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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-17

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

• Reflections on Palantir
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• Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)
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• Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
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• Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
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• Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks
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• We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
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• AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU
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• Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
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• Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools
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• Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-16

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

• Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust
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• Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI
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• Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan
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• CapibaraZero: A cheap alternative to FlipperZero based on ESP32-S3
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• Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)
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• Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app
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• MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
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• FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects
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• FTC announces \"click-to-cancel\" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
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• ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-15

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

• Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver
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• Gosub – An open-source browser engine
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• Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting
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• Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings: study
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• Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence
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• World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
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• Web Browser Engineering (2021)
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• Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator
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• The C23 edition of Modern C
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• Sqlite3 WebAssembly
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-14

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

• Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died
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• Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world
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• Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018)
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• Why does FM sound better than AM?
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• Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object
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• Python client for the $20 Colmi R02 smart ring
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• Huly – Open-source project management platform
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• Busy Status Bar
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• Google Funding Construction of Seven U.S. Nuclear Reactors
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• How I Experience Web Today (2021)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-13

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

• Turkish language has a gossip tense
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• Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI
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• Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA
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• Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX
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• PayPal (USA) will automatically share data about you to participating stores
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• Diffusion for World Modeling
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• Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms
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• Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
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• The quiet art of attention
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• CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-12

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

• Conway's Gradient of Life
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• “Bad Apple” in Minecraft
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• Lm.rs: Minimal CPU LLM inference in Rust with no dependency
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• Working from home is powering productivity
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• AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched
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• Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison
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• 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor
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• How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
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• Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
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• The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-11

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

• Automating processes with software is hard
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• Uxn
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• Game Programming in Prolog
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• Show HN: HTML for People
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• The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications
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• $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst
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• Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo
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• A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp
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• \"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable\"
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• How long til we're all on Ozempic?
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-10

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

• Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference
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• Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models
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• An n-ball Between n-balls
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• Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
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• Indian entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist, Ratan Tata, dead at 86
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• WASM Is the New CGI
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• Helping wikis move away from Fandom
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• Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
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• AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
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• DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-09

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

• ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera
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• John Carmack on inlined code (2014)
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• Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components
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• Who died and left the US $7B?
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• On the Nature of Time
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• US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case
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• Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
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• Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
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• Dookie Demastered
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• Internet Archive: Security breach alert
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-08

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

• Jazz – Apps with Distributed State
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• Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon
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• Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree
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• An e-waste dumping ground
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• The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
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• The Static Site Paradox
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• Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
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• Differential Transformer
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• Show HN: Kotlin Money
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• End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-07

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

• Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
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• AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted
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• Rust needs a web framework
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• Sq.io: jq for databases and more
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• Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon
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• Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
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• What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
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• Nearly all of the Google images results for \"baby peacock\" are AI generated
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• US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward
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• Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-06

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

• Life, death, and retirement
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• An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes
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• Fuzzing 101
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• Whence '\\n'?
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• The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data
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• Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)
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• So thieves broke into your storage unit again
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• HPy – A better C API for Python
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• The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online
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• XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-05

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

• Noise
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• 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space
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• Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator
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• Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice
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• Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support
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• LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday
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• Linux from Scratch
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• It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
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• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
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• Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-04

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

• Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
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• Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices [pdf]
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• Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs
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• Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died
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• Why does man print \"gimme gimme gimme\" at 00:30? (2017)
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• Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
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• Meta Movie Gen
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• Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
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• Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first
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• 12 Months of Mandarin
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-03

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

• Serialization Is the Secret
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• How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video]
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• AMD GPU Inference
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• American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway
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• Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]
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• Terminal colours are tricky
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• Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public
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• Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
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• Were RNNs all we needed?
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• Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-02

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

• Bots, so many bots
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
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• Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
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• Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation
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• Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
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• COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it
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• Math from Three to Seven
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• I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)
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• The Fastest Mutexes
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• An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-01

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

• Do AI companies work?
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• MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia
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• Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code
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• Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
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• Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
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• Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store
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• YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup
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• Is the world really running out of sand?
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• A $1k Wheelchair
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• Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-09-30

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

• Web components are okay
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• Sitina1 Open-Source Camera
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• Map with public fruit trees
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• A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018)
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• Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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• Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
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• NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
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• Bop Spotter
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• Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
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• California bans legacy admissions at private universities
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