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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-29

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

• Zlib visualizer
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• Users only care about 20% of your application
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• Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]
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• Farewell friends
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• F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
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• What is “good taste” in software engineering?
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• What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
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• Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%
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• Claude Sonnet 4.5
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• Claude Code 2.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-28

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

• Python developers are embracing type hints
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• Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
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• Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
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• A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails
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• I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
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• Learn to play Go
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• Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying
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• When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”
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• The AI coding trap
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• Play snake in the URL address bar
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-27

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

• CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells
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• Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
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• US cities pay too much for buses
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• Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust
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• SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think
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• Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed
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• Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement
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• SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
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• A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
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• Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-26

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

• How to make sense of any mess
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• Raspberry Pi 500+
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• Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high
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• The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers
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• ChatGPT Pulse
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• Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
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• Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
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• No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves
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• Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta
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• Open Social
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-25

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

• Quicksort explained IKEA-style
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• Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor
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• How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
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• Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day
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• Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
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• Helium Browser
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• Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over
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• Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
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• Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
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• ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-24

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

• Markov chains are the original language models
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• Getting AI to work in complex codebases
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• Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
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• That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
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• Huntington's disease treated for first time
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• Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
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• EU age verification app not planning desktop support
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• US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees
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• Just let me select text
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• Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-23

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

• I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
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• PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
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• Nine things I learned in ninety years
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• Zoxide: A Better CD Command
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• Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
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• Go has added Valgrind support
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• Libghostty is coming
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• Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
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• Always Invite Anna
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• Find SF parking cops
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-22

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

• DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
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• Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
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• How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me
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• Download responsibly
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• You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
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• Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
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• Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
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• Why haven't local-first apps become popular?
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• OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
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• Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-21

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

• I’m Not a Robot
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• FLX1s phone is launched
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• $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer
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• AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
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• Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers
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• iFixit iPhone Air teardown
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• Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD
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• They Thought They Were Free (1955)
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• Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company
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• LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-20

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

• Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
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• Nostr
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• The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press
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• Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species
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• Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
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• Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks
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• Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit
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• Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system
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• Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or pay $100k fee
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• Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-19

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

• The Sagrada Família takes its final shape
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• Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI
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• This map is not upside down
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• Apple: SSH and FileVault
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• Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps
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• Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
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• Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
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• Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]
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• I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
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• Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-18

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

• YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
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• Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
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• A postmortem of three recent issues
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• Meta Ray-Ban Display
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• Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
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• Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
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• CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice (2011)
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• Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
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• KDE is now my favorite desktop
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• Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-17

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

• Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
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• Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
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• U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
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• Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware
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• About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
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• GNU Midnight Commander
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• The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug
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• EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided
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• Apple Photos app corrupts images
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• WASM 3.0 Completed
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-16

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

• Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
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• macOS Tahoe
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• React is winning by default and slowing innovation
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• I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
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• Linux phones are more important now than ever
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• Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
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• Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
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• FBI couldn't get my husband to decrypt his Tor node so he was jailed for 3 years
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• Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
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• Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-15

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

• You’re a slow thinker. Now what?
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• Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults
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• Why We Spiral
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• Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
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• Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose
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• Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions
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• The Mac App Flea Market
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• Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
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• Hosting a website on a disposable vape
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• Hosting a website on a disposable vape
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-14

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

• Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100
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• Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
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• Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak
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• The case against social media is stronger than you think
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• Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease
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• Pass: Unix Password Manager
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• Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
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• Models of European metro stations
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• EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections
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• ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-13

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

• 3D modeling with paper
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• Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
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• QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
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• UTF-8 is a brilliant design
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• FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
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• Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
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• SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V
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• Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion
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• AI coding
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• Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-12

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

• AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
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• Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
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• Nano Banana image examples
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• Why our website looks like an operating system
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• Float Exposed
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• Qwen3-Next
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• The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
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• Chat Control faces blocking minority in the EU
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• Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
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• EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-11

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

• OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community
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• ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
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• Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
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• KDE launches its own distribution
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• DOOMscrolling: The Game
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• Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
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• Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
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• Behind the scenes of Bun Install
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• GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)
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• Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-10

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

• Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
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• US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
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• Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
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• E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
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• Memory Integrity Enforcement
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• Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
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• I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
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• Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a \"reduced traffic zone\"
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• I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
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• Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-09

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

• Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
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• iPhone dumbphone
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• Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
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• No adblocker detected
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• Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
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• New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care
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• Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
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• We all dodged a bullet
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• ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones
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• iPhone Air
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-08

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

• GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
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• Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML
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• Formatting code should be unnecessary
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• Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
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• Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
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• 14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal
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• Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
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• NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
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• Signal Secure Backups
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• Chat Control Must Be Stopped
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-07

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

• Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism
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• We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
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• How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
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• A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
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• Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
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• Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
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• Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app
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• Serverless Horrors
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• Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk
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• The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-06

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

• Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS
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• The maths you need to start understanding LLMs
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• I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
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• ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
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• Making a font of my handwriting
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• Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy
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• Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features
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• Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5
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• 996
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• AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-05

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

• WiFi signals can measure heart rate
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• Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
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• LLM Visualization
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• What Is the Fourier Transform?
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• Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector
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• I ditched Docker for Podman
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• I'm absolutely right
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• Purposeful animations
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• European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices
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• Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-04

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

• The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
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• Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
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• Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
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• Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up
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• Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people
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• 30 minutes with a stranger
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• Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories
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• Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
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• Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
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• Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-03

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

• Magic Lantern Is Back
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• The Little Book of Linear Algebra
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• The staff ate it later
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• We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that
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• A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
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• This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)
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• %CPU utilization is a lie
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• VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
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• MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
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• Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-02

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

• An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia
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• The day Return became Enter (2023)
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• Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect
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• Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
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• Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]
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• FreeDroidWarn
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• Next.js is infuriating
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• You don't want to hire \"the best engineers\"
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• Anthropic raises $13B Series F
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• Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-01

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

• Making Minecraft Spherical
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• Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
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• Use One Big Server (2022)
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• We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
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• Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives
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• Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility
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• CocoaPods trunk read-only plan
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• Bear is now source-available
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• Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me
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• Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-31

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

• Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font
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• You Have to Feel It
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• Are we decentralized yet?
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• Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything
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• My phone is an ereader now
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• “This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”
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• Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]
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• Notes on Managing ADHD
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• Jujutsu for Everyone
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• Eternal Struggle
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