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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rippling sues Deel over spying
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• GIMP 3.0
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• Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
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• Moving away from US cloud services
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• Google to buy Wiz for $32B
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• Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
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• Two new PebbleOS watches
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• Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
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• Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud
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• US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI
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• HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
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• That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++
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• Big LLMs weights are a piece of history
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• When the Dotcom Bubble Burst
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• Zlib-rs is faster than C
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• Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
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• The Alexa feature \"do not send voice recordings\" you enabled no longer available
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• Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office
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• Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file
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• Transformers Without Normalization
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• Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
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• Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials
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• Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
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• Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
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• GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price
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• Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline
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• Our interfaces have lost their senses
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• Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
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• RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
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• I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox
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• Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
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• A look at Firefox forks
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• Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging
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• I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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• Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth?
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• Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised
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• Milk Kanban
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
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• Steam Networks
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• IO Devices and Latency
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• The Lost Art of Logarithms
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• “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams
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• Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act
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• The Church FAQ
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• TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish
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• Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
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• Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Switching from Pyenv to Uv
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• The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon
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• I stopped everything and started writing C again
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• Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
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• Iconography of the PuTTY tools
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• Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
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• Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer
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• 'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket
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• Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
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• OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption
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• What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)
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• New tools for building agents
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• The Startup CTO's Handbook
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• Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
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• The Future Is Niri
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• Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
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• The DuckDB Local UI
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• Gemini Robotics
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• Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
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• Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
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• Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence
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• YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients
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• Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning
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• Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
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• Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
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• Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator
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• A 10x Faster TypeScript
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• Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
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• Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
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• Apple Exclaves
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• Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
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• Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
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• Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter
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• Go European: Discover European products and services
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• Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors
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• Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says
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• uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
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• Discworld Rules
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• The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
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• Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
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• Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal
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• Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwide
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• My 16-month theanine self-experiment
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• Layoffs Don't Work
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• US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
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• It is as if you were on your phone
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics
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• Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is \"correct\"?
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• Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment
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• Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague
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• AI tools are spotting errors in research papers
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• Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
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• Show HN: Open-Source DocumentAI with Ollama
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• PayPal honey extension has again \"featured\" flag in Chrome web store
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• Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
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• Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners
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• Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust
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• Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof
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• Succinct data structures
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• Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata
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• Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition
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• Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects
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• Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
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• Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
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• Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apple unveils new Mac Studio
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• Things we've learned about building products
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• QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
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• NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to \"use Apple encryption\"
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• Git without a forge
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• The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide
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• Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
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• Buy European Made. Support European Values
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• Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
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• Mistral OCR
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• ARC-AGI without pretraining
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• Writing an LLM from scratch, part 8 – trainable self-attention
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• Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server
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• Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges
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• The Demoralization is just Beginning
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• Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award
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• Apple M3 Ultra
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• MacBook Air M4
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• Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order
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• Tailscale is pretty useful
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
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• Apple's Software Quality Crisis
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• TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
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• The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)
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• SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale
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• Repairable Flatpack Toaster
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• Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back
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• Let’s code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP (2016)
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• Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
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• Why fastDOOM is fast
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS
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• Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
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• Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet
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• The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
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• Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
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• Solarpunk
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• Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
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• Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll
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• MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models
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• The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns
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• GSA Eliminates 18F
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• The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
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• GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
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• Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market
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• The early days of Linux (2023)
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• Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
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• NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable
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• Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees
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• Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete
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• Write to Escape Your Default Setting
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• Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover
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• 3,200% CPU Utilization
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• 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
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• How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
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• Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
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• Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
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• An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
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• A Letter to the American People
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-02-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique
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• IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
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• \"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license\"
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• Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
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• macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
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• Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
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• Microsoft is killing Skype
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• Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data
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• Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
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• Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
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