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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-12

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

• All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs
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• Visualizing World War II
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• Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux
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• I Don't Have Spotify
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• YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware
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• How I ship projects at big tech companies
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• What I wish someone told me about Postgres
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• Leaving and Waving
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• The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
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• M4 Mac mini's efficiency
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-11

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

• Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea
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• Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos
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• OpenID Connect specifications published as ISO standards
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• What's New in F# 9
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• Algorithms We Develop Software By
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• Pi Chess Board
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• Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked
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• Show HN: Krita RGBA Tech – Bringing Realistic Metal to Life in Open-Source Art
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• I sent an Ethernet packet
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• Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-10

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

• Ticketmaster’s attempt to game arbitration services fails
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• Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI
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• IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
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• When machine learning tells the wrong story
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• Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler
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• NYC Subway Station Layouts
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• Grim Fandango
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• Audio Decomposition – open-source seperation of music to constituent instruments
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• Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
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• IMG_0416
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-09

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

• Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
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• In Memory of Stiver
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• HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer
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• Show HN: Asterogue, my sci-fi roguelike, is now playable on the web
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• I quit Google to work for myself (2018)
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• Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output
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• It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Some want that to end
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• Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git
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• Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
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• OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-08

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

• AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation
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• Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you
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• Mushroom Color Atlas
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• Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill
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• FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant
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• Rust for tokenising and parsing
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• After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves
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• Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)
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• Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities
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• Mitochondria Are Alive
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-07

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

• The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
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• Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor
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• Private Cloud Compute Security Guide
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• Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch
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• Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize
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• WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
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• Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
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• Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16
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• Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin
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• QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-06

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

• AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space
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• 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
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• Title drops in movies
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• Tracker Beeper (2022)
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• Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
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• Trump wins presidency for second time
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• New images of Jupiter
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• Learning not to trust the All-In podcast
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• Starship's Sixth Flight Test
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• Passport Photos
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-05

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

• Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world
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• Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence
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• Show HN: Convert any website into a React component
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• Writing secure Go code
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• Diagram as Code
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• USFS decision to halt prescribed burns in California is history repeating
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• Nvidia and its partners built a system to bypass U.S. export restrictions
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• Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe
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• Hacker Fab
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• Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-04

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

• Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)
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• Matrix 2.0 Is Here
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• Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization
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• Hertz-dev, the first open-source base model for conversational audio
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• Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
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• An embarrassingly simple approach to recover unlearned knowledge for LLMs
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• A change of heart regarding employee metrics
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• Quincy Jones has died
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• New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
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• We're Leaving Kubernetes
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-03

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

• The motor turns too much
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• Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free
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• Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels
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• Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
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• Get me out of data hell
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• Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script
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• Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links
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• Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution
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• If you need the money, don't take the job
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• Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-02

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

• RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent
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• Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer
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• Make It Yourself
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• Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing
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• Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN
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• Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig [audio]
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• Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)
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• Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel
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• My Time Working at Stripe
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• Weird Lexical Syntax
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-01

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

• NandGame – Build a computer from scratch
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• Claude for Desktop
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• An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers
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• Our First Generalist Policy
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• Embeddings are underrated
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• Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?
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• A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
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• Apple acquires Pixelmator
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• Notepad++ is 21 years old
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-10-31

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

• A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#
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• AI Flame Graphs
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• Pushing the frontiers of audio generation
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• Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
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• Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse
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• OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
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• It might be possible to detect gravitons after all
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• SSH Remoting
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• ChatGPT Search
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• Wait Until 8th
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