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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-29

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

• BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large
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• Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff
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• The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
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• Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell
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• US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data
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• More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
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• Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity
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• Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok
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• I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
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• Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-28

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

• Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It
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• 10 Years of Pomological Watercolors
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• JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet
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• Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
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• I deleted my second brain
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• IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
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• We ran a Unix-like OS Xv6 on our home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020)
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• MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
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• Addictions Are Being Engineered
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• JavaScript Trademark Update
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-27

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

• I Switched from Flutter and Rust to Rust and Egui
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• Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC
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• Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator
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• Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor
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• Introducing Gemma 3n
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• Why is the Rust compiler so slow?
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• Alternative Layout System
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• XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
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• Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
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• US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-26

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

• Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers
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• Ambient Garden
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• Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
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• Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed
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• Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
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• -2000 Lines of code (2004)
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• A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
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• Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators
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• Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout
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• AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-25

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

• MCP is eating the world
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• Basic Facts about GPUs
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• A new PNG spec
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• ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry
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• Microsoft Edit
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• Thnickels
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• A new PNG spec
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• Gemini CLI
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• OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
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• What Problems to Solve (1966)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-24

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

• Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
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• GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom
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• U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated
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• FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores
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• Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
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• Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
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• PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods
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• Writing toy software is a joy
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• Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
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• Fun with uv and PEP 723
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-23

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

• How to negotiate your salary package
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• New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros
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• Python can run Mojo now
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• Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)
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• Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
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• I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
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• Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto
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• How I use my terminal
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• Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
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• uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-22

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

• P-Hacking in Startups
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• Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits
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• uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS
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• Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes
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• U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
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• U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities
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• TPU Deep Dive
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• LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends
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• Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)
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• Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-21

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

• Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
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• Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä
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• Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
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• YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
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• Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
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• AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing
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• Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines
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• Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
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• Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app
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• Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-20

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

• Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
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• Guess I'm a rationalist now
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• What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like
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• Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A path to low-latency inference
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• Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir
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• Infinite Mac OS X
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• Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
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• Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
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• Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
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• EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-19

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

• Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates
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• Introduction to the A* Algorithm (2014)
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• My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
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• Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
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• Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard
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• New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
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• Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry
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• Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
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• TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.
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• The Zed Debugger Is Here
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-18

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

• Now might be the best time to learn software development
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• Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
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• Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court
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• Building Effective AI Agents
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• Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
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• What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
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• Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust
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• Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends
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• MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model
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• Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-17

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

• Snorting the AGI with Claude Code
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• WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
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• Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
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• Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser
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• What happens when clergy take psilocybin
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• Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me
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• Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps
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• Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
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• Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
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• The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-16

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

• Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan
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• Foundations of Computer Vision (2024)
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• Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable
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• Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
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• Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
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• Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API
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• Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look
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• Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown
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• Start your own Internet Resiliency Club
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• Working on databases from prison
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-15

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

• Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles
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• Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
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• SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)
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• Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances (2024)
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• Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
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• Infinite Grid of Resistors
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• Q-learning is not yet scalable
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• Datalog in Rust
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• How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router
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• Canyon.mid
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-14

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

• TimeGuessr
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• A dark adtech empire fed by fake CAPTCHAs
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• Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?
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• The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More
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• OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language.
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• Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation
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• Self-Adapting Language Models
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• Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh
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• Endometriosis is an interesting disease
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• I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-13

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

• Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
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• Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
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• iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU
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• macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
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• Cloudflare was down
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• Jemalloc Postmortem
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• Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
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• If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
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• Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
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• I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-12

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

• Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js
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• Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
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• Chatterbox TTS
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• Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub
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• Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
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• Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard
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• A receipt printer cured my procrastination
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• US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists
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• GCP Outage
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• Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-11

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

• The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela
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• We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
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• How I Program with Agents
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• Denuvo Analysis
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• Mikeal Rogers has died
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• Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application
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• Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination
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• Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
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• Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone
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• Brian Wilson has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-10

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

• Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy
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• Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing
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• Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime
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• Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
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• Sly Stone has died
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• Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
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• Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals
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• \"Localhost tracking\" explained. It could cost Meta €32B
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• Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
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• OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-09

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

• Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)
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• Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy
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• FSE meets the FBI
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• Kagi Reaches 50k Users
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• Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)
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• LLMs are cheap
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• Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
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• Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
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• Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
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• Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-08

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

• I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits
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• Why We're Moving on from Nix
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• Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
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• My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
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• Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
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• Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude
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• Joining Apple Computer (2018)
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• Convert photos to Atkinson dithering
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• The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
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• A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-07

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

• Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games
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• A masochist's guide to web development
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• The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]
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• A year of funded FreeBSD development
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• Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics
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• Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
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• Getting Past Procrastination
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• Low-Level Optimization with Zig
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• Bill Atkinson has died
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• Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-06

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

• The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
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• LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?
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• parrot.live
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• Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
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• Eleven v3
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• I do not remember my life and it's fine
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• How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy
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• Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
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• Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
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• How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-05

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

• Prompt engineering playbook for programmers
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• The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps
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• A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
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• Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first
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• Cursor 1.0
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• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
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• Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure
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• Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
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• The impossible predicament of the death newts
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• Google restricts Android sideloading
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-04

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

• Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
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• Precious Plastic is in trouble
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• DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format
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• Merlin Bird ID
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• Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone
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• Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia
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• Why I wrote the BEAM book
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• The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
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• FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
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• IRS Direct File on GitHub
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-03

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

• Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)
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• Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month
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• AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder
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• Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
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• EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal
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• Ukraine's autonomous killer drones defeat electronic warfare
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• Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
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• Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
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• Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'
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• (On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-02

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

• Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers
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• I made a chair
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• The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'
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• How to post when no one is reading
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• If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
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• Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
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• Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?
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• Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
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• My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-06-01

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

• AtomVM, the Erlang virtual machine for IoT devices
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• A Lean companion to Analysis I
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• Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste
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• Progressive JSON
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• RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination
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• Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
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• Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
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• Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally
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• Cinematography of “Andor”
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• Root shell on a credit card terminal
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-31

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

• Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
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• Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
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• The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
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• Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
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• Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
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• Photos taken inside musical instruments
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• Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens
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• Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
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• Beware of Fast-Math
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• Precision Clock Mk IV
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