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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 987654321 / 123456789
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• China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
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• Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
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• Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders
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• Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
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• Tailscale Peer Relays
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• Dithering – Part 1
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• Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles
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• Free software scares normal people
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• Affinity Studio now free
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-29

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

• ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
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• The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
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• Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
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• Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
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• Keep Android Open
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• AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
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• Tell HN: Azure outage
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• Azure Outage
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• Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
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• Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-28

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

• Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
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• Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]
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• JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
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• Easy RISC-V
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• OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
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• Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud
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• Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
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• EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
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• Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
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• What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-27

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

• A definition of AGI
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• How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
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• Recall for Linux
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• What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
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• Rust cross-platform GPUI components
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• Tags to make HTML work like you expect
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• 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
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• PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
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• It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
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• Claude for Excel
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-26

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

• Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s
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• A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
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• The Journey Before main()
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• California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
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• The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
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• A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
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• Pico-Banana-400k
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• Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
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• You already have a Git server
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• Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-25

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

• I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
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• Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
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• People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
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• Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study
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• Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
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• First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself
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• Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
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• The Swift SDK for Android
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• Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly
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• Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-24

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

• Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region
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• PyTorch Monarch
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• Claude Memory
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• /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
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• Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
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• Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall
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• Roc Camera
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• 'Attention is all you need' coauthor says he's 'sick' of transformers
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• Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
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• Typst 0.14
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-23

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

• Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
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• Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
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• Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
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• Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
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• Programming with Less Than Nothing
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• VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
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• US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
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• Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
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• Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
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• What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-22

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

• Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
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• NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
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• LLMs can get \"brain rot\"
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• Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
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• Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
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• MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
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• Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died
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• Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
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• Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
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• Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-21

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

• KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
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• A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]
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• Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
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• Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
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• Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
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• Claude Code on the web
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• Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
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• Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
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• Build your own database
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• ChatGPT Atlas
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-20

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

• Airliner hit by possible space debris
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• Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
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• Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)
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• Space Elevator
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• DeepSeek OCR
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• Major AWS Outage Happening
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• AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1
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• Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption
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• Servo v0.0.1
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• BERT is just a single text diffusion step
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-19

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

• When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
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• K8s with 1M nodes
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• Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
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• Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103
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• Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
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• Tinnitus Neuromodulator
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• OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
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• Replacement.ai
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• Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised
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• Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-18

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

• Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
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• 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
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• EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
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• Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network
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• The pivot
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• New Work by Gary Larson
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• ./watch
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• IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
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• Ripgrep 15.0
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• Root System Drawings
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-17

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

• Your data model is your destiny
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• Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
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• Meow.camera
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• Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
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• Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
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• Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler
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• Live Stream from the Namib Desert
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• The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
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• Andrej Karpathy – AGI is still a decade away
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• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-16

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

• Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
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• Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
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• M5 MacBook Pro
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• Zed is now available on Windows
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• Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
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• TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
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• Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
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• Liquibase continues to advertise itself as \"open source\" despite license switch
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• Claude Skills
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• How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-15

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

• A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe
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• DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
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• Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
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• Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking
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• FSF announces Librephone project
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• Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
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• Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent
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• I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
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• Apple M5 chip
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• Claude Haiku 4.5
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-14

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

• Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment
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• Why is everything so scalable?
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• No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
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• Smartphones and being present
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• America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom
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• Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]
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• New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
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• KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
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• ADS-B Exposed
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• What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-13

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

• Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions
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• Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
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• Free software hasn't won
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• Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
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• Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
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• Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users
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• Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
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• NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
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• Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
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• Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-12

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

• Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
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• Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature
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• Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)
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• Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
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• Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG
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• LineageOS 23
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• Macro Splats 2025
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• Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
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• No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
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• Wireguard FPGA
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-11

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

• Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
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• Notes on switching to Helix from Vim
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• I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
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• Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
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• (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore
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• AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline
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• Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland
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• The <output> Tag
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• GNU Health
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• Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-10

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

• Show HN: I built a web framework in C
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• Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
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• Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard
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• Examples Are the Best Documentation
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• My approach to building large technical projects (2023)
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• Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
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• Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
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• Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund
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• Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
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• Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-09

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

• My first contribution to Linux
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• One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
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• After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64
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• A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)
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• OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
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• Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
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• A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
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• California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing
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• Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
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• A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-08

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

• SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
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• An illustrated introduction to linear algebra
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• Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
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• Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
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• Vibe engineering
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• IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021
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• Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
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• Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
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• Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs
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• We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-07

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

• Indefinite Backpack Travel
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• Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
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• Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
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• OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
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• Apps SDK
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• Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
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• The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
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• Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report
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• Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
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• German government comes out against Chat Control
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-06

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

• The QNX Operating System
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• What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
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• Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
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• Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
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• 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
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• Gem.coop
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• Structured Procrastination (1995)
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• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
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• AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake
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• Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-05

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

• Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]
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• How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer
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• A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
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• ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
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• The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users
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• Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
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• Social Cooling (2017)
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• Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
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• The deadline isn't when AI outsmarts us – it's when we stop using our own minds
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• Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-04

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

• Fluid Glass
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• Open Printer – Inkjet printer with DRM-free ink
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• Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
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• Where it's at://
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• I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
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• Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
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• PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
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• Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
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• Zig builds are getting faster
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• Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-03

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

• NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system
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• Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal
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• OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
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• Litestream v0.5.0
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• Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
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• I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
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• Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has \"cutlass\" in it
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• In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
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• Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
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• Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-02

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

• We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going to use the whole GPU
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• I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video]
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• F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]
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• Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
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• Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
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• Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
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• Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release
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• How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
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• Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools
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• Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-01

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

• Designing agentic loops
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• Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
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• Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
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• Diff Algorithms
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• CDC File Transfer
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• I only use Google Sheets
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• Our efforts, in part, define us
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• Show HN: Autism Simulator
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• What good workplace politics looks like in practice
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• Jane Goodall has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-09-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web
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• California governor signs AI transparency bill into law
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• Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
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• I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
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• Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code
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• Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
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• Kagi News
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• Sora 2
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• Sora 2
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• Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
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