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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-15

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

• Writing an OS in Rust
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• One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)
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• Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech
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• LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
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• Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP
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• OpenSCAD: The Programmer's Solid 3D CAD Modeller
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• Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat
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• Show HN: Wordllama – Things you can do with the token embeddings of an LLM
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• Linux 6.11 Released
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• How to Succeed in Mr Beast Production (Leaked PDF)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-14

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

• Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts
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• Show HN: FlowTracker – Track data flowing through Java programs
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• Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption
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• Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI
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• CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our process'
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• Lisp implemented in Rust macros
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• My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures
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• Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
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• How America's universities became debt factories
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• Terence Tao on O1
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-13

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

• Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
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• DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
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• Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation
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• FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software
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• Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models
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• Boeing workers vote to strike
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• Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned
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• Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch
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• Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS
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• OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-12

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

• Transparenttextures.com
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• AppleWatchAmmeter
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• A MiniGolf game for Palm OS
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• The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
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• Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
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• NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive
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• Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
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• Why Haskell?
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• Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system
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• Learning to Reason with LLMs
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-11

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

• Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences
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• Show HN: YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end
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• What you can get out of a high-quality font
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• New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike
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• Another police raid in Germany
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• Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life
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• How economical is your local Taco Bell?
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• The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (2023)
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• Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
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• We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-10

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

• An NFC movie library for my kids
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• B-Trees and Database Indexes
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• Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
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• Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
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• Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project
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• FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates
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• Just for Fun (2022)
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• Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
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• A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
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• Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-09

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

• Creating a Git Commit: The Hard Way
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• Core: an experimental new way to write videogames
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• Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]
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• Reclaim the Stack
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• QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
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• Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined
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• ESPN AI-generated recap of retiring player's final match fails to mention them
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• Why GitHub won
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• iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
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• James Earl Jones has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-08

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

• Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
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• Things to know about the Great Wave
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• A Post-Google World?
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• Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's \"Vula\" secret crypto code
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• The \"email is authentication\" pattern
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• CitizenDJ – Make music using free audio and video from the Library of Congress
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• Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination
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• alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv
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• Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money
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• Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-07

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

• Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II
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• LSP: The good, the bad, and the ugly
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• Show HN: Using SQL's Turing completeness to build Tetris
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• Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers
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• Nginx has moved to GitHub
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• Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak
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• Hardware Acceleration of LLMs: A comprehensive survey and comparison
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• Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers
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• Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
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• WebP: The WebPage Compression Format
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-06

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

• Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant
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• Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone
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• My job is to watch dreams die (2011)
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• Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent
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• Clojure 1.12.0 is now available
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• Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care
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• What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower
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• 2M users but no money in the bank
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• Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?
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• Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-05

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

• Routed Gothic Font
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• A Real Life Off-by-One Error
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• OAuth from First Principles
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• Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
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• The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change
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• The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive
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• Show HN: An open-source implementation of AlphaFold3
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• Yi-Coder: A Small but Mighty LLM for Code
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• AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research
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• UE5 Nanite in WebGPU
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-04

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

• We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
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• Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency
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• Why bother with argv[0]?
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• Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization
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• ReMarkable Paper Pro
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• Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
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• Intel Honesty
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• Dynamicland 2024
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• CSS @property and the new style
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• Kagi Assistant
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-03

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

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
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• Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
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• Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive
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• The Art of Finishing
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• Is My Blue Your Blue?
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• Greppability is an underrated code metric
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• IPMI
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• EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series
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• Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question
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• The Engineering of Landfills
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-02

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

• Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero
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• The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
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• Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?
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• The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
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• Extreme Pi Boot Optimization
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• OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
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• Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years
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• 1M Users
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• Show HN: Defrag the Game
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• Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline'
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-01

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

• The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
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• Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms
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• Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
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• Did your car witness a crime?
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• Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop
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• Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation
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• Founder Mode
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• Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime
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• Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
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• Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-08-31

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

• Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa
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• Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
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• City of Columbus sues expert who exposed extent of cyberattack
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• Crows are even smarter than we thought
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• Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)
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• Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
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• This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more
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• EU ChatControl is back on the agenda
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• Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained
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• Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need [video] (2022)
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