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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: AI dub tool I made to watch foreign language videos with my 7-year-old
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• Why time seems to pass faster as we age
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• Does this 8088 code in the Leisure Suit Larry 2 game do anything?
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• U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe
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• Testcontainers
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• Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver
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• The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
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• Why I use Firefox
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• 'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech
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• Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 27, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift
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• Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust
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• Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
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• I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
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• Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report
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• Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5°C
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• Testing the F-35C Tailhook
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• Airfoil
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• Apple cancels work on electric car, shifts team to generative AI
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• Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 26, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting
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• Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program
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• Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)
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• Pains of building your own billing system
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• Mistral Large
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• Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
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• Apache Superset
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• Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites
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• A bad day at the office
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• How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 25, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Coding the anime \"woosh\" screen on Amiga
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• Architecture.md (2021)
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• How Does Bluesky Work?
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• Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
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• Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
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• Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models
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• Marginalia: 3 Years
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• Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
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• Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL
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• Coroutines in C (2000)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 24, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
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• Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers
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• Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
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• Meta's new LLM-based test generator
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• Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out
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• A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months
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• GPT in 500 Lines of SQL
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• Please make your table headings sticky
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• Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
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• Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub
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• I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device
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• Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
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• Show HN: Real-time image generation with SDXL Lightning
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• Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon
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• Vice website is shutting down
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• Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
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• Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
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• Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models
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• Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 22, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
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• Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM
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• AI behavior guardrails should be public
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• Private company landing on the moon today
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• Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
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• Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
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• Stable Diffusion 3
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• Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
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• Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
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• Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Planner programming blows my mind
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• LED Matrix Earrings
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• Kagi Sidekick (alpha)
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• If architects had to work like programmers (1995)
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• Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again
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• ChatGPT went berserk
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• Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
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• Gemma: New Open Models
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• iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol
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• The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]
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• I broke IKEA (2023)
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• WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering
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• Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly
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• In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)
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• Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide
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• Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools
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• SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
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• Let's Build the GPT Tokenizer [video]
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• Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
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• Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
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• Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
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• The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
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• How to make a better default Firefox UI
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• Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s
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• Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML
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• AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer
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• My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)
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• Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
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• Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
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• My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design (2022)
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• Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid
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• Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China
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• The Layoff
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• Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked
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• Wddbfs – Mount a SQLite database as a filesystem
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• CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital
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• Lapce
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Popular Git config options
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• If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly
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• Paying people to work on open source is good
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• Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades
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• Coding in Vision Pro
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• Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline's chatbot
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• Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D
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• Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
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• So long, and thanks for all the bytes
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• The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Every default macOS wallpaper
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• Three virtues of a great programmer
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• Building an LLM from Scratch: Automatic Differentiation (2023)
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• Happy Birthday Lemmings
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• Video generation models as world simulators
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• Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
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• Think Python, 3rd Edition
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• Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
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• Alexei Navalny has died
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• My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI
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• YC: Requests for Startups
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• Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
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• Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’
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• OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed
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• Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
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• Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
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• Sora: Creating video from text
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• Uv: Python packaging in Rust
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• Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers
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• Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries
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• How to center a div in CSS
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• Fly.io has GPUs now
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• 100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born
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• Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
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• Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died
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• European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption
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• Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
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• Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Kalman Filter Explained Simply
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• I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
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• Stable-Audio-Demo
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• Git tips and tricks
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• The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)
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• Non-code contributions to open source
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• Is something bugging you?
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• Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?
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• Stable Cascade
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• Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How SSH port became 22
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• Finding a new software developer job
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• 2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
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• Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code
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• Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
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• It Can Be Done (2003)
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• Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)
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• 'I have not seen one cent': billions stolen in wage theft from US workers
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• AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
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• Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Toolong: Terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files
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• How to write stuff no one else can
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• Cloud Egress Costs
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• Aho – a Git implementation in Awk
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• How to Study (2023)
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• OpenTTD
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• A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald
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• What it was like working for Gitlab
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• Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
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• I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
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• It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
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• Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret
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• Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
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• Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps
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• A 2024 plea for lean software
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• Postgres as queue
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• Data Structures for Data-Intensive Applications [pdf] (2023)
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• Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
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• I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Sudo for Windows
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• I accidentally Blender VSE
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• OpenAI compatibility
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• Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible \"forever\"
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• Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
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• Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical
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• Permutation City (1994)
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• Goody-2, the world's most responsible AI model
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• Add coffee stains to LaTeX documents (2021)
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• How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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• How to hire low experience, high potential people
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• Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games
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• John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died
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• Concrete.css
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• VirtualBox KVM Public Release
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• Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
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• Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
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• Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
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• FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Open source 3D atlas of human anatomy
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• The Ladybird browser project
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• TSMC to build second Japan chip factory
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• SQL for data scientists in 100 queries
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• Go 1.22
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• jQuery v4.0 Beta
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• RustPython
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• “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
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• Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
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• A search engine in 80 lines of Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model
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• Weaveworks is shutting down
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• Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks
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• Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot
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• Command line interface guidelines (2021)
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• PostgreSQL is enough
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• Bluesky signups are now open to the public
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• Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
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• \"Fake Chinese income\" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks
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• The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token
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• Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
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• Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine
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• Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
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• DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it
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• Deno in 2023
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• More misdrilled holes on 737 MAX in latest setback
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• Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
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• Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code
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• Relativistic Spaceship
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Car insurance in America is too cheap
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• A 1.55 R⊕ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715
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• How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?
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• A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
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• Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird
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• Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?
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• How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days
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• Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO
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• Write code for the web
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• Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
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• Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
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• Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
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• Why isn't the <html> element 100% supported on caniuse.com?
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• Carl Weathers has died
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• SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake
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• Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice
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• Goodbye non-KISS appliances
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• Apple releases Pkl – configuration as code language
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• How Quora died
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pandoc
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• Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
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• 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
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• FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines
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• Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
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• Google has another secret browser
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• Tailwind color palette generator
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• The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances
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• Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time
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• How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-02-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Far Side – By Gary Larson
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• Sega AI
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• I moved my blog from IPFS to a server
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• MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
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• Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
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• Show HN: filippo.io/mlkem768 – Post-Quantum Cryptography for the Go Ecosystem
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• Damn Small Linux 2024
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• My favourite Git commit (2019)
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
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• Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why flying insects gather at artificial light
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• Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees
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• .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
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• Intel's Humbling
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• Google search drops cache link from search results
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• Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder
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• Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
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• 23andMe's Fall
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• Infinite Craft
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• Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance
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