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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python
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• Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres
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• The Myth of the Second Chance
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• Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades
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• 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
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• Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
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• Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
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• I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS
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• The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself
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• FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-28

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

• Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions
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• So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)
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• Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm
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• Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months
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• What can LLMs never do?
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• The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down
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• Keep Out – WebGL Game
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• Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
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• Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone
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• A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-27

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

• Cost of developing new drugs may be lower than industry claims: trial
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• Pharo 12
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• PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default
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• Bun’s New Crash Reporter
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• Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
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• Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation
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• World Wide Web (1991)
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• The server chose violence
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• Moviecart – Full length color movie and audio cartridges for stock Atari 2600
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• SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-26

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

• Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media
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• Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates
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• Start Your Own ISP
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• No Abstractions: our API design principle
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• Open Sourcing DOS 4
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• Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
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• Passkeys: A shattered dream
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• I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)
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• I'm creating PBR Textures and 3D models since 2018 and sharing them for free
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• Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-25

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

• When do we stop finding new music?
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• I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
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• McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting
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• IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
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• Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights
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• You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
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• TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery
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• A useful front-end confetti animation library
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• We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services
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• FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-24

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

• Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders
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• New Foundations is consistent – a difficult mathematical proof proved using Lean
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• The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
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• ESPHome
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• CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks
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• Simulating Jupiter
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• Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002)
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• Meta does everything OpenAI should be
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• Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
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• IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-23

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

• No one buys books
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• Krazam OS
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• Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs
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• Phi-3 Technical Report
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• Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. \"Masonry\" layout
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• Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty
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• AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life
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• The man who killed Google Search?
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• Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]
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• FTC announces rule banning noncompetes
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-22

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

• Our biggest ever river catch?
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• Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’
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• Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans
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• Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
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• From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38
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• Penzai: JAX research toolkit for building, editing, and visualizing neural nets
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• Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
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• Equinox.space
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• Meta Horizon OS
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• NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-21

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

• Financial market applications of LLMs
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• Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
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• Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
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• I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service (2021)
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• Racket Language
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• Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)
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• I should have loved biology (2020)
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• Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop
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• Tiny World Map
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• I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-20

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

• VASA-1: Lifelike audio-driven talking faces generated in real time
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• 50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2
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• The Curse of Monkey Island
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• Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)
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• Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24
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• MuPDF WASM Viewer Demo
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• Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight
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• U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades
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• Doomscroller.xyz
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• Why you should not apply to YC
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-19

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

• Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG
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• The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
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• My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)
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• The Rust calling convention we deserve
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• Calculus Made Easy
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• Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol
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• Tesla Recalls All Cybertrucks for Faulty Accelerator Pedals
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• 3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
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• Daniel Dennett has died
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• Quill v2 – Rich text editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-18

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

• Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions
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• The forgotten war on beepers
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• Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly)
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• CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred
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• Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project
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• Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
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• Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii
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• Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit
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• Meta Llama 3
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• I keep a WTF notebook (2021)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-17

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

• NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
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• We need to rewild the internet
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• Stop Acting Like You're Famous
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• Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer
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• The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
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• ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves
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• How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
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• An electric new era for Atlas
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• Mixtral 8x22B
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• Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-16

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

• An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
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• Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded without their consent
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• Ramanujan's lost notebook
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• BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
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• Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation
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• HonoJS: Small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges
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• A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'
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• Descent 3 Source Code
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• Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB
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• This is a teenager
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-15

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

• Kate editor on all platforms
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• Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]
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• Spectral Ray Tracing
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• A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel
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• Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days
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• Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available
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• Show HN: Building a GPS receiver
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• Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)
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• PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
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• T-Mobile employees across the country receive cash offers to illegally swap SIMs
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-14

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

• How I prepare a talk for a tech conference (2022)
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• I accidentally built a meme search engine
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• The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework
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• Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths
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• Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023)
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• Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula
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• Show HN: PostgreSQL index advisor
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• Obituary for a quiet life (2023)
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• Redis re-implemented with SQLite
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• Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-13

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

• Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems
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• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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• Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app
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• Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets
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• Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens
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• Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
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• Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
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• XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
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• The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes
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• The darker side of being a doctor
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-12

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

• The simple beauty of XOR floating point compression
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• U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS
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• Mental health in software engineering
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• DNS over Wikipedia
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• There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station
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• What is Webb observing now?
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• An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data
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• Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
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• I Lost Faith in Kagi
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• Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-11

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

• Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git
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• Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model
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• Show HN: ADS-B visualizer
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• Kobo announces color e-readers
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• Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator
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• Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
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• AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
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• Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem
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• Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
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• Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-10

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

• Bay Area Workers Charged for Building Secret Apartments Inside Train Stations
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• The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws
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• Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS
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• Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries
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• Cow Magnets
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• Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
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• A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go
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• Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)
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• Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
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• Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-09

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

• Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video]
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• Hello World
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• After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative
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• Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM
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• 1.18k drawings of plant root systems
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• How I tripped over the Debian weak keys vulnerability
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• Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card
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• Beeper acquired by Automattic
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• Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator
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• Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-08

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

• Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
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• Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests
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• Blog posts, sorted by sleep
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• Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
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• PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS
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• Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams
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• How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?
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• Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website
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• Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home
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• Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-07

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

• Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP
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• Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images
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• Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces
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• More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
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• Show HN: Online database diagram editor
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• WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
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• The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper
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• Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding
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• Is the frequency domain a real place?
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• How to found a company in Germany: 14 \"easy\" steps and lots of pain
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-06

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

• Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)
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• An IRC client in your motherboard
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• Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)
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• Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
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• Fortran on WebAssembly
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• The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
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• World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator
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• SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine
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• What I think about when I edit (2019)
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• Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-05

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

• Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar
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• HTTP/2 Continuation Flood: Technical Details
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• The design philosophy of Great Tables
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• Mario meets Pareto
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• German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
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• Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years
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• OpenBSD 7.5
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• FFmpeg 7.0
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• So you wanna de-bog yourself
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• M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-04

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

• PyTorch Library for Running LLM on Intel CPU and GPU
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• Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14
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• Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library
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• Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas
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• Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone
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• A disk so full, it couldn't be restored
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• German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
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• Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk
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• Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
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• AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-03

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

• 10 > 64, in QR Codes
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• Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
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• The xz attack shell script
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• 3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine
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• Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores
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• Anonymous public voicemail inbox
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• 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
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• Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps
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• 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
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• Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-02

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

• Blue Ball Machine
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)
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• Bun 1.1
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• Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
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• But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers [video]
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• Wireproxy: WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy
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• Low Cost Robot Arm
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• Timeline of the xz open source attack
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• You won't find a technical co-founder
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• CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-01

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

• Cutting a 700 carat rare valuable gemstone [video]
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• A proposal to add signals to JavaScript
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• Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux
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• Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler
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• A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
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• LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
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• What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
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• Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
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• OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund
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• The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-03-31

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

• Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept
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• Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?
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• About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024
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• Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
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• Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
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• Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects
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• Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic
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• Guess my RGB
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• Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance
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• Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
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