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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-30

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

• I Run LLMs Locally
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• Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
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• Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting
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• From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]
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• 'Obelisks': New Class of Life Has Been Found in Human Digestive System
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• Curl-Impersonate
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• Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security
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• AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
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• Fun facts about SQLite
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• Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-29

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

• Carlsen disqualified from World Rapid and Blitz championship for wearing jeans
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• EmacsConf 2024 Notes
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• I automated my job application process
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• Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
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• Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
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• Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
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• WebGL Fluid Simulation
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• 38C3: Illegal Instructions
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• We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video]
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• Jimmy Carter has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-28

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

• That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection
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• Should more of us be moving to live near friends?
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• Bench accounting services shutting down
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• Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'
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• TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips
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• Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
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• Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]
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• Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that
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• Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?
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• Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-27

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

• Seconds Since the Epoch
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• Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
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• Differential Growth Addon for Blender
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• Write Your Own Virtual Machine (2022)
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• Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law
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• Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor
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• Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers
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• Does current AI represent a dead end?
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• Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders
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• They have not been trained for this
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-26

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

• Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road
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• Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch
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• Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers
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• F*: A proof oriented general purpose programming language
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• Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports
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• Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
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• Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust
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• Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
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• A Minecraft server written in COBOL
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• Ghostty 1.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-25

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

• Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app
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• Cognitive load is what matters
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• Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
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• On the nature of computing science (1984)
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• Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023)
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• macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
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• T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013)
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• Merry Christmas Everyone
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• This open problem taught me what topology is [video]
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• Ruby 3.4.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-24

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

• Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond
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• Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
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• Xerox to acquire Lexmark
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• My Colleague Julius
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• Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024
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• Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?
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• Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)
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• Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32
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• The number pi has an evil twin
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• 38th Chaos Communication Congress
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-23

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

• Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation
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• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)
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• GPT-5 is behind schedule
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• How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
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• Long Term Software Development
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• One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch
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• Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
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• 'United Healthcare' using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images
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• Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells
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• The journey to save the last known 43-inch Sony CRT
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-22

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

• More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD
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• How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments
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• Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin
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• Ideas from \"A Philosophy of Software Design\"
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• Introducing S2
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• City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once
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• A data table thousands of years old (2020)
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• Rosetta 2 creator leaves Apple to work on Lean full-time
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• Why we use our own hardware
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• Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-21

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

• Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
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• Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript
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• How to lose a fortune with one bad click
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• Building Effective \"Agents\"
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• Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader
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• Grayjay Desktop App
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• A Raycaster in Bash
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• Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized
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• US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp
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• Query Apple's FindMy network with Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-20

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

• Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
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• Ghost artists on Spotify
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• Clay – UI Layout Library
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• A Replacement for BERT
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• Kelly Can't Fail
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• The era of open voice assistants
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• A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks
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• My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
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• Tldraw Computer
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• OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-19

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

• ISO 8583: The language of credit cards
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• Updates to H-1B
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• Cultural Evolution of Cooperation Among LLM Agents
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• A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
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• Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
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• Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
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• Java in the Small
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• Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season
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• Alignment faking in large language models
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• Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-18

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

• 3D-Printed Dune Chess Set
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• How I used linear algebra to build an interactive diagramming editor
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• After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
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• FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices
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• Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1
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• Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
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• Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps
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• The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
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• GitHub Copilot is now available for free
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• 1-800-ChatGPT
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-17

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

• New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs
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• Making a watch from scratch
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• Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway
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• Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
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• Modelica
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• In Search of a Faster SQLite
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• What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018)
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• Always go to the funeral (2005)
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• Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
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• Moon
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-16

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

• Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning
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• Preferring throwaway code over design docs
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• Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)
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• Dumb TVs deserve a comeback
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• Map of GitHub
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• OpenERV
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• Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)
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• Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
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• Veo 2: Our video generation model
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• Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-15

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

• NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway
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• What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know
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• I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping
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• IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts
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• They see your photos
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• School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
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• Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups
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• Crystal Ball Trading Game
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• A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)
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• Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-14

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

• Making my first robot as a software engineer
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• My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)
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• Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
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• MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
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• Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR
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• OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
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• McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis
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• Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]
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• macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
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• Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-13

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

• Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation
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• Unexpected Keyboard
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• Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
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• Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling
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• Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going
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• Android XR
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• Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder
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• A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal
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• Test
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• Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-12

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

• The Cold Email Handbook
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• Dear OAuth Providers
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• OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs
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• Review of Mullvad VPN
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• 2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls
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• Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
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• A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)
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• Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
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• BlenderGPT
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• Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-11

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

• Firefox removes \"do not track\" feature support
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• U.S. math scores drop on major international test
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• Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job
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• GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house
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• WPEngine, Inc. vs. Automattic– Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction
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• Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release
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• Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
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• PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention
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• Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
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• FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-10

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

• The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)
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• Trellis – 3D mesh generative model
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• What we know about CEO shooting suspect
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• \"This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom\"
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• Save Music, Save the Archive
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• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
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• Tree Calculus
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• Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios
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• The Google Willow Thing
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• From where I left
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-09

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

• Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner
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• Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
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• JSON5 – JSON for Humans
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• Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel
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• Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain
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• Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
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• \"Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers\"
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• Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails
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• Willow, Our Quantum Chip
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• Sora is here
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-08

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

• Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana
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• The largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics
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• OpenAI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program
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• Biggest shell programs
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• Show HN: Countless.dev – A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs
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• \"BGP at home\": getting a DIA circuit installed at home
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• Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format
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• Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
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• Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair
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• UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-07

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

• Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
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• I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source
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• Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite
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• Install postmarketOS on Android phone and use Docker as a home server
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• TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court
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• Mistakes as a new manager
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• <dialog>: The Dialog Element
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• Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
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• My second year without a job
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• Just: Just a Command Runner
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-06

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

• 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
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• Show HN: Banan-OS, an Unix-like operating system written from scratch
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• Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
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• The correct amount of ads is zero
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• Intel’s board, and an example of when boards and short-termism fail
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• The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
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• Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
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• Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
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• Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees
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• Every UUID Dot Com
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-05

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

• Sitters and Standers
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• The story of Rogue
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• Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
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• Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby
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• They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard
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• Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
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• Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring
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• OpenAI o1 system card
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• ChatGPT Pro
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• Tsunami Warning for Northern California
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-04

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

• Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ
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• Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
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• Amazon Nova
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• Egoless Engineering
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• My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
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• Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here
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• IMG_0001
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• OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe
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• How to grow professional relationships
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• Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-03

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

• Student rocket group shatters amateur space record
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• Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
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• Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?
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• 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)
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• Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
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• Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley
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• South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
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• DuckDuckGo donates $25k to the Perl and Raku Foundation
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• Intel announces Arc B-series \"Battlemage\" discrete graphics with Linux support
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-02

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

• Rails is better low code than low code
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• Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll
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• Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%
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• Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives reasoning in large language models
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• Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
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• Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?
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• What will enter the public domain in 2025?
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• Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
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• World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image
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• Facebook's Little Red Book
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-12-01

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

• If not React, then what?
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• Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system
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• Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre
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• AMD Disables Zen 4's Loop Buffer
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• Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs
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• A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com
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• Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
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• Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip
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• OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt
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• Advent of Code 2024
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Daily Hacker News for 2024-11-30

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

• Understanding SIMD: Infinite complexity of trivial problems
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• Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics
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• Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI
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• The Influence of Bell Labs
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• What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
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• Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
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• The deterioration of Google
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• Geometric line-art of Wacław Szpakowski (2017)
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• Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US
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• Engineering Sleep
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