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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-29

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

• It's getting harder to die
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• Entrust Certificate Distrust
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• The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
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• Meta LLM Compiler: neural optimizer and disassembler
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• Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common?
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• The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video]
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• How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
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• Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers
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• A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago
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• Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-28

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

• FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't
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• ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses
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• Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
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• Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
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• A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves
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• 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
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• Infrastructure setup and open-source scripts to train 70B model from bare metal
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• Software galaxies
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• Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
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• Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old \"Chevron deference\" doctrine
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-27

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

• Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items
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• Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG
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• Figma Slides
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• The Forth Deck mini: a portable Forth computer with a discrete CPU
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• South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware
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• Claude 3.5 Sonnet
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• 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite
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• Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
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• Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]
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• Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-26

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

• Liquid Layers
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• I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app
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• Show HN: Triplit – Open-source syncing database that runs on server and client
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• Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
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• Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco
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• Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm
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• Fixing QuickLook (2023)
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• Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
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• HyperCard Simulator
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• One Million Checkboxes
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-25

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

• More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs
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• The case for not sanitising fairy tales
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• Round Rects Are Everywhere
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• Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
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• SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
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• Local First, Forever
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• Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says
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• Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
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• Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display
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• Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-24

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

• Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC
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• Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
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• LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground
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• Apple's secret silicon fab next to thousands of homes
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• Cosmopolitan v3.5
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• US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing
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• Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
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• Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
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• Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider
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• Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-23

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

• I kind of like rebasing
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• The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
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• Show HN: I made tool that let's you see everything about any website
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• HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma
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• Ruby: A great language for shell scripts
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• I've stopped using box plots (2021)
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• Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
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• I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
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• The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
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• Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-22

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

• Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion
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• Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code
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• Innovation heroes are a sign of a dysfunctional organization
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• Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design
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• Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F
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• Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
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• My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore
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• Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]
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• After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)
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• Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-21

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

• NASA releases Hubble image taken in new pointing mode
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• Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life
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• Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987
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• We no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
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• Notes on Tajikistan
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• Donald Sutherland has died
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• Fuzz Map
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• MeshAnything – Converts 3D representations into efficient 3D meshes
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• Ladybird browser spreads its wings
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• Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-20

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

• Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative
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• Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta
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• Please don't mention AI again
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• EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
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• Tetris Font
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• Claude 3.5 Sonnet
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• Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries
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• Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline
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• More Disabled Americans Are Employed, Thanks to Remote Work
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• Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-19

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

• Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space
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• Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell
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• KidPix
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• Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
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• Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed
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• EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
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• Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: \"Have taken up farming\"
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• Fast Crimes at Lambda School
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• 1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch
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• Safe Superintelligence Inc.
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-18

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

• Lindroid
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• Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide
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• Show HN: Token price calculator for 400+ LLMs
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• Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?
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• “Attention assault” on Fandom
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• Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o
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• Cyber Scarecrow
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• Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now
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• Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)
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• A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-17

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

• Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine
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• Why \"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs\" matters (2011)
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• NumPy 2.0
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• How to get stuff repaired when the manufacturer don't wanna: take 'em to court
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• Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship
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• DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
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• Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)
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• FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
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• Htmx 2.0.0 has been released
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• EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-16

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

• Just Enough Software Architecture (2010)
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• Google, Cloudflare and Cisco will poison DNS to stop piracy block circumvention
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• SimCity in the web browser using WebAssembly and OpenGL
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• Show HN: We Made The World's Smallest and Cheapest Network Switch
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• What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days
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• Simple sabotage for software (2023)
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• Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest
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• NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
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• The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
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• MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-15

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

• Eden Abhez: The strangest hit songwriter
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• Chaos in the medium: Watercolour plotting
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• Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns
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• H.264 Is Magic (2016)
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• The sun's magnetic field is about to flip
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• AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
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• Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)
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• Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
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• Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent
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• ESASky
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-14

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

• My thoughts on Python in Excel
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• Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative
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• AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor
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• Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers
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• Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
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• Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)
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• I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game
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• Start presentations on the second slide
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• Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics
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• Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-13

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

• Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries
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• Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
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• Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections
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• The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing
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• Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores
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• How Meta trains large language models at scale
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• Uncensor any LLM with abliteration
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• Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says
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• Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours
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• MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-12

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

• Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
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• When Water Flows Uphill [video]
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• Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted
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• Self-Serve Dashboards
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• Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code
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• ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
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• Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
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• Swift Static Linux SDK
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• Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
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• Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-11

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

• I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
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• Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
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• macOS Sequoia Preview
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• Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood
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• Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models
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• Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
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• Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
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• POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)
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• I like the RP2040
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• Lynn Conway has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-10

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

• An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs
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• Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres
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• A Revolution in Biology?
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• Designing a Lego orrery
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• Libtree: Ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not
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• A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k
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• Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn
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• Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores
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• Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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• OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-09

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

• LSP-AI: open-source language server serving as back end for AI code assistance
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• Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X
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• My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
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• Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
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• Draw an iceberg and see how it will float
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• Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
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• Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers
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• Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us
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• The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs
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• Keylogger discovered in image generator extension
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-08

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

• Own a weather station? We want your data
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• Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)
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• σ-GPTs: A new approach to autoregressive models
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• Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
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• Feynman’s Razor
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• Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
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• What Is PID 0?
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• Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
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• South Pole Water Infrastructure
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• The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-07

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

• Show HN: 2d web paddle game
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• The right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data
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• lsix: Like \"ls\", but for images
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• Extracting concepts from GPT-4
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• Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
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• Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients
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• How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
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• Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
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• OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior
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• ASCII Silhouettify
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-06

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

• Mathematical Optimization for Cargo Ships
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• Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot
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• Researchers to retract landmark Alzheimer's paper containing doctored images
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• Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
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• Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
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• Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
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• I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
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• AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
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• Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
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• Roman Roads (2017)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-05

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

• Sphere Rendering: Flat Planets
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• Some notes on influenceering
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• An animated introduction to Fourier series
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• You'll regret using natural keys
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• Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers
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• Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs
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• Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission
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• Vulkan1.3 on the M1 in one month
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• Managing my motivation as a solo dev
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• Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-04

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

• Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
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• Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor
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• Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life
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• If English was written like Chinese (1999)
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• Diffusion on syntax trees for program synthesis
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• Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
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• I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
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• A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis
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• Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021)
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• Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-03

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

• L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer
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• Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithm
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• Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
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• An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)
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• Learn CSS Grid with a virtual garden game
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• AMD Unveils Ryzen 9000 CPUs for Desktop, Zen 5
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• Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget
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• I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
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• How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-02

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

• Repairing my mug with Kintsugi
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• What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs
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• In Colorado, an ambitious new highway policy is not building them
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• What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
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• Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel
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• Lisp: Icing or Cake?
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• Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing
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• How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?
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• Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees
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• Parable of the Sofa
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-06-01

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

• Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024
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• Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland
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• This Message Does Not Exist
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• How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
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• Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC
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• UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look
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• Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news
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• ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically
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• Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license
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• Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-05-31

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

• The Pumpkin Eclipse
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• Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
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• Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time
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• Japan's push to make all research open access
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• Engineering for Slow Internet
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• Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any time
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• A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence
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• Snowflake breach: Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection
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• Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses
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• IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season
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