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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-30

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

• PostgreSQL internals: Things to know about update statements
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• Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
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• Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
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• \"No inventions; no innovations\" A History of US Steel
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• Blot turns a folder into a website
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• Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses
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• Wikipedia daily most viewed pages
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• Things are about to get worse for generative AI
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• The art of high performance computing
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• Amazon's Silent Sacking
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-29

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

• Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster [video]
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• You've just been fucked by psyops [video]
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• Lode Runner (HTML5 Remake)
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• Cold-blooded software
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• Particle Life
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• Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)
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• Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?
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• Gentoo goes Binary
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• Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access
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• In 2024, please switch to Firefox
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-28

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

• Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers
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• 3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js
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• Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
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• Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
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• Breaking \"DRM\" in Polish trains [video]
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• NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
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• 4B If Statements
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• IDEs we had 30 years ago
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• Firefox Sync actually works
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• Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-27

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

• Black Triangles (2014)
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• Game Boy / Color Architecture
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• Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29
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• Things software developers should learn about learning
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• Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)
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• DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
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• The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
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• The curse of the goitre in Switzerland
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• 4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using advanced exploit
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• First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-26

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

• Non-interactive SSH password authentication
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• Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
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• Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
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• Nintendo Network shutdown – The beginning of the end
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• Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
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• A copy-and-patch JIT compiler for CPython
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• Website search hurts my feelings
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• Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies
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• A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
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• Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-25

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

• Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks
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• Did English ever have a formal version of \"you\"? (2011)
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• The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close
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• Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
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• Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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• The Star – Arthur C. Clarke (1967) [pdf]
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• Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?
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• Constellations are younger than continents
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• Ruby 3.3
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• Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-24

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

• SSH over HTTPS
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• Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
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• The Art of Electronics (2015)
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• NY Governor vetoes ban on noncompete clauses, waters down LLC transparency bill
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• Crown shyness
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• StreamDiffusion: A pipeline-level solution for real-time interactive generation
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• Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot?
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• Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them
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• Study: TikTok Global Platform Anomalies Align with CCP Geostrategic Objectives [pdf]
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• Costs of running a macOS app studio business
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-23

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

• Ask HN: What's your \"it's not stupid if it works\" story?
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• LED Industrial Piercing
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• Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack
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• Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login
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• How big is YouTube?
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• They want you to forget what a film looks like
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• Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service
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• Suno AI
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• Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model
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• Xmas.c, winner of the 1988 International Obfuscated C Code Contest
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-22

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

• Show HN: I'm open-sourcing my game engine
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• Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
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• Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work
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• Find out who owns a nursing home with our Nursing Home Inspect tool
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• Rough.js: Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance
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• Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game
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• A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks
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• Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
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• From Nand to Tetris (2017)
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• Granting pardon for the offense of simple possession of or use of marijuana
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-21

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

• All code is technical debt
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• Wireflow – free, online, open source tool for creating user-flow prototypes
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• Six Degrees of Wikipedia
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• Researchers uncover on/off switch for breast cancer metastasis in mice
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• Fantasy Map Brushes
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• Google OAuth is broken (sort of)
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• Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
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• Beeper – Moving Forward
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• ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
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• Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-20

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

• Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34
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• Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7
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• Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
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• Perplexity Labs Playground
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• A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion
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• Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record
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• Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays
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• High-Speed Large Language Model Serving on PCs with Consumer-Grade GPUs
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• Implementation of Mamba in one file of PyTorch
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• Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-19

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

• How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
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• Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler
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• PostgREST: Providing HTML Content Using Htmx
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• I Love Ruby
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• Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
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• Why do programmers need private offices with doors?
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• My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter
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• Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars
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• James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus
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• Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-18

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

• Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling
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• Ventoy
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• 0% of the phrases of the original Wikipedia \"Ship of Theseus\" article remain
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• Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
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• The \"Cheap\" Web
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• \"I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1\"
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• Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase
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• Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
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• Word2Vec received 'strong reject' four times at ICLR2013
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• VW is putting buttons back in cars
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-17

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

• More product, fewer product managers
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• The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
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• Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
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• Chimera Linux
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• MongoDB security notice
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• Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors
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• An Empirical Study and Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs
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• The Final Speech from The Great Dictator
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• BrainGPT turns thoughts into text
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• 3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-16

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

• WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
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• Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
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• I bricked my Christmas lights
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• Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
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• Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth
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• Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS
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• Advancements in machine learning for machine learning
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• NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus
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• OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model
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• SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-15

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

• Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
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• FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs
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• Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'
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• Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)
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• Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead
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• Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
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• Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
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• Oxlint – Faster than ESLint
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• How Lego builds a new Lego set
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• Database Fundamentals
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-14

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

• US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
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• Reclaiming the web with a personal reader
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• Australia to ban engineered stone
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• Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
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• Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
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• Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
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• The AI Trust Crisis
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• Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine
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• Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
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• Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-13

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

• End of Life of Technologies and Devices
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• Modern iOS Navigation Patterns
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• Zero downtime Postgres upgrades
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• What will enter the public domain in 2024?
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• AI’s big rift is like a religious schism
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• Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
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• Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
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• Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company
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• You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal
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• SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-12

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

• To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
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• Epic vs. Google: Google Loses
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• YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
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• Today Is One of the Biggest Surveillance Votes. Will the FBI Stop Spying?
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• Show HN: Open-source macOS AI copilot (using vision and voice)
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• FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its \"most complex refactoring\" in decades
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• 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
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• Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices
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• MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data
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• 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-11

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

• How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python
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• Mechanical Watch (2022)
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• The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
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• John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its 30th Anniversary
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• Show HN: I Remade the Fake Google Gemini Demo, Except Using GPT-4 and It's Real
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• Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: RFC 9330
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• Mistral: Mixtral of Experts
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• Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access
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• We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
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• Beeper Mini is back
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-10

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

• Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers
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• Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results
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• Make Apps for Linux
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• Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo
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• Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
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• A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
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• Bad NEWS, Emacs
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• Write your own retro compiler
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• Mistral AI Valued at $2B
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• Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-09

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

• 'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets
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• JC converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON
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• You are never taught how to build quality software
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• FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
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• Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
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• Verizon fell for fake \"search warrant,\" gave victim's phone data to stalker
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• OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault
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• If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
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• W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine
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• Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C#
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-08

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

• The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020)
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• Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?
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• A lost X-Files song
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• Making noisy SVGs
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• A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay
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• Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget
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• Goodbye, clean code (2020)
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• Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
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• Mistral \"Mixtral\" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]
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• The pro-Israel information war
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-07

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

• LogoFAIL: Secure Boot bypass with manipulated boot logos
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• Rethinking serverless with FLAME
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• Wikifunctions
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• 23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration
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• Building end-to-end security for Messenger
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• He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price
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• SVG Tutorial
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• Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again
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• Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI
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• Gemini \"duck\" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-06

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

• Nuclear Reactor Simulator
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• How does Shazam work? (2022)
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• Fine-tuning Mistral 7B on Magic the Gathering Draft
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• JSONB has landed
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• Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?
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• Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications
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• Mold Course
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• Apple confirms governments using push notifications to surveil users
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• Gemini AI
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• Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-05

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

• Switch off bad TV settings
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• YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash
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• I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate
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• 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
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• AI and Mass Spying
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• Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
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• Firefox on the brink?
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• Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?
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• Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android
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• iMessage, explained
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-04

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

• LLM Visualization
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• Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers
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• Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
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• Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
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• Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
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• Django 5.0
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• Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
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• Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation
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• A decade of Have I Been Pwned
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• Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-03

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

• Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds
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• Why do everyone's logo fonts look the same? (2020)
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• Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
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• Cicadas are so loud, fiber optic cables can ‘hear’ them
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• Not a real engineer (2019)
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• UniFi Express
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• Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run
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• Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser
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• OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman
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• LLM Visualization
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-02

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

• HTML hacks that shaped the Internet
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• Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline
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• Show HN: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning
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• Accidental database programming
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
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• GCP Incidents
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• Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
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• Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
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• You don't need JavaScript for that
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• Tiny volumetric display
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-12-01

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

• Show HN: Bi-directional sync between Postgres and SQLite
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• Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life
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• Animate Anyone: Image-to-video synthesis for character animation
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• The weirdest bug I've seen yet
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• Turbo Pascal Turns 40
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• Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?
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• Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy
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• A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
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• Code is run more than read
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• The Seamless Communication models
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Daily Hacker News for 2023-11-30

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

• Show HN: Dobb·E – towards home robots with an open-source platform
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• Who makes the most reliable new cars?
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• Write shaders for the (sim) Vegas sphere
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• Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
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• Henry Kissinger Has Died
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• Brickception
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• I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans
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• Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
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• CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages
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• Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models
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