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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Wine 6.0
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• Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
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• Aquafaba
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• Ask HN: What are you working on?
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• Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World
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• New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports
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• Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
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• Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living
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• Signal is having technical difficulties
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• Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
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• Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
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• Null
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• Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
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• We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers
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• Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
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• 10 years-ish of Elixir
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• 'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude
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• Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
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• Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I received my first donation on my open-source side project
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• U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers
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• Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block
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• Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
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• Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”
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• BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
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• Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him
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• Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
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• WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
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• Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 via USB ethernet
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• Steam's login method is kinda interesting
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• Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
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• Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute, real or fake?
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• Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol
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• Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)
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• Plain Text Accounting
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• Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
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• How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
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• If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not
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• Stripe bans Trump campaign
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• Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
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• Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
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• Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
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• 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
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• Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)
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• Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
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• China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group – Report
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• Ubiquiti Networks Breach
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)
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• AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86
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• Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
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• PeerTube v3
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• Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS
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• Wikipedia is 20
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• Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform
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• Algorithms for Decision Making
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• Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal'
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• GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’
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• Best of show – abuse of libc
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• Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
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• When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
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• Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
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• Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants
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• You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA
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• Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020)
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• Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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• Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Simple Bank Is Closing
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• Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video]
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• Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach
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• Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data
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• Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content
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• WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys
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• Signal WhatsApp Chats Import
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• Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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• Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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• Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Memory access on the Apple M1 processor
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• The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
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• Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach
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• Traffic Simulator
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• Donate to Signal
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• Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
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• Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
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• No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees
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• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I
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• Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Termux no longer updated on Google Play
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• Wasmer 1.0
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• How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus
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• Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
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• How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products
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• GNU Units
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• Facebook senior software engineer interview
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• What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
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• U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
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• WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with FB or stop using the app
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• On Repl-Driven Programming
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• After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
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• My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero
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• Telegram publishes users' locations online
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• GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
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• Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
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• GitHub is fully available in Iran
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• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
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• Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later
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• URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies
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• Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
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• USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment
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• Julian Assange extradition to US blocked by UK court
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• A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize
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• Slack is down
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• Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
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• Slack is down
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• Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Yale Manual for Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy of Depression
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• Pixar's Render Farm
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• How to overcome Phone Addiction
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• Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App
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• DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when state secrets involved
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• The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious
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• ECC matters
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• I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
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• Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks
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• Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring
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• Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly
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• Horrifying PDF Experiments
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• A half-hour to learn Rust
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• US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies
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• Open Source Smartwatch
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• Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company
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• WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history
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• Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues
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• Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera
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Daily Hacker News for 2021-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction
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• MF DOOM Has Died
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• Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)
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• TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
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• California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
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• State machines are wonderful tools
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• EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology
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• My Experience at Apple
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• School or Prison
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• Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
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Daily Hacker News for 2020-12-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 31, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
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• How We Built the GitHub Globe
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• HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash
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• LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
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• Linux Hardening Guide
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• Why Jira Sucks
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• WebAssembly Studio
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• SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
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• Happy New Year HN
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• Bitcoin is a disaster
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