You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim
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• Steam Deck OLED
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-08

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

• Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler
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• Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM
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• Antidepressants or Tolkien
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• Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
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• Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes
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• Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job
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• EU's concealment of secret 'expert list' on CSAM regulation is maladministration
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• Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
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• How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet
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• Major outages across ChatGPT and API
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-07

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

• milliForth
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• The coolest robot I've ever built [video]
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• Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete
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• Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite
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• Apple's Trademark Exploit
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• WeWork Goes Bankrupt
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• Euclid's First Images
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• Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger
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• Seeing like a bank
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• Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-06

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

• Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
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• Show HN: WireHub – easily create and share WireGuard networks
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• A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time
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• FFmpeg is getting multithreaded transcoding pipelines
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• The first stable release of a memory safe sudo implementation
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• Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io
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• Mastering DOM manipulation with vanilla JavaScript
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• New models and developer products
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• GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT
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• Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-05

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

• Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed with the Linux 6.7 Kernel
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• A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking
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• A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993
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• Bubble sort in pure CSS
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• Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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• Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese nonfiction book collection
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• Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT
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• Building a high performance JSON parser
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• Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes
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• Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-04

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

• Tell HN: Submit comments to IRS re tax treatment of software dev expenses
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• Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial
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• Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
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• AMD MicroBlaze V Processor: A Flexible and Efficient RISC-V Processor
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• Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
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• Lead chromate in turmeric spice causes high rates of lead poisoning South Asia
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• Othello Is Solved?
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• Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom
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• NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android
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• Bevy 0.12
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-03

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

• Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Arm
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• Light can make water evaporate without heat
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• One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice
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• In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019)
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• Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API
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• Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
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• Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
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• No dogs were harmed in the making of this app
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• YouTuber Kitboga trapped 200 scammers in an Impossible Maze [video]
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• As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-02

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

• Grist is a modern, relational spreadsheet
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• Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS bug hunters
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• My rude-ass car
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• Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario
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• Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security
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• Talk-Llama
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• Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git
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• EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram
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• Confusing Git Terminology
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• An experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API early next year
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-01

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

• Life lessons from the death bed
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• Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education
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• Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI
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• Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU
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• uBlock Origin 1.53
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• Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
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• Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
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• Cosmopolitan Third Edition
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• FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-10-31

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

• Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy
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• The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
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• World's most popular painter sent his followers after me because of my review
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• Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready
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• Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
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• German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring \"Do Not Track\" signals
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• I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map
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• Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
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• Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
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• macOS Sonoma Boot Failures
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