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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-29

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

• Borgo Programming Language
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• Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
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• A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022)
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• The success and failure of Ninja (2020)
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• Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
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• Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers
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• GIMP 3.0
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• Don't Fuck with Scroll
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• Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch
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• Why pipes sometimes get \"stuck\": buffering
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-28

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

• Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub
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• Show HN: Feels Like Paper
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• QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM
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• London's 850-year-old food markets to close
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• Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning
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• In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
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• Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs
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• Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
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• The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
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• Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-27

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

• Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal
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• GenChess
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• ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser
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• D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
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• Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier
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• I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
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• The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
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• Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone
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• You can use C-Reduce for any language
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• Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-26

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

• The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
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• A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table
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• A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar Technology
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• Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
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• Cybertruck's Many Recalls
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• Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)
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• Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows
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• A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)
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• California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones
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• Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-25

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

• Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
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• Charset=\"WTF-8\"
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• The size of BYD's factory
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• WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration
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• The two factions of C++
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• SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases
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• RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)
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• How I configure my Git identities
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• Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?
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• Model Context Protocol
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-24

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

• How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired
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• Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor
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• Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city
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• Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
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• Frosted glass from games to the web
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• Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
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• A career-ending mistake
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• Marshall Brain has died
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• Starlink Direct to Cell
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• This website is hosted on Bluesky
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-23

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

• Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
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• The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary
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• What's Next for WebGPU
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• Autoflow, a Graph RAG based and conversational knowledge base tool
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• Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates
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• A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt
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• Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)
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• Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface
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• The 'Return to Office' Lies
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• The tech utopia fantasy is over
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-22

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

• Bayesian Neural Networks
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• Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails
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• The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”
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• Handling cookies is a minefield
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• OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now
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• Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders
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• Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
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• Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after dam removal project
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• Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic
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• Phased Array Microphone (2023)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-21

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

• Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data
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• Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
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• Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds
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• Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells
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• Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript
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• Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking
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• Hyrum's Law in Golang
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• A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)
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• PHP 8.4
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• ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-20

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

• FireDucks: Pandas but Faster
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• Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera
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• When did estimates turn into deadlines?
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• Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month
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• Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever
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• Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm
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• Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now
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• Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
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• AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing
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• What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-19

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

• Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
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• A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor
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• MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server
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• Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank
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• 20 years of Google Scholar
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• Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
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• DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
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• Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference
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• Fair coins tend to land on the side they started
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• OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-18

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

• Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981
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• All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots
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• Bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems
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• AlphaProof's Greatest Hits
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• Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?
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• Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
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• We are shutting down Ondsel
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• Reactive HTML Notebooks
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• I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)
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• Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-17

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

• YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design
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• Two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens
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• SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)
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• James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity
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• The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver
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• James Gleick's Chaos: The Software
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• CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`
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• Everything Is Just Functions: Insights from SICP and David Beazley
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• Good Software Development Habits
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• Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-16

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

• Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls
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• Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs
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• Biological Miracle – Wood Frog
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• Maybe Bluesky has \"won\"
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• First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU
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• Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update
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• Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
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• Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown
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• Yggdrasil Network
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• Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-15

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

• Upcoming Hardening in PHP
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• The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury
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• SQLite Index Visualization
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• The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)
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• Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
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• Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#
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• Thomas E. Kurtz has died
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• Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
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• Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200
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• Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-14

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

• Watermark Anything
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• OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
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• Francois Chollet is leaving Google
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• I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100
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• Lessons from my first exit
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• MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
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• The Onion buys Infowars
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• Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
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• AI makes tech debt more expensive
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• Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-13

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

• A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)
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• We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix
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• Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1
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• Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
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• Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts
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• Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
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• Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams
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• Unusual Raku Features
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• No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
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• The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
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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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