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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
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• One Million Chessboards
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• The One-Person Framework in Practice
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• Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?
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• LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
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• Try Switching to Kagi
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• Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
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• Firefox tab groups are here
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• O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
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• Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-28

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

• Read the Obits
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• How a single line of code could brick your iPhone
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• Internet in a Box
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• AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate
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• Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio
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• Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
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• Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
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• Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python
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• Migrating away from Rust
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• Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
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• Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court
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• Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day
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• Icônes
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• Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io
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• Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser
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• CSS Zen Garden (2003–)
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• How to program a text adventure in C
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• Show HN: Remote-Controlled IKEA Deathstar Lamp
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• We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI
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• Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float
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• Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
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• I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
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• Cloth
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• An end to all this prostate trouble?
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• ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
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• The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting
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• Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad
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• Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The hidden cost of AI coding
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• Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
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• OpenAI releases image generation in the API
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• Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf, Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals
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• A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People
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• Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)
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• DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model
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• Writing \"/etc/hosts\" breaks the Substack editor
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• A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
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• FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
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• Teaching LLMs how to solid model
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• YAGRI: You are gonna read it
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• Show HN: My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM
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• Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea
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• Careless People
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• Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over
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• On loyalty to Your Employer
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• I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
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• Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces
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• ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
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• Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
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• Native visionOS platform support
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• Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet
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• Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law
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• How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
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• AI Horseless Carriages
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• You wouldn't steal a font
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• DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
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• Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
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• AI assisted search-based research works now
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• LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them
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• A new form of verification on Bluesky
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• Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
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• Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
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• Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
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• Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation
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• Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM
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• I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]
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• The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
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• Python’s new t-strings
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• Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent
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• Pope Francis has died
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• Getting forked by Microsoft
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• Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue
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• FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices
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• Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices
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• Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
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• Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
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• First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
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• Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation
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• The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
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• Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials
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• Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
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• Things Zig comptime won't do
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• The movie mistake mystery from \"Revenge of the Sith\"
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim
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• How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design
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• 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
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• Full Text Search of US Court records
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• Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety
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• Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay
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• Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
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• Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
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• Librarians are dangerous
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• Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-18

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

• Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness
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• Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
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• HDR‑Infused Emoji
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• Potatoes in the Mail
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• I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs
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• Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers
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• Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
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• Defold: cross-platform game engine
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• Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code
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• Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-17

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

• Making Software
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• 12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications
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• CVE Foundation
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• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)
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• Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
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• Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
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• An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system
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• TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
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• Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
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• Gemini 2.5 Flash
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-16

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

• Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
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• How the U.S. became a science superpower
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• America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back
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• TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days
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• Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
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• CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
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• Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)
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• Attention K-Mart Shoppers
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• OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
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• OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-15

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

• How many supernova explode every year?
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• JSLinux
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• DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
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• Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court
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• Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
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• Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
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• Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data
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• 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak
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• How to win an argument with a toddler
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• It's easier than ever to de-censor videos
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-14

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

• Googler... ex-Googler
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• Whenever: Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python
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• Why Fennel?
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• Open guide to equity compensation
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• Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports
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• Everything wrong with MCP
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• A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
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• The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine
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• GPT-4.1 in the API
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• Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-13

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

• Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
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• Emacs Lisp Elements
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• Nice things with SVG
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• I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
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• WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser
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• Anubis Works
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• Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a
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• BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
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• A Reddit bot drove me insane
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• The dark side of the Moomins
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-12

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

• Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers
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• Strengths Are Your Weaknesses
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• Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash
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• Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)
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• Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch
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• You might not need WebSockets
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• Google is winning on every AI front
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• $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money
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• Open source and self hostable/private file converter
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• Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-11

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

• How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
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• The Story Behind “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”
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• Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines
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• Default styles for h1 elements are changing
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• Playing in the Creek
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• Live Map of the London Underground
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• But what if I want a faster horse?
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• Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
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• Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
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• Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-10

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

• Photographs of 19th Century Japan
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• SpacetimeDB
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• The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems
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• How University Students Use Claude
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• Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests
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• Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)
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• Hacker News Hug of Deaf
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• Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution
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• Garfield Minus Garfield
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• PEP 750 – Template Strings (t-strings) have been accepted
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-09

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

• An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force
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• Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
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• Better typography with text-wrap pretty
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• Obituary for Cyc
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• PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)
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• The best programmers I know
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• Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
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• The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)
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• How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
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• Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-08

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

• Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
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• No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
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• 20 years of Git
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• Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell
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• India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops
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• Tailscale has raised $160M
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• Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
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• Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
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• Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic
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• Apache ECharts
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-07

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

• We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
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• Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
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• Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians
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• Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
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• Glamorous Toolkit
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• Let's Ban Billboards
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• A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
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• Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US
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• Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
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• Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-06

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

• Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
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• Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
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• Emulating an iPhone in QEMU
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• Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
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• Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)
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• The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done
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• Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
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• Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
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• The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
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• Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-05

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

• New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden
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• Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
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• Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
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• An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips
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• The blissful Zen of a good side project
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• Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
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• Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
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• Nebula Sans
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• What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
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• The Llama 4 herd
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-04

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

• Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)
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• A university president makes a case against cowardice
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• Overengineered Anchor Links
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• Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers
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• AI 2027
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• The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI
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• Microsoft’s original source code
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• Gumroad’s source is available
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• Bored of It
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• Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-03

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

• Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
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• TV Garden
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• Why I don't discuss politics with friends
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• Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
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• US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
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• Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline
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• I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
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• Dijkstra On the foolishness of \"natural language programming\"
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• AnimeJs v4 Is Here
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• An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-02

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

• Excitable cells
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• Stop syncing everything
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• CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
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• Why F#?
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• Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
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• DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
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• RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)
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• Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
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• Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)
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• Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-01

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

• The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
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• A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up
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• James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise
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• KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader
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• Go Optimization Guide
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• Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
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• Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
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• The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
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• Electron band structure in germanium, my ass
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• Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-03-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Claim for a missing tooth
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• Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
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• How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
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• The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
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• The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
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• Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison
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• AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
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• It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)
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• Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?
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• Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed
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