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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-19

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

• A trustworthy, free (libre), Linux capable, self-hosting 64bit RISC-V computer
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• I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
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• Floor796
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• Calculus with Julia
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• Riven
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• Big Tech to EU: \"Drop Dead\"
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• Classic Usenet posts on computer architecture, operating systems and languages
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• Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD
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• Coding My Handwriting
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• Llama3 implemented from scratch
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-18

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

• Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
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• The Downfall of DeviantArt
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• ADSL works over wet string (2017)
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• Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online
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• Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email
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• OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
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• Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity
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• Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
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• Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check
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• If you’re seeing this, I’m in jail [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-17

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

• D3 in Depth
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• Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
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• Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
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• Slack AI Training with Customer Data
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• A forged Apple employee badge
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• Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
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• Exercises to Learn Rust
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• Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]
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• Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective
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• Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-16

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

• Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
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• Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
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• Starting emails with \"BEGIN PGP MESSAGE\" will fool the filter
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• Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075
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• New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy
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• Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments
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• Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)
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• Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification
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• VCs aren’t your friends
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• Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-15

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

• GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack
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• Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
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• Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes
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• A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)
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• Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification
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• Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
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• Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports
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• Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'
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• The Worst Website in the Entire World
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• Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-14

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

• Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants
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• Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
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• Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant
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• Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right
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• Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension
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• VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use
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• Model Explorer: intuitive and hierarchical visualization of model graphs
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• Veo
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• Gemini Flash
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• Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-13

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

• The Alternative Implementation Problem
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• GPUs Go Brrr
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• Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
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• Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
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• Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
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• It’s an age of marvels
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• The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed
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• Static Chess
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• Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira
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• GPT-4o
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-12

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

• Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
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• So We've Got a Memory Leak
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• 100k Stars
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• Why you can hear the temperature of water
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• Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs
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• Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)
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• The Emacs Window Management Almanac
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• PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software
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• Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6
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• Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-11

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

• Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
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• Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
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• Life-like particle system
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• Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time
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• Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real than complex?
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• KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features
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• Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
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• Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?
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• Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head
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• Immersive Math
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-10

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

• Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
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• Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
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• Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
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• The world has probably passed peak pollution
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• Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
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• Popover API
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• Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
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• Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
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• Jim Simons has died
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• Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-09

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

• Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body
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• TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting
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• Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT
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• Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x
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• The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
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• Algebraic Data Types for C99
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• Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
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• Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun
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• Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships
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• It's always TCP_NODELAY
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-08

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

• Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet
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• Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
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• Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
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• LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops
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• Decker: A reincarnation of HyperCard with 1-bit graphics
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• U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
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• 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
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• AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules
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• Steve Albini has died
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• Development Notes from xkcd's \"Machine\"
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-07

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

• A 100x speedup with unsafe Python
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• Design docs at Google (2020)
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• Secure Randomness in Go 1.22
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• The best way to have complex discussions?
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• Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
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• Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content
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• Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain
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• Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
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• Apple introduces M4 chip
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• Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-06

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

• Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
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• Machine Unlearning in 2024
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• Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
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• Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
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• Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
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• Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero
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• BlackHole: macOS Audio Loopback Driver
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• Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued from the Thames
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• Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants
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• A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-05

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

• In Praise of Idleness (1932)
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• How to build a $20B semiconductor fab
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• Verified Rust for low-level systems code
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• Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years
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• Atari's Mike Jang
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• Show HN: gpudeploy.com – \"Airbnb\" for GPUs
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• Automated integer hash function discovery
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• MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
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• Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
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• Bollards: Why and What
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-04

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

• A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf]
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• The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)
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• Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
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• Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job
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• Figma’s Journey to TypeScript
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• AI copilots are changing how coding is taught
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• How hard can generating 1024-bit primes be?
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• Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
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• Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU
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• I don't want to fill out your contact form
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-03

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

• Every map of China is wrong
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• Building a rocket engine from scratch
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• A Single Div
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• I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
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• Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality
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• Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
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• Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland
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• DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
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• Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
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• As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-02

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

• Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team
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• Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus
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• New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
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• Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
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• mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours
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• Cognition: A new antisyntax language redefining metaprogramming
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• Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
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• Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures
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• Online Cryptography Course (2017)
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• Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-01

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

• The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number
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• Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced
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• Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows
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• The File Filesystem (2021)
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• Printing Music with CSS Grid
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• Figma OSS Alternative
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• Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
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• Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
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• New startup sells coffee through SSH
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-04-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
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• GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
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• Show HN: 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js
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• TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development
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• Why SQLite Uses Bytecode
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• Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says
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• Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration
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• Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python
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• Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
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• US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
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