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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Obesity: Drink till you drop
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• Rails 3.0: It's ready
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• Swarmation: like musical chairs for pixels
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• The Tragic Death of Practically Everything
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• Jason Fried: The Truth About Real Estate
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• Python Visual Tutorial
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• Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy
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• The Illusion of Winning
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• Arcade Fire meets HTML5
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• Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 29, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Chopin's Small Miracles
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• MIT Globe Genie (Random Street View)
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• How Entire Industries Become Unethical
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• Learning to write a compiler
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• IPhone App in Approval Limbo for 3 Months, Dev Decides to Open Source It
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• Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.
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• Regrets of the Dying
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• What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card.
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• Less Framework 2.0 Released
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• Jason Calacanis' Warning To Y Combinator Startups [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 28, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apple-Centric Observers Get the Facts Wrong: H.264 Still Ain’t Free
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• How did non US citizen founders funded by YC get allowed to work in the US?
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• An update on JavaOne
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• Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
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• Paul Allen Sues Apple, Others Over Patents
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• Double your price (and no, I'm not kidding)
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• Paul Graham is now tweeting
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• Ben Huh offers to buy Reddit
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• Ladies, look at your code. Now back to mine.
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• Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's all about Age
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 27, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mongo DB is web scale
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• Books that will Substitute for a Computer Science Degree
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• How Scribd's HTML5 conversion works ... even when it shouldn't
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• Diaspora: An Overdue Update
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• What's better about Ruby than Python? - comp.lang.python
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• Ingenious Hack by Facebook Spammers: Smoking Hot Bartenders
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• "Don't argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it."
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• Backblaze online backup almost acquired
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• Schwarzenegger: Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future
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• Steve Jobs explains branding
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 26, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Competing Hypotheses - Made for the CIA. Now free to the public.
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• Keys to Being Excellent at Anything
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• Apple's attention to detail
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• Is There Anything Good About Men?
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• The Hardest Adjustment To Self Employment
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• America's misguided culture of overwork
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• Pirate Bay Receives Notice To Keep a Torrent
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• RVM (Ruby Version Manager) 1.0.0
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• Howfuckedismydatabase
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• The story of round rectangles
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 25, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rapid prototyping as burnout antidote
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• What non-technical users don’t understand about your software
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• The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay
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• Y Combinator’s Biggest Demo Day Yet Draws Throng Of Investors
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• A letter to my students
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• How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far less
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• Paul Graham and his "no asshole" rule (Interview)
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• How to retire at 30 on $1 million
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• Paul Graham on trends for the future
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• Call phones from Gmail
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 24, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Install PAC-MAN on Sequoia voting machine w/o breaking tamper-evident seals
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• Protein that destroys HIV discovered
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• Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal singers
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• Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's
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• Rails 3.0: Release candidate 2
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• How to Minimize Politics in Your Company
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• Things I've Learned from Traveling Around the World for Three Years
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• There is no nanotech, stop talking about it and start laughing at it
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• Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer
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• Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 23, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Using Python to Encode Cassette Recordings for my Superboard II
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• Want to pack JS and CSS really well? Convert it to a PNG
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• Writing a StarCraft Bot in F#
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• New Rejection Reason From Apple May Have Major Implications
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• Why GNU grep is Fast
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• Smoothie Charts
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• Traffic Experiments -- How to clear traffic jams
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• Readme Driven Development
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• Faster than grep? Old age and treachery beat youth and skill every time.
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• No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 22, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Advice from America's Worst Mom
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• The Google Unemployment Index
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• Foursquare iPhone app sends passwords in plain text, don't use
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• Ruby Koans. Best way to learn Ruby.
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• SSH Multiplexing & other OpenSSH Tricks
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• The HTML5 Experiments of Hakim El Hattab
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• Got a blog that makes no money? Philadelphia wants $300 from you
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• Indian Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested
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• Buzz Kill
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• US says it is not illegal for schools to spy on students at home
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 21, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium
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• Scott Adams: The "Less" Feature
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• Some lesser-known truths about programming
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• Ginzametrics (YC S10) Aims To Bring Simplicity To SEO Software
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• Russia in color a century ago
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• Punk Mathematics
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• Scott Adams: How I (Almost) Saved the Earth
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• Fabulous: Python library for printing images and fancy text to the terminal
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• The Most Isolated Man on the Planet
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• Futurama Writer Created And Proved A Brand New Math Theorem Just For Episode
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 20, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Clojure 1.2 released
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• Recovering deleted files using grep
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• 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
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• Gmail adds video chat for Linux
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• Facebook iPhone app takes OSS code without attribution
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• This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn
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• Ray Kurzweil Responds to "Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain"
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• The Start-up from Hell
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• Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked
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• Daring Fireball: Creep Executive Officer
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 19, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Email sucks. Time saving tips from Kevin Rose
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• Apple’s App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps
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• What different sorting algorithms sound like
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• Don’t let jQuery’s $(document).ready() slow you down
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• Celebrate Whyday
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• Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion
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• In Praise of Quitting Your Job, or The New Work Ethic.
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• Why aren't you using git-flow?
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• A word about _why, #whyday , and Hackety Hack
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• Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 18, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Are you rich? If so, how did you get there?
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• Why A Brush With Death Triggers The Slow-Mo Effect
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• This document is confidential
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• CSS3 lasers
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• How angel investors are destroying young gullible programming talent
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• Why Free Plans Don’t Work
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• People have no bloody idea about saving energy
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• Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?
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• Ruby 1.9.2 Released
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• Why Clojure?
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 17, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rich Programmer Food
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• The best patent ever
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• You’re a developer, so why do you work for someone else?
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• Stephen Wolfram Uses This
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• 0 degrees celsius + 0 degrees celsius -
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• Human-shaped pylons carry electricity across Iceland
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• TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it never existed anyway
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• Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain
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• Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph
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• Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hipmunk (YC S10)
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 16, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Is a Crash Coming? Reasons to Be Cautious
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• Corruption is forcing Russia’s best and brightest to flee the country
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• Ask PG: Why do you think Africa cannot produce global scale start ups?
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• James Gosling: Quite the Firestorm
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• Map of worldwide undersea cables
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• Vim 7.3 released
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• My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
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• So you were thinking of using adsense to generate income? Think again
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• A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere
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• Fuck you, Money
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 15, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• America: Land of Loners?
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• The Oracle-Google Mess
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• Threads (in Ruby): Enough Already
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• Protesters Gather At Google; 600 Employees Sign Petition, Organizers Claim
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• Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity.
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• Welcome to the new decade
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• Free Parking Comes at a Price
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• Ask HN: All startup websites look the same
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• How to Write an Operating System
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• Applications open for Winter 2011 YC Funding, Deadline October 19
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 14, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• VC Insanity: How the economics of venture funds explain the crazy things VCs do
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• How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Suggestions
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• Strangest language feature
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• OpenSolaris is dead
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• Building muscle doesn't require lifting heavy weights
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• Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already
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• 25 Best Hangman Words
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• Scott Aaronson explains his $200k bet (8 Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong)
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• How to get a Pilot's License in (just about) a week
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• Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work (2001)
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 13, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google responds: Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal
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• Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis
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• John Carmack demos Rage on iPhone
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• Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android
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• The shit finally hits the fan....(James Gosling on Oracle vs Google)
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• My short history of Engine Yard and my Resignation
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• Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal
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• DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave
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• Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich
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• JQuery Mobile Framework Announced
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 12, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Update on Deolalikar’s Proof that P≠NP
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• Google Reader reader? Would you find this service useful?
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• Removing street signs, lights and arrows increases safety and road capacity
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• Racket vs Clojure (it's all about the data structures)
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• Q&A on P≠NP Paper for Non-Mathematicians
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• What Happened to Yahoo
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• Ask HN: Tips for Hackers having Kids?
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• Jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity
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• Burning man defeats PayPal
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• Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 11, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• HTML5 Boilerplate: a rock-solid default
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• I'm a nearly broke developer/entrepreneur and felt like venting
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• Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey
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• Be happier: Rent Everything
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• Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing
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• EFF Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal
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• Facebook name extraction based on email/wrong password + POC
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• A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality collapse
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• 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
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• "My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 10, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Fun - a new programming language for the realtime web
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• Ask HN: Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?
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• Sharpie reinvents the pen with liquid pencil
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• Google goes "evil"
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• Issues in the Proof that P ≠ NP
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• How to Take a Walk
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• The Best Email I've Ever Received
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• GitHub Jobs
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• Ask YC Archive
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• Don't Be Ugly By Accident
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 09, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Last Psychiatrist rebuttal to "why parents hate parenting"
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• How to build your own CDN using BIND, GeoIP, Nginx, Varnish
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• "God's Number" is 20 - Rubik's cube has been "solved"
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• Shut up and ship
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• Why I'm not hiring
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• Skype Files $100M IPO
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• If you can't find 10 people who say they'll buy it...
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• The Next Silicon Valley
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• The Startup Diet: How I Lost 35 Pounds While Working Overtime
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• The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 08, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Million-Dollar Murray: Homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage
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• DNSMadeEasy under major (over 50Gbps) DDoS Attack out of China
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• I'll save you the time of getting an MBA..
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• Ask HN: Why did Twitter succeed?
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• The Graphing Calculator Story - a developer who refused to leave
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• See How Well Google Knows Your Circle of Friends
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• "Or so they say..." Javascript demo
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• Common Programmer Health Problems
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• P ≠ NP
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• S. Cook: “This appears to be a relatively serious claim to have solved P vs NP.”
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 07, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Stop thinking about how to scale. Startups die from not having customers.
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• Debian Squeeze Frozen
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• Martin Odersky on Scala and Clojure
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• JS1k, 1k Javascript demo contest
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• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
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• Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey
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• Two Envelopes Problem
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• Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web
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• Fraud charges against HashRocket executives dropped
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• Why we need to abolish software patents
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 06, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Minimalism Isn’t the Alpha and Omega of Design
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• MongoDB 1.6 stable released
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• Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
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• Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web
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• Extremist group tries to game Digg
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• In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars (2009)
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• So, What Does "HREF" Stand For, Anyway?
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• Islands in lakes in islands in lakes ...
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• Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible
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• StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 05, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Japan Is Doomed
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• Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images
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• Save Google Wave
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• Christopher Hitchens on the Topic of Cancer
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• Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority
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• How To Read Mathematics
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• How To Pitch A Product
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• Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc)
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• The Future of Startup Funding
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• Tell HN: We're building a "HN Office Hours" app. Help us.
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 04, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care
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• New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what the VCs say
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• Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech
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• Peter Norvig on Being Wrong
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• Happy Git Commits
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• Choosing New York over San Francisco
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• 40 billionaires pledge to donate half their wealth
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• Depression-era color photos
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• California's Prop 8 (gay marriage ban) ruled unconstitutional
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• Google Kills Wave
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 03, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Reddit: I stopped using a task killer to see if there's a difference. It's huge.
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• Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
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• Rethinking 'Fuck You' money
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• Ask HN: I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs
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• Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day
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• Zed Shaw: "poll, epoll, science, and superpoll" with R
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• Ten Steps To Ten Thousand Sign Ups Before We Even Launch Our Startup
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• Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story
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• Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub
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• This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 02, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How making money changed my perspective on startup ideas
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• A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory
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• Jailbreak for ios 4.0 and iphone4 just released
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• Emacs, artist mode
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• Western civilization runs on the mainframe
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• China to build giant buses that cars can drive under
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• Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S.
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• Tips for Noogler Engineers (Noogler = New at Google)
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• Rapportive (YC S10) Raises Over $1 Million From Gmail Creator & Others
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• YCommonApp - Apply to 25+ YC-funded startups in under 10 minutes
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-08-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 01, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Donate to Zed Shaw's Mongrel2 Fund
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• Your Code Sucks
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• College Grads, Here’s How to Become Millionaires
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• Is Good Code Impossible?
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• Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?
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• Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies
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• He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
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• Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
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• Ask HN: Best Startup City - Outside the USA?
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• Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls
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Daily Hacker News for 2010-07-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tribalism is the enemy within
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• Notetaking as a way to stay smart
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• Clojure 1.2 RC1
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• Python has closures
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• Rise of the telepresence robots
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• Emacs-fu: some handy key bindings
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• Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot
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• Paul Graham’s Checklist, Would You Make The Cut?
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• Craig Venter: 'We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome'
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• Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf]
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